i agree with the queen of daniweb. the value of a search click tends to be higher than on the publisher network. by default, google and yahoo will serve ads to both when creating new campaigns. its...

It's probably unanimous within the SEO community that a link command on Google is broken. We find that Yahoo reports "better" accuracy with regards to backlink count.

Regarding your question of...

trying to get back into the forums after a long long hiatus...

How to get links you ask? Daniweb member Aaron Wall has a killer guide on his site titled: 101 Link Building Tips (http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml)

Ah, this is always a hot topic at the conferences.

Think of subdomains as a way to organize your site's structure, rather than as a means to to rank better. Great examples of sites that properly...

Beekman Street Realty is an apartment rental agency in NYC, focusing on Manhattan apartments. We are looking for a logo involving blue and green (any shade). NO HOUSE IMAGES please, seeing as NYC...

My site (see signature) works perfectly fine in Firefox, but does not work with IE7 or (IE5/IE6 with security settings set to high or medium). When viewing the site in IE7 , half of the content on...

I have a client with a shopping cart in an older version of Marketlive. It does not have any shopping feed functionality built into it.

My goal is to create a feed to crawl the site and submit the...

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This is how I do it. And I rank # 1 on MSN for some of the most lucrative keywords, including "NYC Real Estate".

The trick is to find a high PR site that got busted by Google for selling text...

I have a top nyc real estate brokerage firm selling some of the most exclusive properties in the world.

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Daniweb's own famed member Aaron Wall, AKA SEOBook has an AWESOME keyword suggestion tool. It uses overture, google, wordtracker, and other data sources. Since URL dropping is not allowed, I'll let...

There is no set time period / intervals for updates on all three. Generally, every 90 days for TBPR and backlinks. Why would anyone care about about what Google reports on backlinks anyway? Google's...

The world's top SE Consultant, Danny Sullivan of SEW charges $500 / hr. That's the max your should pay. Otherwise, your question is a very tricky one to answer.

Want a first page spot on google? Buy an ad! - D.S.

There is too much focus in the SEO community on the PageRank meter. This entry attempts to clarify some myths and misconceptions regarding the Google Tool Bar PageRank meter.

We know PageRank is...

The green bar on the google toolbar is quite interesting.
Many seos use it as a general indicator of page and site quality. some seos, including world famous Mike Grehan call page rank "green fairy...

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According to The Economist Magazine, PPC Advertising is the fastest growing sector of the Advertising Industry (9/25/05). PPC accounts for over 40% of all online dvertising (though...

I agree with all of the above. Focus on a niche. Find niche keywords. Remember, over 50% of search queries are unique. The key to tapping highly competitive spaces with Adwords is keyword research....

Manually submitting = old school seo.

I agree with my canadian friend fred.

if you want to cloak some sites that you intend on crashing and burning, give it a try for fun. if you want to cloak your family's business website, you are...

I happen to know a single PR10 site that sells text links, believe it or not! Don't expect it to pass any PR / linkjuice though on Google! I'm sure it would work extremely well on msn & yahoo. Also,...

Hard to diagnose without seeing the site. It's odd that Google is not indexing textual content. What about other engines? Is the page/site WC3 compliant?

Laundry lists of keywords are not good page titles.

A good page title should entice users to click on your page when it appears on the SERPs (search engine result pages).

Look at some top...

Our own Daniweb member SEOBook has a highly acclaimed best selling e-book. A very good place to start learning about the subject.

A backlink analyzer using Google would be completely useless imho, for a few main reasons:
1. goog only shows links pointing to a single page, not an entire site
2. goog only updates the links...

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Hi Jay,

Welcome to Daniweb. Great post!

What you need to do is build links. Googebot (and the others) finds your site by crawling new links. There are many quality resources for link building...

I am working on a site for a Manhattan real estate brokerage firm. The site is content rich - thousands of properties for rent and for sale. What the site is lacking is informational resources...

Couldn't agree more! Great post!

Dear Newbie,

Ignore the green bar on your google tool bar (which doesn't mean jack sh*t to many experience SEO's) and focus on building the highest quality , most authoritative Vietnam travel site...

I think most people would agree with you. The golden rule: People buy your products or services, and click on your ads - not search engines! In addition to search engines detecting keyword...

Option #1 with sitemap would be best. Although I can't see any potential problems with option #2.

Are flashy ads designed to cure banner blindness?

Eye tracking studies indicate that experienced websurfers are equipped with banner blindness, whereas the eye is trained to focus on the content...

Some of Aaron Wall's Strategies (user SEO Book):1. Think of some software or tool that might be useful to your audience.2. Hire a programmer (off-shore, if cash is tight) to develop it.3. Give it...

Haven't played around much with Adwords Demographics. Dani, are you sure the data comes from comScore? Read somewhere that the data comes from user registration info.

Read everything you can written by the infamous JenStar aka Jensense. She is the recognized leading expert in the contextual advertising arena. Look for her posts in various forums and blogs.

If you are implying that you'd like a program that will click on your competitors ads, or your own adsense ads - well - we don't condone crooked behavior here!

You are most likely using outdated techniques for SEO. That was how one would rank on a search engine five years ago! You need to find some updated material and resources. It can be very competitive...