Google's link: - they only show a small sample of known linkage data...it has always been that way with google.

as far as contain the term it just finds pages with that text. some will be links...

most pay per click accounts start off with a few winners and a lot of bad bids or terms in them...it is just an issue of learning from the feedback your account gives you.

many directories that "only trade links" also sell them to some people or are owned by people involved in SEO who list their clients sites.

>Any ideas?

mod rewrites? threads about them?

>You are 100% right Dani, it usually does not make sense to pay $.10 per visitor for businesses that generate revenue via advertisements.

cost per conversion is all that matters. I pay over $3 a...

I think Overture has different interfaces / logins / accounts for the various different regions they serve

for example, I advertise on Overture for "seo book". my seo book ad does not show on...

from what I have seen it is usually better to spend time finding more niche keywords to run on Google and Overture before spending too much money on tier 2 PPC search engines.

link swapping is trading links.

most link swaps are sketch as few people do most of the link swaps using numerous low quality sites.

there are lots of fine details to link swaps, although they...

it should be hard to lock in click through rate as they will vary some unless they are kept constant by automated click fraud or something.

when you're chatting around the water cooler and someone mentions any of that intentionally deceptive pablum to you as a reason why Google is such a great company, why don't you also tell them that...

it saves negligable time and spies on you. no reason to use it IMHO

>robots.txt

its a text file that sits in the root of your site and tells robots not to index certain parts of your site. this would disallow cgi bin tmp and private

User-agent: *
Disallow:...

just listing in directories and putting your site in your sig files and stuff like that may help you rank well for your company name. of course as you build brand and value that marketplace gets much...

backlink = link to your site.

seotie.com also tracks your submissions.

I am a big fan of smaller SEOs too.

PageRank has nothing to do with page copy.

a proven track record is not even necissarily a legitimate gauge of knowledge since

-many people are only successful due to heavy brand building from a time when the algorithms were not as...

it certainly is more than just what competitors are doing. think google started doing some latent semantic indexing.

lots of sites just disappeared with the last update. best not to make drastic changes but to continue building links.

some people think Google is using latent semantic indexing on inbound anchor...

the current algorithm often has many sites not ranking for their own names. if that is intentional then Google is being a wee bit hypocritical on the make useful content for the users front.

many times the changes in search results and rankings have more to do with algorithm tweaks than they have to do with what we do to our sites.

>If you have a business site, is there an acceptable way to implement link swaps? e.g. it would look a bit odd to dump stray links to a directory or other site on there, and a links page would also...

odds are your base authority level may not be that high if you only have links from a few sites. perhaps building more linkage data from a wide variety of sites will help improve your rankings

>and maybe even blog about it.

if people blog about your site you get links...and thus more link popularity and more rankings.

all of them are just going to depend on industry and demand.

the nice thing about overture or adwords is that you are not locked into a $500 buy right out of the gate and you can quickly learn...

those were probably overture affiliate ads you saw for overture.

adwords and overture are generally the two must dos... their roi depends on site and industry. with few sites and clients I see better roi at overture on some and adwords on others.

additionally...

think it got renamed to adbright.

they are going to do different for different sites, but the nice thing with adbright is that you can target your ads to be served on one specific site.

self promotional spam post. does not even answer questions about the product.

stay away from companies that need to spam forums to market their products.

>1. On one board someone said that Google is just doing this to get our information. What do you think?

they can certainly learn how to target and sell ads better if they know the results of them....

they only charge you when you get clicked on or when your account is underperforming they charge a $5 reactivation fee after the second one I think.

the excellent and at risk ratings went away a...

>1) Never pay more than $6,000 for optimization of 20 keywords for 12 months.
That's total cost. If you come to a total higher than that when you add in
"maintenence fees" or any other such silly...

the sig link does not appear until you make ten posts.

the meta keywords tag is best used for alternate versions not in the copy or common misspellings. many SEOs no longer use them.

PageRank is logarithmic and displayed on a rather course linear scale. large changes can occur without the display changing much.

it says this article does not exist.

and before hiring any seo to work on your site dirt cheap you should read this ;)
http://www.search-marketing.info/newsletter/articles/shitty-seo.htm

lots of sites are blacklisted all the time. common ones

linking out to shady sites
302 redirect errors
people redirecting their penalty at your site
buying too many highly visible off topic...

>Given what I have read about how google figures rankings, how do these sites do so well?

powerful links pointing at the root of their site maybe?

>server/ip

search engine can check and...

some of the regional search index will give a boost to sites which
- are hosted in the same geographic region -or-
- have the local extension -or-
- have lots of links into or out of their site to...

many times people think seo is all they need, but it helps to also work hard to establish brand.

seo services do not work well for every business model but they work well for most if you find the...