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Here's my SEO tips for Newbie: Avoid Bad Coding---Make sure that your we pages are W3C Compliant. Most SEs crawl websites by analyzing the sites code. If web pages has an error, the entire site does not get indexed by the bots, and can result to a lower page rank. …
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Hey guys,hello,I am Serena.I want to become successful SEO.Can anybody help me.
What is the value of SEO footer links ? For example, if we sponser or distribute a wordpress theme with footer links, will it help our SEO efforts?
Hi, Sitemap Is One Of The most important part of seo friendly Website. Sitemaps, as the name implies, are just a map of your site - i.e. on one single page you show the structure of your site, its sections, the links between them, etc. Sitemaps make navigating your site …
[B]Can i do the SEO for google pages if can how can I do it................. [/B]
To how many directories I shoud submit my articles.Is it affect Google SE.Any help please.
Hello, I am new to this community and am happy I found you! I was just been told that I should use a redirect on my own site to redirect the xy to www xy so that the search-engines wouldn't think those were two different sites. Sounded logical and I …
Hi, I am fairly new to this, so please forgive my ignorance. I have recently started blogging and have about 30 or so through Blogger. By some miracle, one of my blogs was crawled in the first week. None of the others have been. All have site maps and I …
I have creat a new site,and now i'm building links everyday,when i check my backlinks on google,i can not found any links,but i can see the increase on yahoo,why? And i use site:,link: and go to google webmastertool to check it,all of them show me none.You know my site is …
There are very useful websites out there that still won’t get many links for many reasons I do not want to recount here. Their webmasters have the money to purchase links, but they don’t want to to pay prostitutes especially as Google scares people with penalties who enter bad neighbourhoods. …
Hi everybody, when we need information on anything, we find it better to search for those things in a city specific directory or a search engine. I would like to the directories or search engines that you have visited that you found useful.
One of my clients does business with state and local government offices and has the opportunity to link to some of their sites. Are there and pros and cons to linking to government sites in terms of SEO and PageRank?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately; Google, Yahoo (theoretically) and Bing using our “Web History” in the innocent effort to continue providing us searchers the highest quality caliber organic results. Well, that’s a bunch of bullshit and I’ll tell you why. It’s not about any concern for my …
Hello, I want to find website statstics for {my site}. Can anybody assits on how to fetch statstics which shows report such as.. 1) absolute traffic on above website's keyword. 2) New keyword suggestion based on the website. 3) Competion on keywords for new website. 4) Report which shows many …
Does traffic correlate directly with PR or does PR mainly mean lots of links? You can certainly have lots of links, but that does not necessarily mean traffic, am I correct? I have a PR 5-6 site, but traffic is low now how can I generate more traffic? Increase the …
Hello, Was wondering if their was enough interest from the community to look at SEO for open source content management systems such as drupal or joomla. I am currently picking up alot of requests for SEO specific to these Content management systems. Is their a market to specialise in this …
hi all, i 'm reading this page about pagerank : www webworkshop net/pagerank html -- hey canadian,i didn't link above address to real page,just paste the url -- here is written about 'Site PageRank' and 'Page PageRank'. but i don't get the importance of Site PageRank. what for is it?
Last week I opened my [URL="http://www.feedburner.com/"]Feedburner[/URL] account to check the daily traffic statistics for my [URL="http://byronmiller.typepad.com"]by Ron Miller[/URL] blog. There was a link at the top of the page encouraging me to transfer my Feedburner account, which Google had purchased back in 2007, to my Google account. Seemed like a …
There are many ways to build links and traffics. Such as Article directories submission, Guest blogging where you can gain links, traffic, and new subscribers, Do some commenting on other sites, if they allow you to include your site URL, it will bring some traffic, Social bookmarking and Forum Posting.
I have the following doubts: 1. Whether any Blog Commenting (even related blogs) is taken as spam or not. I read Google Webmaster Central Blog, which says Blog Commenting is taken as spam. Even I have informed in this forum that blog commenting is spam. But my earlier blog comments …
Our website is not getting updated for top searches (when checking from Google Webmasters) though others such as Links to our websites and Crawl Errors are updated on a daily basis. Top Search Queries are getting updated once every 10 days only. I don't know the exact reason why it …
Some or all of the following techniques may be employed to promote your Blog. Blogs need exposure and readers, and having a good readership and good search engine rankings can monetize your web presence. If your Blog rockets in success, you could make your living as a career Blogger. Following …
Just yesterday, Google announced that they will display [URL="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/personalized-search-for-everyone.html"]personalized search results[/URL] based on usage - regardless if you are signed in or not. So this means that they now track the search activity of All 'enabled' (by default) users and display customized search results. They are tracking 'signed-out' users via …
Okay so I am trying a stradegy someone posted on here about starting a site and then adding 100 or so pages at the rate of 1 per day. It is been 5 days and 5 pages later and googlebot has not looked at my site. The old site is …
How important are keywords/description meta tags today (as opposed to in previous years)? I understand that Google doesn't utilize them anymore. Do other search engines?
[B]Is rss feed very important in SEO? Is this applicable for blog only or website also? How can add into website?[/B]
[B]Link Popularity[/B] [B]Intro[/B] Guide to link popularity and how it affects your search engine rankings. Link popularity refers to the number of links pointing to and from related sites and is an extremely important method of improving your site's relevancy in search engines. Use this free link popularity checker <http://www.link-popularity-checker.com> …
I just read an article about blogging and SEO efforts and the main thrust of the article was that businesses that encourage their employees to blog would be well-served if they encouraged the use of important keywords throughout the blog entries. So a keyword-rich blog entry will help the organic …
All seo's have their secrets on how they optimized and get rank their keywords. Here's some of my tips: Most of the time internal linking creates a big problem, If you have too many links for your site, the spider will quit indexing your site before actually it is finished. …
If I were to set up a signature in a forum completely unrelated to my website will it actually benefit me? I have an odds comparison website and am struggling to find suitable forums to get appropriate backlinks from.
I am trying to maximize the SEO benefits to my clients corporate site that come from being linked to the blogs they have set up and I was wondering if there is anything I can do to squeeze some SEO benefits from the RSS feeds on the blogs? Is this …
A Filipino SEO Community invited all the SEO experts anywhere in the world to join in a SEO Contest in the Philippines..The language is Filipino but you can use google translate to translate it... visit and ask on the forum for more info. www palarongseo com
Hey guys I am very much confused with one site. It is of 12000 Page website similar to B2B portal. I want to know how to optimize such website and how to build links to get higher rank??
If you only had time to do one which one do you think would be the most productive? We ar eabout to hit our bust season for sales to may need to priorotise here, and any tips on how to rank in the top three for googlebase would be most …
hi, i am working in a SEO project . and monitor my competitor website backlinks every day. i am using linkdomain:sitedomain -site:sitedomain in Yahoo! to find backlink count. i was about 9,000 link yesterday but today is 22,700 . (all are for my competitor) i am really shocked with this …
As I am trying to determine what is the best percentage to spend time and funding, I would like to know from your experiences, how do your appropriate effort and resources to SEO and SEM. Which one do you consider more important?
how worthy are shortened links from a SEO point of view? Should I avoid shortening links whenever possible?
I mainly write original articles to boost my site's SEO ranking. What's your single most used SEO technique?
For those who advertise on Facebook, has it worked for your business or has it helped bring higher sales/conversion?
Hi, This is my first post here. I have an ecommerce site that's actually on a Wordpress platform. It's my first foray into ecommerce so I'm starting small. I'd like to try PPC for it but my history with PPC is spotty. I've done a few campaigns but feel like …
Submit comments on blog is good for SEO I heard many webmasters saying that submitting comments on blogs is good for SEO. They said because each blog will give us one unique link back (of course if our comments get approved). They also said that instead of putting our names …
what does unique external link in this paragraph mean? and how is it obtained? from linkdomain:sitedomain -site:sitedomain in Yahoo!? please pay attension on UNIQUE word,i know meaning of external link but this unique ??!!! i mean if i have 4 external links from daniweb.com to my site,these 4 ones calculate …
Chances are that newly built website never recieve search traffic. This is because Google & other search engine normally index new website as from 6 months upwards. But, there is an alternative way to make google index your site within 2 weeks instead of 6 months so that you start …
Hello, We've recently developed a PHP library for access to AdWords API. It's a middle-tier tool that helps developers code quickly and interact easily with the AdWords API. It may be very useful in programmers work, but hardly understood by others. We're closely watching the online market to find a …
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