Search Engine Strategies Forum

I think increasing visitors in yahoo, Google and live search engines are easily but in case of Alexa it is difficult. I am getting very good traffic from other search engine but i am not getting that much visitors in Alexa. Can anybody suggest me how can i achieve visitors …

Page Rank Sculpting has been present in the world of SEO for a few years now and the opinions of it are still all over the place. Some SEO experts believe that PR sculpting should only be used when all other SEO options are exhausted while others think that it …

hi i've seen lots of seo guys using link title attribute (<a href="" title="keyword / keyphrash">anchor</a>) is this a plus for on-site SEO ? Cheers

As I learn more and more about SEO I find myself reading blogs and articles and then having questions after I am done. I recently read that as part of link building efforts we want the links coming into our site from a multitude of sources. But the same piece …

A counterpart of mine at another company who is giving me SEO advice suggested that I set up a schedule to refresh the content on my sites on a regular basis. As the search engines love fresh content this is definitely a good practice but how often should it be …

In the ongoing effort to gain maximum page rank, analysis of all available information to determine the future steps to be taken. But is anyone analyzing their competitors efforts? Link quantity & quality, anchor text & relevance are the four components of link popularity with anchor text and location are …

Has anyone found new and interesting ways to use links to social media sites to increase SEO results?

The Google Security Blog reported that Malware is a growing issue as a single malware source has infected 60,000+ hosts. While there will be no page rank effect it will effect site traffic as your website will show up with "This Site May Harm Your Computer" tags in the google …

For those using social media or planning on using social media as part of their marketing plan (and ultimately their SEO and SEM efforts), Facebook is the Claude Raines of social media. Facebook is invisible to the search engines and there does not seem to be an abundance of work …

I am curious to know if anyone has been asked to do SEO for a cloud computing application? And if you have, have there been any particular hurdles that you have had to deal with that you have not thought of?

At the Social Media Camp during InternetWeekNY an interesting concept was raised, that SEO should be aimed at the end user instead of the Search Engine. The term usability was thrown around and the topic shifted to another area but I was intrigued. SEO has always been about how high …

Sounds like a suggestive dance or exercise, but SWOT ([B]S[/B]trengths, [B]W[/B]eaknesses, [B]O[/B]pportunities and [B]T[/B]hreats) analysis has its champions and detractors. I am curious to know how many people actually perform a formal SWOT analysis when determining SEM and SEO initiatives? And for those who do or have done it, what …

Hi, Google has unveiled “Google Wave”. Google Wave is in designing state and it was a developer preview. It is expected to be launched by the end of this month. Google wave is another product by the creator of Google Map. It is a html5 Application. It is the combination …

Hi I have a site [url]www.patrickegan.org[/url] where I am selling an educational dvd on architechture.I have 2 links and 15 'contain the term' ,but a lot of the 'contain the term' are active links, is this because they do not have as high a page rank as my 2 links …

Hi, On my website, I am using breadcrumb links- A->B->P X->Y->P (same P) The breadcrumbs and other links change depending upon whether a spider visits P from B or Y. So what is the solution to this?

I have an adult novely shop and am wanting other sites to advertise on my site, in the form of ppc or pay per impression. I tried some affiliates that payed me for membershipss... etc... but its not for me so Where do i Start do find sites?

I am merging 2 websites and trying to decide which url to keep I have one domain that is 11 yrs old but it does not have any keyword relevance, and another domain that has keyword relevance that is 1 yr old? They both have roughy 4000 backlinks . What …

I was wondering how or if I could get paid from google for the advertising,they are doing on my site as I did not ask them to do this,and I need the money worse then they do,I was thinkink of starting another website and incorporating it with this one and …

Like Web 2.0, is there a coming SEO 2.0? Is it here already and we just don't know it. Check out the blog I found (link below) and let me, and the whole DaniWeb community, know what you think. [url]http://learntoduck.com/search-marketing/seo-is-dead[/url]

Is it possible to get listed in Google in less than one day? What do you think about it? What about your websites? Yes, it is possible to get indexed by Google in one day. What do you need to get listed within a single day? You have to know …

Sometime tomorrow, Microsofts Live Search will be replaces by BING! Many have said that this is Microsoft's attempt to know Google from the top of the search engine world but Ballmer and the boys and girls in Redmond deny this. What do you think and how may this alter your …

why Google update PR so frequently ? is there any reasons behind it ?

Hi, I just read this news on one of the blogs that Digg is going to remove the controversial 'shout' features. I think it would be a great step by Digg to prevent spammers from flooding the message system as many of them are hitting the front page by shouting …

Could anyone tell me exactly what a 301 redirect is? Is it beneficial? I had a company tell me my home page had a 301 redirect issue I needed corrected . Thanks

can anyone please let me know....where to learn proper seo with latest techniques and standards...??? for google,yahoo,msn.....???

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Can anyone help please? I currently have a client who wants me to create multiple html pages for each city listing that he services and link it to his current website. This needs to be done just for the sole purpose of submitting to a search engine. Therefore, if somebody …

Hello Friends: I have been online for sometime. It is still too hard to get listed on Dmoz. In fact, I never get listed on Dmoz and Yahoo. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.

I am submitting my sites to various directories (paid and free).I wanted to know willmit help my site to generate traffic in long run. If I stop these submissions will it generate the same traffic as it is generating now?

I used to promote my site on google adwords by target_placement but why my banner does not show on the target website that I selected. I am outside USA. Anyone can suggest me what should I do?

Alright my budget for next year is going to be roughly 1000 dollars for seo I have contacted a few companies but nothing I have found really seems that great most are 1000 a month and that is my yearly budget. I did run across this site [url]http://www.submitplus.com[/url] and they …

I have a website related to UK Magazines. Just only 7 months old and have top three ranking on yahoo UK and top 6 ranking on Google UK against my competitive keywords. My site was on 18th position only 5 days back for "UK Magazines" keyword but 4 days back …

Google has launched the new search option yesterday at searchology .. this will come in to the picture once the normal web search completed .. You will find a new search option once your search is completed .and you clicking on this menu you will got a left side bar …

As many of you guys know, the best way to high rankings in search engines is to build up your backlinks, or other websites linking to you. If you'd like to exchange links with DaniWeb, please visit our link directory at [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/directory/"]http://www.daniweb.com/directory/[/URL] We're very unique in that we give you …

i want to know url submission for a particular keyword. please tell me the name of that site where i use url submission for a particular keyword.

Hi, Can anyone tell me if Blog creation and submission to various blog directories really help the site to rank better? regards,

Hey, Guys, I have a question here, few days ago I have submitted my site to 1000+dircetories by hand, as month passed and I still found many of them were still pending, Can some one with many experiences with this tell me how long it will take to approve your …

How much does google actually penalize you SEO wise for having a newly registered domain name? Or is that some sort of myth?

I have dropped in my keyword rankings from page 3 for Chandler Real Estate to page 8, from page 5 of Phoenix real estate to page 10 or so. I had been making progress before this though it seemed stalled out. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any insights!

Hello my lovely members: After trying on some methods, I only use three methods to promote my sites and will continue using them. Of course I do not make much money but I got some traffic from these methods. 1. Directory submission 2. Article submission 3. Social bookmarking 1. Directory …

We have a main site (CountryWebsite.com) Also have mini sites for cities like City1Website.com City2Website.com etc Is it good for SEO to display City1.CountrySite.com OR [url]www.CountrySite.com/City1/index.htm[/url] as [url]www.City1Website.com[/url] with the help of url rewriting

:@ ( Help me out on this I dont understand how it happened but my key words have been hijacked. My site is [url]http://www.joylandsafaris.com[/url] - is developed using joomla 1.5.10. When I Google the site, the key word header is not what I have set but the hijacked content. Somebody …

I uploaded a G sitemap a long time ago and deleted it from G webmaster tools a few months ago. I resubmitted it using the Point2 verification code and today in the webmaster tools I see this error: "Your Sitemap does not contain any URLs. Please validate and resubmit your …

Found this in my logs this morning: CrawlConvera0.1 When you visit convera . c o m / it says they are " a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise search and categorization solutions. More than 900 commercial and government customers in 33 countries rely on Convera's solutions to power mission-critical applications. …

After getting a couple of recent phone calls about some sites that I had built about 6 months ago I wondered where the traffic was coming from. Come to find out it was Yahoo search results. Although the keywords were not very competitive the results where #1-#5 every time. None …

Hello Everybody, I am new in SEO & I want to know more about Affiliate marketing. Can anyone can explain more about affiliate marketing.

Is there a legit site that can provide assist in linking you submitted site, FREE or Inexpensive. Aside from backling directories, is there anything else?

Hi everyone, If you have a good site, got numbers of links to your site and want to improve your pr quicker, here is the way to do: if you already pr 3 ( just for examble ) and you want to have pagerank 4, just try to find someone …

hi everyone, I am new to google ranking etc. when i type daniweb in google. i get a result where it has links at the bottom for each section of the website(see pic below). i was wondering how do i get this for my website... do i have to pay …

I read an article here: [url]http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206902553[/url] about how AdWords quality score will now factor in page load time. What do you guys think of this? Google Webmaster Tools indicates how long Google takes to crawl your page, so you have a ballpark as to whether you'd be negatively affected.