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Remove FilterSorry if I am in the wrong place but I used my search engine to find out about THEIR techniques and up came you. Then I had to register to use the service. I realize I can set up different accounts for people who use my network or pay to …
Please evaluate my SERP. My blog is just a month old. It's about SEO so I am focusing much on seo-related keyword. Today, I tried to check google and I found out that some of my pages/posts are ranked faster than the keywords that I am targeting. I understand that …
Well, a site that I look after has always ranked EXTREMELY well for the keywords that I target, but as of the past few days it seems that the page's search ranking has taken a severe hit - something that I have never experienced before in my couple years of …
Google is popular due to it's search engine but these days it is going to be something more than a search engine . There are loads of utilities provided by google . For me it is not a search engine only now because i am seeking other services and i …
Hi I was wondering , I am using dew-newphplinks for a fitness site that I have for my links page, do you think that is a bad idea or a good idea. there are lots of catagories that are off topic will that hurt my site in any way with …
Hi, I've recently migrated my forum from YaBB to vBulletin and would like to implement a 301 redirect (if it's not too late), in order to preserve PR (it was PR4). Old URL: [url]http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl[/url] New URL: [url]http://www.mysite.com/forum/[/url] Can anyone help me with what exactly to put into the .htaccess file? …
Does placing links to related sites improve rankings? As google says that their motive is to provide better information to people, I think they give weightage to links to related sites as well. For example many pages in wikipedia have links to .gov or .edu sites like say 20 links …
Hi All, i am new in this forum, i want to know that what is viral marketing.
Hello Friends, I want suggestion from all you SEO gurus about web portal Optimization. As we all know this is the time of portals or Big websites. So we all people have to prepare for optimizing of Portals and Web2.0 websites. Can any one tell me point wise SEO Plan …
Hello guys! im planning to make a web development website.. well as of now im starting to create the design the page... I just like to ask some tips.. in terms in search engine optimization... is it advisable to my site to make dynamic of my contents? i mean i …
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Hi, I have a question that has sort of been brought up here many times, but all i could find is people asking it specifically about PR and I'd like an approach from a more 'general SEO point of view'... Say I have a site about bowling and i want …
I ran a backlink checker and it said I had 40+ outbound links from my sites, I know I only have <5 on all the sites. Do search engines count adsense as outbound links now? I thought it was ignored bc its jscript.
What could be the more important in Statistics for a website? Unique Visitors OR Hits Waiting for some good replies..
I recently posted an article to a few pr4 blogs and my site went from 350+ on google/yahoo to the top 100. I know as more and more posts are added to the blog it probably wont help as much. What are some other resources similar to this that I …
I logged into my webmaster account on Yahoo, looked at all the pages it had indexed for my site and my css file was one of the pages, is this normal?
I am updating this website for a sunglasses company It's not done, but my boss wants to get it out there. The sales will pretty much be determined entirely by the search rank when someone types in "sunglasses" or "ray ban" or whatever. So any good software recommendations? My boss …
I've now just recently added to DMOZ Project Open Directory listing the the main site and the subdivision site. It says it will take about from 2 weeks or 1 month for approval. I believe I've chosen the right categories. Will this help me in affecting and improving the site …
Guys, I have a Q. What is the best/effective method that you found to get a free one way links to your website ? Thanks,
Hello Friends, I m in trouble in optimizing a site. This site has duplicate URL issue (means for different URL the same page opens). So I request to SEO gurus to suggest me how can I find out these duplicate URL as site have 35,900 pages index in Google. Any …
where i can posting my blog pages (such us blogger) to increase my traffic?
I performed an unusual backlinking campaign for a mid-sized NYC based software company. The result ended with the acquisition of dozens of PR5's and PR6's at a cost of approximately $1.50. Here's how: I scouted potential site owners that would have interest in owning a complimentary copy of the company's …
I have used mod_rewrite in .htaccess (on Apache web server) so that dynamic pages are treated as static html. The mod_rewrite itself is working fine, so where I had 4 parameters on the URL (php scripts), its now a single html file, eg. product-1-2.html. However, whilst most of my website …
I know that there is probably no definitive answer, but does it matter in search engine optimization whether you use PHP or ASP for your CMS. Look forward to hearing your ideas.
I am starting to do a little link exchanging with some related sites. Usually I work links into the content so it looks more natural but these companies have set titles/link text. Should I make a link resources page or just add one or two on the small column of …
They are gradually ranking better on yahoo and google and were ranking really well on msn for a year+ then the past couple of weeks one by one they are no where to be found on msn. I havent changed anything and they arent spam sites. Does msn have new …
Is there any other PayPerClick ads that you can use along with google's adsense program? I mean obviously you can put others on your site but what works better alongside adsense?
I dont understand Why I never get ad. I mean I try to make site, a forum , a Blog. I have tried lots of times in google and Yahoo but I always Get Rejected. and I am tired of it. I mean its been 4 to 5 months i …
I have a discount shopping site and when i search google with the keyword discount codes, the site is not at number one. I have tried changing keywords, increasing the number of keywords in the main body of the index and cannot get the page to number one. Is there …
I did a ton of research on wordtracker and one of the keywords my co used in the past shows 0 searches in 90 days. Management says that wordtracker cannot be accurate because they have done google searches using that keyword. How can I explain this to them when I'm …
Google is now updating PR. Check your site PR. Mine got PR3 from unranked.
what is niche directory ? whats the diffrence between niche directory and general directory ?
My site works good in Keyword Ranking but it's traffic on that keyword is not so good. So what can i do for increasing the traffic. Backlinks for my site are very few. Please send me your suggestions . Thank you.
I read in adifferent post about buy and selling google pr, where someone said that they wanted to build a directory to get their site back upto a higher PR. Is this true, by addding a link directory you cna increase your google pr? We do a lot of link …
I used for three days the stats from a site that shows out clicks and my clicks on ads were about three to four times higher than the clicks in Adsense stats. Every day the same thing. Does anyone know why? I work every day at my site and I …
Is it important for search engines to host a website in with different international providers? Let's say if I host it with just a US host provider, is it going to be hard for people located in other countries to find me?
primarily my site holds content of adult type......google first approved my site and it went well for 2 to 3 months........now they stopped sending ADS to my site....they didnt ban me but they stopped sending ADs to my site........now they sent a mail to me saying that i am hosting …
What are the factors that influence adsense ads? I ask this because there are different ads on site with related contents.(talking about the same subject). MFA are not out after 1 June. MFA and competiton site have ads on my site.I know I can filter them, but not this is …
Recently I had the need to use PPC advertising again. I noticed I still had money in my old GoClick account, so I created an ad, set the bids around 1-3 cents each and the daily budget to $2. Within hours I had reached my $2 limit and my ad …
Hi, I have a website [url]www.xyz.com[/url] which is basically informational site. PR of this website is 4. i have another website with subdomain store.xyz.com, which is actually my online store. The home page of my subdomin is only PR 2 webpage. When i use google webmasters tool to check the …
I have been reading a lot about SEO, but still aren't sure what backlinks are and how I can implement them? Help..!
Is it advised to add a sitemap to my website? Does it really help with the search engine crawlers and would it be a beneficial addition to my site? If so, how the heck do I create one??? Do I manually just do one myself or is there a format …
Hi On my website i have almost around 25000 webpages(static). when i go to google and enter [code]inurl:mysite.com[/code] it shows only 1000 pages. these are the pages crawled by google. Here i notice that some of my webpages have never been crawled or never been indexed. Also some of my …
Just [url=http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl][u]click here[/u][/url] and enter your site URL and some comments and hope they add you :)
Unlike all the others who mash-up/steal other engines results,these are original. Not sure how their spider works though... - Unique results - Can delete spam - Voting - Commenting - Fast [url]http://www.sproose.com[/url] Results are pretty good!
Hi - first of all, sorry if this is in the wrong place. I'm new here and this looks like the right place for this! I have recently finished building a website - the main purpose of which is to see if I can generate a few pennies using google's …
Hi everyone, I checked Search Engine Spider Simulator and found out that my website did not have [B]Meta Description tag [/B]and [B]Meta keyword tag[/B]. Anyone can help me so i could know how to upload information on Meta Descrition and Keyword Tag? Thanks a lot Thien Anh
Hi, today i checked my sites in google, there is no supplemental results, last week SERP's shows lot of supplemantal results. What happen? I think supplemental pages are all re-indexed by google :) What about ur sites??????
HI , I would like to pose a question here which is sort of connected, I have a custom web graphic design site and I am going to put together a set of web ready graphics to sell via affiliates. Is it better to use a new domain or just …
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