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I have a question: Does order of DIV Tag matter in SEO ? if it does matter, upto which extent it matters? What option is better: 1) Header DIV, Content DIV, Navigation DIV or 2) Header DIV, Navigation DIV, Content DIV.
Hey everyone, I need some real help optomizing my site. Its been crawled sevleral times since openening around may 3rd and i still have a zero page rank. Is there something im doing wrong that is causing this? ive been submitting to directories, following a bunch of guides, added an …
I just wanted to start a conversation about 3 way linking. I was told that 3 way linking is not as effective as it once used to be. I am sure thats the case however is it still used alot? Do people out there still accept it? Especially if its …
I am developing a database driven site and if i use mod_rewrite to change the dynamic urls to static is that as effective as having static urls all along?
Hi, I just got an e-mail from Google stating that... [I]Um die Qualitaet unserer Suchmaschine sicherzustellen, haben wir bestimmte Webseiten zeitlich befristet aus unseren Suchergebnissen entfernt. Zurzeit sind Seiten von [URL="http://www.xxx.com"]www.xxx.com[/URL] fuer eine Entfernung ueber einen Zeitraum von wenigstens 30 Tagen vorgesehen. Wir haben auf Ihren Seiten insbesondere die Verwendung …
Hi I have a website with main domain name as [url]www.xyz.com[/url] which has page rank of 4. I have another another subdomain from yahoo stores with name as store.xyz.com and this page has page rank of only 2. my main main website [url]www.xyz.com[/url] has many links (around 500) to store.xyz.com. …
Hi Guys, I need some help. My site (check the sig), is online for about 4 months. In Webmaster tools page, it sayz that my site was indexed on May 24. In google cache is July 22 on the last visit of the google bot. I updated my sitemap regulary …
Thats matt Cutts SEO tips... dont know, maybe you seen it already, but if not, keep your ears open cos this guy KNOWS what he is talking about ! ENJOY ! :) [url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5179191836301432169&pr=goog-s[/url] l
Claims are made and being confirmed that the Google Pagerank has started the third Updat this year. Check out [URL]http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=403632[/URL] Love to hear who went up or down... Good luck all
Hello, I asked this question once before and I didnt really get an answer, so I thought I would ask here and see what anyone here thinks. On google webmaster tools there is a section called "URL Removals" . There are some pages of our site that are error pages …
i checked my site's statistics..and i viewed the bots who visited my site.. then there was googlebot..40 hits..last may 9...but when i checked my index status in google..they said that my site is not yet indexed... the problem is..since my site was crawled by googlebot...why is it not yet indexed …
Hello, How could a site go from a PR 5 to a 3? :'( We are constantly updating the information and have been making efforts for improved SEO. This morniing we are a 3, I know some will say that google PR is not as important as some other things, …
What exactly is this crawler special about, and why didn;t this take off. Recently Wikia acquired this. [URL]http://grub.org/[/URL] Sorry if this is a wrong thread to have posted
The number of pageviews to my site has been constant for quite some time. (Or rather, steadily increasing day by day). For some reason, the number of pageviews to my site doubled today! According to my referral stats, the same number of people come in through other sites as always. …
What is the best way to to get pure links.....I mean my old inbound links are indexed as supplemental pages, no I lost weightage of all the directory submission I did. Now I cannot say directory webmaster to remove my link from the page or to a forum, blog webmaster …
I have a page with many links on it but all the links are saved into my ,mysql database.These links are displayed on my site.I wanted to know if google robots sees those links there.if the admin of this forum will allow me to post my links page so that …
How can I know if my website is in top1000 in google with one speciafic keywork. For example: "computer"....
What is the fast method to get a site or a page indexed?How much time? How do I know that a page is indexed?
Does googlebot spider IFRAME tags? Do they actually follow the URL as if it were a link? Or do they spider the contents of the IFRAME as if it were part of the included page? Unlike JavaScript, there is no client-side parsing that needs to be done with IFRAMEs. Just …
I need serious help with meta tags. Here is the story: I changed the whole theme of my website recently. The meta tags were standard and showed the keywords in them. I was getting some traffic from Google so I they must have been working. Two weeks ago, I changed …
I try to posts in forums a lot to promote my website by using a signature that has my site link. This is probably a dumb question but isn't that sort of like a link pointing to my website from that website? Does it help in ranking at all to …
I am self educated when it comes to websites and all the technical stuff that goes with it. So needless to say, some things I just don't have a good enough grasp of. Hence my Newbe questions. OK here we go.... I have ALL my domain names parked at server …
I have made 5 sites, all about the same thing. There is 1 site specifically I want to outrank all the others, I built the other 4 just to link to the main site so it ranks well. However for some reason the others are ranking better than the main …
How to optimize a vBulletin site? After the very good "[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread35147.html"]Vbuleltin SEO hack[/URL]" Best sitemap solution, or other good hacks...
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Hi there, My web site is has a lot of content that is related to places overseas and not in North America. Target audience on the other hand is in North America. I'm wondering does the geolocation of backlinks affect the quality of my pages, PR and poularity from Search …
Hi there, Can someone suggest me some top sites that have high traffic that allow article submission. It would help if they don't snipe my signature! Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Tim
Hello, I work with the site << snip >> and have recently started to focus on SEO for the site. We have modified all of our category page url's as well as our product page url's. All titles and meta tag have been reworked. I was hoping to get some …
I took the big plunge and finally got up enough courage to do what I've been wanting to do for a very long time now ... rename /techtalkforums/ to just /forums/. I've set up 301 redirects and updated my Google sitemap. Is there anything else that I should to to …
I have a site that is listed in the supplemental index in Google. I've decided it's finally time to do something about it, but I get varying pieces of advice from people, and in the end it seems no-one really knows what has happened. So can anyone help me out, …
After last google update many web pages' PR became unavailable. I wonder what happened? Were they all banned or what? There are so many of such pages that it looks strange.
I have been a webmaster for the past 2 years, now recently google has introduced a new algo in their armoury, i.e supplemental results. A content is duplicated or insufficient links. Its one way contradictory to its previous algo. Because google said having thematical links will increase the chance of …
Earlier today i had made $4 off two adsense clicks, I just checked and got another click but I have dropped to $3.52, how did I loose money by getting another click? Has anyone else had this happen!?
In terms of offsite optimization, why is it that some people show up as the number one or number two rank in google (organic search) with so little external links pointing to their site? for example, If i type in google search: credit card consolidation The top listed site is …
Hi everyone, anyone could explain for me this issue that my site get top in Yahoo all the time but every Saterday and Sunday my competitor takes my position ( Mine down to second and sometimes to the 5th or 6th position in the first page ). other days in …
Hello there! I am a web developer and recently my boss asked me the following: Since we submit an optimized site what is going on with spiders, and that is how often do they spiders pass from my site, do we have to resubmit the site to engines and directories, …
I have been reading an article writes by Matt Cutts about buy and sell links. What do you think? Here is the post [B]How to report paid links[/B] [URL]http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/[/URL]
Everyone knows that other sites that link to your site helps in the SEO process. Everyone should also know that reputable sites will help you while some other sites will actually hurt you. How do know differentiate between these two types of site though???
Has anyone every had experience in optimzing dating websites? I have had minimal success in generating traffic at this point though its only been about 2 months since the site has been live. Things done so far: 1. Optimized all pages according to topic 2. Have posted in many blogs …
Hello, I have a query : Is sub-domain is considered as different or new domain by search engines or not. Like my websites [url]www.daniweb.com[/url] so [url]www.domain.daniweb.com[/url] will be considered as new domain or different domain by search engine on not. Also if i place links from subdomain to other websites, …
If I have 10 ip's on one server and one website per IP. Each design is unique and all run off the same DB plus none of the sites are linked together, would the major search engines penalize this type of set up? All the sites are basically the same …
Hello, I am looking for webmasters who are interested in helping each other. We all know that it take lots of time to contact webmasters and then sending them link request and all the process. I already have few webmaster contact details with me and we all help each other …
If I encrypt my web page to prevent "visitors" from viewing and reusing my web page source code , will affect my site in search engine?
Hello, Need comments from SEO guys. We provide three way link building service or say one way link building. Usually i use one domain per theme related links. Eg: 1. Links for finance website I will take a pr domain and will install word press, write two-three articles and then …
I'm writing some copy and the premise is a story about a small business owner. "small business owner" is NOT the keyword phrase I want to optimize the page for, but I find myself using "small business owner" overa and over again. The product is for small business owners, but …
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