Search Engine Strategies Forum

following statements are true: google makes money off of ad revenues and services google is a business google is one of the most powerful search engines googles competition is slim to none propose question: If someone doesn't buy or use any of google services, beside submitting their domain name, can …

Hello, I had links at my site in 9 pages uncategorized. I have read that having categories is more effective so I would like to do so. Anyone dealt with such procedure? How to make it more effectively without loosing PR of the pages? when it is better to do? …

hi, what am i best doing to get my sites listed in directories..............? am i best doing it myself manual or getting a program which does it all and keep a track on it? cos they is alot of directories to find.. also does listing on directories help with google …

What is the best way to get ranking in yahoo? I am #1 on google and msn using many different keywords, but not rank at all in yahoo. Can someone help me?

Do you suggest using rel=nofollow on forum posts since the content is user-submitted? What about just for users with less than X posts? Or just in forum signatures?

Hi All, Someone just told me that if you name your pages .php, it hinders your rankings. Is that true? Thanks Michelle

Hi there, I've always had someone managing my AdWords account, but I haven't found anyone & I need to do this task quickly. I'm finally going to do split testing, & I have the URL to insert for this, so where do I put it? Thanks Michelle

I have mortgage website that I ran a pr future update and it show my website with a pr 7 it now a pr 5, how close are these tools of being correct?

Hello friends, if i change my site hosting server linux to windows. i face any PR changes in future? help me Ravi

hey ppl Currently i m using Google adsense to put up Advertises on my site. Now i wanted to knw whether it is fine to use more than one Avdertisers to put up Ads on my site. That is can i approach another Ad provider. is it allowed or legal …

How much does having 1 or 2 adsense ads on your site negatively affect the seo? It is just skipped by the spiders or are the links counted as external links?

[B]Hello,[/B] [B]How much we can earn with PPC ? Any idea Pl.let me know...[/B] [B]Regards![/B]

Hi all, 1st time poster... I opened an Adwords account, with all my payment ect... it tells me that it's active, but after a couple of hours, I'm still not finding my ad in Google when entering the keywords, and according to the figures upon signing up, they should appear …

I am writting a site map for Google with the notepad with this format: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <[URL="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/es/protocol.html#urlsetdef"] urlset[/URL] xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"> <[URL="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/es/protocol.html#urldef"] url[/URL]> <[URL="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/es/protocol.html#locdef"] loc[/URL]>http://www.example.com/</loc> </url> </urlset> I would to know if is there any place online, where I can create the sitemap?

My content is good, internal linking is good, overall my site ranks well on msn, okay on yahoo, but I noticed once I put a few links from some ads I posted it went from not found in the top 1000 on google to #3 for some key phrases. Anyways …

If I want to show my stats to the public, the counter ins't invisible, where can see visits came from , recent Keyword Activity, search engine Wars, visitor paths, entry pages, returning visits... can help index better the Web in Google, Yahoo and Msn?

Hi everyone, this website stuff is all new to me. So I have set up my web site, read through all tutorials and how to's. Created my keywords, meta tags , description & etc.. Created my sitemap.xml (using Google's Python tool) along with urllist.txt & config.xml and created my robots.txt …

I thought you were supposed to put a link to your sitemap in your robots.txt (isn't that what you said, stymiee?) My robots.txt now looks like the following: [code]Sitemap: http://www.daniweb.com/sitemap.xml User-agent: * Disallow:[/code] Google Webmaster Tools robots.txt says "Syntax not understood" for the sitemap line.

Does anyone know how to get my website in the top 10 spot for free? Thank you!

Hi, i have a client's site Last month, our site has a very good ranking in google, but in this month , ranking is suddently fallys on our keywords. But the keywords ranking in Yahoo is very much increased. I can not understand why this is done by google. Can …

Hi Can anybody tell me how to start search engine optimization for a website with zero page rank step by step. mail me at << email snipped >> Thanks

Is it possible to submit a sitemap to Yahoo much the same way one uses Google Webmaster Tools?

[quote=EWSitesCom;339563]this can be true. ive always had luck even with out a link back.[/quote] If you have time, you can visit my website <snip url> I have submitted it to google, yahoo, but the effect is not good. Can you give me some advice? Thank you! :sad:

Hi everyone, I am curious to know whether google travels dynamic query string e.g [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=45[/url] i.e a string containing ? mark in the url. Also, i wanted to know that if i am using comment section in my source code (View source code), does google spider crawl that particular comment …

Hi, Can somebody tell me ways to use AJAX on my site without any side effects? Or should I avoid it completely? Thanks in advance

I have already submited my site " [URL="http://www.mysite.com"]www.mysite.com[/URL] " in DMOZ. then i changed the URL as " [URL="http://www.mysite1.com"]www.mysite1.com[/URL] " for my site. I am in thought of redirecting. Now am using [URL="http://www.mysite1.com/"][COLOR=#0000ff]www.mysite1.com[/COLOR][/URL] for my official. Now i want change the URL in DMOZ. Is it possible?? or i have …

Hai, I have a question. Which will be more good for SE's? Sub domain or Sub directory? Can we have a sub domain starting with with "www" eg: [URL="http://www.hh.domain.com"]www.hh.domain.com[/URL]? Please help me in this regard.

Dear All, I have made strong link building and also done SEO in my site.. I want my site on rank 1 to 10 in Google using "transcription services" keyword. You can find my site using "transcription solutions" on Rank #24 in google. but I want my site using "transcription …

Hello, I have a new web site and I don't want to have the Google Sand Box efecct. How many backlinks a month could I have, for dont' have the google sand box efecct. Thanks

Hello every one I have e-commerce site with PR5 From 18 November we are not any more in google results. The PR is allways 5 color green. I ame in Dmoz, Yahoo, AOL, and i have many back links. The test site:domainname.com says non results The test link:domainname.com give the …

Im having some issues with the Yahoo keyword selector tool. I have been trying to use it for the past day and it either times out or i get a message saying that there are no suggestions for what i typed. I do not get a list of the # …

what directories have you submitted to?

If a site seems to 'work' - the visitors (mostly new) appear happy with the content/structure etc, and the search engines are happy to rank it - is there any value in making small, regular changes to the content to make it appear 'fresher' to the engines, even if this …

Hello I noticed the following behaviour in google. After a url structure change about 2-3 months ago my whole testsite went supplemental. I used 404 on the old pages, no room for 301. I thought o heck :p. Anyway about a week ago i decided to use the google automated …

Hi, I have a quick question! I have implemeted robots.txt to disallow some of my pages! How long it will take to do this? whether i can get all my pages OUT OF INDEX all at a time or it will happen pages by pages. I'm confused Ideas are welcome

Every one must be aware by now about Matt Cutts's blog getting [B]Hacked.[/B] Since i get usually thought provoking replies here, what does Dani's web say about it? [URL]http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/[/URL] Yes or No? I have come across people who are branding it as an "April Fool" and some say yes the …

From your experiences, which pay-per-click search engines is the best from the following 10? Overture Google Adwords Miva ( formerly Findwhat ) GoClick Enhance Interactive 7Search Kanoodle ePilot Search123 SearchFeed

Please let me know if you guys have any experience with Mivas traffic , is it targeted yes or no ? and what other PPC programs delivers targeted traffic , thanks !

Hi i am Nick. I am searching good ppc programs with good cpc rates which can pay out internationally by wire transfer. Tell me if you know such.

Is it possible to geotarget an Overture campaign, the same way I can do with AdWords?

Can penalize google for exchange links with pages of different thematic. For example a website about dogs exchange links with a web about cars, will penalize?

okay, it's been a while since I've asked any dumb simple questions you all know the answers to. when a site is using https instead of http, can spiders still crawl that site? My understanding is those pages load slightly slower and are just more secure. But I'm starting to …

Hi, all i have a question can any one give answer of these two questions. 1) How can can i know that Google Visits our website? 2) How many times in a day Google Visits a particular website. Regards Shailendra Dubey [URL="http://www.dimensioni.net/"][U][COLOR=#800080][/COLOR][/U][/URL]

Google search indexing flash pages and displaying the text inside.

Has anybody contributed to Google Co-Op by way of adding "labels" using the Google Marker? I just started diving a little deeper into this feature, but I'm not sure if my submissions are going through because in my account when I go into edit my contributions, under "Labeled Sites" it …

Hi all, Do search engines know the difference between absolute and relative links? From what I understand, inbound links have the potential to increase your search engine ranking. What about internal (relative) links within your own website, for example Wikipedia has a gazillion relative links between their articles. Does this …

I want to know that which type of forum is better in point of Search Engines Indexing, I saw some forums threads with html extention like [URL]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum45.html[/URL] , this daniweb forums threads are all with html extetion and I saw mostly threads have pr, as compare with DP it shows …

Hello, I develop a website in last week. domain is new ... so i need to rank that in yahoo, msn, google. I already submit to those... even i have PR6 website develop before this. so is it useful if i gave a ads in my PR6 site of new …

When you search for something technical on the internet, quite often you'll see a search listing with Experts-Exchange, they tend to be pretty good. In the past you could click the search results and view the page, you would see the question someone has answered, and their respective answer, or …

Backlinks with target="blank" have less value than links by defect? [B]Target="blank"[/B] <a href="[URL]http://www.myweb.com[/URL]" target="_blank">My web </a> [B]Normal link[/B]<a href="<A href="http://www.myweb.com">My web</a>