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I've heard some intellignet conversation on this site, so in my confusion, I came back here. I have a small, investigative site that's dedicated to exposing some nasty predatory journalist/bloggers. (It's all the rave now, I guess.... ) The head of these bloggers is quite nationally well known. Yesterday at …

Valid meta robots content values Googlebot interprets the following robots meta tag values: * NOINDEX - prevents the page from being included in the index. * NOFOLLOW - prevents Googlebot from following any links on the page. (Note that this is different from the link-level NOFOLLOW attribute, which prevents Googlebot …

My site has 600 + indexed pages but in the recent two days it has gone down to 200 + :( Can anyone have an idea why it went down suddenly??? Do anyone face this indexing problem?

Search engine optimization requires a strong organisation that will put u above ur competition.Search engine spiders need an easy path to follow.They are programs that crawl into ur website to store them inside a data base for later retrieval by a search engine. People who have been optimizing the web …

Hi, I am having a website with dynamic URLs currently i have planned to make the URLs static. But, My dynamic URLs are having good PR and indexed. Can i put a 301 redirection to my dynamic URL to static URL? Will my PR be maintained? I am very much …

Google specifies in their help pages that a sitemap cannot exceed 50,000 URLs. What happens if a sitemap does go over that limit? Does Google just only take the first 50K into consideration or does it realize that the sitemap is just way too big to even be worth parsing …

Hi all ive resently noticed that nearly all of my site is in the "omitted results" part of the searh engine and this is bad , Yes ? How do it i fix this ? ive also got alot in the supplimental index too but this was an old forum …

Hi everybody ! This is my first thread ....and i am vijayanand fro coimbatore, India. I am 22 years old and i have started my own web designing concern named S6teen technologies (India) Pvt Ltd..i need to know about search engine optimization right from from the scratch as i have …

just wanna know .... if putting free articles on my site say 2 or 3 from free artical websites is a good or bad thing for search engines and is this a bad idea for my site in general. I also submit articles that are from my site with my …

I created a blog with all post in english and spanish, but google indexed it as spanish page. I'm investigating the cause. Does google see the language that I use in google webmaster tools page when I sent my sitemap? Does google see the country of owner of the domain …

There will always be questions ununswered about the nature of some mysterious things... Or have i missed an official explanation? I don't think i have. But let's share our theories about those Reston, Virginia visitors. A dosen of similar ip address, all during 10-20 seconds, 1 page visit, 1second of …

i've been optimizing my blog for a particular keyword in MSN but nothing seems to work. any tips?________________ [COLOR=#000000][B]חינוך giochi online[/B][/COLOR]

I haven't been in the SEO game much lately and so I was just wondering what the experts have to say on this one lately ... is it better to have a sitewide backlink or high PR homepage / subpage link?

Hey everyone, sorry to bring this topic up again, but the current weekly newsletter from Developer Shed confused me here: In the article about what to avoid when building links, the authors list several good points, but some points conflict with what we discussed last week about links hurting your …

1. I joined google adsense for my site when it started about 14 months ago hopping it would help me get indexed. I only had minimum amount of ads on bottom of screen. recently with my increased traffic i put the ads all over some pages. I thgink many of …

Is it possible to get parked domains indexed into the search engines? I'll explain more below... I have a client who owns a domain that features products from a couple of her companies. She then bought two other domain names (which were her two company names) and parked them on …

[COLOR=#000000]Hello Guys, [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Anybody here using blogs as the main SEO strategy? [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]For MSN I heard it's easy to rank high using blog but not sure with goog [/COLOR]

Hi, I am working on this non-profit org website. Their current domain name is registered in the name of the guy who is no longer associated with the organization. The domain name is going to expire in couple of months. We have registered for a new domain name. It will …

Anybody knows [i]URL's for purchase private soft for website advertising[/i]? It's really important to me. Please, help. Thanks P.S. Also I need for ad programs that can recognize captchas, can mass posting, can sort sites by Google PageRank (PR) and others. By the way, I'm interested in any scripts to …

[COLOR=#000000] Hi I have several ad groups with keywords that [B]should be getting Tons of traffic[/B] - hundreds of clicks per day according to estimates in several search engines. [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][B]My position is First Page[/B], very high bids, maximum budget, and the ads are targeted to the keywords (I have recently …

I am think something is going on with Google, maybe Google dance, results are displayed up and down all time here, positions are changing since this morning. How about yours overthere? Thanks for your inputs.

Hi all, I do not intend to spam the SE's but my site has a row of link buttons along the top and the bottom. Register, profile, members, blah, blah I just did a search engine simulation and the text for these was right at the beginning of the page. …

Hi Guys. I have just registered my site and also want to buy my domain in other suffixes (.com, .net, .biz) to help protect my companies identity and want to point these to my .co.uk site. My question is will I be penalised for this if they are just pointing …

Hi All, I wanted to ask your opinions about this Googles penalty for having build too many inbound links in a short period of time webmasterworld.com/google/3084915.htm I need to do link building for a client and plan to simply build 10-20 links in a span of 3-6 months. Is that …

[COLOR=#000000]Google PageRank update has started! :mrgreen: [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Can any one send me some tools to find my current PR? :?: [/COLOR]

Hello, I just noticed that google is indexing multiple daniweb subdomains while searching for my sitename, sorry if it is against the policy to post a search for my site its hard to get the same result in google. This caused big google problems for an other site my company …

We are looking into buying links from sites that are within our niche. My question is what would count the most as a quality link? A. Relevancy B. Page Rank C. Alexa Ranking

hello everybody!!!!! i own a site (i dont want to mention the name....sticking to the rules of this forum)...it is designed in PHP...... it is basically a forum to download music,movies etc.... i registered myself in google adsense program and got the following code:- <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-2768779675207123"; google_ad_width …

I have two questions about AdSense. Firstly, I and a few friends joined AdSence just three days ago. Ater going through the rules, we were left wondering... What is "repeated manual clicking"? What I'm really asking, is how many times can any one person click the ad box per week? …

Do you register all the majors tlds? (.com,.net.org.info...)? And is it right to point a .com and .net to the same website? Thank you

Hi All, Well, the company's site I develop for relies heavily on business through the internet. As of yesterday, it appears that the main (index) page has just disappeared. Anybody else having these weird sorts of results? Is google updating? The site is a relatively new site; nonetheless, ithe site …

I bought around 5000 one-way links from "one of those companies" They said they would link to my site gradually during 3 months to avoid problems but did it in one instead. I stopped receiving trafic from google a week ago. Now SR for my keywords can be found in …

Hi, Both the above appear to do the same thing to text on a web page. Have I misunderstood their use? Do Search engines view them differently? Thanks

Has anyone one ever hit the blue i button on the google tool bar and used the backward links function? Maybe i need more webspace in my head, but is this figure the number of links going back to a website? Whats the difference between google and alexa? Google shows …

Internal duplicate content is OK says Google In an interview by Rand of SEOmoz with Vanessa Fox of Google she mentioned that there really isn't a penalty for having internal duplicate content issues (pages inside your own site that are copies of other pages on your domain). Rand asked Matt …

I have just finished building a website and would like to register it with the major search engines, can anyone advise on the best way to do this. thanks for your responses Cogmick

I heard that, using [B]Search Engine SDK introduced by adobe helps to overcome with indexing and crawling of links and text in flash files!!![/B] [B][/B] [B]Is any SE integrated this SDK???[/B] [B][/B] [B]Will this be of any help?[/B] [B][/B] [B]Ideas would be of great help!!![/B]

Hi , I have a question about title tags. If I have a page on keyword - Dog Training for example - Should I set my title tag as the following - dog training, dog, training, train, etc - Or should I set it up as to where it sounds …

i have a german website and my current domain is Example.com and i need to rename my domain Sample.com! I want to retain my existing results for the domain Example.com! My queries are: Can i use Example.com as a SUB DOMAIN for Sample.com? OR Can i have the same Example.com …

Has anyone got a good list of decent directories ? Would be great if you could PM me or post here,would help no end of people no doubt :cheesy:

I am having an idea to structure seo friendly links better but i am unsure if it is worth the efford( not a very great efford). [I]A the moment a link looks like[/I] /module/parameter1/parameter2/parameter..../function-language.html Where [B]module [/B]can be anything from forum to cms Where [B]function [/B]can be anything from index …

Search Engine Journal recently wrote an article quoting pieces of a debate that's sprung up about digg (and more generically, the social bookmarking sites) being included in google's index. Here are the arguments: Allen Stern: Quote: > My belief is that this is not enough to warrant a listing in …

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i am realy curious , how much can the revenue reach on a website from putting "ads by google", cause i am one of the people who never clicks on them , and rarley look at the ads......... i know it will differ from wesite to another but lets say …

My new site that started to rank a little bit went almost totally supplemental a week ago. I have tried to change the non www listing to a www listing with 301 redirects and the setting in the webmaster tools. It took some time but google is indexing under www …

I need to setup a 302 redirect to a static page on my forum. Example forum/t25030 to domain.com/staticpage.htm How do I go about this? Not working when I put it here: [quote][b]RewriteRule ^forum/t25030 [noparse]http://www.domain.com/me.htm[/noparse] [L,R=302][/b][/quote]

This is kind of strange... I have been running a site for about three years now and was having a tough time getting any kind of rank at all. My homepage still is rated 1 by google. Here is the weird part... I recently added more to the site and …

hello members I am kinda new to SEO thing. Acutally I have to work on an old site. Which PR is godknows... what should be the first step and late steps should i be taking.... thanks in advance cheeers

well i have develop website amnacorp.com please check below i have tried for seo <head> <title>Amna Corporation is an ISO 9001 : 2000 Certified Company .We are the Manufacturers and Expoters of Woven Garments.</title> <meta name="title" content="WOMEN GARMENTS, MEN GARMENTS, CHILDREN GARMENTS, GARMENTS MANUFACTURERS, GARMENTS EXPORTERS, JEANS MANUFACTURERS, JEANS EXPORTERS …

Hello, Well I need to know that I had few websites and I made links also but not able to get why I am not getting the good ranking. As I need help that whats the most imp to get good search engine ranking. Links, keyword or whats is most …