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Hi everyone, First I want to thank the people who offered up the good advise on my last question, so THANK YOU. Question: How do I go about finding reliable advertisers the pay propperly for click throughs. I offer my clients free email like yahoo and would like to incorporate …

Whenever I need information, I either go to Yahoo or to Google. Specially with the Google toolbar neatly installed and accessible, it becomes quicker to search for anything. Search results are often satisfactory and if I don't find it in Google, I go to Yahoo, or vice versa. My friend …

Hi I am new to SEO world and taken up SEO for some forums sites. I am working on Vbulletin forum. And my prob is I would like to set keywords on every page of the thread but dont know how to do it! I could set up keywords only …

Hi I would like to know if there is a page name length that we should not go over like : this_page_name_is_very_long_or_is_it.htm how much is too much I like putting my keywords/phrases as the page name. But is it too long ?

I'm sorry if i've posted in the wrong section. My query is how can we hide the links(affiliate links) in our site. The cloaking software is not reliable. So any programming will do the cloaking service.

I have come across some companies that will sell you x number of related links to use on your web site. This sounds like a good idea to get listed on Google, but is it really a good idea? What are some creative ways to get people to link to …

knowing that search bots don't recognize text in graphical format, thus rendering flash websites virtually invisible to search engines, would it be possible, using CSS to basicly make 2 websites per page, one visible Flash page and 1 hidden page behind it? (sorry about the run-on sentence) by using (z-index …

i have a website with about 200 page impressions per day with pr1. im planning to buy an domain thats is going to expire in a few hours with about 25 impressions per day and pr5 and im dmoz. what is the best solution: To buy it and redirect that …

How to optimize Flash site

Do keywords in domains need to be separated with hyphens in order for search engines to read them?

You might say that html, body, or head are most important as maybe search engines are not so forgiving of seriously faulty markup. This poll is more for keywords - which tag is most important for keyword optimization?

I get asked this all the time, so I figured I would just create a thread about it where others could share their experiences as well ... how much can someone afford to bid on an ad-supported site? When you have an eCommerce site it's easy to calculate how much …

When you assign a priority to URLs with Google sitemap, do you give the higher priority to your actual content pages (articles, etc) or to your sitemaps / navigation pages, which contain links to all of the articles?

:?: ok how do i make money out of add-sense? i know this has been asked 100s of times. but all i want to do is cover the cost of my ad-words (my advertising cost). i get on avarage 500 hits a week at the moment. but for some reason …

Hello, Now a days, google mainly concentrate on Title & description....Is't any gain using ALT tags. If yes,Is there any limitation for that?

Hi, Anyone known about getmyarticles.com.Kindly help me about this site....

I dont want any of the pages to be blocked from the Search Engines. Do i need to place a blank robots.txt file please advise thanks

Hello, I was just wonder what the cheapest price per click you can pay on Google? Is it better to pay the cheapest price? Is pay per click worth it, in terms of getting visitors to sign up on a website? Thanks.

Hello friends, I have done new website, how will get ready to share link of this website. and for this i need to modify my HTML code of my website? Regards Bipin

Today i saw one quite interesting website. It's owner claims that he will give a half a million dolars to one who helps him to earn 1 million. Anyway, i need someone's opinion, what do you think is it for real? [url]http://www.halfmehalfyou.com/[/url]

Is it true that spiders and bots don't like document-root or relative paths? I read it somewhere just now; and I don't know whether "don't like" means a spider will act as if there's nothing there and prompty leave; or feel somewhat offended, but compensate and carry on... Do spiders …

Chris Beasley just wrote an excellent blog post PageRank. There is a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding about it out there and I think this should help to clear it up for a lot of people. It's a quick read and certainly worth the time. [url=http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/11/17/pagerank-an-essay/]PageRank: An Essay[/url]

"Here is the latest internal thought I had that makes me wonder what its all about. For curved shower rod there are about 50 to 75 sellers, including myself, all selling the same product from the same manufacturer.(who holds a patent) Add to this the redundant items from these same …

Its kind of weird. i used to have a pr of 1 and about 100 visits day. in the 13rd 14th and 15th of this month i had about 6times more traffic in some parts of the day and my page rank increased to 2 or 3. now. i have …

do u guys know when google is planning to update the backlinks? i already have the following links to my site in other search engines. in google i have just 1 of pr 2 or 3 PR 0: 725 PR 1: 69 PR 2: 7 PR 3: 27 PR 4: …

November is proving to be a very bad month for me in terms of traffic sent by Google. I don't know if it related to me creating a Sitemap last month or what, but traffic dipped by a good 50%! Anyone else seeing this?

hi. i was reseraching for " how to get a better ranking" and i got into this forum. i wanted help to get a better ranking to my website britneyfans.org . it has just a page rank of 1 ( dunno why) cause they are worst websites than mine ( …

hey. i desperated for search engine rankings .lol. i applied to get my website listed in Dmoz for months, but britney spears category has no editors. any dmoz editor can help me out? hehe.

Hello Friends, I've submitted my site in various directories with a anchor text, After that if i search using that anchor text,i get confused result. That is, i get only the URL's of the directories in which i submitted my site earlier.But i didn't get my site itself :surprised :surprised …

I am looking for some clarification on keywords list. On are real estate site that I am working on, which is the better option? Option 1 -> City1 real estate, city 2 real estate, city 3 real estate, city1 condos, mortgage... or Option 2 -> City1, City2, City3, real estate, …

Hi Friends, I was building a new website. I planned to give relevant meta description and keywords for each page instead of copying the same keyword and meta for all pages. I am not targetting too much keywords just two keywords per page. Can I choose the targetted keyword and …

hi everyone, We decided to go with this marketing method after we tried so many methods. Is it good way we choosed any one have experience on this? paradax

Apparently the backlinks listed on google have updated. Still less useful than yahoo's, but you may get a hint from the number of backlinks reported still. I had a fairly huge jume around x2 :)

use <h1> <h2> and bold tags in keywords . Use it properly, not use in exact keywords use before one or two words before keyword and close it after one or two words. mention the heading tags with normal font and display in css. hope this ll help to increse …

Hi Everyone, I have noticed 1 thing my position i evry google is different. OK, in naional versions of many countries my position is about the same, however in google.com is much lower... Don't googles use the same database? Why is that? Greetings

Hi All, I'm new to these forums. I had come across the site while surfing the web. It just so happened that I like what I saw. I figured I would give it a try. Well, I've been developing a site for a local company that sells garage doors - …

Hello, I’m moving two of my websites to another hosting service, just wondered if this will affect my standing in the SE results (sorry if that’s not the right terminology) . Should there be any negative effect, is there anything I can do about it ?

Hello all, I was hoping you guys with all the knowledge could help me out? A friend of mine says that he has a way of getting his computer to keep opening an internet link. He has his own web site. is there a program that will allow you to …

I skimmed through the forum but didn't see one thng. I have a website, and now i have to set rates for advertisements that I will get. I don't know the calculation system to set the rate per click. please help me in this context. thanks

I see a huge difference in my indexed pages, back-links and PR. Does any one know why? Please let me know. I know that Google update is happening and do any one know when it is going to end?

hi,just today only i noticed this,after the PR update recently all the 20 pages of our website got PR4,earlier only our homepage [url]www.mydomain.com/index.htm[/url] was having PR 4 but after this update all have got 4 any way my question is this ,i found a big problem for our website i …

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I have been reviewing my Google Analytics logs lately and noticed that visitors from MSN convert very well. What are some tactics I could use to improve my rankings on this engine?

Hi there! My site just updated pr from 4 to 6 this morning! How about yours guys? There is some sights of Google dance also, I am sure Google is doing something with their update now! Inputs are welcome to share this news!

Hi there I'm wondering if anyone had any advice on SEO software as I have used both IBP & Web CEO & I like both of them, however I was considering buying the full version and would like as much advice on this subject as possible, As the main reason …

Hey, there is a backlink update in progress. Your new results can be viewed on this google datacenters so far: 216.239.51.104 216.239.51.147 216.239.37.99 Our website [url]www.ewebdevelopment.net[/url] moved up from 109 to 139 :)

Hi, I am going to move my website to a new server, so the IP will change, will this affect my website in anyways. i.e. will this affect my backlinks and search engine rankings! :?: Please help me! :?: :!:

I have set up a site based on competitive keyword, I have been listed on google since may but not in the SERP's. Just wondering how long it may take before google let my site loose from the sandbox? Any feedback, much appreciated

How long after you submit a sitemap do you usually see results?

Such as this one... << url snipped to comply with forum policy >> I have tried it and it basically removes all spaces and linefeeds from your page. I reduces the size of the html file considerably. I am wondering if they adversly affect the way you are indexed by …