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Hi all, does anyone know if it affects the way google ranks a page if most of the data in php pages is drawn from MySQL? For example - a simple [B]About Us[/B] page... One page in php with all body text drawn from MySQL, versus, one page in php …
YOU GOTTA LOVE THAT HEADLINE. :eek: Google will try to convince a judge on Friday to dismiss a lawsuit that challenges the heart of the company’s business: its methods for indexing and ranking Web pages. continued here ... [URL="http://gorillamarketing.blogspot.com/"]http://gorillamarketing.blogspot.com/[/URL]
Hi all, just seeing if anyone has a good list of the major SEs submitting urls Cheers :cheesy:
Hi, I would like to know if Google, Yahoo or MSN would consider the title of my website as spam. My title goes like "Contract Job Marketplace for Webmasters, Freelancers, Programmers, Translators, Custom Web Designers and more..." Am I using too many commas??? Please help...
I am feeling a little overwhelmed in all this SEO stuff. I recently used the W3C's validator on one of the pages on my site and found I had a lot of errors. Most of the errors are things like "there is no attribute "TOPMARGIN"." Apparently the W3C sees this …
Hello all. I am new here so I am not sure if I am posting in the right board but here I go anyways. I have a site, lets call it [url]www.xyz.com[/url]. Now I would like to add a blog to the site but want to put this blog on …
Hi guys, My site is being visited almost daily by yahoo,google and msn robots. Given that, is it still worth resubmitting other pages of my site? Cheers!
There is too much focus in the SEO community on the PageRank meter. This entry attempts to clarify some myths and misconceptions regarding the Google Tool Bar PageRank meter. We know PageRank is important. PageRank, also known as linkjuice, is a metric of the weight of a page's backlinks or …
Just a few days back my site ranked at 1st place in msn for the terms "pertusis disease". Now it is nowhere to be seen. I made some changes to the site by including 17 new sub-domains. Can this be a reason? Should I remove the sub-domains? Also how do …
Hi there, Well, I learned something new today :) I just recently started my affiliate program about a year ago, & since I don't have an experienced affiliate manager, I am learning slowly rather than quickly. Anyway, I just recently noticed that one of my affiliates had their domain pointing …
hi will ppc click work for me i am trying to get some good traffic for my new dating website but don't wanna to pay loads for ppc for keywords like uk dating online dating etc has any one got any ideas how i can do this for cheaper
Reciprocal and Non-Reciprocal Links… What's the Difference? Once your website is up and raring to go, it is important to start formulating a marketing strategy. The obvious goal is to attract as many visitors as you can. One of the best ways to do this is through a "Linking Campaign". …
I recently built a website for a friend. If I search for the company name, then the site itself shows 3rd, below threads from forums which link to it. (the site itself is the second link in my sig under 'my sites' - I'm hoping this thread won't go to …
Hi everyone, I have a data base driven joomla website and 772 categories, most of them still empty because the site is new... I would like Google to only show content pages, for example, I would want this page to be crawled: URL SNIPPED but not these pages: URL SNIPPED …
I read that "ebay" is one of the SEO "no-no" words. I use it to build customer confidence on a shopping site.
[url=http://www.arcon5.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=234]Micrsoft Target Search Market![/url] Does anybody actually think Microsoft can become serious competitors to dominating Google? Because Google is so much easier to use than MSN Search! And every where you look there isn't adverts all over!
hi, i have had a designer clothing websites open for about 7 months, but it is still not ranking well in google, i did pay [url]www.servicewrap.net[/url] to get us ranked but after about 2-3 months they said we where in the google sandbox then said that they sister site could …
Hi all, I'm looking for a really good stats program that isn't going to break the bank. I use Google AdWords, so I'm hoping the program will also be able to determine which sales were made from the AdWords Program. I know Urchin is the best, but the money hasn't …
I thought this was an interesting little article. Certainly reminds me of a number of sites that I've come across -STUFFED to the gills with search terms. I hope the message gets out to the needy! Curbing SEOs Who've Gone Wild By Anne Kennedy, Guest Writer May 10, 2006 When …
I had 43.000 indexed pages and 50.000 unique visitors per month a few days ago. But now, On google I have only 1000 pages majority of which are too old. (about 1 year!) Now I have very few visitors as you can guess. Is there any similar occasion you have/had. …
Is it necessary to add the plural form of keywords into an AdWords campaign? In other words, would I need to have keywords: widget, widgets, blue widget, blue widgets, red widget, red widgets, etc?
Hello Every Body How can i know that the [B]Site runs on the IIS or Apache Webserver[/B]. And how can i redirect a webpage using 301 Redirect in .htaccess.. [B]in Windows and Linux Server.[/B] I write the Coding in .htaccess but it does not work. Regards Ujjwal
Is SEO a big part of how you do business online? If so, stop! The number one piece of advice I could give anyone is to design and develop your websites for your target audience - for your users - instead of for the search engines. In fact, doing so …
There's a new feature for Google AdWords ... You can essentially pick various demographics you wish to target, and the system will create a list of Google Network sites that are popular with that audience. The demographic information comes from comScore Media Metrix.
The quality of the traffic derived from sponsored ads has diminished over the past couple of months. I've noticed this more with one of the search engine provider's of cost-per-click traffic services, more so than the other important one. When I check my server logs I see too many, of …
I'm looking for ways to attract links to my website content. Ideas: - Cartoons. - Original research (with authoritative sources). - Answer a popular/repetitive question. - Online game. Or, should I just rely on regularly publishing? Any other ideas?
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Hi, I am using the matatage for search engine optimization and i am also entering keywords and descriptions but any of the search engine will not showing my page when i am typing such a keyword. so is there any otherway for SEO means ranking the page or we have …
I found [URL=http://www.wrongplanet.net/blog/?p=31]someone coming from gtools.corp.google.com in my referrer log...[/URL]: [QUOTE]I found an odd url in my referrers list. Upon googling the term “gtools.corp.google.com
For those of you out there who purchase text links for SEO ... Which works better for you? Sitewides or homepage / section specific links? For me, I've always had much better experience with sitewide links on relevant sites that generate a lot of traffic and have lots of pages …
I have a directory where the directory is ODP style and at present i am thinking of using a scoring system for all the submission links into my directory. All sites in my directory will be manually reviewed for quality, content, free of any spam. What are the most important …
Hello everybody, I was wondering what could be the difference between buying a link for example from << link broker >> "35$ each" or buying each month +- 240 one way links to your site for "24,99$ total" << url snipped >> What is the catch?? Many thanks! Kind regards …
I'm trying to gain better positioning in my Adwords Campaign. So far the only way i know of to gain better positioning is to fine tune my keywords and increase my bid amount. I don't like increasing my bid amount because although it improves my position, it creates more risk. …
I have 400,000 pages of content-light pages. That's because many have an image, and a very short description that is legally regulated. I want to add unique keyword-rich content to all the pages on the left sidebar. However, I don't want to handwrite 400,000 pages of unique content. I've thought …
I just installed the latest version of the Google toolbar for IE. The autocomplete search feature is pretty cool. Any other opinions?
Scenario, You want to opitmise a site for 10 keywords say. You choose 2/3 keywords per page and optimise accordingly and therefore have your 'on-page- factors covered. When addressing the 'off-page' factors ie: links, what is the best way to include those 10 keywords into your linking campaign? I know …
Why do you think this happens? The conversion rate increases the more time you spend on search. For example the first 1k you spend in search might yield a 1% conversion rate, yet the next 2k might yield a 3 or 4%. Without any refinement of the campaign. Is that …
I am contemplating renaming the directory /techtalkforums/ to just /forums/ but I am very concerned with SEO. Of course, I would do a 301 redirect for everything in the directory. However, how guaranteed is that alone? Will the google toolbar PR eventually carry over and how long does it take …
Does anyone know about this Big Daddy Google update? Supposedly they are doing a lot of removing duplicate pages, so we shall see ... I *think* the IP for the datacenter is at [url="http://216.239.51.104/"][color=#800080]http://216.239.51.104/[/color][/url]
It looks like we went through a Google toolbar PR update yesterday. How did you guys fare? I can't complain. Homepage stayed PR7 and all top level forums and categories went to PR6. Unfortunately, my link directory went down from my second PR7 to PR6 as well.
hi all, I would like to discuss ways of generating traffic. Right now i am much busy and am facing a deadline on a project. But within this next week i will be focusing a lot of energy on this topic. If anyone has some tips that they would be …
I signed up for Overture after they offered me a $100 credit last week. Today, I sent them this letter: [quote]To Whom It May Concern, Please cancel my Overture search account. I signed up just a few days ago looking forward to the recent improvements and competition with Google AdWords, …
Hi: I run or help run a few web-sites dedicated to musicians John Barry, Matt Monro, Adam Faith & Ron Grainer. Naturally, like everybody else, I want them to appear near the top in searches. This is not a problem as far as MSN goes, as all four appear in …
Hi, I have an online shopping website in which I have setup google's Conversion tracking mechanism at two places, namely, Signup Confirmation and in the Payment page. In the Signup Confirmation page, I wish to track the number of signups occurring as a result of google adwords. While in the …
I was just snooping around my AdWords campaign and I noticed that you can now set separate bids for search and content pages. How long have I been missing out on this feature? Does anyone use it? I've been using automatic bidding for awhile.
Hi everyone When I start a new web site promotion project one of the first thing, of course, is an anlysis to determine the most searched for keyphrases that are relevant and industry specific to the web site. I do this using the traditional tools available from the search engines …
Do you recommend using the rel=nofollow tag on links that are member-submitted, such as from a blog or forum?
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