Search Engine Strategies Forum

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?

Hello DaniWeb Community, Can a site get out of the G Sandbox using RSS feeds to fuel the site with content? In other words, if a webmaster does not have the resources to write original content, can syndicated content do the trick? Any other feedback on getting out of the …

Does anyone know when the next Google PR update is going to take place? It's been a long time since the last one, I've heard rumors about the IPO getting in the way, but does anyone have any insider news to share?

Hello Folks ! I need your opinions on a concept. Please do not fool around but honestly give your opinions because if your opinions seem all positive then I am thinking of running such a venture mentioned below. Also, please forward everyone you know (on the internet) to this post …

:mad: Over the past months I have been working on << url snipped >>. I have limited knowledge of SEO but have done my best. I have also slowly developed links to the page and maintained a pr of 5. However, I am still not ranking well for my main …

[b]Getting Your Site Submitted to Search Engines[/b] by Aaron Turpen of Aaronz WebWorkz Getting listed in search engines can be a lot of work. "Free" submission tools are worth about what you pay for them and, worse, can be detrimental to your efforts. Yet you don't have the time to …

Looking at my site statistics, I see that the trend is that visitors from the MSN search engine stay on the site twice as long as the average visitor from Google or Yahoo. Additionally, they are about 3X as likely to register. Therefore, it seems like my site really likes …

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What is the ideal number of links to have per page? What is the maximum number of links on a particular page that Googlebot will spider?

would it be smarter to optimize the same keywords in your content for each webpage on your site or to optimize different keywords for each page? i am thinking that optimizing the same keywords in my content for each page would increase the amount of pages i have on the …

Hi there, I need help to figure out Google AdWords. A company set it up for me & I find it very complex. How do I lower my bids? My major competition just went out of biz & there's no need for me to bid that high anymore. Any help …

I have new contents to add and update a current site. As of now, everything is under www.example.com/1stdirectory/content.html. Since there are so much information, I think it is best to create new .html pages and organize it, rather than adding everything unto that one .html page. In order to make …

[url]http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bigdaddy-on-the-move/[/url] Matt is saying this isn't really an update but a datacenter change .. whatever that means. Unfortunatelly, it seems my site is still sandboxed with no link:backs on Google so I don't notice much of a difference.

Check the bottom of the left column on [URL SNIPPED] (my home page) and tell me if you think that the section called SERVICES is a good idea to get more keywords on my pages. Thanks.

I have noticed that some websites that rank well in SERPS make their keywords anchor text throughout their webpage. a good example is << url snipped >>. Does linking your keywords like that webpage does, give you a better chance of getting in the SERPs than one that does not …

Best quality traffic what kind of traffic do you consider the highest quality? Who has the best conversion rate for actual sales.

How did everyone fare from the Google Jagger update?

Hi guys, When considering the PR of a site to link to, are you gettin the PR of the main URL / home page of the site OR the PR of the page where your link is going to appear. I'm sure you've come across a site which might have …

When you want to get good rankings for a particular keyword in Google, it's common practice to buy lots of backlinks with that keyword as anchor text. However, I can't help but wonder ... isn't that the most unnatural thing that any search engine could ever find? If lots of …

I have a site where I am trying to use a question answer format as my sales pitch. The beginning 2 paragraphs ask the viewer questions answer them to lure them into my product. I know that you should place your keywords at the top of your website for SEO. …

In SEO, we have to know two things are very important. The first one is open directories project (ODP), which is dmoz.com. The idea of open directories is to submit your site to other big web hosts' directories in order to increase the listed frequency from the searching results by …

Hi guys, Can anyone recommend free Web analytics software or site? I am currently using awstats but need something more detailed Ideas? Thanks

If you go to [url="http://www.google.com/analytics/conversionuniversity_dt.html"]http://www.google.com/analytics/conversionuniversity_dt.html[/url] you will notice a welcome message by Google that states [quote=Google] Regardless of how you drive traffic to your site - paid search, search engine optimization (SEO), print, or any other medium - your challenge is to get more of the visitors you really want …

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If one creates mutiple sites for same services, will this effect on the rankings in Search Engine. Like I have designed 3 sites with different content, but of same meaning for my services. Will this create any problem for my sites to rank top in Google?

let's say the keywords that i am seo my webpages for are "dodge neon" and "neon parts." lets also say my url is [url]www.dodgeneon.com[/url] lets also say that i have a keyword density on my pages of "dodge neon" and "neon parts" at the normal percentage, 2-5%. now, my question …

I have read somewhere that you should also try to optimize for common spelling mistakes people can make with your keywords. If the theme/category my website is about is very popular, would it be advisable to optimize for misspelled search terms, or would this affect the credibility of my site …

Do different search engines treat keyword densities differently ? What is keyword density tolerance of those search engine?

I am a webmaster for a site. I have been trying to get my site's search to be able to search through my own site and also on google by using radio button to make the choice. Is there a way to do that? can someone help me with a …

Am very new to this concept can anyone point me in the right direction? :p

I just did a Google search before and noticed something I have never seen before. To the right of the familiar Cached and Similar pages links is one saying Remove result. Does anyone know what this does ... just remove the link from this particular search? Filter it out of …

Hi, I am looking for a Bulleting Board / Forums which is :- 1) SEO Friendly . 2) Make the threads in html extension as is done in this forum .No php / aps / aspx extension are preferred 3) Either free or availble at a nominal fees 4) Should …

So does anyone know what Gogle Carabou (spelling?) is, or has heard of it? I was at Ad:Tech NYC this week, and went with a friend to one of those private AdWords optimization sessions. As we walked over to the AdWords rep's laptop, we caught a glimpse of something that …

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I have two web sites. I have tried to optimize them the best I can considering my little experience. This one has been around for months [url="http://www.site.com"]www.site.com[/url] and I just created this one [url="http://www.site.com"]www.site.com[/url] The problem is I don't get any clicks except the ones I pay for. I know …

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Wasn't that dumb of Google to go ahead and start copying copyrighted material. You would expect them to think first, wouldn't you.