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Hi People, I know this is probably a huge topic, but im going to ask it anyway!! Basically i want my web page top of google!! (as does everyone i guess!!). I know that google doesnt refer to sites meta tags, and that its generally about links within you site, …
Hi DaniWeb community, Google unveiled a new piece of software for beta testing. Unfortunately, both Dani and I missed the boat :cry: . If anyone had a chance to download it, please share your opinions. Thanks!
Hello fellow DaniWeb members. With all the buzz on gaining link popularity and improving PR, let me share a thought on the subject. The ultimate nirvana is to have high PR sites linking to you, one way (no recip), with your most coveted keywords as anchor text. Now pull out …
I have been checking the backlinks of one of my competitors and I can see that some of the directories they're linked to required reciprocal links to be able to submit to them which is fine. HOWEVER - the site in question doesn't even have a links page much less …
Is anyone out there familiar with Findwhat verses Overture? In overture, the keywords are pretty expensive in my industry, though I was obtaining a decent conversion rates. I've been testing out findwhat, which is more cost effective, without much conversion success. Any feedback would be appreciated. Hugh
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hi i know that there are a lot of topics about these two things ( Alexa and the pr ) but im sure also that there alot of noobs want to know exactly what are these things. and im the first one i will always try to understand the PR …
Let's generate some conversation here. When you start a backlinking campaign, how many keywords/phrases do you use at once?
I have been teaching myself SEO lately and need a little guidance. I am learning CSS, but how does it effect the sites position on Google? Also does someone have some tutorials for site construction that make it optimized for search engines, specifically Google? What is the best size for …
Can anyone help me with this , instead of posting at their i thought more smart people will be here :P , I need this mod rewrite thing for SEO in IPB. 2.0.0 that is the url`s changed to html format , Searched google but most of are for 1.3 …
Just starting out and I have no idea how to price any kind of internet marketing. I am researching keywords, creating a adwords campain with about 3 different campains to target 3 specific products. Also I am maintaining the campain and occasionally giving reports. In addition I wrote up a …
Dani's last thread (in the advertising sales / affiliate section) triggered something in my brain. [B]Using PPC to promote ebay auction listings!!! [/B] What do you get when you combine Google, Yahoo, and eBay together? A MASSIVE reach when it comes to promoting your goods or services on eBay. I …
I have some concerns I’m hoping someone can help me with. This time last year according to my servers web stats Google used about 5.86GB of bandwidth spidering my site, however now Google has only used about 8.8MB spidering my site. Just a few months ago - going to Google …
Thats right! Once again, big G ended the war. Free unlimited storage space for all! They call it "Infiniti + 1". They have a counter that shows your storage space increasing by the second! Way cool. Those folks are so creative.
[color=navy]Type[/color] [color=navy][QUOTE][/color][color=navy][b][color=darkgreen]HOME[/color][/b][/QUOTE] into any search engine and they will reveal their PRIORITIZATION regarding [/color] [color=navy][b][color=darkgreen]Link Popularity[/color] and [color=darkgreen]Popularity of Links[/color][/b] and the importance they place on [b][color=darkgreen]Keywords[/color][/b] in the [/color][color=darkgreen][b]Hyperlink text[/b][/color] [color=navy]It also points out the flaws in this type of emphasis[/color] [color=navy]compare Google Yahoo ASK Jeeves and MSN SERPs[/color] …
Hi: I just built my first website for <<url snipped>> and have received my first usage stats report. I've been told to focus on page views. Any other ideas on interpretation? Here are the stats... Hits 4604 Files 1728 Sites 91 KBytes 12909 Visits 125 Page views 822 Thanks! Wayne
If you have the best titletag, best metatags, best Description and again you site is not ranking for expected keywords. So what we have to do. what is the best strategy to get listed with out going for PPC??
So, Google has come up with new Payment Methods - [quote]What forms of payment are available to me? [B]Local currency checks[/B]: Google will convert your earnings from US dollars into your local currency if this option is selected. Available to publishers in 43 countries, local currency checks are generally less …
Ask Jeeves, a small player in the search marketplace, has been sold today to an online media giant - InterActiveCorp - for $1.86 Billion USD. InterActiveCorp's properties include Expedia, Ticketmaster, Match.com, and CitySearch. For more information, refer to the article below: [url="http://news.com.com/Ask+Jeeves+to+be+bought+for+2+billion/2100-1030_3-5627679.html?tag=nefd.top"]http://news.com.com/Ask+Jeeves+to+be+bought+for+2+billion/2100-1030_3-5627679.html?tag=nefd.top[/url]
[font=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]MSN announed during an annual gathering of its most important advertisers that it will enter the paid search arena with a full-blown self-service paid listing program similar to those run by Yahoo and Google. It will be tested in France and Singapore some time in the next six …
Hello All, I have one blogsite, nothing great about it just my personal journal.I put a post there almost daily occasionally putting up few pics as well.The problem is that my blog never comes in google search.Even if I put one whole sentence of my post in google it will …
I was checking the cpanel for my website and saw this as a referer: [CODE]http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=western+dance&first=11&count=10&FORM=PORE[/CODE] Does this mean that someone performed this search and then actually came to my site? Or will this type of thing show up whenever someone enters a search that my site is listed under? Please …
We << url snipped >> were on the 1st page on Google for terms email marketing and bulk email. ( and have been there for 5 years ) Now we are gone! - Not sure why this would have happened. Does anyone know how we can contact them to get …
So what is your Page rank both of main pages and internal pages? All my internal pages have a PR of 2 and the main index has a PR of 4 not bad for a site which is only 5 months old.
[b]Google Inc. today announced the availability of Google Video, a new service that enables users to search the content of television programs from leading TV content providers including PBS, the NBA, Fox News, and C-SPAN, among others.[/b] [img]http://img200.exs.cx/img200/5493/gvideo1da.png[/img] The engine dubbed "Google Video" allows users to search across text from …
I just noticed that Google has gone back and readjusted all of their reports and figures for the month of February. A few dollars and cents were added to each day of my AdWords account. Along the same lines, I earned a few more dollars and cents via my AdSense …
Google has a new program going ... [url="http://www.google.com/referral/"]http://www.google.com/referral/[/url] It's an affiliate program in which they pay $20 CPA for anyone you refer to AdSense / AdWords. Unfortunately, it's currently - of course! - in beta, which means it's by invitation only. Has anyone been one of the privileged few to …
I'm already in the ODP and I get a good amount of traffic from Google. I'm also in Yahoo! search. However, I'm not currently listed in the Yahoo! directory. Is it worth it to pay the annual $300 fee to be listed? How much traffic will it get me? Is …
This is a question to those who have AdSense and use the Google search on there site: why do you have the google search box leave your website when you click submit (aka it goes to [url]http://www.google.com/custom?q=[/url]....)? Google has some APIs which allows you to query there servers and display …
Is it worth paying to SEO? Do they really make changes or really bring difference? I am thinking whether to pay or not! give me your suggestion! I am Sandra.
I apologize if there is a forum topic on here that explains how to get more hits through the search engines on google. But what i'm wondering is how do i get my website to pop up when someone searches for a few keywords? Am i understanding correctly that i …
I own << url snipped to comply with forum policy >> and was wondering, for a spider to go deep inside my forum other then just the homepage, is their something I need to do to my settings. I have a pr2 for homepage already but that's it. My other …
Let me keep this short and sweet. Upload alot of high quality content to your site, and other sites will link to you automatically. If you offer information that is useful to a particular audience or a subject area, other related sites have interest in letting their visitors know about …
lets say i have a site about horse racing. i wouldnt want to use the word horse as a keyword as there are tons of horse related issues that have nothing to do with horse racing. same applies to the word racing. how do i address this matter?
I've been looking at the google directory and it appears to be drawn directly from the DMOZ one. I have managed to get one of my sites listed in dmoz, but how frequently is google's version updated? the category I got listed in has 7 items in dmoz, but 4 …
A strange thing happened after the page rank updation. Most of the sites only had the page ranks of internal pages updated, the homepages did not show any alteration in their ranks. Any others who experienced similar things? and any idea why?
I am the webmaster of [url]www.nibbleguru.com[/url], since last 3 days my traffic is 25-30% of my original traffic. a sudden decline of 70% is what is worrying me. what could be the reasons for it? my PR seems same as before. i am not doing any SEO etc on my …
Google updated backlinks finally! Here are the current data centers that have been updated thus far. Here are the current updated data centers so far: 216.239.39.99 216.239.37.104 216.239.37.147 216.239.37.99 66.102.11.99 64.233.161.99 64.233.161.104 64.233.161.105 64.233.161.147 Our site only jumped up by about 100 links. Not as well as I was hoping! …
There is so much hype about PR and google SEO - but how does one go about getting up those SERPS for the other engines such as Overture and MSN? Google might be the biggest alone, but I'm sure that it can't defeat by far all of the others put …
Hi, Do search engines have preference for domain name extensions. For example using a .com, .biz or a country extension such as .co.za. Any comments or views about the relevance or lack of it on domain name extensions and the success of search engine indexing would be appreciated. Thank you.
My cane search results for my best phrase were on page 2 for many months, then I added the band links with the name of the band: Seventh Victim (also the name of a movie) About two days later the results went to 5th page, and then back to 2nd …
My goal is a first/second google page listing under the competitive keyword phrase 'cell phones'. I've developed a little over 300 backlinks over the last two months (not high pr sites, but about 150 unique ip blocks and websites that I have traded services for links with). I have the …
Search engines sometimes penalize or ban sites for manipulative SEO techniques. What are the most common techniques that SE's hate? How far will a SE go when penalizing a site? If the tactic is stopped, can sites get back in?
I was creating an AdWords ad for our SEO forum and I tried using: SEO Forum Google News and Techniques Free Webmaster Community and it came back with an error message saying: [i]You may not use the word "Google" in the text of your ad.[/i] Heh :)
Hi all, How you doing? Okay I want to put the Google's AdWords conversion tracking JS on my site pages, but I'm confused about a few things... 1. On one board someone said that Google is just doing this to get our information. What do you think? 2. Am I …
I know SEO companies can bring up searches performed by yahoo.com, etc. and see how many people are searching a particular term or phrase. How is this done? It would really help me sell websites. Thanks.
Written by James Peggie In the early days of the Internet, web enthusiasts were enamored with the technological marvels that the new age put before them. It almost seemed as though the written content in web sites was put in as an afterthought. Today however, users and developers alike have …
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