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 | My client's web dev team migrated the site last week from CFM to ASP.NET. Now all 15000 pages we have indexed in the engines produce 404 errors. I've been told to use 301 redirects to fix this problem. My question is - should I use 301 redirects on 15,000 unique … |
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| | I think SEO is perfectly ethical, unless you intend on manupulating a search engine to produce poor quality irrelevant results for a query. I encourage site owners to include lots of free quality text based content in adjuct to a product or service being sold. This is SEO, and is … |
| | Simply have a site that is already indexed by Google link to yours (via a static link). A great way to do this is via directory submissions such as the Yahoo Directory. |
| | Prog: [url="http://www.site-build-it-solutions.com/page-rank.htm"]http://www.site-build-it-solutions.com/page-rank.htm[/url]  |
| | I've seen some interesting results with hyphenated domain names on Google. Not sure how MSN / Yahoo or Ask handles this. Domain name [B]WidgetA-WidgetB.com[/B] has the [I]tendancy[/I] to rank better for the query [B]WidgetA WidgetB[/B] against a site assuming all other variables equal. The effect doesn't seem to appear on … |
 | My thoughts on Pagerank as of SES-NYC 2006. 1. the general public does not know the current pagerank formula. 2. the general public does not know if pagerank is still used - many SEO experts say NO. 3. the green bar on your toolbar is not a metric of pagerank. …  |
| | Recips are good, just not as good as one ways. |
| | I find that pricing SEO is complicated. Many firms offer one-for all packages. I think custom prices are the way to go, due to differences between business. Anyone have ideas on how to price SEO? |
| | I don't think you will get penalized, however I also don't believe, IMHO, that there are 100 quality directories out there worth submitting to. |
 | Use Yahoo to gain a more accurate picture of your backlink stucture. Google is very elusive on what it likes to reveal to the public. I think the [i]linkdomain [/i]command on Yahoo is far superior to the way [i]link [/i]command on Google. When performing a linkdomain:yourdomain.com query on Yahoo, you … |
| | I agree with my canadian friend fred. if you want to cloak some sites that you intend on crashing and burning, give it a try for fun. if you want to cloak your family's business website, you are a drunken fool. cloaking violates nearly all search engine terms of services … |
| | For starters - you need to establish a well thought out and budgeted backlinking campaign, if you want to see positive and [B]long term[/B] results from the engines. This is in addition to the keyword rich content you add on a regular basis. If you are looking to bring traffic … |
| | This section has been a bit queit lately. How 'bout we share some strategies we used for link building. Link building is sooo tedious, yet soooo important. Express your creativity here... 1. Hire "link monkeys" to individually contact site owners in your related industry. 2.  |
 | rufryder: why do you want more PR is the key question? Using metatags as suggested by amd_sucks have not worked since the 90's. Just a waste of time. Google will draw snippets from the meta description tag if on page content text be found (flash sites, etc). Meta tags are … |
| | Ah, this is always a hot topic at the conferences. Think of subdomains as a way to organize your site's structure, rather than as a means to to rank better. Great examples of sites that properly and effectively use subdomains are craigslist (organized by region), wikipedia (language), and the NYT … |
 | I'm quite confused about what exactly you are looking for in a merchant provider... |
| | Very excellent post Scribbler. Could not have written it better myself! AW |
| | If you obtain backlinks from sites that are crawled often, your site will be crawled more often. It's as simple as that.  |
| | So much buzz on the topic. I wan't to hear what DaniWeb members think. Closest guess wins a free prize (j/k)! |
| | How to get links you ask? Daniweb member Aaron Wall has a killer guide on his site titled: [URL="http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml"]101 Link Building Tips[/URL] |
| | Oh boy. Not this subject again! The best place to "buy" text links are from relevant sites that are virgin - meaning they don't sell text links are not on the radars of the engines. In other words, buy text link ads from sites that currently don't sell them is … |
 | It's about time! Yahoo! needs to do everything they can reclaim the throne for King of Search. |
| | Re: Animated Banners Are flashy ads designed to cure banner blindness? Eye tracking studies indicate that experienced websurfers are equipped with banner blindness, whereas the eye is trained to focus on the content of the page, and the banner ads gets little eye exposure. That's why Adsense, YPN, etc, and text link ads … |
| | Dear Newbie, Ignore the green bar on your google tool bar (which doesn't mean jack sh*t to many experience SEO's) and focus on building the highest quality , most authoritative Vietnam travel site you can possibly build. |
| | Happy St. Patty's day to all you Irish folk, and to all others that celebrate it as an excuse to get drunk :-) Google did something rare today. They usually modify the logo keeping the existing red/white/blue color motif. Today...All Green. How many of you find out when holidays and … |
| | To accept credit cards online you typically need the following 3 components: 1. A merchant account: The two largest in the US are First Data/Paymentech and Nova. There are thousands upon thousands of resellers. You should not pay more than 2% of the transaction + about a quarter per transaction …  |
 | i agree with the queen of daniweb. the value of a search click tends to be higher than on the publisher network. by default, google and yahoo will serve ads to both when creating new campaigns. its generally a good idea to run your search and content campaigns separately, since … |
| | Re: Google Suggest Yes, Google suggest is way cool. I love checking the Google Labs and playing around with their new tools. I also find Google suggest to be helpful in choosing keywords. avi wilensky |
| | I have a client with a shopping cart in an older version of Marketlive. It does not have any shopping feed functionality built into it. My goal is to create a feed to crawl the site and submit the store's products to Froogle, Yahoo Shopping, and the comparison engines. This … |
| | Re: alexa ranking I have only heard negative things about Alexa rankings and how unreliable they are. Thus I opt to have less toolbar clutter and forget that it even exists! |
 | That's correct. A link from a page indexed by Google (or any SE) "should" automatically index your site. You may want to check to see if your domain is "clean". Over and over again I hear at conferences to check domain history to make sure it wasn't previously banned. If … |
| | Hello Mac Gurus, Wierd problem on my friend's iMac (sunflower) running Jaguar. Says he pressed some buttons (but cant remember which), and now the built in LCD display is....... monocrome. Tried all combonations of settings in System Prefrerences > Display, and Color - and the best I can do is … |
| | Would it make sense to use the robots no follow tag in your particular case? |
| | [font=Arial][size=2] Just got this in the mail, and set up a test campaign. Sounds very exciting! Dear AdWords Advertiser, You have been selected to test Site Targeting — a new AdWords feature that will allow you to easily target your ads to specific content sites across the Google Network, giving … |
| | It's probably unanimous within the SEO community that a link command on Google is broken. We find that Yahoo reports "better" accuracy with regards to backlink count. Regarding your question of the 1%, that is unusually low. Nielsen just came out with new figures yesterday regarding SE market share: [QUOTE]Google … |
| | [QUOTE=bcarter182]I recently lost the CD drive on my laptop (running Windows XP Home) Replacing the drive is not an option at the moment due to cost. I have connected an internal drive to a USB external drive box. The drive works fine but is there a way to configure it, … |
| | I performed an unusual backlinking campaign for a mid-sized NYC based software company. The result ended with the acquisition of dozens of PR5's and PR6's at a cost of approximately $1.50. Here's how: I scouted potential site owners that would have interest in owning a complimentary copy of the company's … |
 | Re: domain names All registrars can be viewed as "affiliates" of ICANN. There is no such thing as a free domain name, no strings attatched. Therefore, there is not much price variance. I wouldn't pay more than $8USD / year. |
| | I've always been a huge fan of Authorize.net. Very open source and flexible. Great fraud screen options. IMO, a solid gateway that's been around since the late 90's. |
| | Re: Backlinks? Backlinks are probably the most important factor for rankings. Essentially, when a web page has a text or image that hyperlinks to your site - that is called a backlink. A brief guide can be found at [url]www.google.com/webmasters[/url] Basically, you want to establish as many backlinks to your site as …  |
| | [QUOTE=cscgal]I'm not too happy with Overture. I just don't like the fact that it takes a few days for them to improve keywords, and I find their entire interface to be very clunky. In addition, there is a $0.10 minimum per click. I am a heavy AdWords user, and usually …  |
| | I'm 100% down. How many members do you guesstimate would show up? Where should we hold this - a restaurant?  |
| | My site (see signature) works perfectly fine in Firefox, but does not work with IE7 or (IE5/IE6 with security settings set to high or medium). When viewing the site in IE7 , half of the content on the page is invisible. The site and application is PHP based. I don't …  |
| | This is a topic of controvery. Broad directories are slowly becoming obsolete. Why? Because search is the way most of us find information of the web. The web grows too fast for humans to hand pick what sites meet quality guidelines. But directories will always survive because we don't always … |
| | Re: .php vs. .html Dani says: PHP sites are better. They are as indexable by the engines, as long as there are no query strings. PHP sites are more interactive and provide far more flexibility than HTML. They present a more professional image, by showing that your are up to date with the current … |
| | Hi Jay, Welcome to Daniweb. Great post! What you need to do is build links. Googebot (and the others) finds your site by crawling new links. There are many quality resources for link building here on Daniweb. What I would suggest is to list your site in a few directories … |
| | Overture actually came up with geotargeting PPC before Google! Anyone know of any good articles/tutorials about effective geotargeting?  |
| | Our own Daniweb member SEOBook has a highly acclaimed best selling e-book. A very good place to start learning about the subject. |
| | hey confused, welcome to the non confusing world of seo where the waters are always calm and everything is so crystal clear ;-). The blue "i" button shows a mysterious quantity of links that point to the page you are on. It is a poor metric in my opinion, and … |
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