Posts by canadafred

In any case, your email contacts should never be made public. Sure, they can be easily detected but should never be made openly accessible publicly.

And, finding workarounds to protect your privacy (ie using fictitious names to set up email accounts) only encourages the problem to perpetuate, unquestioned; and that problem is: capitalism gone Google bezerk, again.

I stick a badge on my web site and another on my blog. Tie it in with my Twitter and my LinkedIn accounts pretty much makes for a half decent self-promotion mechanism. All the pieces are doing separately important, unique things yet are extremely relevant to one another. Spins qualified traffic to wherever they need to go in order to find out whatever it is they want to know (that didn't even makes sense to me so don't worry about it).

Just thought I'd mention to you fine folks that there is no such a thing as a PR5 web site or a PR0 web site or a PR10 website.

There are however, PR0 web pages, like there are PR6 web pages.

A web site may in fact have a PR5 landing page (entrance page, splash page, cover page <--old school SEO derived from publication term), then it could have 20,000 PR1 web pages behind it; where most likely a link to your shit will be found. That'll be sweet eh? Go chase that.

Also as Jay noted, Google PageRank has little influence on where your web page will rank in a keyphrase competition, if at all. You should be focusing on increasing your webpages' search engine results pages performances rather than seeking stuff that ultimately hinder your web page success stories, if only by distracting you from what's important (SERP successes).

In today's upside down world, PageRank is only really useful to the Internet marketers who perpetuate the illusion that it is somehow the SEO pot of gold.

Shit, PR isn't hardly even useful to Google. They already know how to count; they found that out the first week they released this monstrocity, this green bar pumping mania that worked well, for about a week.

Lately I've been wondering: what capitalistically driven experiment are they readying to unleash to mankind next?

If you have nothing interesting or useful to say about a blog post, one that you've just read intentionally because it intrigue your attention, then don't post a comment, and for f sakes, stop posting comments for the sake of posting comments. Hypelinks aren't your exclusive prostitutes created for you to exploit. They, unlike most of the spammers objectives, have purpose and usefulness to the web.

Ya, signatures are a great place to link to your interests, unfortunately links that are put in messages are usually removed, in order to enourage the discussion to remain on-site (at Daniweb); rather than having people go all over the Internet to follow a thread and discourage interest at Daniweb. The moderators are fairly consistent with that concept, I think.

You probably be best either:

A - Keeping both sites separate but finding a middle ground to do some justified fancy cross-linking (ie: describe the bedsheets <hyperlinked to bedding site> that is somewhat wrapped around the lady in the pink baby dolls)
B- Build a third entity that bridges the two into a three piece network, a good example would be a corporate blog, you know, entitle it something like Satins 'n Silkies, you could ...

I really got to get out more.

4. alt
- u should place title :
alt="describe your img" width="900" height="200" border="0" title="describe your img"

That's a little over-optimized. The alt attribute suffices.

7. if you are not sure with pages bots has indexed type
cache:andFullYourSiteAddress

You probably mean site:andFullYourSiteAddress

8. google likes to pick some text from your site instead of your desctiption meta tag. to solve it put that in your head:

<META NAME="googlebot" CONTENT="nosnippet">

That's really poor advice if you don't mention the other side effects to adding this tag.

that is for now...sites in my signature are from this year, still under construction and all in polish so dont waste your time ...

Words from the insecure?

Seems to me, like the comment was taken out of context. Ya, sure the cop shouldn't have said what he did but he still still has the right of free speech, but with a little more discretion.

... prefer not to post happy v-day messages to any ex, to avoid opening a can of worms.

That's true but worms always make for good bait!

... Am I wrong? ...

You may very well be but that doesn't matter. What matters is that your thinking is displaced. You are concerning yourself with the most meaningless of things imaginable. None of the stuff that is boggling your mind; about new vs old while throwing in this or that off-site variable, matters. It doesn't matter. It is not important.

What is important is where your web pages rank in keyphrase searches. That's important. Concern yourself with the stuff that's within your control: your on-site ranking factors, your content, it's linking structure across the site/network and then create a little bit more of that meaningful, unique, indisputably authentic, necessary, intelligently crafted, magical content. Then tweak a web page component that needs improving, a Title tag for instance, that could keep you busy for the next fifteen minutes sometimes. Then go about making some good fresh important content, stuff that the Internet needs to be made accessible. Guess what you concern yourself with after that?

Ya it's a spam machine alright. It must somehow serve to bolster the bottom line. Google, that overgrown, unsupervised forked tongue.

Don't be evil.

Would you write on your ex's facebook wall to wish them happy valentines day? What do you think about communicating via social media to an ex and leaving all the hurt and past behind?

Facebook is an amazing vessel for rekindling lost friendships, especially romantic ones. After a long absense, my soulmate, my sweetheart recently came back to me in this exact way. For me, Facebook is the medium that makes this the best Valentine's Day ever.

...(3) Third, you must add and add and add content to your site. The more content, the more the big three will like your site...

This isn't accurate. Content is indeed vital to establishing importance but adding content for the sake of adding content is purposeless. The object of the game is to attract qualified visitors because of your exceptional, unique, meaningful content. You need a reason to make a new webpage and that reason will be that you want to offer the Internet something of value and in a manner that is indisputably unique. You want to offer the Internet visitor this content in the most intelligent way possible. Massive quantities of content is not the goal, the power in updating content is in the quality of it and in its purposefulness.

Just to add a bit to what Jay explained, whenever you have a paragraph or so of copied content, it can have some value in the web page's ranking. Whenever the search engines finds, at a later time and different place, the exact (or extremely similarly replicated) content; the value of the content diminishes, ultimately to uselessness.

Thanks for shared this information about green hat SEO...
what's a difference green hat SEO with black hat SEO ???

Green Hats are new to SEO, White Hats craft important, intelligent, well-optimized content and explicitly follow the search engine guidelines (with the exception of the search engine's own link popularity increasing/link building suggestions), Black Hats cheat and trick and manipulate the search engines into believing that their web pages are important and Grey hats are between White and Black somewhere.

as you said due to signature here i am getting, i heard daniweb is no follow ...so how google will count signature backlink here...every link is no follow tag here...this is something i heard ..i dont know whether its fact or not..please clear.

Ya it seems to be nofollow. Good eye but that doesn't matter; signature links are still available in a keyphrase search therefore indicating they have been awarded value, somehow in spite of the nofollow attribute.

say what!?! :)

I think he's saying that a person's brain is also a tool and in comparison to the SEO tools, is far better. Well, that would be good I suppose. :-/

Have people gone completely bonkers? Most of what I just read is useless in value and quite often spam, and it's of the weakest variety.

I don't want some newbie to SEO getting the wrong impression.

Basic SEO Tips

1. Learn the craft of optimizing content.
2. Learn how to write well.

The Bonus Prize

You don't need any of these outside (off-site) ranking techniques (artificially inflating the volume, relevancy and credibility of incoming links). Make your own webpages empower themselves.

Jay 11 gives you true answer. I don't think so that Google will mind it mean extensive use of Alt tag if it is natural but don't try to cheat Google.

Yep. I'm with Jay. If it doesn't appear natural it may not be rewarded it's value. I go with short but complete sentences and get some keyphrase variables in there to give the image description additional intelligence. Example keyphrase variables include: pluralizing, altering verb tenses, working the prefixes and suffixes, abbreviations, acronyms, antonyms and synonymous keyphrases. There's probably more ... morphology, lexicons ...

Hello,

I would like to know which are the good free ways to make money online.

Thanks

A popular way is to install Google Adsense. You'll have to bring your traffic levels up to several thousand visitors a month in order to see anything significant. Qualified traffic is much better than random traffic for this, or anything else for that matter.

It's not just the number of backlinks that matters, it's where those links are coming from. If your backlinks are from low PR sites and are forum signatures and things like that, it will not carry as much clout as from within the body of a high PR authority site

When a hyperlink appears from a signature it can have value, not much, but some. The second time OK, still some value. Third time. .. the value dilutes to near nothingness (maybe after 10). So if a web page has some 1200 signature links from the same forum they are not of any value search engine wise. They become of value only to the Internet visitor, well, they can be of value and should be if the original intent of signatures was honoured.

But for the question of speed, 2 hours is pretty quick to get recognized and processed by the search engine. Is there faster ways to get a link assessed, probably but I haven't seen it.

thanks for the reply my friend but still I want to understand how we can get page rank and how backlinks works ..please share your experience if i have new domain then what is the fastest way to get page rank and what is simplest way to get backlinking...
thanks for your time.
Rajiv

Seeking Pagerank is a pointless pursuit. Seek rankings! New web site landing page can get out of the sandbox in a couple of months a PR4, with 0 backlinks.

Fastest way to get backlinks? You're doing it now. Google will assess your signature within a couple of hours of posting in this forum.

Don't waste your energy trying to figure out the best way to manipulate your off-site ranking factors. Incoming links will grow naturally or they won't. It doesn't really matter when you are focused on working your own content. Concentrate on what's in your control, your web pages; their content and the optimizable webpage components. As far as linking is concerned, focus on internally linking your pages (more valuable than incoming links both ranking wise and PR wise). You are in a position (because you have several sites) to do some nifty network linking (cross-linking). Work your own stuff, the heck with trying to empower your pages externally.

I started playing around with ranking videos on Youtube.

I noticed that in the Youtube search results the keywords from the search are bolded in the Title and Description. I would magine the name of the video files is another factor. I also surmise that the newer videos get preference.

Are there any other ranking factors?

Popularity of video seems irrelevant.

Thanks.

Hello
Its right that before some days ago google launch google caffine, and it really help to SEO webmaster to increase the rank for their website.Because page loading time have the most importance in ranking with the help of caffine it increased.Sio really this hep to us.

Whoa whoa whoa slow down a second.

A long long long long time ago in SEO came the importance of validating code, tightening up the code, cleaning up the errors, removing unnecessary code, keeping the content tight. The search engines liked it then, they still like it now and they will likely like it tomorrow [the Alpha Omega of Internet tools I suppose]. They publically indicate favour to this periodically and then scale down into the melting pot (tweaking the algos they call that).

It's all good for business.

Note also, the search engines have always easily recognized important web pages. It knows when the crafting of a was important to the webmaster. It wasn't bogged down with a thousand affiliate links. It didn't have any spelling mistakes within well constructed concise paragraphs.

All of these things we've been discussing are but factors in a complex mechanism of hundreds of other ranking factors that the search engines use to determine what the best web page is for a search. ... a handful of factors ... just a drop in the bucket ...

... What method better in term of SEO?...

The only correct answer would be that neither is much good for SEO. As you have experienced, these types of off-site ranking factor stimulation techniques can appear to be effective, in the short term, but they always lose speed quite rapidly and ultimately become almost a hinderance to better ranking.

The best SEO strategy to adopt at your stage would be to concentrate with the on-page components. Focus on the on-site optimization. Sure, do a little link building but do that wisely and secondarily. Don't count on outside influences to empower your stuff. Empower your own web pages.

Couple weeks ago I heard about Google caffeine, people say it will faster and better then Google Search engine that we know today, the question pretty simple, what do you think SEO will be once Google caffeine fully implemented?

Oh that's easy.

SEO will be search engine optimization.

what kind of optimization? White Hat Or Black Hat?

No no, whatever it is you're talking about I'm suggesting you have a look at those Out of the Blue Hats. Bunch of crazy university smart ass kids that come up with this ridiculous, absolutely purposeless link building strategy, that works like a friekin' PR pumpin' machine and it can cause for significant improvements in the rankings, for about a week then the repetitiveness of the off-site delivery mechanism triggers the spider. Red flags start shooting up and the search engine snaps open its devaluation scissors. CHOP Chop chop chop.

Oh ya I forgot.

The Thesaurus
Another great SEO book that someone came out with just a little while ago!

Hanging around search engine forums has educated me immensely regarding the relentlessness of human greed. If a swindler can enjoy profiting over the good heartedness of others wanting to help a brother in need, then they can do just about anything else for money.

Although this unsavoury type of low-life has been around throughout the ages, the Internet propels these scumbags into the global stage, sometimes as lone wolves and sometimes in highly organized masses.

Which do you prefer to comment on a blog, an old article with pr or to comment on a fresh article but no pr?

I prefer that when I'm compelled to offer my opinion about what I just read on a blog article, that I might contribute something intelligent in the form of a blog comment otherwise, I keep my mouth shut and don't waste everybody's time trying to convince them that my web page is important because the search engine thinks it's credible enough to highly rank; aimlessly dumping link infested babblings all over the Internet for no purpose other than a mediocre-poor attempt at positively influencing my web page's off-site ranking factors.

You gotta' think out of the box to claim most your competitive SERP (search engine results pages) victories. Be innovative. Highly rank your web pages. Do it with a little bit class. Study and practice search engine optimization.

...the bookmarking appeared immediately in the 1st place in Google (not our website). It vanished today. It did not show up till the 5th page of Google and also other search engines...
Thanks in advance.

I surmise, in my mind's ... eye, a new search engine results page effect. Can someone pass me my pipe please? No, not that one.

Let's see. How to start this? Maybe I should just forget it. Hell, I guess I'll share it. This is insane. This is all wrong. I can't possibly want to do this ...

Ok I'll entitle it:
The Pre-Sandboxing Web History Fart SERP Reality Check Effect for New Webpages (that's PSWHFSRCENW for short).

Sandboxing refers to the state of suspended value that some search engines allocate to new web pages; until they are deemed credible enough to reward their merited ranking value.

Now, I admit, this might be a little far-fetched. A Web History fart occurs when you've visited a webpage often, even finding it through the search engine, maybe frequently. The search engine determines that you lare interested in the web pages and pumps it up the rankings to facilitate your search results viewing pleasure. All of a sudden a brand new, valueless page propels to the top, according to your search.

The reality check is that your web page merits 5th page status because it hasn't acquired authenticity yet.

ATTN: SEO ADVICE (proceed at own risk)

Stop searching, do a …

I had to do a little research to find it but I remember reading it years and years ago. This is still essential reading for SEO 2010.

Hefter, Richard & Martin Moskof. THE GREAT BIG ALPHABET PICUTRE BOOK WITH LOTS OF WORDS. Illus. in flat colors by Richard Hefter. Grosset & Dunlap (1972) Illustrated boards, 4to, (32 pages) Style of the psychedelic illustration era of the 1960-1970's.

I don't know. You can go pretty far with a good Thesaurus, a little linguistics knowledge and those new fandangled built-in spell checkers everywhere you go.

Thanks for the reply. Although it sounds funny, that is not exactly the message I want.

But, thanks.

No no no no no no wait.

We'll change the message entirely!

Better yet you change the whole thing from top to bottom.

See, this is want you want. Modify the template.

OK so what do you need?
- an image
- a brand
- an optimized web site
- maybe a little social hype to get started

Look at what I offered you as being like a free Internet marketing template.

I'll get you started and then you'll have to figure the rest out as you go.

Start easy, try modifying the "motto" to suit. You'll have to completely change the story leading into establishing your purpose. You might have to come up with some marketing skills now and then too. Try marketing angles, ie my Reverse Establishment Approach I used in my marketing conceptualization exercise. Oh and your homepage, it's gonna' be splashed with happy faced but oddly gendered couples of varying obesity all rarin' to go like it was Sunday mornin'.

Whatchya' think about that?

Thanx Fred for a nice summary, I guess theres still a lot for me to head for before I start complaining that SEO is not working. But my big issue is to find the right phrases to be emphasizing on, like said software, database ... are too generic saturated words, any clues. Hey can I PM you for a quick word?

No need to PM. Keep it on site it could make for some good discussions on the basics of SEO that we all can learn from.

This is my opinion about which keyphrases to target.

Naturally, do some constructive keyphrase tests both for keyphrase search frequency and to examine the keyphrase's competitiveness. Have a look at the potential traffic sources.

Then you have to weigh things over. You could go for this and go for that and be way over your league in no time or, you can play smart. Go for a little bit of everything. Some big prizes, some smaller ones, some not so popular but extremely convertable...

Go for a handful of the big ticket babies, scoop a bucket of secondary keyphrases and ultimately net in the auxiliary keyphrases (those are ones you wouldn't have thought of).

Hi,... however, it doesn't help much in ranking. Can i ask what else should i do for increase the ranking?

Thanks

Well. You. Should. Maybe. Start. By. Oh Ok I Know.

Two Steps to Mastering SEO

1. Learning about the on-site and the off-site ranking factors that the search engines use to determine the best web pages for a search. Study and lightly apply the popular methods of optimization for both sets of ranking factors.

note: on-site optimization requires a sound knowledge of the optimizable web page/web site components.

note again: off-site optimization is generally considered link strategizing or link building but essentially it involves deploying any number of linking schemes that by the very nature of link popularity manipulation renders their effectiveness sporadic, if at all.

2. Mastering the English language in order to use its intelligence to influence the search engine's perception of your uniquely important web content. The attainment of language mastery will catapult your SEO capabilities, especially when it comes time to work the on-site ranking factors.

I would think that'd be enough to get a fella' started in the right direction.

Happy SERPs (search engine results pages)!

I am looking to start an online discussion board for parents in the Milwaukee, WI area. I am looking for ideas and suggestions on a cool, memorable name.

Help? TIA.

Hey I have an idea!

You know how on the Viagara commercials lately one guy always says something like "We used to take a lot of long strowls, until we found Viagra!"

Well you present the complete opposite perspective; you use the Reverse Viagra Approach. All over the splash page you tout the online community's motto: "We used to have earth-shattering, primordial sex excessively until we started shooting the shit with other similarily disfunctional parents!"

Whatchya' think?

I also wish to echo the same opinion as expressed by other members who replied to this post. Other than Dmoz and Yahoo Directory, many other directory submissions are not considered links by Google. I have submitted to more than 200 directories, but only one link was taken by Google.

This is for your info.

The 199 other directory links that Google doesn't show doesn't necessarily mean they aren't accepted as links, they're just links whose derivatives are overly similar to each other and, being of little value to the Internet visitor, don't merit much value or even recognition in a backlink check.

Whether websites with '.com' are given more prominence by Google, from SEO perspective than the websites with suffixes, viz., '.info', '.net' and '.us'.

I seldom find a .info in the first page of search results. An info web site's content has got to be something pretty special in order to overcome the prejudice the search engines has for the extension. Dot info spammers long ago lost favour with the search engines.

A dot us domain, under certain circumstances, could be advantageous for regional search.

I consider a .net slightly disadvantaged over the dot com. Although a .net can easily be made into a decent SERP (search engine results pages) performer.

I am not sure what's a dot viz so I'll go away now.

...I want to collect data of all of the business & industry...

Did you try the Yellow Pages?

We're a tiny firm working on a niche software product for databases. I am looking at ways to increase visibility, I have covers the SEO basics like titles, metatags, long URLs a few inbound links. I also work the online discussions on a couple of forums. My question is what tactics would help me get 'Quality' traffic to our website. I'm not interested int getting thousands of hits which result in zero sales, any help and advice is appreciated. Thx..

In SEO terms what you are looking for is considered "qualified traffic". Those are web surfers using the search engines to pick out the best webpages for them to visit.

In order to be highly visible to qualified visitors you need three things to happen and I've listed them in order of importance:
1. High ranking web page for the keyphrase search
2. A Captivating Title
3. A half-ass description (in Google, the assigned description can be your meta offering, it could be a seemingly haphazard selection of tid bits of your web page's content or it could even be, on the extremely rare ocassion, your, often bizarre and always outdate: the dreaded DMOZ description).

The question now is how do you achieve those three objectives. The answer is that you will when you have successfully convinced the search engine that your web pages are important, credible, unique, intelligently crafted, and have established authoritativeness.

You'll do this over time. There will be on-site work …

... selling the best performing auto parts for the crazy desired customers offline and online...

"Crazy desired customers". Smells like translator puked up spewings.

I first thought you were looking for "complete lunatics with lots of money", you know, desired clients but completely nuts. A bunch of offline coocoos banging down the dealer's door... Ok I'll go away now...

Maybe Im too tired of hearing about social media, but do you think its a hype?

As far as what technologies will naturally merge together to become the future Internet, personal networking will play a big part of the evolution; and this trend should last for some time to come.

It's clear some search engines are intensifying migrating data collected from the social networking sites into their general searchable offerings.

Seems to me like social media is a big thing and worthy of a bit of a hype.

I strongly recommend you to read Mashable's review on Caffeine...

Ya that was a pretty good article but I’m left with the impression that mashable and most of the comments tout Bing as being the better new search engine, Google caffeinated or not.

You forgot to mention the importance the search engines place on proper spelling and grammar, and how the Internet visitor will be more likely to trust a site whose content is well-written, intelligently presented and captivating. Oh, I see now ...

Oh I remember how disgusted I was by Google agreeing to censor results to Chinese Internauts. Oh I was mad. Profit outweighed human rights and Google was a greed driven money machine.

I am pleased to see Google doing an about face and standing up to the communist, controlling mentality. The Internet is for everyone on this planet and fredom of speech is a built-in part of it. China will have to take the Internet the way it is, or not.

Way to go Google! (I won't bash the search engine this week)

... drleerobinson.net ...

1. Determine what your important keyphrases are.
2. Modify the Wordpress template to include meta description and meta keywords.
3. Rewrite your Title to include primary keyphrases.
4. Emphasize the keyphrases in the content using <em>,<hx>,<i>,etc.
5. Write many more, intelligently written, unique, captivating, keyphase-rich articles.
6. Modify the image names to be logical (ie laser-surgery.gif) and use keyphrase-rich alt attributes that clearly identify the images.

It was actually the Canadian government that forced Facebook to adhere to basic privacy laws and to my knowledge the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada isn't through with social networking sites yet. Seems to me the American government is very slow to react to corporate faux-pas, even those of high magnitude, and may never be able to regulate such Internet giants as Google or even Facebook.

... we don't start from scratch in SEO... Any thoughts on the differences, if any, and the best path to take?

The best path to take probably would have been to create a brand new site. Trying to salvage "SEO" (I'm assuming that means link buiding because an optimized site that was transported to a new domain would return to its previous performance levels in due time) might work, might not. Why not perform actual SEO on your new web site's webpages, redirect things to your hearts content, but make the new site stand on its own two feet with or without its link manipulation history. Here's your opportunity to optimize something new, no short-cuts, no feeding from your past; brand new optimized stuff. Keep the old one rolling until you get the new one rolling. Can even do some fancy crosslinking between your combined stuff. It's your stuff, you can link it the way you want, some items here, other items there.