Posts by canadafred

...SEO is not as difficult as many people say.

You obviously know little about search engine optimization. It is not easy. Link schemes are easy but SEO requires skill when in competitive environments. Maybe you are confusing the skillsets between linking strategists with those demanded from search engine optimizers.

SEO requires precision and attention to detail. It requires advance HTML coding capabilities. It requires the ability to properly assess and eliminate keyphrase competitors. In search engine optimization, you have to know a great deal about marketing, the psychology of the qualified visitor and alot more about web design and how to optimize the various web page components. SEOs need to understand the search engines and offer both the Internet visitor and the search engine a rewarding presentation. No, SEO is not easy. Link building is easy.

Link exchange requests are from desperate people, desperate to make their garbage appear important to the search engines.

I'm not saying 100% of the time but most of the time the link beggar has a trick or two up his sleeve. He wants you to cleanly link to his crap but is hesitant to offer the same. There are many ways a link on his page could be worthless; he could have a nofollow attribute installed on the anchor, he could have a robot.txt exclusion for all his links pages, he could have removed it from a Google Sitemap and orphaned the page so that the SE would never find your link ...

Tell your client, whenever he gets solicited for a link exchange to delete it as if it were Junk mail.

Rest assured, there are some link exchanges that can have value but not usually these types and as far as I can tell, link exchanges are on the chopping block, even though the SEs still hint of its worth as a search engine manipulation technique.

I think mostly that SEO itself is changing. It must be about 50% of web designers that consider themselves skillful in SEO; although the only SEO these paint-by-number artists are familiar with is link building related. Webdesigners almost always list SEO as one of their services nowadays. Mainstream SEO is becoming messed up too. You can be a world class optimiser and yet have very little actual search engine optimization skill, if any. Then there's the consumer, he doesn't have a clue what SEO skills to look for when employing a search engine optimizer. It's twisted up pretty good in this industry, recession or not.

Look at how many SEOs come here and can't spell a simple sentence or they send their burpings through translators and shit out stuff very similar to English. Digesting more than a pararaph of this regurgitation is enough to make a billy goat puke. Yep, that's where SEO is going today, linking the crap outa' whatever the online translator pisses out.

It brings back memories from back in the day when the internet was not really user friendly - no GUI - pre Yahoo and pre Google. It was all text in a black screen and if you wanted to go to a site, you had to either know the address and telnet there and then go to different sub areas. Oh this is so early 90's - late 80s. hehe

Ya, and then came Internet Explorer 1.0 in Windows 3.11, oh that was something special. I remember throwing out my dot matrix printer around that time.

I don't bother with DMOZ anymore either, rarely do I see a DMOZ link listed in Google's sample of backlinks. That usually means the link is negligible in value. The DMOZ editors are mostly dweabs too and are easily influenced in giving you either a great listing or a meaningless one. I've had both and either way doesn't amount to any additional traffic of significance nor a ranking influence. As far as Google is concerned, its directory is about as useless as the rest of them.

Hi,

I am new to SEO so my apologies if this question is overly simple.

One of my clients recieved a link request from a company who have websites A and B, both of which have a higher pagerank than my client's site. They want my client to link to A and will put a link to my client's site on B.

What I wondered was...
1. Is this seen by Google as ethical?
2. Would my client be penalised or would they benefit from this type of link?

Thanks in advance.

Helen

Tell your client to delete link requests.

Hi Rajeesh

The search engines use hundreds of various tidbits of information to decide which webpages are most suitable for a search query. The ranking factors can be divided into on-site and off-site.

I'll only mention on-site factors as I am a believer that off-site influences should self-determine, however, they are a big thing in today's general SEO techniques. Hopefully someone else will cover those for you.

On-site factors include mostly that which is found within the webpage content. It also includes such things as the web page's Title, description, Headings, internal linking structure (anchor links especially), keyphrase emphasizing, age and credibility of domain, logical naming of webpages and images, image alt attributes, intelligence and uniqueness of paragraphs, spelling, keywords in domain name and a few other things that I can't think of right now. It is important to have your keyphrases easily visible and their importance obvious, however, you can't just repeat a keyphrase over and over in the different optimizable webpage components; you need to vary them by throwing in synonymous keyphrases, altering verb tenses, changes to prefixes and suffixes, pluralizing etc. All these other forms of the primary keyphrase endorse and support the value of the keyphrase. Employing keyphrase variants makes your content appear intelligent, to the search engine. It is important too not to over-optimize a webpage in such a manner that it makes it difficult to read for the Internet visitor. Always keep the Internet visitor's experience first in your mind, that …

is it a problem that in my webmaster tool account i have duplicate meta descriptions? And Duplicate title tags? I run a forum and am wondering if this hurts in terms of SEO. Any advice or info would be much appreciated. Thanks

Duplicate metas you probably would get away with but still isn't a good idea. Duplicate Title is a major no-no because the search engine would consider it as attempted manipulation. You probably have server generated pages and they are doubling up on the HEAD tags, you'll have to fix that. If you have server generated pages doing this then you may have other duplications such as two HTML tags. If so you'll have to clean that up too because those kinds of things can stop a crawl.

the only relevant answer, when one provider has this much of the market, they dictate terms
www google com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769 Submitting a sitemap is the second item in Google's instruction sheet

Don't get me wrong, a Google Sitemap can be essential for larger site but there is nothing more ridiculous than a five page website with a hyperlink to their "Site Map" when absolutely every page is accessible from every page. People include a web page with just the Site Map on it because the "search engine" suggests it and it has become standard in web design. What the search engine means is that if you have a site whose linking structure is difficult or impossble to crawl and you want to ensure that we can find your difficult to find pages then submit a sitemap and we'll find your stuff. Rather than correct your navigational system, force feed the spider. In this scenario, Google wants to compensate for poorly developed linking structure, which, because of the enomous amount of sloppy web design in today's Internet, is kind of pitiful in a way. If webmasters could accomodate their designs to meet the need of search engine crawlers then the search engines wouldn't "require" site maps or Sitemaps. Rather than penalize for sloppy design, as they often say they will, they encourage more of it. Typical Google.

Hi,

...How to identify the indexed and non-indexed pages by Google.

Thanks in Advance.

Did you submit an updated Google Sitemap?

...Sitemap Is One Of The most important part of seo friendly Website...Thanks.

Unless you have a huge web site, the need to include a site map is over rated. When all the webpages are available from the standard navigation system located on every webpage, the search engine can easily crawl the pages and the Internet visitor can easily find them. When the search engines request to include a site map, that suggestion is aimed at larger web sites that can be more difficult to fully spider.

ya, well, somebody in Nova Scotia just invented an air powered fishing rod.

It takes a bit of getting used to but once you have it figured out, man does it cast.

I look at the movie and music industries in the same way as I do the software companies and the search engines. Once a year they make a big spectacle out of charging some poor high school kid and get all kinds of media attention for a day. Then it's back to business as usual.

Unless the industries seriously protect their resources there will be no stopping illegal downloads. Many people don't even know it's illegal, "got it from the Internet" is all they know. Downloading illegally is equivalent to spitting on the sidewalk, it's illegal but no one seems in much of a hurry to prosecute.

Freedom ... stating skills.
Would be so undemocratic?

Oh I see what you mean now. I suppose that wouldn't be such a bad thing, certainly could cut down on the enormous spamming activities all over the Internet including the social media sites, forum sig spamming, blog commenting ... but would impossible to implement and regulate.

Not a bad idea though, I'll bring it up at the next United Nations convention I attend and see what the Russian and the Indian Internet marketers have to say.;)

What turns me off the most are spelling mistakes.

... There should be a kind of license to use internet?...

Licensing Internet use would be equivalent to licensing an artist's paintbrush or a writer's pencil.

I don't know about in Italy but in Canada we are free to express ourselves. Not even the government can limit anyone from freedom of expression, nor would they try, nor should they try.

There are exceptions of course, for the protection of our society, but they are on the extreme edges of human behaviour.

find my self in studing industry help me understand to gain professionalism. question compare break, contine, and goto statement

Wow.

I think your translator's a little buggy today. Why don't you try:

Goto fix jibberish 2 english exclamation mark:|

...Any help will be greatly appreciated,...

Hey Stephen

I have tested a few automation tools over the years and, even though it can become incredibly tedious, I have more confidence doing stuff by hand. The most automated thing I use nowadays is Find and Replace. Then again, when I started in SEO I only had Windows 3.11 with Notepad and an early version of Photoshop.

Should be someone around who has some modern fandango SEO automation tools.

The forum's been fairly quiet throughout the holidays (hangovers and family visits I suspect):( so maybe hang out a bit and check up on your thread once in a while. g'luck.

...Do you know how to code Meta information using counties?...

I really don't understand the question but it would seem imperative to place the county name in both the Meta Description and Meta Keyword tag, once. You might want to experiment with using the county name twice in two separate sentences within the Meta Description (say, once at the beginning of the first short sentence and once at the end of a second short sentence), maybe try something like that.

I am usually leary of bots but it might be good for submission tools.

There's really no point to them. Whether your web pages are listed in ten dumpster directories or 10 million the results will be the same, your webpages will appear to be the generic mediocrity, like the rest of them, desperately seeking ways to appear to be important web pages.

Artificially attempting to increase your link popularity in this way can also be hazardous to your rankings. Who will be your linked page associates? What are these directories you've just listed your beloved stuff to? Is your coveted web pages, that you have spent your energy creating, in bad neighbourhoods? How 'bout really really bad places?

These are the things (and more) that most users of these auto submit garbage tools will never know, until it's too late of course. Then they'll have to spend their energies convincing the search engine that their webpages are in fact legit SERP contenders but that'll take time and skill that most will not have.

... original rantings and ravings ...

I’ve been thinking all day about this; wondering, pondering, discovering, illuminating then conjecturing of course. I’d even say I've been obsessing. Why do I really care about a Web History development? What really troubles me about this?

Anyway, this is what I’ve come up with. Tell me I'm insane or what.

Remember a while back when we heard about Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo’s search engine [on a ten year lease if I remember correctly] ,

Down the road a bit Google shows up with Web History and a new search pattern traffic system that could used as a great innovative marketing leverage tool [for advertisers]. Almost the next day Microsoft shows up with a pretty much the identical Web History function [which is more user-friendly to disengage]. OK.

So Yahoo’s search is on the outs and both Microsoft and Google each have a highly sophisticated advertising tool, I mean this user enhancement technologies are in place.

Now what.

I’ll tell you now what.

Visualize three or more sets of search results on the same results page rather than just the two they now display (other than Yahoo); the natural results and the sponsored ads. Now, take concept a small step further and start merging some of these ad opportunities together. The sources of the rankings could easily become unknown; #1 sits there for unknown reasons but I’ll tell ya’ folks, the search engine tells you it’s the …

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately; Google, Yahoo (theoretically) and Bing using our “Web History” in the innocent effort to continue providing us searchers the highest quality caliber organic results.

Well, that’s a bunch of bullshit and I’ll tell you why.

It’s not about any concern for my well-being or enhancing my Internet searching pleasure folks, it’s about the advertising dollars (and no one can really blame them for that I suppose). It’s really just another way to globally distort that once useful hyperlink for the sake of feeding the huge masses of shear greed; regardless of any of the potential consequences to human kind.

... not to mention PageRank frenzies fiascos we still see today...

And privacy Issues? Yep. Gonna’ be tons of those that’s for sure. Personal rights and freedom of choice issues? Business ethics? You betcha’. Issues that my puny brain can’t fathom right now? No doubt. Disregarding human rights in ways like these don’t concern me very much. Well they do but there are lots of other advocates for that kind of stuff. My concerns are mostly for my own self-preservation and some for the search engine optimization industry. I’m quite pissed and a little frightened and I’ll tell you all the reasons why.

1. The enormous impact it’s going to have on already greatly depreciated and stained SEO industry [from the years and years of spammers, Internet marketing fraudsters, search engine manipulating client deceiving search engine stupidity greed …

Seems to me like the two Google ad features don't interact very much; one doesn't affect the other.

Buying traffic is a waste of time and resources. Often the traffic sources are not actual humans, they're bots and crawlers and the human traffic that does trickle is of the lowest quality possible because they are usually tricked into showing up and hit their back buttons pretty quickly.

Hello friends:

I have been using a lot of methods to advertise my sites including social bookmarking sites, web directory, article directory, etc.

My websites are indexed good for some keywords for some days. But these keywords are not indexed at all for some days. I don't know what causes this.

Is there any good SeO tips to get my sites indexed permanently for some keywords?

thanks very much!

There could be several reasons for the ranking differences including result events caused when Google personalizes your search results. That's when you are logged in to a google account with Web History activated, then clear it or simply shut it off.

You'll also get different rankings as a result of the search engine delivering a different set of results almost randomly from its various datacentres.

Rank fluctuations are also often a result of using different regional Google interfaces.

Now, the fluctuations could also be caused by the regular crawling patterns and database refresh rates.

It could also be ... well that's probably about it in your case.

Note: A Green Hat SEO is someone who is relatively new to search engine optimisation and hasn’t much experience with the different SEO hat shades: white, grey and black hat search engine optimization techniques. They are usually wandering around, bewildered looking a bit, searching the Internet for some effective but trendy, easy to implement search engine manipulation technique. They want to quickly pump their webpages to the top, lickity-split; the SEO abracadabra. Those are types that’ll bite into practically anything that makes a little sense.

OK ok ok here you go, for the greenhats ...

1 - Learn how to optimize the web site’s components. That means to craft web page content rather than haphazardly throw it together, write nice web page Titles and Meta Descriptions, emphasize various word forms of your keyphrases, deploy a powerful textual internal webpage linking structure, use concise but distinguishing logical naming conventions, craft compelling and accurate tag attributes, use good grammar, check your spelling, after editing text check your spelling again, custom fit intelligent copy writing and throw in a friendly navigation system while you are at it, code CODE coooooodddde, error free coding people W3 compliant, make for an all round good user experience and finally .... have a little bit of fun too I guess.

2 - Have a little bit of fun.

3 - Have a little bit of fun.

four point zero one, point zero two to infinity points - Have a little bit of …

...If I have missed something please tell me...

Sounds a little too abracadabra lickety-split fly-by-night to have any effect even in the short-term.

Just having the word Warcraft in the keyphrase (which I suspect is three or four words in length) could generate multiple millions of search results. I know the 54M number sounds really impressive but high rankings in this keyphrase isn't necessarily an indicator of a successful search engine strategy.

Are you using Analytics? Where's the traffic coming from? Are they using your obscure keyphrase or finding your webpages using more competitive ones? Is the traffic contacting you or are they mostly bouncers?

It could be too that you have good marketing skills and have been one of the first to capitalize on a recent influx of searchers in your niche market for obscure Warcraft keyphrases. This is good. I respect something like that.

Hi Canadafred!
...
If you had some more thoughts I'd be really thankful,
anyway I wish you and everyone else a nice Christmas!
Cheers,
Dominique

The trick for you will be in having completely unique content, completely different site architecture and navigational systems. You can have some duplicated content such as graphics/image names/alt attributes and external/outbound links but keep it minimal. Don't let the search engine easily know these are both your babies.

Both web sites should drive in qualified traffic for differing keyphrases. You don't want to be competing against yourself because you'll lose. I just found that out in Bing.

...I want to promote my website in very short period of months.

Waiting for experts answers.

In SEO, that sounds reasonably attainable, provided you have a domain that has established some credibility already and you aren't in so much of a rush as to take the trendy but risky search engine optimisation short-cuts.

I'd try to concentrate on deploying a high quality Internet visitor experience. That in itself could be your fastest way to web site promotion success. I'd try to stay focused on providing something exceptional and unique to my qualified visitor.

Now, there's other forms of Internet marketing that could expediate your process but they are not in my skill set really. You'll have to read up on all these other Internet advertising methods; social media, search engine ads, dumpster directories, forum spamming, link swapping networks etc.

Hope this helps.

...I built a 7 spoked link wheel a few days ago and I was able to the number #1 position in Google out of 54,000,000 competitors.

I'm curious to know for what keyphrase.

7 spoked link wheel eh. Sounds like the old ring-around-the-rosy trick we used to use back in the 60's, I think. I'll have to check my old rock calendars to be sure. Could still work, I suppose, briefly.

Can you share what's the keyphrase? I'm really curious linkwheel.

I have law center site.Now My main Concern is to make it in the page of google with specified keyword.How would I do that?sort out this problem guys...

Hey personalinjury welcome to Daniweb SEO.

Well. It's probably best to start with your paragraphs and Headings. Write intelligent unique content. Then optimize your graphics (logical naming and compelling alt attributes). Then start workng the various optimizable webpage components: Title, Meta Description, Meta Keywords, internal anchor links, webpage naming, navigation system ... Try to remain focused on offering a high quality visitor experience primarily and then pleasing the search engine secondarily. Analyze your keyprase competitors and find their weaknesses: excessive incoming links of little value, poor content, poor visitor experience. Outclass them with innovative strategies.

The object is to position your webpages amongst the top players then knock 'em out one and two at a time. This will require time, go slowly at first then build momentum. Keep offering better optimized webpages. Slow and steady.

Don't think this is stupid. Very very important. Learn how to entitle/name your webpages. Descriptions too. Learn. Logically name your shit too, very important.

my blog aint even there in the first 10 pages of google when i search for it.How do i make importance of creating ppear first.Someone please help me???

Almost nobody has mentioned the iimportane of creating unique, fresh content. Make stuff. F the short-cuts.

...how can I solve this problem?
Thanks

rewrite your Titles and rewrite your content

Hi Everyone

I would like to keep this simple and ask if anyone could post here an actual sales letter or advertisement here that worked.

We could all theorise endlessly about what could work or opinions but I would love to see the actual results of an actual letter.

I recently wrote a letter to 19 people and got 2 responses then I wrote another to 16 people and got zero responses,so I have more to learn but the short circuit would be to look at others success.

I think we would all benefit from this kind of information so I appreciate your help in advance.

Regards
Mark

Almost replicated. Lucky day I suppose.

I just read this blog and it makes total sense.

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/156630

I personally prefer to be a social media scientist since I can link success of a social media campaign with real metrics and some type of metrics. What do you think?

Personally I find social media spam, filled with spammers and don't really know much about marketing. Spammers, all spammers looking for the easy way, spammers. buncha' spammers, however clever, still spam in my books.

With the increase of smart phones, getting a mobile site for a business may be the next smart option. From a social media angle, having a mobile site may be more luring for the tweeters to view it on their smart phone. So when you are creating a mobile site, what other things do you keep in mind to make it more enticable for the Tweeters and FB updates?

That's actually a good question. Tweeters like it short and sweet. I'm interested in gaining perspective on this. Good question.

Hello,

I want to find website statstics for {my site}.

Can anybody assits on how to fetch statstics which shows report such as..
1) absolute traffic on above website's keyword.
2) New keyword suggestion based on the website.
3) Competion on keywords for new website.
4) Report which shows many other onsite & offsite factors to improve partcular website.

can any one give us reliable tool or software which shows report for particular website as above.

Awaiting reply..Cheers

Google Analytics would do most of that and more.

Hi Canadafred,...
Cheers,
Dominique

Hey Dominique

If you can justify having two web sites with completely unique content then you can benifit from inter linking. Make your on-site optimizable content you off-site ranking factors.

Hi everybody, when we need information on anything, we find it better to search for those things in a city specific directory or a search engine. I would like to the directories or search engines that you have visited that you found useful.

I would suggest Google, Yahoo and MSN. In that order.

Hi all,

i am doing a seo for a wedsite[wedding website].My backlink is quite good ,but still my page rank is 2 only.

Please check my backlink and suggest me good idea for increasing page rank

invity.com

Pay attention to your on-site ranking factors. Read about them here:Title, description, content, image names/attributes, webpage names ... emphasizing

Just do whatever seems natural.

If you have something intelligent to add then add it, othrwise shut up!

interesting

...I have a PR 5-6 site, but traffic is low...

There's no such a thing as a PR5 website. You have a PR5 webpage, the landing page probably, within a site that has other webpages of various PR values.

PR is awarded from both internal and external web sources. In Google's eyes, a link is a link. Internal links are far more valuable than most external ones but for far more than just PR spreading. PR is an almost useless indicator. I suspect it means something economically to the search engine and they still use it to confuse GreenHat SEOs into thinking it is the pot-of-gold to infinite riches. Developing nations especially are still in a PR frenzy because of this illusion. Everybody wants PR and when they get it they can't understand why the telephone's not ringing off the hook. Traffic, sure they get some additional traffic but it isn't of any quality.

Can Yahoo be far behind?

As this seems to be a way for Google to keep track of what you are doing one has to wonder if the Chrome browser is some how part of this and what that is relaying back to Google. Just a thought but I am going to avoid doing any online banking or anything else dealing with my finances or personal business through the Chrome browser going forward. A little paranoid you say? Possibly but better to be safe than sorry.

I'm really shocked at Microsoft for doing this. Luckily it is really easy to turn off. At this moment I'm on a public computer and I can see the last 4 searches performed in Bing by the previous users. They don't even have to be logged in. One is a fairly interesting search for marine paint. Another is a bit bizzare, I won't get into details. The other two were from someone looking for auto parts. I'm not saying I can track their activities very far but I can certainly gain some intelligence on previous users of this computer. I can't see this being a good thing, especially with regards to privacy issues.

What's next? Publicly displaying our search requests for all to peruse.

...and ya, Yahoo surely will follow.

Bing's doing it too now.

...Also, a link exchange campaign would help..

Actually, link exchanging has been on Google's chopping blocks for a few months now. There is however one type of link exchange that may work, may work. That's when the partnering webpages are so close in nature that the search engine assumes it is a natural, real world business partnership. Any link swapping mission other than that is pointless and of no significant value to either the search engine or the odd Internet visitor that follows links on these incredibly ridiculous looking "resources" pages.

... can some one help me with the more knowledge about link baiting. How can we do it more effectively?...

I realize that this is slightly off-topic but it is a good question. Link baiting is a fair, honest, rewarding and natural way of influencing a webpage's off-site ranking factors.

The best way to do this is by creating exceptional, unique, intelligent and authoritative content; a little controversial is good too. If your web page has something that no other webpage has then it is fodder for link bait. Have a breakthrough idea, link bait. Just invented something new, link bait. Have an intelligent political perspective, link bait. You get the picture?

There are many ways to build links and traffics.

Such as Article directories submission, Guest blogging where you can gain links, traffic, and new subscribers, Do some commenting on other sites, if they allow you to include your site URL, it will bring some traffic, Social bookmarking and Forum Posting.

Creating unique, compelling, well-optimized content generates the best type of links, the naturally generated type. This is the basis to which off-site ranking influences factor into the keyphrase ranking game; which many SEOs seems eager to exploit. Linking strategists deceive the search engine into thinking that their webpages are important because of the volume, credibility and relevancy of the incoming link sources. Rather than create content worthy of naturally generated links, they try to cheat; to make magic - making something important out of nothing.