Posts by canadafred

In that case, whether I could create hub pages with various text links (anchor text) pointing to my website, without writing articles.

Whatever you do, do it for the improvement of the Internet visitor's experience. By trying to please the search engine primarily, you'll actually discourage it from giving you improved ranking.

Create optimized content that is intended for the Internet visitor first. The search engines like that.

Hi,

I have 2 questions about domain names and SEO.

1. I have www myname co uk with Google Page Rank 5 and come as the first website in Google search results for xxx keyword in UK. If I buy www myname com will it come as first website in Google search results for xxx keyword in other countries?

2. If I buy www myname com should I submit this new link to all search engines with exactly same information I used for www myname co uk ? Would it be problem?

Thanks in advance

1. Maybe. Try and see what happens. 2. May have duplicate content issue. I would suspect your first web site would dominate.

I have been playing with SEO plug-ins for my Wordpress blogs but I am wondering if anyone has any experience with this and if they have an opinion of which is better, using the SEO plug-ins or do it by hand?

Anytime you can write a Title by hand, anytime you can write a description, anytime you can work an alt attribute, anytime you can craft a heading, anytime you can work by hand is a good SEO time. Avoid automation.

Can anyone help me to do the SEO for below mentioned site, I am new to the field of Internet marketing

regards,

Hi and welcome to Daniweb

Well, you'll have to learn about the optimizable web page components (Title, Hx, p, img, meta description ...), logical naming conventions for webpages and images, and how to write optimized content. I'd first start by studying a bit of HTML then reading up on the various perspectives in this SEO forum and others. Don't be afraid to ask specific questions here as there are many experienced optimizers whose insights could save you alot of time and resources.

Also, take a couple of hours to read the search engine quality content guidelines.

Can anyone help me to do the SEO for below mentioned site, I am new to the field of Internet marketing

regards,

Hi and welcome to Daniweb

Well, you'll have to learn about the optimizable web page components (Title, Hx, p, img, meta description ...), logical naming conventions for webpages and images, and how to write optimized content. I'd first start by studying a bit of HTML then reading up on the various perspectives in this SEO forum and others. Don't be afraid to ask specific questions here as there are many experienced optimizers whose insights could save you alot of time and resources.

I've set up a little DoFollow Blog listing sorted by PR if anyone is interested. I'm calling it 600ish because everytime I go through it there are one or 2 that need to be taken out. The list is less than a month old so should be pretty accurate yet.

Whenever a person pastes "What a great article!", whether it be 600 or 60,000 times, it still amounts to useless, generic comments and is of no value to the Internet visitor or to the search engine. It becomes just another part of the pile of nonsensial spam the Internet has become.

People must think the search engine is stupid. It clearly recognizes this type of link force feeding.

For SEO purposes, rather than finding convenient ways to dump your useless links, create a new web page or fine-tune an existing one.

The PR value of a webpage has little or no effect as to where it ranks in the search engine results pages.

The link building formula you suggested to overtake keyphrase competitors is somewhat humourous although a common misunderstanding.

Keyphrase competitions are substantially more complicated than "the winner is the one with the most links" as a matter of fact, on-site conisderations play a vast more important role in ranking than off-site factors.

My Linkedin webpage ranks pretty high for some of my keyphrases, on its own. It doesn't bring me any significant traffic but it's nice to have a couple of keyphrases covered.

Hi,

I just developed a website for my resume writing and career coaching business. I am an excellent writer who has been working for other companies. I decided it was time to branch out on my own.

Do you know of any affiliate managers willing to work with new entrepreneurs? I sell resume writing and career coaching products.

I appreciate any input you could give me on this topic!

Thanks,
Patricia Erickson
SNIP

Being a writer, you should be able to develop sufficient enough content to propel your web site in the search engine results pages. If you tried focusing on generating your own traffic rather than relying on someone else's, your ROI would improve.

Problem with affiliate banners is that you get a whole whack of clicks, automated ones too, but very few of sincere interest in your service.

When putting ./ or ../ to links instead of writing the whole path, does that affect SEO in any way?

My opinion on this is to keep consistent. If you use the slash once then always use it otherwise, for some strange reason, the search engine can consider a variation as pointing to a different webpages in the same way as www.mysite.com/index.htm is not considered the same as www.mysite.com/ or www.mysite.com

Now, I have a funny feeling that this is changing but haven't seen any concrete proof of this as of yet.

I believe that instead of doing anything, which can make a newbie demotivated to post, we should have thread like these, so that they can always stay updated to what members want. If threads get old, it gets lost in an ocean that we have here. By posting new ones, from time to time, you can always let your voice send across to them. At the same time, this strategy also helps in keeping the thread count of the website increasing, which is good for its ranking :P.

What do you think guys, anyone with me on this??

That's a good idea. Maybe we could start threads intended for Greenhats, give them SEO tips, like how to write a Title, or an alt attribute ... I'll put one together over the next couple of days as a test.

SEO tips for Greenhats could make for interesting debates too! It's a win-win.

Displacing one web site in Google SERPs (search engine results pages) simply means that another one will takes its place.

Even if Mr Cuban was to influence the top 1000 web sites, they account for such a huge variety of keyphrase sectors that he would only be slicing a miniscule piece of the Internet pie in many, many keyphrase competitions. This type of scheme could have a significant impact in the search engine world but he'd have to stay focused on only one sector at a time.

I know this sounds like I am just pissing and moaning but should we start a sub-forum in the Internet Marketing Forum for beginners and people who are new to these concepts? It seems to me a lot of the newbies on here come in and within their first 10 posts they put up some text book definition or explanation of a basic concept of SEO, SEM or how search engines work. Just thinking out loud.

I would think something like a forum for newbies would get the same generic type responses that are visible on other Internet Marketing forums.

A newbie to SEO stands a much better chance of getting sound advice here than in most of the other traditional SEO forums who seem to advocate only the trendy search engine manipulation techniques (off-site manipulation). At least here, a GreenHat SEO is offered a much broader perspective on what is effective search engine optimization and has the option to develop content creation skills rather than just link building skills.

i have found this page :
www webconfs com/15-minute-seo php

there is a perfect seo checklist on it. but i didn't see any date to see if it is uptodate or not.
what do you think about its content?
is it updated or outdated?

There is some useful information there. Of course I found some really bad advice too but generally, the list is fairly up-to-date.

I would like to add that SEO performed mechanically (ie:insert keyphrase here, insert keyphrase there) is of less value than freely written keyphrase rich content, content that gently pursuades the search engine and enforced with optimized web page components. The more natural your presentation appears the better optimized it will be.

Create webpages for the Internet visitor, primarily, make things worth visiting and the search engines will reward your work.

Actually there's two: learn how to write well in English and learn how to effectively work the optimizable web page components.

I think Google doesn't consider either type of links as spam. It assigns some insignificant value to them but that is based mostly on the credibility of the blog or forum. Dumping links on spam forums and spam blogs can actually be harmful from an SEO perspective.

If you post a comment on a blog that is not deemed important than your link will be deemed unimportant. Same for forum links.

As previously suggested, there is a factor considered as relevancy that can add some small value to the link.

Either way, both forum links and blog comment links are of very little value in the bigger SEO picture, even in huge volumes.

HI All, I am trying to sort this out and google is a great place to start but it get a little confusing. So I was hoping that the people for this forum can help me. I want to know how this is done or where there is a really good guide!!!!!

SEO is about ranking webpages highly the search engine results for particular niches keyphrases.

In a simplified manner, the search engines rank pages according to how the keyphrases are made to appear important, more credible than the next keyphrase competitor.

Now, as far as search engine optimization is concerned, you can either:

A - craft important optimized webpages or
B - you can make the web pages appear to be important (usually by implementing some of the various and trendy link building schemes).

Not for google, but in yahoo and bing it is still effective...

That's a good point.

Now, Google certainly examine's the tag, as the keyowrds tag is a search engine tag and also because Google covers and considers every line of code; regardless of what it is. The meta keywords tags is an indicator as to what you feel are the important keywords/keyphrases for each web page. It may decisively disagree.

The original poster made suggestions that were too vague for my liking, too generic. Rather than something like "books,publish,reading,author,genres,cover,novel", I'd try something more like "painting book romance novel published author Fred Joly".

A Link should be considered as a "vote of confidence." Something you give someone who deserves it because they are a good resource. A resource worth referencing. If your entire link strategy is based on Exchanging, or Reciprocating votes (aka "links"), you are spinning your wheels and wasting your time. Contrary to what is displayed above, You will see:

1. No significant change in traffic
2. No improvement in search engine visibility
3. No added resource or authority to your site
4. Complete waste of time and resources

Ya, that pretty much sums up the value of link swapping.

Actually, this link building scheme worked well, a decade ago, for about a month.

Rather than relying outside of your web site to empower your webpages, work with what you have; your content, your internal linking structure, your optimizable web page components. You'll never waste one second while spending the time to craft a good Title.

Again. Poor backlinks can't hurt your rankings. It can only make you waste your precious time that you can use on improving the surfing experience of your visitors.

Google: "Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links."

Google's Quality Content Guidelines

You can also try to get some regular HTML code in the web pages, work a few of the key optimizable web page components, you know, build-in a powerful internal linking navigation system, craft the Titles and descriptions, get some Headings in there, a paragraph or two; try to do the basic SEO stuff in order to attain some targeted traffic from the organic search engine results. Then try to evolve in that direction.

I hear that there's a huge untapped online market for plastic nose rings, seems like no one's got that one covered yet.

no, one of them is two years old and one has several months

Well then. in that case, it would appear like the sandbox theory has better footing than mine. Thanks for causing me to think and spew.

Google does not penalize if you submit your web site to various shady directories. If that was a case then your competitor would do this instead for you. What you need is good quality links and improvement of the existing web site content.

The search engine know the sources when a web page is being artificially bombarded with pointless, useless links. The theory is that if your linking schemes are shady then your web page is probably not of much value. Google particularly warns about the negative impact this can have on your web page's performance.

About the competitor linking stuff for you, I hear lots of complaints like this but they are unfounded. I'm pretty much certain that the search engine can determine this type of credibility sabotaging activity fairly easily. However, if you are checking your backlinks and you think a competitor is doing something underhanded, the perpertrator is pretty easy to track down; send them a nasty email.

Personally, my suggestions, would be ... to first learn how to compose a question effectively and to ... then ... sell your templates.

It's our pleasure to have Herbert. Feel free to come dump your signature here, anytime.

Oh no! Don't tell me you fell for one of those "I'll list you in 65,000 directories of PR1s to PR567s web sites, all over the Internet, in only the most respected Google loving places. All this and more for the low low LOW LOW price of .012 cents each."

I'm sure it's not bad.

Let the recent shake up level itself out. Keep introducing high quality, well-optimized content to your web presentation, and keep doing that, regularly.

... oh ya, and stop seeking links.

You know, you make any off-site influence your own on-site ranking factors. You gotta' be innovative a bit. You know, build yourself a really good internal linking structure

... ah maybe use ... a corporate blog or something like that, giving your visitors more perspectives into your business, your expertise, your ideas. That's always a good predictable off-site enforcement, but you must be able to justify its existence. These things must be doing something unique and be important and indisputably authentic; make this stuff interesting helps too.

It is called sandbox phenomenon , even the new website will disappear after few weeks.

I'm getting the impression that we're talking about two web sites both two years old, battling it out for authoritativeness; the search engine is trying to determine which is the more credible business version.

Now. I could have completely the wrong impression about this scenario and a brand new web site could, in fact, now be in suspension (pending the evolving proof of its own importance).

A website alone has no effect on increasing sales. Their are many people who sell products worth thousands of dollars with having a simple blog.

Well. Ya.

But there's gotta' be some Internet marketing. You know, attracting Internet visitors. There's some kind of it to make a web page have value; from as small as a tiny little wee buzzing sound in the wind, to as big as a 15 minute SuperBowl TV ads ... bigger ... complete with cool 1-800 numbers ... 1.866.BUYLOTS ... Ya! Then you get all the important inside web covers or right on the Frontpages web site is going like mad now ... or is that me ... oh shoot, forgot to take my meds this morning I'll have to get back to this.

I'm very glad I'm not a search engine advertiser. Back when Overture ran their search engine ads on Google I watched on bidder keep his bid $16 a click higher than the #2 bidder, and without hesitation handed over click money for months; without any interuption or guidance from the search engine! It disturbed me because it was a Canadian government funded sportsfishing site. This was before Adsense or Adwords and there was no search engine "adjustments" based on keyphrase competitors bidding levels.

I can't imagine how people just so easily waste money like that and how so many others, all over the planet, so easily suck up hard-working people's SEM budgets. I don't get how this game has perpetuated this long.

Hi every body,

My websit's PR currently is #3 and I now need it to be #4 and #5. So could any one tell me how many backlink I have to make for that?

Thanks all,
Quang

As few as three or as many as 67,473. It's your choice really although this PR hunting buisness is a pointless pursuit in today's web page ranking mechanism.

It's always best to concentrate on improving and evolving your own web pages and let whatever off-site effects do their own thing themselves naturally.

6 month before I start my SEO carrier as a Off page Optimization, now I start work on on-opage optimization but i don't understand the difference between Title or meta tags. Please help me

Well, you probably need to learn about a few more tags than that so why not spend a half day studying HTML tags. There's tons of great, free, easy to understand resources available on the Internet, even some geared more towards a search engine optimization perspective.

hello,
i have two websites built on the same keyword and hosted on the same provider. one of them is 2 years old, the other one was created a few time ago. the first site was on the first page in google search.
now, the second site is placed in first places in google search but the first site disappeared. some times they shift back. the second one disappeared and the first site is in first places.
can i have both toghether on first page in google search?

I've seen this type of behaviour frequently lately. It's not easy to swamp the lead pack of keyphrase compeitors but can happen. When the search engine bounces rom one to another in a networked SERP approach it's the search engine realizes that both sites mean basically the same thing, have very similar corporate agendas (they market the same business in the same way), their on-site ranking factors parallel (Titles, keywords tags, images etc.) and are probably closely intertwined from a linking perspective (lotsa' cross-linking). Because of the similarities, the search engine struggles to determine which webpage is more valuable for your keyphrase search.

You can get them both up in rankings simultaneously but you'll have to radically refocus one of them. You have to create two uniquely devised web presentations.

Mozilla ... I feel like they are spying on my pc.

Oh, you better be scared of that Godzilla Modzilla. It's got big big teeth and it can read your mind too...

No No No just joking. I have something professional to add I just can't remember what it was right now. I'll get back to this ... soon.

Google has changed ... Really I don't know what is happening.

None of us really know either and the search engines, well, they're kinda nuts themselves.

Sounds to me like you must have recently been playing around with SEOing your stuff and your keyphrase rankings are changing because very little of such significance happens in the search engine ranking mechanism in one week, lately.

... linkbacks ... more linkbacks ... a high number of linkbacks ...

Linkbacks? Are they in the same family as, check this out checkout, humpbacks? BACKLINKS, you mean Backlinks or incoming links or even inbound links. Check this out family ... linkback hunting is for checked out SEO sissies.

Hey guys
Can you name me some promotional techniques ... ideas?

OOOH boy. The more I read my own salivations, the more I hate it but now listen to this all anyway. This response is a little bit lengthy I know but I already lost an hour's writing tonight and I'm tired but I still wanted you to walk away from this with a somewhat clear head. I assure you that this is a momentous speech, expect that some of my blurb may sound a bit insane. Try to remember that I'm an artist preferably.

Now, listen to this xLady, there exists this thing in Internet Marketing called search engine optimization (SEO).

That's where you beat your search engine results pages (SERP) keyphrase competitors in the organic SERPs (that's not the sponsored advertisers or PPC or all those Nonsense Ads on everybody’s pages nowadays or some of those completely and outrageously (consumer) exploitative Pay-per-Click games you see flying around or those bloody b….

No. SEO is none of that crap. SEO skills can easily evolve from hanging around search engine optimization people, don’t need much training really. It’s practically do-it-yourself already.

Get introduced to the power of a uniquely crafted and well-optimized web page content.

There's tons and tons of SEOers out there right now! They all do all kinds of wonderful stuff. But remember, basic SEO is usually at a hands-on level. It can be tedious and monotonous rewriting someone else’s image alt …

After having a site, here are some of the methods that helps promote your website:

SEO - Search Engine Optimization
PPC - Pay Per Click
SEM - Search Engine Marketing
SMO - Social Media Optimization

Close.

SEM=PPC and/or SEO
SMO well, that's mostly Internet marketing.

Internet marketing occurs with searh engine optimzaion and searchengine marketing both. IM incorporates lotsa' other things too. Rather than having a visitor click a search engine ad (keyphrase competitor), you have him/her/it click the contact button or the buy button.

Once upon a time there commonly existed the art of Internet marketing in SEO. You know, get the qualified visitor then turn it into a telephone call, but everything seems to be going in the direction of reverse marketing now; get the business and give your business away to keyphrase competitors, for a few pennies to the webmaster/web site owner/neither/nor/unknown/who'll ever know...

Wow!

You guys have it all figured out! I finally found the right place. I'll learn something here .. oh yah!

Listen. I just wrote you a two page piece but everything I wrote crashed: just as I tried to send my response. I really don't like writing in Word when I'm in my few, various Forums I frequent [OK JUST HERE!], but that would be a good habit to get in. Having the text you wrote instantly come back up for the times this stupid machine doesn't work. And at the same time as having Internet woes, I don't really don't feel like writing over and over again the things I've written about for the last hour, it seems. There's gotta' to be buggering up between this HP beast and Microsoft war going on non-stop. Things want to open, then they don't want to open and other things are trying to open other stuff ... AHHHHHH It's like I only had three megs of ram again.

It's 1:30 in the morning in my neck of thise great, seasonally transitional wilderness I'm a part of and I'm grateful.

OK. this is the synopsis of my earlier thoughts on this interesting headings debate:

A. Use <h1> when appropriate, paticularly when it can emphasize keyphrases and their dynamic variations; including but not exclusive to abbreviations, synonymous keyphrases, plurialization, prefix and suffix transitions and variables, obvious use of linguistics, altering verbe tenses, acronyms, lexicons, morphology ... any other web content apparently intelligerntly produced.

Then you have the <h2>. Think of it like the secondary keyphrase Introduction Channel (some ethical SEOers call this "Going for …

This is my take on this an please read the latest Google SEO guideline (The PDF version which is somewhat difficult to find).

Use <h1> tags to emphasize primary keyphrases.
Use <h2> tags to emphasize secondary keyphrases.
Use <h3> well, you get the picture by now.

Do this consistently across your site.

To the response that mentioned the devalued importance of the <hx> tag, well, maybe it's time to wake up.

Perfectly said Fred... This concept should be required reading for every seo.

Thanks Jay.

Here's a concept: If you are obsessed with acquiring backlinks, why not create important, unique webpages that webmasters naturally deem worthy of offering a link, or not? Your own internal linking strategy is far more valuable than any external one. Why would you want to try out some of the trendy link building schemes whose aims are exclusively to artificially increase the volume, relevancy and credibility of incoming links; in an attempt to manipulate the search engine. Rather than making it appear like you have important content because of the quantity of backlinks, why not just create important well-optimized content. It's much more predictable and completely within your own control.

This will require some new skills however, especially in innovative use of the language and effectively, not overly, emphasizing primary keyphrases.

SEO helps me in my business ... plus SEO helps in increase my profit!

SEO is about ranking webpages in the organic search engine results pages. It's not about business and it's not about making profit.

Search Engine Optimization is about stuff like crafting good Titles and then spelling them correctly, naming an image and creating a user friendly, intelligent alt tag ... that kind of stuff.

Sure, business and profit follow, as a result of implementing effective, ethically deployed, sound SEO strategies but the Internet marketing really begins when the qualified visitor appears.

I know this theory doesn’t apply to the incredibly greedy monetized webpage fanatics.

You people obsessed with money ...

SEO is the professional art of ranking web pages highly in the natural search engines results (SERs).

There are only two ways to accomplish this task: trick the searchengines into thinking your stuff is important or create something that's important.

Listen, I like Ask. I remember well when they were Asjeeves, a magnificent Bristish search engine, probably the best in Europe at the time, but they are no match today in the SE wars; as a matter of fact, they've become quite the spammers in my opinion. Quite desperate for exposure.

Hey

Try installing a Google Sitemap. That pretty much forces the searchengine to recognize your site.

On a second note: You have to remember that the different search engines rank a web site differently. Google can reward link manipulation (including internal linking). MSN and Yahoo mostly like on-site optimization.

And then again, I wouldn't worry too much about Yahoo, they're already a dead duck in the water; as MSN has already taken their search over. Be nice of microsoft to unveil the changes. I'm anticipating something like another Bing search bar.

This garble of incoherent industry specific phrases doesn't mean anything to me.

You've got to concentrate on optimizing the optimizable web page components. Nothing else. Simple. Write a Title and craft a paragraph, then name an image etc.

Ya Rick, what's up with that question? Do you have something intelligent to ask or are you just another forum spammer? Whasup man?

Gigablast? What the hell is that?

link:url will do for the major SEs. Gigablast? I can't belive you mentionned that dinosaur. What do they get, less than .05% of web search traffic. Wake up! It's Google, then MSN (Bing,Live) and Yahoo in about that order. Get with the program.