Posts by canadafred

Okaaay... personal feelings aside, do you have anything worthwhile to add to this discussion?

Yes I do.
Targted traffic doesn't change very much, even if you change your presentation. If the search engines deem your site worthy of targeted traffic then they won't alter their minds overnight because of a few navigational changes. If something is working well for you, stick with it; don't go on the other side of SE ethics because I said so. Link strategists best to keep link strategizing less fall prey to SERP oblivion.

Ya, I found that too, eventually. I'm a little old on SE algos and am not entirely up to par all the time. Repetition of anything repetitively is SEO ignorance and usually completely disregarded by the search engines, except Bing, for the moment, but that will change.

I apologize for the comment I had replied here. I was a tad confused.

Anchor texteual links are as good as any other link. Their effectiveness can be improved with the use of relevant linking structures (ie:keywords in anchors).

IE: I have a web page based entirely on expert search engine optimisation, I can do well with backlinks offering me as Internet marketing services.

Think. Be creative. Be innovative.

You measure the qualified traffic compared to your hits.

If the search engine is telling you that you are sending an automated query, then theoctically you are then presenting an automated query. Consider sending it something more generitic. Becoming innovative is requested.

PageRank (Google PR) and ranking in the SERPs (search engine positioning results) have no real corelation. Study and apply the search engine's own requirements for successful intergration into their SERPs. Forget about ranking short-cuts and pay attention to optimizing your on-site web page components. Develop to greatness, don't manipulate towrds it.

If you only had time to do one which one do you think would be the most productive? We ar eabout to hit our bust season for sales to may need to priorotise here, and any tips on how to rank in the top three for googlebase would be most appreciated as it is doing my head in.
The only thing I have noticed is that the longer I leave it before updating my listings the higher rank! Or is this just a fluke

My advice is to learn how to write properly.

Hello,

I have changed all of my pages on my websites to SEO friendly URLs. I noticed the increase on Page rank on some pages. However, there are more errors of pages not found on my log.

I have changed from /index.php?id=1234 to /index/i-like-this-forum/.

So, my question is, does anyone notice the same thing?
Does my SEO pages affect Google page rank?

Thanks a lot.

Just by looking at the variety of your signature links I can tell you are a spammer.

Heading tags indicate paragraph importance. They briefly highlight the content of the following paragraph(s). In literature, they are more important than the contents of the paragraph as they condense the words into a single phrase; a synopsis of a larger group of words.

When performing SEO, think in terms of literature; what appears important is important.

I don't think it matters if you have a strong website with many backlinks and good content. Content is king and you will rank well if you strong content and of course backlinks. But if you are relatively new and haven't developed the necessary content and links. You may want to leave out the site name.

Ok, thanks for your comment.

Use your imagination for a minute. For your products or services, come up with a real powerful name, one you can stick in a dot com; to be used for branding purposes. Conger up something that other folks will think and talk about; whenever they think or talk about your product or service. Make the mental connection with the populace. The Title tag becomes the ideal webpage component to introduce the name to the qualified visitors.

SEO is about Internet marketing as much as it's about search engines and hits.

You can keep you URL in there, if you want, as a two word Title is very weak. Ideally, you should get your keyphrase and related word phrases (synonymous keyphrases, abbreviations, word variables, antonyms etc.) but do it in a way that is primarily intriguing for the potential web visitor, not specifically designed for the search engine and don't do this the same way on every webpage. Mix and match things. Forget keyphrases in some pages altogether. Be innovative for each webpage.

Thanks all for your valuable comments.
keep viewing my posts.

I'll be sitting here on the edge of my seat.

All the other people so far have respondwd like idiots.

Create something worth visiting. That's it man. You don't have to seek artificial enhancement. Build something uniquely purposeful.

If all your client is looking for is Adsense revenue then good luck with that.

If your client has a web site geared to bring him more business then Adsense detracts from that marketing goal. Adsense is almost like reverse marketing, bring in the qualified visitor so he can click your competitor and you make a few cents, maybe. Makes no sense at all to me why business web sites do this.

Well, for a trendy starters, if they tell you how important incoming links are to your web page ranking and that's they're the world's best link schemers, then that's a good indicator of someone unable to perform search engine optimization and focused on manipulating the search engine.

Really? These days it seems that a greyed-out PR (no PageRank information available) means just as much as a PR0 or a PR27 for that matter. :) In other words, it pretty much means nothing. I've seen plenty of pages with "grey bar" that are still indexed and even out-rank (in the SERPs) those that have PR info.

In my experience, the only thing that remains consistent about TBPR, is the inconsistency of what it displays.

Good point. A greyed-out webpage usually means the page has been severely penalized, even banned, and could only be made available in the SERPs for obscure, non-competitive keyphrases.

A PR0 usually means that the web page isn't yet discovered or ranked; but can mean 0 too. From PR1 to PR6 doesn't much matter.

Here's an Ethical (White Hat) Six Step SEO Strategy

Craft indisputably unique optimized content.

Work the optimizable web page components.

Emphasize and support keyphrases.

Develop a powerful internal linking structure.

Support the web site off-site ranking factors with a corporate blog or sister web site whose functions are beyond and complimentary to the main web site theme (web site theme refers to the collection of primary, secondary and auxiliary keyphrases).

Use logical naming conventions for images and webpages.

Usually a greyed-out PR means that a webpage is severely enough penalized to merit exclusion from the SERPs.

I would also add that this professional should have a strong curiosity to keep up with trends, best practices, and with case studies of what other businesses have know that worked and did not worked. This way, the professional can have an arsenal of knowledge that will lead the recommendations to a higher level of effectiveness.

Very good point.

That could also mean actually reading other people's SEO blogs and participating in search engine optimization forums, keeping updated on the search engine content guidelines and any other opportunity to find ways to adopt and develop effective optimization techniques.

There's two: Spellcheck and Code Validator

I agree with stephen somewhat, ability to optimize web page components is mandatory. Good writing skills helps. Web pages need to captivate the Internet visitor and convince the search engine that content is unique, authentic and intelligent. I don't worry much about off-site optimization as most of that is best left to occur naturally, as a reasult of exceptional content. You can always create your own off-site ranking factors should your internal linking structure be weak (do to lack of webpages).

A good search engine optimizers satisfies three things simultaneously: the Internet visitor, the web site owner and the search engines. This is why innovativeness (out-of-the-box thinking as steven refered to) is essential.

I've a blog & I want to know which keywords of my blog have good SERP ranking.Is there any site or software which is offering this service ?

There's tons available just search for "free keyword ranking tool".

Thanks, Canadafred. So in these promotional lines, which inevitably will mention Factoring or it's equivelent- accounts receivable finanincing, AR funding, invoice advances, etc., should I use a different keyword phrase in each page? For example, in the promotional line on the FAQ page, I could use AR Funding and on the Contact Us page, I could use Accounts Receivable Finanincing. How about the home page; do I try to work in all these phrases or just optimize for one phrase like I'm doing on the sub pages?

You can work a couple of keyphrases in a promotinal statement on each page, but make them all unique and not overly distracting for the Internet visitor. Mix and mash as best you can to not appear automated or over optimizing. Have some pages with little optimized content. Power up the important ones.

I usually try to focus on one or two primary keyphrases on the landing page. You should introduce your main secondary keyphrases (5 or 6) who should each have their own page(s). Ranking for auxiliary keyphrases comes easily with keyphrase dynamicability; abbreviations, plural forms, synonymous keyphrases etc. (you can read about that on my blog if you are interested). Introduce a keyphrase rich linking system on the landing page and try to stick to it throughout all pages. Link textually regularly to webpages you want highlighted.

Listen factoring; if a web page is about Contact Us then make that webpage content be about contacting you. You can always conceive a couple of promotional lines, bold'em up and fit them into a page innocently; just let the content flow naturally. Could your keyphrases in the content describe Contact Us, is even better because you can then go for synonymous keyphrases, the keyphrase enforcement of abbreviations and those with varying suffixes and prefixes. Anyway factor, factor all that and go figure out the ways to gently emphasize things. Gently, steadily and authoritatively.

Ok, here's mine anyway. Pick a card, any card. Now look at it and place it back in the deck. I'll shuffle 'em up a bit and cut them into three piles. Now pick a pile, any pile, pick a pile SEO India. Now, the third card in the pile will be the card you picked.

Ta dah!!! There it is, was your card the five of hearts? Ya!! How 'bout that SEO trick seoindia? Wanna' see another?

Hi...I have paid seo...I would really appreciate some advice?

You're not in bad shape.

I'd get your webmaster to remove that hidden link pretending to be part of the caption for the first image of the water. Either underline it like the rest of the links or remove the anchor. I know that it goes to a "special" web page but is deceptive, to the SE too. Keep things consistent.

Use a couple of Heading Tags!! Get the keyphrase in there naturally.

I examined some of the 36 pages Google offers of your site and your incoming links. Why keep your link partners? They aren't even coming close to helping you as much as you are helping them and they're 10:1 (you offer ten links to one coming back). Get rid of your "Travel Resources" completely and stand on your own two feet.

Consider relocating to a dot it or de or com or net or whatever just get away from the dot biz business. In your case, a regional TLC (extension) is advisable for better SERP performance.

The content is good, fairly intelligently written. It would be nice to use emphasizing tags once in a while.

You could rename your-images-better.gif and work the alt attributes.

The code is incredibly sloppy, I'd take the time to clean it up, tighten it up too, conserve byte real estate.

PR's been dead a long time. It has no significance in the SERPs anymore. It did once upon a time, for about three months, then it started to get manipulated.

Today, a well-optimized PR1 webpage can beat the crap out of a PR6 webpage vying for the same competitive keyphrase. For obscure keyphrases, I've even seen PR0s beat PR7s. Go figure. PR value doesn't mean a thing, nothing. It's some dinosaur left from after man developed the wheel. It amazes me to no end how some SEOs (well, link strategists) obsess over this and tout their excellence at manipulating this and convince clients that PageRank is the Internet pot of gold.

Hey Google, if you're watching, get rid of PageRank once and for all so we can move on with developing unique, important content. Do like Microsoft is doing!

The only thing to do is to keep talking about it, and make link building schemes as a serious SEO deterent. Link builders have glorified their trade and even consider themselves search engine optimizers, even though many of them can't write English.

Web pages should never be rewarded for artificially gaining credible, relevant links, never. The search engine need to continue filtering this type of activity. They've done well by demeriting the dumpster directories and have come a long way with the link swappers but need to focus more attention on the useless blog commenting in order to drop links, nonsensial forum articles full of links, paid links, unworthy news articles in press releases, Linkedin spam (multiple profles linked together to appear important) etc.

I post my comment on Matt Cutts blog, the spam report pages, my blog, this forum, webmasterworld ... I get a lot of flack from the link schemers but somebody gotta' speak out.

Unfortunately, Google has made its riches off the back of the lolely link and it's going to take a long time to shake it off, unless the governments step in to clean it up. The Internet has become one big link dump.

Open a google account
Probably get stuck with blogspot rather than blogger
in the dashboard click the Settings tab
click Basic
Import Blog

On your web site (which you don't have linked correctly) you state:

"Guaranteed Top 10 Ranking
Affordable SEO Services Price
100% Money Back Guarantee!"

If you are having a search engine optimization issue, why don't you just hire yourself? What can you lose?

Amongst the most important SEO pitfalls would be to rename your webpages to more correspond with the anchor text in your paragraph links. If you have a text link "UK plug", then the webpage it points to should be about that text or at least, very closely related to that text.

...hanging by my fingertips I reached 1 star,

you got none..

Ha Ha Ha. That's great! Man, now I know what I want to achieve in life, STARS!! Just like I'm back in kindergarten. That's great man. Go for the stars ... Ha ha

Indeed, google doesnt really care about META any more, ...

Google cares very much about Meta tags. Meta tags are search engine tags. Some Meta tags are obsolete but others still serve a purpose; not just for Google, but for Bing and Yahoo as well.

The Meta Keywords tag is still used, as an indicator, as to what the webmaster feels are the important keywords in the document. Whether the content of the document supports that claim is another thing. Should the search engine dismiss a suggested keyword list, it may still highly rank the page based on the off-site factors alone (making it appear as if it is using the Meta Keyword. Google considers it. It may choose to ignore it but like every other line of code, reviews it carefully.

The Meta Description tag is very much still considered by Google. It may even choose to use it in describing the link in the results pages; then again, it may not. Usually this depends on whether the content of the webpage supports the suggested description.

follow the instructions
each google page links to others an explanatory list and then detailed instrcuctions on how google indexes and see the siteYes Fred, you get paid for SEO
and you don't want anyone to know they can optimize their site themselves,
that ethical question,
where does self interest intersect with public discussion.

Ethical SEO refers to performing search engine optimisation while adhering to the search engine guidelines explicitly. This is the safest way to go. Ethical SEO implies focusing a search engine optimization strategy exclusively on crafting the optimizable web page/site components, particularly the content.

Judgement of character and your personal opinions about others is not one of your better strength. You should leave your detective skills at the door when you come in here because they suck real bad. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about when you criticize me. I am going to make a fool out of you for that.

Look through my previous posts and you'll find nothing other than sound SEO advice, startegies, insights ... tons of it. My motives for assisting junior SEOs is alturistic. I get no money for helping other search engine optimizers find effective long term sustainable marketing plans. I rarely work as a search engine optimizer these days. I have other creative outlets. I've been performing SEO since Yahoo came on the picture and even before that (1994) and have seen alot over the years. I do at least two …

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This smells like someone looking for an excuse to dump their links all over the place. We know the URL, it's in your first post and there's a bunch of them in the response you made to your first post and then the response you make to the response you made to your first post ...

follow the instructions ...

Instructions? What instructions? The only thing that Google talks about is PageRank and how it can be helpful to manipulate it.

follow the instructions ...
Pretty much nothing anyone else says about google really matters much

Really? Well I don't see any mention of how to optimze web page components or images or logical naming or the value of a powerful internal linking structure or ... These things are unimportant?

It's really hard to believe that anyone who writes as poorly as you do can perform anything remotely resembling search engine optimization.

I noticed on your web site that you have an off-shore office, in India. Are you sure it's not the other way around and you have an off-shore office in New Jersey?

Learn to write properly.

I agree that Google's Toolbar PageRank has little to no value these days ...
Still ...
Sure ...

Manipulating off-site factors is effective SEO, for some. Call it whatever you like: Yahoo calls it corresponding amongst content related webmaster, link swapping or link building or making intelligent comments or whatever you want to call it.

Indeed some search engine strategies win in compeitive keyphrase arenas based on their off-site manipulation alone. They have nothing uniquely significant to offer the Internet, content-wise.

But look through that first page results of competitors and look at #2's SEO strategy, could be completely on-site strong. #4-6 link schemers, #7-11 Grey Hats, #12 White as snow and moving quickly, not slowly as you suggest but from #12 to #10 next week, then #7. The rest of yas' don't get the power of well optimized content and its internal linking value. Don't minimize crafting content to be Internet visitor captivating and friendly; and that the search engine will like it too.

You got to use it all, all the optimizable web page components and use the SEO technique : Keyphrase Dynamicability and Anchor Congruency. Can't stop though, gotta' build more.

I don't understand how the trendy marketing attitudes still is to just artificially make your web pages appear to be important by manipulating the volume, credibility and relevancy of incoming links.

Why don't you people just build something that merits its own importance?

I can't believe there's still Internet marketers on this planet that think Google PageRank still has some meaning. That was just the starting pistol of this link building race you all still run.

KEYWORD! Where to put key word or the KEYWORD phrase; the keyphrase?

Oh.

The best place to put stuff is in the best place

You'll discover the best places as your compose your content. Develop your content to captivate an Internet visitor primarily; create something interesting enough for someone to read and that’ll please the search engine too.

Dash your keyphrases in Headings and other word emphasizing techniques but use all the other natural, related keyphrase variations, whenever possible. This is make your content appear important.

Now, from the search engine's perspective, in order for content to appear to be important is needs to indicate intelligence, it’s gotta’ look well-thought out. Uniqueness counts big time too. That's why it's always good to study the English language; continuously; to learn how to write effectively in English; to learn how to write intelligently; too learn the power in antonyms or good synonymous keyphrases; altering prefixes and suffixes as you fly, understand abbreviations, acronyms, how to emphasize a keyphrase interestingly and my personal favourite: morphology. IluvU Searchengines.

Write well and for the search engine.

I have always thought that having multiple domains point to one site could hurt your rankings. I was just curious if there are any "special practices" to follow when doing this to make sure you do not get penalized by Google for duplicate content? Is my belief no longer relevant?

Look at it this way. You have one mother web site with several children. I call the children "sister sites" because they are essentially performing the same duty; empowering the mother.

In a perfect world, for best SEO, each sister site would have indisputably unique content and each have a significantly different marketing angle (keyphrase targets). In this model, there's no need for redirect; you make best use of each domain. One can develop a powerful linking structure this way, effortless satisfying Google's off-site factors by concentrating on your web pages' on-site factors and how pages link between domains. You are in a position to make something really strong and sustainable. Don't waste your domain real estate by redirecting it.

To use the same content repeatedly across all the domains offers no additional value for either the Internet visitor nor the search engine. You're lucky, you have the tools, may as well capitalize on your opportunity.

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how to get fast traffic i have a earning blogger but i dont understand how to get the traffic
thanks

You people crack me up. Everybody and their neighbour has an earning blog or webpage somewhere. Do like the rest of them.

So you have an earning blog and now you want traffic for it; then you can generate search engine revenue. Earn money by attracting visitors so you can send the visitors elsewhere, as long as they click your search engine ad links; as they probably would because the content you'll offer the visitor would be mediocre at best. I can tell that by your infantile writing. Search engines like things to appear intelligent.

So you have one of those money blogs eh, but nobody's clicking the money links eh. Hmmm. That's much like saying you want to be commissioned to paint a masterpiece but have yet to ever hold a paintbrush in your hand. Happy clicking.

...How to drive more quality traffic to your website effictively..?...

OK. What you do is to make yourself one of those double-sided poster carry-on A-Frame billboards aparatus. Then on each side with a black magic market write "Free Money". Walk around downtown with that for even one Saturday afternoon and I guarantee you 200 visitors. 4 hours looking like a buffoon and tricking people to visit will net ya' 3-400 easily. Change the wording a bit to market another sector, go out at night and create a 1000 visitor a day no problem. You'll have to leave town though after a while because people get a little upset when they see themselves being played. That's why most marketing tricksters use the Internet, they feel more safe, almost invisible behind their keyboards.

What is Search Engine Marketing? What's the difference between SEM and SEO?

SEM is usually considered paying for ads to become a "sponsored site" and SEO usually refers to natural ranking, competing against all other web pages in the search engine results pages.

Not paid software, just keyphrase rich content, even a one-pager will rank highly for obscure keyphrases.

Make something worth ranking.

This is quite common but not in competitive keyphrase environments although keywords in domain name is major points.

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Then what did u exactly do to achieve that?? I am very curious!

I thought about that after I posted my reply. What I think happened is that because I created the blog from my Google account it got picked up by the googlebot immediately and deemed as credible content by default (allowing the search engine to offer it in the results).

I started a brand new blog and Google offered search results within 13 hours. No links. No suggestions. Nothing.