Posts by canadafred

its easiest if you have a site worth linking to. give them a reason to link. if your site doesn't offer anything that other people want, you'll be the only one linking to it.
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Hey good advice.

... 2. Other websites must confirm that your website is about that topic. That's what inbound links are for.

This is true to a certain extent, however, exceptional on-site optimization can outclass powerful off-site link building strategies vying for the same keyphrase in much the same way as a PR2 webpage can beat out a PR6 quite easily.

Also, it is easy to justify creating your own off-site factors. A corporate blog is probably the best way. Now you have a situation whereas you can perform on-site optimization of your off-site ranking factors. Other innovative off-site strategies are available upon consulting with your imagination. What I'm saying is: a search engine optimizer is better poised to achieve the rankings he desires when he's in full control of the presentation he offers both the search engine and the Internet visitor. Stay clear of the artificial link building strategies. They aren't required for good SERP performances.

Also, while talking about the importance of quality content, get the keyphrases into image-names.jpg, web-page-names.php, image alt and anchor title attributes complete sentences, Headings, Titles, Descriptions, internal links etc. As mentioned previously, avoid excessive repetition of the keyphrase; use Keyphrase Dynamicability (vary prefixes, suffixes, use plural forms, abbreviations, synonymous keyphrases etc.).

Hey not a bad article!

You have it all figured out pretty good.

The only thing I would add would be: The SEO strategy also becomes a reflection of the Client corporate image. There should be no cheating. A common cheating method is when the search engine optimization strategy includes or focuses on artificially increasing the volume, relevancy and credibility of links pointing to the webpages. It is in fact performing search engine manipulation. It's cheating. Sound, ethical SEO strategies work with the on-site ranking factors exclusively (such as the quality of content as was mentioned) and leave the Internet to determine any off-site ranking factors, naturally.

I think professionals never use black hat seo techniques...

By far, the majority of SEO services use grey hat to black hat techniques, although they call it something else.

The white hat SEO service is a rare breed indeed.

Organic ranking is the natural rankings that your site has for a certain keyword. This is the result of the credibility that your site achieved due to lots of great backlinks from related sites.

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it can be the result of great on-site optimization that receives a positive off-site response naturally

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it can be the result of exceptional on-site optimization that needs little external influence

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it can the combination of deploying a high quality on-site presentation while stimulating the high quality off-site ranking factors, by making those your own.

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thanks, all my articles are about criminal law so i should be fine, although the magazine theme only shows the first paras so in future articles i will try to ensure some keywords feature in those.

I meant "I would NOT try keyphrase stuffing" (forgot the NOT) in unrelated articles. In articles about the subject then by all means, get those keyphrases in there.

Read about and practice of Keyphrase Dynamicability on my blog.

As long as there are search engines there will be a need to optimize web pages.

What becomes obsolete are the SEO strategies. I've watched them come and go over the years.

Link strategists, thinking they are perfroming SEO, are moving towards ineffectiveness. When their off-site manipulation games are completely through, I'm sure to them it'll feel like their world is over, their concept of SEO will be over.

On-site optimization will be around for a long time; especially if Bing can take over the market share of searches.

mindsphere in

No submission link found, just a standard website optimization company. Misleading visitors is a pitiful way to advertise your company here.

DiggleNamer - Articles about criminal law should contain keyphrases relevant to criminal law. I would try keyphrase stuffing other unrelated articles. Perhaps keep criminal law articles on the top of the landing page and other articles below it.

InsightsDigital - I think it would have a positive traffic effect, but a relatively minor one. People showing up at the landing page get there anyway, they arrive somehow. Should they be directed to another page by clicking on a tag, then it's not really new traffic, it's a visitor navigating around the site.

Make sure that you place the article in your web site first.

Let it sit there for a week or two then start submitting it to directories, if you must.

Google will value the one on your web site more than any others provided it is clearly the original. It doesn't penalize the others, it assigns less value.

...Submitting Sites...

Very well done but you should run the content through spellcheck. Good use of word variables ie: web page and webpage. Grammar is a little off but readable regardless.

i thought that it was good to gave more articles per tag. but i guess what you are saying is that if all the articles come up under all the tags then that is negative and spam. when i reduced my tags i did it with that in mind, and you will see that there are now less tags with multiple articles. But perhaps I still have too many.

If you had three different articles that fit in one tag then that's good. The point isn't to have the most tags, the point is to have the best articles. Tags should be used like directories, they contain more than one thing. Tags that have one article need to evolve.

Sometimes, an article can fit into two tags but that should be the exception to the rule. Articles with 3 or more tags should be avoided like the plaque.

...I would appreciate your input on this...

Your tags are quite good, each totally unique, no duplication, often only 1 article per tag (for now). Pretty good use of tags. I'd keep it up like that.

I was at SEOchat the other day and there's this guy bad-mouthing me who has 11,000 posts there. 11,000, not the one-liner type neither, no, this guy writes novels. He's been there 6 years.

Now that's taking your forum participation seriously!

thank you, i guess i will reduce the number of tags on future posts. Or should I go through and start deleting tags?

Am i right in thinking that it is the title meta tag that is the really important one for SEs?

Just use the standard webpage Title tag not the Meta Title. Meta Title is pretty much obsolete.

About starting to delete tags: I followed some of them and they all lead me around in a circle of tagged tags, Often, while going around in circles, the content was the same; with a zillion tags all over the place around it. This is not built for the Internet visitor in mind, primarily. Lotsa the stuff is unique and dandy but the merry-go-round ride's insane. I would think the search engine would get just about the same impression.

Build for the visitor first; content especially; then a solid, not overly done, internal linking structure empowring the most important webpages. Build like this and you'll please the spider too. Naturally evolve.

Does this mean deleting tags, yah. It also means re-thinking your SEO strategy to focus more on the content rather than the linking structure, and don't look spammy either; oh and you have identical one word keywords side-by-each, except one's pluralized, that pretty much negates their power.

Some of your links look at little spammy, especially in the "tag" box at bottom right corner.

Use Meta Keywords, Meta Description and Title however feels normal to you. Be careful about repeating things too often. The search engine will read it all and assign value to some of it, more than other parts, maybe.

You really should try to stick with a handful of different keyphrases (6 maybe) and branch out later adding more sections to the web site.

... your poorly written message ...

I was curious to see if your webpages contained equally pitiful spelling, punctuation and grammar. They do. It's hard to imagine why anyone would hire you for web design; link manipulation abilities, yes, but providing content for corporate clients, never. Must work pretty cheaply, another $2 an hour deal?

Do you think you have enough keyword stuffing happening on your India linked page?

The article looks and smells like replicated, translated nonsensential mumble jumble to me.

A white hat SEO concentrates on the on-site raking factors. Of significance in this response are the internal linking structures. The white hat maximizes on a web site's linking structure (how and where web pages within interlink). When needed, a white hat will often create his own off-site factors by incorporating a blog or even another web sites when justifiable but he'll work those webpages in such a way that his off-site factors become on-site factors. A white hat builds a web page and the rest is up to the Internet. He doesn't hunt down links. Links come naturally, as they were originally intended to derive. In every keyphrase race there's a white hat in the black swamp, every one. White hats can play with the big black boys, and live to play another day and the next and...

In today's seemingly unstoppable trendy way, most grey hat SEOs and almost all black hat search engine optimizers manipulate off-site factors, in particular their link popularity. By boosting up their own link popularity, I mean the artificial increase in the volume, value and relevancy of links pointing to the webpages. The more an SEO empowers his SERP performance in this way, the darker the shade of hats he wears. In the link scheming game, the grey hat is an amateur.

Whenever you have a professional link builder, with powerful incoming link strategies, coupled with decent on-site search engine optimization skills then you have a dark black hat. He's darkest …

hey thanks for the information. Twitter is one subject i haven't explored yet, but have heard its a powerful tool to get connected to world. Will try it out.

I am in same boat, missed the ship on that one so I've caught up a bit the last week. They've got these amazing add-on apps, one sends a business card with each tweet, another takes a poll,,, I have my tweets appearing on my Facebook page and in my blog. That's kinda' cool getting a meassage across three ways simultaneously.

How come you have web sites like www canadianpharmacymeds com yet you don't do buisness in Canada, all your business activities occur in Arizona?

Before I jump into something that heavily I like to really check it out really good.

The $1500 for the directory listings, was that in US currency because I'd save maybe 5-10% if I paid in Canadian dollars? Would you take Canadian money?

About the directory listings again, I was wondering, does the search engine care whether a dumpster link has been submitted manually or by some fancy automated process? The $1500 dollar quote seems cheap like it would be accomplished using automated software. If there's a big difference between automated and manual, would there be a way to verify which way you submitted to the dumpsters?

I'm just about ready to make a decision. I hope I haven't anymore difficult questions for you.

Thank you and eagerly anticipating your response.

Oh.

Three-way linking is like link swapping. Does that kind of linking have any effect on my rankings?

1. Blog Commenting
2. Directory Submission
3. Blog Creation (Free Blogging Services)
4. Yahoo! Answers
5. Article Writing + Submission
6. Forum Posting
7. Social Bookmarking
8. Link building (three way)
9. Press release submission

Hey how's it going man.

I'm looking for a package deal here. All I really want are:
5,000 dumpster directory listings (PR2-3 webpages minimum, no greyed-out PR bars or no-follows)
3,000 blog spams (no no-follows either, I want all follows)
200 poorly replicated articles (mixed and mashed real good now)
1,500 signature links dumped in forums (relevant forums only)

Too bad I have nothing that merits a press release.

Can you give me a price for all that based on the $3 / hr x 40 hr week you were quoting us the other day? I want a good deal this time, so throw in something else, maybe 2,000 tweets or a half-dozen on-way links.

What's a three-way link?

Thanks again

Hello frds,
am not so good in english but i want to become a seo now am doing link building ,please give me your views can i become a good seo without good communication skills ?

If all you wanted to do was link building then you wouldn't need to improve your language skills very much, but then again, you wouldn't amount to much of an SEO either. You'd be a linking strategist, like all the others. You might consider yourself a search engine optimizer, like all the others, but essentially you would never acquire any real SEO skills, ever.

If you want to become a search engine optimizer, then, you'd need to brush up on your language skills because SEOs must optimize webpage components. SEOs must craft exceptional content, unique, credible, authoritative, interesting content. They learn how to write creatively so as not to be continuously repeating the same keyphrase over and over. Good SEOs are innovative with how they use their words, where they place them and how they support their keyphrases. Search engine optimizers write effective webpage Titles and Descriptions. They craft meaningful image alt attributes. They intrigue the Internet visitor with well-worded keyphrase-rich Headings.

These type of SEO activities demand a command of the English language. If you want to remain a link strategist SEO type then it seems like you are well on your way to fitting in with your counterparts. If you want to become a search engine optimizer, mastering the …

Hey thanks alot tigs. Gave you some reputation points for that one. I don't plan to use this twitter thing as marketing leverage. I just like the way I set up my tweets to shows up on my facebook page and in my blog. It's all like a parallel universe man. It's so groovie.

see ya

Actually, the reason I'm inquiring is that I'll do test searches for example, Canadian SEO expert and I'll find this twitter page with 66 followers, all with the default cross-eyed avitar and all apparently replicated profiles of the same Egyptian guy. The dude's heavily following himself. I am trying to figure out how it makes it into the top 10-12 even though the keyphrase isn't very competitive I still wonder: What makes this twitter page more special than the 400,000 webpages behind it in the ranks. Is it the 66 followers that boosts its position? If any links he spams out are no-followed, what am I missing? Is it the volume or relevancy of followers?

These types of ranking conditions drive me bananas. Anybody know what's going on with this?

I was under the impression that bots were against the twitter rules. I know for a fact that paying a company to get you followers and that they post get more followers on your account is against twitter rules. CanadaFred I wouldn't use a bot unless you were sure it wasn't against the rules. heres a link to their terms http://twitter.com/tos and if you want you can follow their spam account named spam and other accounts that are official twitter accounts so you know whats going on.

Oh ya, it's spam for sure. I'd hope that I'd never sink so low as to auto-Twitter-spam the universe with my crap. Thanks for your concern though, I am mostly trying to figure out if there's a grey-hat SEO angle to all this tweety trend, because it looks like it which might be around for a while.

Ok. Let me see if I have this straight. You set the thing up to go on auto-pilot and it spits out 140 chraracter messages at regular intervals. Some of these tweets will have that tiny url thing redirecting to your webpages. People that follow you will see this ad over and over again and sooner or later will visit your web site. Is that about it?

...We are also doing the Press Release & Article Submission job...

I betcha' they'd be something special to look at.

What's the advantage of getting more followers?

Hi Fred,

Yes I have experience with directory links & blog comment links.
I will submit 10-15 links in an hour at the rate of $3.60/hr.

Regards
Priya

Oh that's awesome. Let me do the math. That's about 100 directory links and/or blog comments per day. You're some quick. I have a couple of questions if that's OK:

What if I had a customer of mine that wanted 2000 blog comments a day and 1000 directory links a day. That's 3,000 links altogether. That would be equivalent to a month at 8 hr day at a rate of $3.60. That doesn't sound too bad. Here's the problem though, they'd need it all done in two days. That would mean that you'd have to find 15 others as good as you. Could you muster up such a force of SEOs that quickly.

I'm thinking of leaning towaeds sending Twitter messages deriving from sources outside of Canada in hopes that this will bring me more international coverage. I find the automated methods too mechanical, I'd rather get two hundred different type of writers posting altogether at a rate of 2 message per second. Could you find that kind of resource at a little lower rate of course than a qualified SEO like you.

I had a couple of more questions but I'll look forward to hearing from you about this.

Please don't keeping me waiting too long.

Wow, sounds real good. How many links an hour do I get at the $3.60 rate?

I only want the directory links and the blog comment links. Have your SEOs experience with this special kind of linking?

Thanks in advance for your prompt response.

No need to get sick mate. ;) That's the alpha version of the tools, wait untill we publish all of them and take it easy. :)

Oh OK then. Maybe next time let us have a look at the product when it's ready for market.

naaaah... it will not... unfortunatelly all links are nofollowed.So mostly you affect the traffic.The problem is that this mess ups with the conversion rates, but still it leads some more traffic to your site that might stay.

Well thanks for clarifying that for me. I have been going around Twitter trying to figure out what's all the fuss about it. What you said makes sense. I see lots of people offering to show lots of things and it all seems so much like the old spam type of stuff you'd get on your blog comments when that first started or earlier than that the posting on unregulated forums that were made up of a list of keyphrases with a hyperlink.

So the links are of no value whatsoever, SEOwise. That makes sense. Thanks again.

There seems to be nothing new here. This stuff's been available for centuries. What do have that's new? Is there something I really need that your product can offer me? If you say "Yes, we put together a great report." I'm gonna puke.

How about keyword density in the body area, is that going to make big impact to my page visibility on the search engine...???

It does, significantly with one caution though.

Avoid over-repeating a keyphrase and having it spread out like a wildfire throughout the optimizable web page components (such as the paeagraphs, Headings, Title, Description, tag attributes, anchors, image names etc.).

Get versatile. Write it one way in this Heading, vary it in that anchor text, pluralize it in this image, repeat it in the Description and Meta Keywords; throw in two synonymous keyphrases and drop the abbreviation over there etc. Learn and practice the art of Keyphrase Dynamicability and find out for yourself how the search engne responds. It cannot be anything other than favourably because you are crafting exceptionally well optimized content that the Internet visitor will equally enjoy and be compelled to dig deeper into your business, product, personal or service web site. That's what SEO is all about: get the qualified Internet visitor to come and then get him to buy.

maybe its not the best practice but it works:

Write a list of tips, interesting news, how to, and mix them with ads with links that poin to your site.

Write a twitter bot on php or in some other language and make it send a tweet every hour. In this way you will get many followers and good traffic to your site.

BUT because of the fact that 140 chars are too little in order to explain that the site is about, many irrelevant traffic will come.This means that you will probably have an increase on the bounce rate.

Hey that's pretty smart. This type of marketing I would categorize as being more like "social networking" and would not necessarily be considered SEO in the general form; except for it would influence the volume of links to the webpages but basically these links would surface as repetitive with consistent regularity; this could have positive off-site effect but I wouldn't think it of great value in most competitive keyphrase races.

Thank you for reply , i can understand that a lots mistake here can you suggest me Description and Tittle for home page so i can learn how to design title and description , i do all this by reading books and seen some of website Please help me out.

I don't know if you're familiar with the ancient Chinese proverb: "You can give a man a fish or you could teach him how to fish." As you may be a PHP developer (and you should capitalize php to be PHP) I am going to assume that you have at least some intelligence and basic computer skills.

Here's my advice for you.
1. Learn how to better express yourself in English. This is incredibly important for writing effective Titles and Descriptions or almost any other aspect of SEO (on-site optimization).
2. After you have become skilled at expressing yourself in English, take a creative writing course to hone in on your ability to craft unique textual content; content rich in creativity, innovativeness and in such a way that is compelling to read. Good content is OK but exceptional content will facilitate your web pages ranking amongst the top players in the vast majority of keyphrase races.
3. As you seem to be doing, stay concentrated on learning and practicing the search engine optimization skills that deal with the basic optimizable webpage components Ithe on-site ranking factors).

Good luck.

I would say that you are probably going to run into search engine ranking issues because of the php. It's not that php is a bad thing per say, it's the way these paint-by-number software solutions slap the code altogether and call it a webpage. Often you'll find significant coding errors that damage the webpage's credibility (having two Title tags for instance or links embedded in links or unclosed tags that require closing etc.).

About the 500 pages deal. I know I could probably clean up and HTML them at a rate of 20 or 30 a day. Why don't you spend the next month cleaning them up, it would be well worth the effort in the long run. I know you were probably hoping for a quick easy solution (and someone may yet provide one for you) but there's nothing more rewarding searchengine-wise than clean, error free code. Also, while you are in the code anyway, you can work the image alt attributes, anchor title attributes, do some emphasizing etc. Work those optimizable web page components.

Good luck. Good question by the way.

Your question I think was mainly about examining the Title and Description.

The Title is way too long. Keywords repeated way too often. Is boring as heck, doesn't capture the imagination of the web searcher and indian should be Indian.

Write a short interesting Title and use keyphrases once, maybe, maybe, maybe twice.

The Description is basically the same. Boring. Repetitive. Nonsensial because of the sentence fragments.

Write two short descriptive capturing sentence with one or two instance of keyphrases.

I agree with her highness on this one. It's really her call anyway.

There's already too much discussion of unrelated matters already (especially the recent surge of social networking marketing ideas) that don't really belong in the Search Engine Optimization sub-forum of the Internet Marketing forum.

It's my opinion that the SEO forum needs to concentrate itself more on related search engine issues. I like coming here to read and share ideas on this one particular subject.

Pure white hat SEO deals exclusively with working the optimizable webpage components, the on-site factors.

General white hat SEO can influence off-site factors, not by the trendy link building schemes but by either developing external web sources (such as a corporate blog) or by having content that is so superior to the rest of the keyphrase competitors that it compels other webmasters to naturally provide links to this exceptional content.

Do you mean drop links from tweets when you RT them, or drop links into your tweets when you post?

I mean that if I'm sending a tweet about something and I want to follow it up with a URL for further consideration can I place the link in my tweet?

What the heck are you guys talking about?

Why don't you just learn about SEO and write articles yourself.

Thanks.

One question though, is there a way to drop links in tweets?

Go Bill! I knew you could pull it off.

This ten year search merger is a good thing for all humans, except the Adsense swindlers of course.

I find that increase PR does influence traffic but as PR rises the quality of traffic decreases.

Like the previous responders suggested, concentrate on increasing your webpage's rankings in order to increase the volume of qualified traffic.