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Ideally, in order for any incoming link building strategies to be sustainably effective, two things need to occur simultaneously: 1. The web page needs to attract the best kind of inbound links; the ones that naturally derive from a webmaster somewhere who has visited your web page and wants to recommend it as an additional read for their Internet visitor, with no strings attached. These type of links will come in enough of a variety as to enforce the value of your own expanding keyphrase targets provided that ... 2. Your own web page content is geared to have keyphrase dynamicability; your use of keyphrases is evolving to generate an almost never ending list of potential keyphrases.

"Keyphrase dynamicability" is attained by using all the spelling variables (prefixes, suffixes, pluralization ...), verb tenses, abbreviations, synonymous keyphrases, morphs etc. throughout the web page content and the optimizable web page components (Titles, paragraphs, headings, descriptions, anchor text, image and webpage naming, tag attributes etc.).

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Precisely. Decent rankings in meaningful keyphrase environments for any of the Microsoft search products (MSN, Bing and Live) are generally attained as a result of two factors:

1. The web pages have unique, important, evolving and credible content.
2. Basic, ethical SEO. The optimizable web page/site components need to be well crafted to revolve around a few important, primary keyphrases and to be dynamic enough (spelling variations, synonymous keyphrases, abbreviations etc.) to cast a big net for secondary and auxilliary keyphrases . By well-crafted, I mean, the actual SEO focuses on webpage Titles, descriptions, heading tags, ways to emphasize the keyphrases, natural looking and helpful image alt and anchor title tag attributes, the internal anchor linking structure, logical naming conventions for webpages and graphics ...

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I am now looking for SEO at the next level.

Well, I would think that the next level would include such things as: rewriting Titles and Descriptions to enforce your "keyphrase rich" content, playing around with you alt and title attributes, renaming webpages and graphics logically, developing you internal navigational system to be more anchor text friendly, tweaking the content, crafting new content and webpages, perhaps even building something outside the domain to do some fancy cross-linking (maybe do some blogging) ... I don't know .. I guess the list can go on and on.

I'd think too that you should spend some time really analyzing your market competitors. Concentrate on evolving your project into something more unique, more important and more credible than your keyphrase rivals.

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... or do like many other Internet marketers do around here: spit out some topic related babble and make sure your signature contains all your properly spelled and grammatically correct keyphrase anchor links;however rediculous it appears.

ie:

"Great article on SEO for description of keywords in web."
Used Cars, Ringtones, Russian Dating Site, Expert Search Engine Optimization Service, 3 inch Copper Elbows, Montreal Limousine Service

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Capitalizing the first letter of an important word in essential in capturing the attention of the qualified visitor who rapidly sifts through the search engine results page hoping to spot what it is he/she seeks.

Capitalizing the first letter of important words indicates that the words must be more valuable than other, stop words or secondary words in the Title. It only seems logical to me that the search engine would recognize the significance of a word when it begins with a capital letter. Does this imply that the SE is case sensitive when determining importance of words? I would think so.

Is it mandatory for a title to contain some words that begin capitalized? No, not at all; however, my experience with crafting Titles over the years has proven to me that when effectively deployed, capitalisation serves a powerful dual-purpose: captures the visitor's attention and as an indicator to the searchengine of the word's importance.

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There are no short-cuts in crafting webpages to be both visitor and search engine friendly. Inbound link building stragtegies (other than naturally generating inbbound links as a result of the exceptional on-site work) are means to artificially inflate the importance and popularity web pages by manipulating the volume, relevancy and quality of incoming links. As far as any link building goes, SEO concentrates on developing a well-structure, powerful internal linking structure to well named, well-optimized webpages within the website (or in many competitive cases, the network of sites).

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I once coined the term "keyphrase dynamicability" to describe exactly what you are suggesting. Cast the widest net within your means to capture as much targeted traffic as possible to your web pages.

It is important not to constrict your keyphrase targets to just a couple of specific terms. Start with a handful of keyphrases then introduce all the variations (pluralization, altering suffixes and prefixes, abbreviations etc.) you can think of, even if you have to invent some (morphology). Try using synonymous keyphrases too.

A good example would be, let's say, SEO. Here's a small portion of keyphrases that would be a good start to target: SEO, search engine optimization, search engine optimisation, search engine optimizers, SEOs, web site promotion, Internet marketing, SEM, search engine marketing, web page optimization, website optimizer, searchengine marketing, searchengine optimizations, etc. etc.

Stephen is correct in stating that a well-structured internal linking system is generally much more powerful, and controllable, than deploying an inbound link building strategy. Remember that Google compares web pages to webpages and generates PR regardless of where the link comes from (as long it is originated from another webpage).

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For clarity purposes, Google ranks web pages not web sites.

About the last paragraph, in my experience, SEO companies are either extremely reluctant [understandably so] to provide their clients with the truth about exactly what it is they will do to or around the web pages in order to rank the webpages highly in the SERPs for any meaningful keyphrase. They generally are either deceptive (by fogging the question with a technical, nonsensial yet seemingly brilliant answer) or frankly, they lie (saying that they will do one thing and in fact do something entirely different [this is a common ploy the linking strategists use]).

I'd like to take the time to go through each of your sentences word for word and show you how very little you surely must know about search engine optimization but it's that of day when I spend three hours counting the holes in the ceiling tile [and that seems like it would be more fun] but I care enough about your ambitions (after reading a bit of your rediculous linked article "How to Drive Thousands of Targeted Traffic to Your Website") that I will suggest that you spend a little bit of time learning how to write in English as this, in fact, is an elementary but essential skill required to successfully perform SEO.

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Just so that everyone is clear, using social networking webpages, and most of the other suggestions described in this thread, as an avenue to enhance a link building strategy is tantamount to manipulating your link popularity and thus considered a Greyhat SEO scheme, in spite of it being both trendy and acceptable (to both the majority of Internet marketers and the most popular search engine).

Unfortunately (what most SEOs and what most corporate and business web site owners do not realize is that) your search engine marketing strategy is a direct reflection of the webpage's corporate image, in spite of it being virtually invisible to the average Internet visitor. Any link generating scheme deployed with the intention of convincing the search engine of the importance of a web page is in fact, cheating.

Take a moment to think about that. Are you willing to tarnish your client's corporate image for the sake of moving up the ranks a few notches? Do you feel comfortable in really explaining the purpose of your link building strategy to your client?

Search engine marketers using these types of link building methods are not SEOs at all, they are linking strategists. It is like comparing Internet marketers to those that generate traffic to a website by streaking nude across the football field at half-time with a URL painted on their butt. Both can be effective but only one can keep his self-respect in tact (unless they are naturally self-deceived, blinded by greed …

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I don't see how SEO is remotely related to cloud computing applications. Can you possibly take the time to describe what going on in your head a little more deeply. Enlighten me.

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Hey, did you guys know that BING fully launched a couple days early? Just wanted to throw that out, I forgot to mention it yesterday.

Ya, had a another look at it yesterday and performed a couple of my standard test searches and was amazed at the results it provided (I am usually easily impressed with practically anything Microsoft launches in an attempt to uncrown Google).

I was, however, astonished to find some strange things happening simultaneously such as some of the descriptions in the results were using the DMOZ description (DMOZ being proprietary to Google raises the question as to what datapools Bing is generating it's search results from or, even odder, if Microsoft and Google are somehow teaming up search results [that could be a good thing]).

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Bottom line, SEO will exist as long as search engines offer organic results.

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Google has started updating PR. Yesterday, I found out that my blog's PR went to PR4. I was surpised.

No problem getting a brand new web site fresh out of the Google sandbox attain a starting PR of 4. No problem at all.

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I think it's better that you provide unique keywords for title and description. In this technique, you can give way to other keywords to be place in your site. I mean you need also to put the other keywords so that if the spider will crawl and index your site, all of your keywords have a high chances that will also rank.

It astounds me to no end as some can contrive such pitiful excuses as English writing yet have perfectly written and spelled signature anchor links. Anybody know where I'm going with this?

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I'd suggest you recreate the old one into a "branding" web site and use the new one as more of a search engine friendly web site with heavy cross linking between the two. In this way, should it be deployed effectively, you won't need to concern yourself with the accumalation of backlinks, ever again. Just keep evolving the two in their related but separate directions.

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Optimization isn't just grabbing keywords and building websites around them.

A keyphrase development strategy should be deployed at the onset of launching new web sites. It makes it easier to rank the webpages in the long run when the pages are already heading in the right direction SEO-wise. I usually suggest starting new websites with a theme of five or six related but substantially different keyphrases (that will be offered in the SERPs as results for potentially hundreds of keyword combinations and variations). This original keyphrase list then expands; eventually to include every conceivable keyphrase that will attract a qualified visitor (and still remains pertinent to the specific market sector).

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Wow. Thanks for showing up. I have so many questions and comments about your presentation that I've had to restrict myself to one in order to keep my blood pressure stable:

...social networking, from time to time, to improve the business activity.

Surely you don't mean the manipulating of link popularity by spamming Facebook and Twitter with every anchor link within the scope of your personal and client web sites, from time to time of course. Is this what you really think constitutes SEO? Is this the search engine optimisation you suggest we all should employ?

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Can I have the same name between "site name" and "domain name".
it can influences SEO to get page rank ?

I'll try a little paraphrasing, for the purpose of gaining better clarity in the questions. Hopefully you are asking:

Can you use the same keyphrase in your landing page (first webpage the visitor sees when they show up at your dot com) and your domain name (an example could be keyphrase.htm and keyphrase dot com)? Sure, why not.

Would such applications of keyphrases influence my web page's ranking in the search engine results pages (SERPs) for a search query for "keyphrase"? Indeed it should.

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I forgot to mention that it is, in fact, a good thing to have a decent Title that is less than 65 (and up to 80) characters in length but the rule of thumb I use when crafting keyphrase rich Titles is "the shorter the better".

For example: If I have a webpage that is all about SEO than a good Title may simply be "Search Engine Optimization". If I had a web page that was primarily involved with finding the various tweakable components in a hot rod's motor than I could write a Title such as "Search the Engine for Optimization" (whereas "the" and "for" are Stop Words separating the keywords "Search", Engine" and "Optimization"). Both scenarios will get a rank for a keyphrase search for "search engine optimization". One is shorter and more united as a keyphrase and the other example requires the searchengine to group the sequence of the three main keywords in order to satisfy the search criteria. The short, specific Title would normally gain more rewards for a keyphrase search for "Search Engine Optimization" than the longer one.

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Hi,

Its better to put your keywords in the title and descriptions. The description can be longer than the title tags. The title tags has a limit of 65 characters, this will show up in google. Try to write a convincing title and description so when people see your listing on search engines, they will be tempted to click on it.

Good answer.

I would like to add: in the Description, try to write two or three very short but complete sentences. Do so in such a way as to offer the search engine two or more variations of the webpage`s important keyphrase(s). What I mean by this is to use synonymous keyphrases, alter prefixes and suffixes, use abbrieviations, pluralize etc.

Also, try to get the important keyphrase(s) as close to the beginning of the Title as possible, without hindering the potential visitor`s very brief reading experience. The Title is usually considered one of the most important ranking factors that aids in convincing the searchengine of the value of the keyword within that web page. It also plays a key role in determining whether the searcher clicks through for a visit or not so learn how to impress both simultaneously.

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...pls advise me how to get high pagerank...

Either you`ll have to create something that naturally is worthy of acquiring inbound links or you`ll need to learn the distinguished art of begging, borrowing, dropping, swapping, buying, spamming, blackmailing and hustling for incoming links.

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Went to elaborate but was to late (my 30 minute editing period expired). Perhaps the moderator can remove my first reply.

Here we go again :

Before I forget, as it may come about that you'll eventually need to learn a bit about SEO, take a couple of days and read the search engine quality content guidelines for Yahoo, Google and MSN. I haven't their URLs handy but you should be able to easily find these. Read all this so that you get a fairly clear picture of what it is the search engines want to find in order to offer your web pages within their search engine results pages.

Now, just because you attained a high ranking for one keyphrase, one with a fairly low search frequency I might add but a good ROI keyphrase nevertheless, doesn't mean that you can do a little bit of a "lickity-split, abracadabra and presto" rank highly for just about any relatively similar keyphrase. No, it isn't as simple as that.

Indeed name your new web pages as you suggested "vaughan-computer-repair.htm" [Vaughan-computer-repair.htm may be somewhat better] etc. as logical naming conventions can help as a ranking factor (when using the hyphen as a separator) but the webpage intended to attract searchers for the Vaughan keyphrase cannot be a slight variation of the webpage you offer for the Toronto search. No, no, no, no, no, the content between the two needs to be uniquely developed, a one-of-a-kind, in order to …

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Indeed name your web pages as "vaughan-computer-repair.htm" etc. (use the hyphen as a separator) but the webpage intended to attract searchers for Vaughan cannot be offred a slightly varied replication of what you intented for Toronto searchers to find. The content between the two needs to be uniquely developed in order to maximize on satisfying some imporatnt ranking criteria.

The search engine wants to see something new and different for each web page you create (and an experienced, qualified Internet visitor that you attract will appreciate it too.

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A DMOZ listing is handed out by a DMOZ editor, who is a volunteer, working for free (I said:working for free, ziltch, nada, no money, could be starving to death but still works for free ...)

On another note, never have I ever seen a DMOZ editor accept, word for word, a submission, unless they have been pursuaded. We read about this once in a while, when a DMOZ editor gets himself trapped in a bribery scandal.

DMOZ editors essentially can pick and choose whatever web pages they want to list, entitle and describe them in whatever way they deem fit but within a strict set of editorial guidelines which they can choose to ignore, when pursuaded.

Is a DMOZ listing important? In some cases yes, but in most cases, a DMOZ listing has just about the equivalent value as being just another directory listing, like the tens of thousands of other directories that one can obtain a listing from.

The best advice is the standard advice, indeed craft a submission as it is possible that it could play an important role as a ranking factor (depending on several unrelated variables such as choice of directory topic, which datacentre is accessed to facilitate the keyphrase search, choice of search engine regions, the actual wording in the keyphrase search, their DMOZ title compared to your web page Title, descriptions comparison in the same manner etc.). After you submit your offering, it's best to just let it go …

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You just wake up or what? Since the development of Google Earth it has been almost a pre-requisite that Internet marketers, acting on behalf of local businesses, take advantage of this free and incredibly useful application, not so much for the slight SERP advantage that may result from a well worded listing but moreso for catering to the Internet savy business networker or traveller, who naturally enjoys flying across far away lands in search of the convenient popping-up tourist and business destinations flags.

As far as practically guranteeing that a local business listing will equate into a top 10 SERP ranking is substantially far-fetched. In fact, in any meaningful keyphrase search, it is a wide diversity of variables which emcompass both on-site and off-site elements that dictate which position which webpage warrants and it isn't as simple as effectively utilizing one SEO "secret".

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SEO is a process or method to gain higher positions on major search engines through its key phrases.

Surely you jest. Just by reading your short babble I can tell that real SEO is something that you know very little about.

It is possible to attain high rankings in competitive keyphrase environments without using SEO at all, linking strategists accomplish this in practically every Internet industry; but linking strategists are not search engine optimizers (they are search engine manipulators). Big difference between the two skill sets. One needs to develop the craft of SEO copy writing and continuously practice effective optimization of the various web page components while the other needs to learn how to beg, borrow, buy, steal, dump and/or swap links. Both Internet marketing specialists can achieve top results in the SERPs but both cannot keep their dignity in tact during the process.

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Holy cow Douglas.

I've been coming here to Daniweb for some time now and I've seen a few pink clouding webmaesters [that's a correct spelling variation, I think] puke out some pretty strange definitions for SEO and using some of the most outright infantile spelling inventions one could possibly conceive but I must say, your bizzare blurb takes the cake buddy.

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I haven't heard dmoz mentioned in the longest time. Is it still as powerful as it used to be ... or am I just out of the loop?

No, a DMOZ listing is not a significant ranking factor in most cases. The case in hand is quite rare as it deals with a regional search criteria (UK) probably searched in a regional datacentre (google.uk).

The insignificance of a DMOZ listing is almost always evident when checking keyphrase competitors' Backlinks in Google (by typing in "link:www.wherever.com" [omit quotes]) and rarely finding a DMOZ link listed in the first couple of link results pages if you even find one at all. It is commonly understood that Google usually lists the Backlinks that it finds worthy of rewarding weight and it is standard that the search engine omits displaying all the rest of the "unimportant" links associated with the web page (this accounts for the huge variation in Backlink results when checking Backlinks in Yahoo and MSN. In fact, Yahoo and MSN give a nuch more accurate interpretation of backlink activity then does Google). This thus suggests that Google doesn't give much weight to most DMOZ links, in most keyphrase arenas, even though the listing probably exists and should indeed be considered as one of the more "important" incoming links to the webpage; worthy enough to be viewed in the Backlink result.

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Essentially a DMOZ listing is just a link found within a directory and it sits in a pool of hundreds of thousands of other directories that generally do just about the same thing.

As Google is the owner of DMOZ it stands to reason that the search engine will trust and thus reward the links contained within DMOZ pages moreso than it will when it finds the links found within the other standard directory type web sites but I wouldn't think that it would be anything substantial in most cases. I could see that in some keyphrase competitions that it could play more of a ranking factor than in others but that would not be the standard across the SERPs board.

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1. The title should be keyworded but not too long.
2. First page should have some bold keywords.
3. First page should have some content, instead of pictures or graphics.

I'll elaborate a bit on the three aspects of SEO that you refered to in your original posting.

Note: Remember that there are well over one hundred different things you can do when optimizing web sites and that your SEO strategy depends entirely on the degree of optimization deployed by your keyphrase competitors. Your 1,2,3 approach may in fact be sufficient to attain high rankings for some keyphrases that aren't highly competitive (have a significant enough search frequency to merit SEO effort).

1. Write Titles for the Internet visitor primarily but indeed try to insert keyphrases cleanly for the search engines as this is one of the most important web page components to craft.

2. Sure, bold (<b>,<strong>) the keyphrases here and there when appropriate but also use headings (<hx>), italics or <em>, capitalizing the first letter of each word once in a while, underlining, as anchor text for internal linking, webpage naming (separate words by using hyphens), image naming and tag attributes etc. etc.

3. Use pictures and graphics as needed but also include content, even if it is just the image captions. You can always find a good reason to use an <h1> tag. There are many thing to do that are important in a paragraph (<p>). Here's your chance to vary …

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You can listen to what has been written about getting incoming links (and then the different insights into finding short-cuts in a link popularity game using trendy link building schemes) and it may eventually assist some mediocre to poorly crafted content in gaining the attention and the trust of the search engine or you can simply stay focused on delivering high quality, unique, optimized content (that is well linked internally). This SEO approach will indeed generate links too but they are naturally generated incoming links (the best types of incoming links) from webmasters who have visited the webpages and deem it worthy of additional visits.

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Here's a run-on sentence. No time to clean up today. Gotta' paint!

Personally, I'd go with the City1.CountrySite.com sub-directory version as it would cause for the entire domain to have deeper, richer depth making it easier to naturally empower it all in the SERPs (with the help of a well-structured navigational system of anchor links to the important webpages and with the inclusion of a comprehensive site map).

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... However, to rank really good for a particular keyword, you should have incoming links whose anchor text reflects that keyword as well as that keyword represented (although not too artificially) on the actual page itself.

... and it should be noted that it is always most rewarding not to continuously repeat the same keyphrase all over the Internet but to diversify the keyphrase list using word variables, synonymous word phrases, prefixing, abbreviations, capitalization, pluralization, altering verb tenses etc.

Now, this type of SEO work need not have to originate exclusively from outside web sources. Link value comes internally too; by effectively deploying, from within a web site's own webpages, a well-structured internal linking strategy.

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I agree, Many sites are ranking in SERP, But if you check the age of the site, the site is new.. I guess content is really important..

By providing high quality optimized content, content that is indisputably unique and authoritative. with a web site that is evolving naturally over the course of time is the best way to sustain high rankings in competitive SERPS. Establish credibility (mostly by following the search engine content guidelines) and keep offering the search engine and the Internet visitor newer, better content. Continued SEO strategies like these provide the largest volume of the market share of qualified Internet visitors. As the presentation is equally captivating for the searcher, his experiences on the web pages turn easily into telephone calls.

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Best tips I could give you is to:

1. Learn how to effectively use the English language paying particular attention to grammar, spelling and making full use of prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, lexicons, morphology, abbreviations etc.
2. Learn how to effectively optimize your web content and how to use the optimizable web page components (Title, Description, naming conventions, headings, lightly emphasizing keyphrases ...).

Note: "lightly emphasizing" seems to be an oxymoron but experienced search engine optimizers know what I mean. I mean emphasize the keyphrases for the search engine to detect but do it in a way that doesn't interfere with the Internet visitor's experience.

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How did you know what is good and bad directory base on your experienced can you explain it much further? thanks..

Every industry has one or two authoritative directories that actually serve a purpose for Internet visitors, all else are garbage dumpster directories that have self-serving marketing agendas (monetized webpages, selling links, affiliate banner marketing etc.) and they don't really add any new value to the Internet. The search engines do recognize these dumpsters but definetely devalue their lengthy lists of the desperately seeking link builders who seek to get their web site links listed anywhere, anyway, anyhow.

Now, some would argue that the DMOZ directory and the Yahoo directory are still important places to get a listing but I'm not convinced that they offer much of an SEO advantage anymore as I rarely see Google acknowledge DMOZ or Yahoo directory in a web page's backlinks.

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Basically, listing to directories is usually done in an effort to artificially boost a web site's link popularity. Deploying this deception is in hopes that gaining link points will assist in the overall promotion of a web site from attaining targeted traffic across the search engine results pages.

Essentially most Internet marketing plans that focus on "easy to get" link building schemes prove to have substandard content and cannot within their own power rank highly in keyphrase competitions.

That is why I find the vast majority of today's link building schemes to be not only ineffective but practically of no real value to neither the web site owner, the search engine nor the odd Internet visitor that stumbles across the page.

Rather that build links in any manner, most web site developers should stay focused on content development and making the best use of the web page's optimizable components.

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Age often influences web site credibilty. Credibility is everything in a keyphrase competiton if you are interested in deploying long term successful and ethical SEO.

Get something up and running as soon as possible, like a cover page and not an "Under Construction" page. Don't mention under construction at all in your text. At least put a web page together that is relevant to your long term Internet marketing agenda. Siting on an empty domain is of no benefit to neither your future qualified Internet visitor nor the search engine.

Get started and grow from there.

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Hx tags can be of great value to the search engine. They can be used to assist in highlighting important keyphrases especially when the other optimizable webpage components are keyphrase weak.

Hx tags should be used logically, lightly and appropriately (so as to not hinder the Internet visitor's experience).

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Social media optimization is a fancy way of saying Facebook and Twitter spamming (random commenting with your signature links and often the links of your clients). The basic SEO purpose of social networking is to artificially increase link popularity.

Ezzaral commented: Exactly. The mass of them here in this forum will probably disagree with you though. +19
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Practically everything you suggest are methods used by desperate Internet marketers who haven't the skills neccessary to optimized web pages effectively.

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If you comment on a blog it should be because you want to comment on a blog article and not because you are seeking a free link from a high PR web page. One is a natural thing to do, the other is spam.

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Here's the quick three step approach.

1. Make full use of the web page's optimizable components; most importantly are the Title, Description, emphasizing tags, Hx elements, internal linking structure ...
2. Craft you actual web content in such a way as to be indisputably important, unquestionably unique and decisively authoritative.
3. Keep performing 1 and 2.

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My opinion is that rather than looking for a short-cut to boost your link popularity with directory submissions and gathering incoming links of little value you should instead create web pages that are worthy of being linked naturally by other webmasters. This strategy will not only add value for the Internet visitor but your web pages should also be more rewarded by the search engine (for letting your links build naturally).

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You seem to be looking for some kind of short-cut. I would suggest you try to broaden your perspective on the need to amass incoming links.

The best tool (that the search engines prefer) for link building is to create web content that is worthy of being linked. Always try to seek your incoming links naturally. This may not amount to thousands and thousands of links but the links that you will acquire will be valuable (rather than being practically worthless).

Engaging in the trendy link building schemes (link swapping, directory listing, forum posting, blog spamming, social networking spam etc.) often proves to be ineffective in convincing the search engine of the importance of your web content.

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I am a little confused about the "Google Sitemap" ranking. I think what you are seeing is a list of keyphrases that searchers have used to find your site, this list is not related to where your web pages rank for those keywords in the results pages.

To get your keyphrases ranked highly in the search engine results pages you'll basically need to perform two tasks effectively:
1. Make full use of the optimizable web page component, especially the actual content. You will probably have to read up on things like writing Titles and Description, using highlighting (bold, strong, Hx tags ...), deploying an effective internal linking structure etc. etc. Now, if you can successfully ceate web content that is indisputably unique, unquestionably important and consequently authoritative you should be able to attain natural incoming links to your web pages. If you are unable to do this, then you'll have to engage in a link building strategy in order to boost your link popularity.

Note: You can build your own links in a variety of ways; you don't have to depend on soliciting or swapping link.

2.Continue doing number 1.

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Pukers - Content replicators who barf out what appears to be their own unique quality content.

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There's always an innovative way to simultaneously make Titles captivating and search engine friendly.

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Check it out. :D

I did and also found just below their speal about relevant links being their specialty:
"Because Search Engine Optimization is our business we are always on the cutting edge of the industry. Our company has access to the latest and best technology available along with many resources that simply aren't available to the average webmaster. "

"cutting edge tools"? Did they just discover Notepad or what? What secret special cutting-edge tools?

SEO specialists that sound more of a gang of sucker fishermen to me.

Anyone want to go fishing when the ice thaws out?

canadafred 220 SEO Alumni Team Colleague Featured Poster

Oh, you need to go to the "How to corrupt something into something else" department on the Third floor.