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Those have to be some of the most obscure keyphrases I've ever seen. How you can poorly rank for such things is a reflection of your existing efforts in SEO. Whatever it is you are presently attempting, stop doing it and create some content that appears intelligent somewhat and you should be fine.

In order to get listed in the search engine you'll need a web page.

If you want to improve your ranking for specific keyword phrases then your landing page should be optimized to attract searchers for those primary keyphrase targets. Think of your most important keywords to rank, do some keyword search frequency tests to make sure people are actually searching for those and make sure your landing page covers all that in actual content (ie web page Title, keyphrase rich content in heading and paragraph tags, logical image naming conventions, their attributes, textual anchors to and from sub-level pages aka internal navigation system ...).

oh that's one of Google's greatest tricks. The search network is the actual search engine results pages where your ad may appear based on keywords mostly.

The display network, on the other hand is an entirely different beast. It means the Adsense web pages that your ad can appear on based mostly on them having remotely similar keywords as your ad campaign dictates.

What's the difference, well, on the search network your search engine ads are more likely to get clicks from actual searchers looking for your product or service whereas on the display network most of your search engine marketing budget is eaten up by click throughs motivated in revenue generating for the Adsense publisher from his remotely related web pages filled with search engine ads.

In other words, one can be an effective form of search engine marketing, the other, a big fraud as far as I'm concerned.

And you ever feel comforted thinking that Google admits to having less than 0.1% click through fraud rate even though independant research calculates click-through fraud from 35-70% (making it a $4B annual fraud). You decide though and experiment yourself but I have trouble believe anything that comes from an American corporation especially one with such a silly corporate motto as "Do no evil."

Similar to what stultuske replied ... Facebook, Twitter and Google are in fact American web sites.

PPC ads do not affect your organic rankings other than your organic rankings will not be seen on a results page that also displays your ad. In other words, on a search engine results page, you won't have both an organic and a PPC ad for the same destination URL, hypothetically.

Most (perhaps 99%) of directories are of little value to the Internet and links deriving from them are essentially a waste of code. The search engine generally disregards their existence. This type of link building strategy is barely considered as SEO work, except to link builders I suppose. They may be able to convince you that it is search engine optimization but it is really a tedious copy/paste task (which is often automated which makes it even less of an actual SEO function but still falls in the realm of Internet Marketing of some sort).

learn how to read

Absolutely the most insane thread I've seen around here for quite some time. You people are living in the SEO stone ages.

PageRank is an obsolete technology that Google keeps around to perpetuate the illusion that it is important to acquire. It's all part of its massive fraud that is begining to unravel as more Snowden documents leak out.

Link building in itself does not work well for ranking web pages. As a stand alone SEO strategy it is essentially useless.

What really works well?

Developing a site that the search engines trust and then continue crafting original, evolving, intelligent content within that site.

Matt Cutts? Oh you mean that Google puppet who flings misinformation all over the place in order to keep the masses of you wannabe' SEO's confused and drooling. Silly OP.

I should clarify that link building is an off-page SEO activity and as the OP points out is a pointless pursuit in an effort to attain high rankings.

You'll likely see localize search improving. Social media will play a more important role in acrediting local business listings. Google+ will be vital in the scheme of evolving these things but Facebook triggers will be basically non-existent in Google results.

If I was to predict anything at all search related it would be that Google will experience a bit of trouble internationally as a result of ongoing Snowden revelations. But they won't be alone. Microsoft, Facebook and Apple will suffer a bit from that internationally too.

huh? Any chance on elaborating on your question?

It's likely best that both versions of your landing page are on the same domain, rather than redirect one version to another domain.

A link from one of the zillions of dumpster directories is about as useful as ... as ... I don't know. It's useless. USELESS!!! Complete waste of time and energy, waste of Internet space ...

I haven't a clue what these people are talking about. What the heck's a cached blog? Is that when posts are all in draft mode?

There is much much more to search engine optimization than the putrid technique of inflated incoming links.

Consider crafting important new content, stuff worthy of actually being read. Not some mish-mashy replicated puke appearing to be senseful. Writing words in a manner that indicate their importance in conveying a message or idea. Slapping together a bunch of related phrases won't impress the search engine much. Nor is linking the crap out of the crap. Write well and be rewarded in rankings, naturally; in the organic rankings.

Throw in a bit of social media trigginger, a dab of corporate blogging, couple of good videos and BOOM baby. Rock 'n roll.

How can you be new if you need an update? Curious as to the logic.

The update on that day has been kept a corporate secret.

Forums are needed as a resource for discussion because they can continue timelessly. The problem with social media is that everything happens too quick, too live. There's no time to clearly and accurately explain or digest complex ideas. There may be a happy medium somewhere in the Google+ making but that could never replace an intense and informative online forum discussion.

Hey Dani, we've had a couple of those over the years! Can't beat that. :)

Sub-domains are considered like stand alone ones and valued accordingly. In other words, example.com is a completely different domain than SEO.example.com .

Sub-directories are located after the domain name (ie example.com/experts ) and are considered part of the main domain. Those certainly seem to have an SEO advantage when logically named using a keyword or two. An example could be example.com/SEOexperts .

Get a google+ business listing, go through the branding process with your domain.

OMG. The OP complains that he has backlinks but no rankings. To suggest that he pursue even more linking is prosposterous. CONTENT! Create well optimized web pages in an evolving web site with exceptional and unique content and ... backlinks or not ... rankings will come.

'ya I agree with Weddingtent. I'm also certain that the search engine is aware of many more of your links than it indicates. It is the ones that it doesn't display that should concern you the most, usually. Whenever you engage in any artificial linking scheme you run the risk of an increase in poor quality links (from scraper sites, link farm harnassing machines ... spammers of all sorts). The search engine understands this pattern and compensates for it by mostly disregarding your manipulative intentions as normal SEO practices. I don't know if that made sense but in other words ... don't fret the small stuff. A few links means nothing to the search engine in comparison to the importance of the content appearing on your unnaturally linked web page.

Thanks for providing us a list. Indeed SEO techniques such as "Paid Links", "Cloaking" and "Sneaky Re-Directs" are generally considered Black Hat SEO techniques but the rest of them (that make some sense to me) are "Grey Hat SEO" and still very trendy. Personally, if I were you, I wouldn't worry so much about search engine optimization tecniques and would concern myself more with learning proper grammar.

Completely off-topic but the Harper era has come to pass. Seems to me that the Liberals under Justin Trudeau are poising to take the next two/three elections. This will be good for Canada and less good for the American interests in Canada.

shaw was not implicated as cooperating with NSA

The Chinese government is just as interested in Tibet's oil as the US oil industry. The only difference is that corporations likes Chevron and Exxon want ALL the world's oil reserves in the same way that mineral extraction corporations want ALL of the diamonds, silenium, gold, copper, zinc ... In looking back over recent history (last 50 years), the US backed multi-national corporations will stop at nothing despite the human cost to secure future profits for their shareholders. I think that is the point I'm trying to make. Ironically, ridding the world of the bad guys with their 1% attitude rooted in the name of God, then for the good of the country amd always for the betterment of civilized society of course.

Just thought that I'd inject another thought in this ... I would think increasing the quantity of new original postings and new original follow-up discussions does not have as much of a positive effect as eliminating redundant postings by morphing them together. This would be helpful for visitors whenever a forum has three or four recently similarily worded postings/responses. These half-ass pages actually dilute each other's importance. I would think it way better to have one really well optimized and condensed posting of three almost identical topics rather than three poorly written and poorly optimized mediocrities to offer the visitor and the spider.

As it appears to me that the multi-national corporations wanted to pillage the Orient are positioning themselves with US policy backing them, I suppose the next target for US foreign policy is to incite enough turmoil in Tibet (perhaps similar to how they played a role in Egypt) so as to piss off the Chinese government enough to retaliate "against Tibetans" in order to restore the tranquility Tibetans are incidentally presently enjoying.

If your taget market is local, makes sure that the property web pages have well described descriptions in the content of the webpage and also make sure to have a complete address including city and state/province in textual form somewhere on the page. Depending on the competitiveness of your particular market area will determine the extend of additional SEO your web site will require.

Here is a concept: consider writing something worth a read.

Increasing your web pages' Google PageRank in itself will not necessarily affect where the web page ranks in the search engine results pages. As a matter of fact, under normal circumstances, Google PageRank seems to have little effect on rankings. Increasing Google PageRank through link building campaigns will definitely increase the amount of times a web page is requested and thus increase "traffic" but little of it will be actual human visitors who are interested in your web page's content. This could be good for Internet marketers who just want visitors to click through the ads that appear on their web pages but isn't good for "normal" buisnesses. Most traffic coming from artificially linked-up web pages will be bots, crawlers, general Internet noise that are following links. Go nuts though. Get out there and get yourself tons of links.

... the telephone still won't ring with new customers ... this increasing your web page's Google PageRank is the perpetuating illusion that the search engine creates to keep you linking and clicking ...

It's unfortunate for the rest of the world but the war on terrorism that americans are actively engaged in will be the world's last war, as it has no way of ever ending. Terrorism will evolve. Luckily, the US happens to be in the business of war so this final war is very good for the US economy (the hell with mankind in general).

Try to remember that the US government is perpetrating crimes against other countries too. Personally I'm pissed at US corporations such as Microsoft, Apple, Google .. who barder my secrets to spy agencies in an effort to save their own skin from prosecution from the US, It's all so freakin retarded.

Upon reading your posting, I wonder ... "Could your web page ranking woes have anything to do with having horrific writing abilities?" ... just wondering

I'd suggest things like concentrating your efforts on developing unique, evolving, interesting, well-written, structured content and learn how to emphasize and support your important keyword phrases. Also, deploy a powerful internal linking strategy - a menu and a few textual hyperlinks to important web pages (ie: the landing page). Learn how to optimize web page titles, naming conventions for web pages, videos and images. Work the meta description and keyword tag in the documents HEAD. On site, on page stuff is within your control so use it to your maximum advantage. Off-site ranking factors come naturally with good social media and corporate blogging components to a successful web site promotion strategy.

Quality, unique, well-written content will always rank better than replicated, mistranslated jibberish. The search engine seeks intelligent, evolving content. I frequently wish I could rephrase some of the original postings I've been seeing around here lately, that the "new-to-english" members offer up for discussion. I'd love to tweak their titles, tag them ... in hope to better attract an interested reader; and thus intrigue a search engine spider.

I agree with Peter. In most normal cases, you'd likely prefer to seek the largest volume of qualified human visitors possible. They have a much greater market value than tons and tons of random Internet noise. By qualified visitor I mean one who is in fact interested in visiting your web page. One way to acquire those is to rank your web pages highly in the search engine results pages for specific, targeted keyword phrases. Another way is from deploying social media campaigns for your business ... those are the kind of visitors that make your telephone ring.

oliversmith makes an interesting note. From my experience, increasing backlinks artificially and pursuing Google PageRank goals essentially has little effect when it comes to ranking web pages in the results pages. Web pages with a PR0 can compete with web pages having much higher higher PR values, provided they contain important content, uniquely well crafted and from a historically trusted domain.

Good SEO content writing is not about density. Keyphrases may appear in paragraph content as a natural result from the writing process itself, or they may not.

that has to be the funkiest string I have ever seen

I don't think I've submitted a web site since 1946. People still do that?

umm ... how about writing legible and interesting blog articles for other human beings to appreciate.

I suppose if that's your set due course to online success then some simple advice could be to learn how to write well in English. ciao

It continues to astonish me how people can be SEO experts and yet construct sentences so poorly.

Get a dot au domain and have the web site hosted on Australian soil.

Link exchanges are generally grey hat SEO, automated ones are black hat.

Here's a better article from Canadian news perspective "... An internet scouring program, code-named PRISM, allows the NSA and FBI to tap directly into the servers of major U.S. Internet companies such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and AOL ..." http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/09/nsa-leak-guardian.html Why the Canadian governement is now trusting google with more sensitive data is beyond me, (recently allowing the corporate spies to bring their equipment into our parliament buildings to "take pictures"). Maybe I'm ranting a bit but Google's got to go. It's got no business in the forreign spy trade. It's a frieking search engine.