Posts by canadafred

There is soooo much deception in SEO that it is practically impossible to differentiate a master from a manipulator. The largest SEO companies in Canada, and the most reputable, basically take your money and send a bit of it to link building outsourcers usually in India, Pakistan or Indonesia.

Most SEO services are great at marketing themselves, they have amazing skill at scamming people out of the money. They know that link building schemes can influence search engine rankings and give some of it away to "SEO experts" in far away lands who think they too have some kind of incredible copy/paste skill.

My rule of thumb, show up at their web site and they have the same stupid happy smiling people pleasing landing pages as the rest of the illusionists then hit the back button. Check the size of their web site. Do they really need 5,000 web pages to describe a service that only really requires two paragraphs? How many artificially genetaed links are pointing to their crap. Are they good at optimizing content and working web page HTML tags or are they just link spammers like the rest of them.

It's possible for the search engine to rank these cookie-cutter pages, not because of your brilliant SEO scheme, but because it won't likely find many web pages that have more unique or more valuable content than your useless and extremely boring doorway pages. (I'm allowed to run my sentences because I'm scolding you, in a loving way)

ya well ... sure. why not.

Regarding keyword density. Just write naturally. Don't sweat how many times your repeat a word or two or three. Just write well. In writing well you'll naturall want to enforce your keyphrase targets with supporting words. Why would I want to repeat obsessively if I wrote the paragrapgh well? Unless I wanted to emphasize something I suppose. Point is, use the language, the search enbgine recognizes the natural flow of the tongue. In writing well, use synonyms and antonyms. A different paragraph can introduce varying verb tenses of an action keyowrd. I ran to the top or I will run after a while to the peak. This is the SEO copywriting stuff you need to know!

Ever hear of an abbr. Those are good too if you need to enforce words without repeating them.

HTML even has a wonderful acronym tag you can explaing SEO to the people, it's search engine optimization. Oh yes, acronym indicate intelligence. Intelligent writing scores well with the search engine. It must be of value it thinks as the words are so careful chosen. And the page is well constructed too it notices. Hardly a spelling mistake let alone coding errors. Loads fast as lightning tooo ... ok better go now. bye.

These are social networking sites. The ones you mentioned are popular ones and like others can positively trigger off-site ranking factors the search engine could consider of value to your web pages. There's other good ones too that help with web site promotion. These are not meant to spam repeatedly with keyphrase stuffed lunacy. They are meant to offer the world something of unique value, within your web page content mostly. Lightly influence the search engine into determining your "posts" in social networking sites are credible. Also, a little trick I'm using now is to add a quick access gadget to my Chrome browser so thatr anytime I'm on a web page I want to share socially I can choose the service and write out my blurb quite effeciently, especially when my account(s) log in automatically.

Google+ is a pretty good new social site. There's future power to be generated from that one. Another good one I like is DIGG. That's because I often find my DIGG blurbs on some pretty valuable web pages because DIGG feed a minor part of the web page's contrent, then remains there seemingly permanently, even .gov sites sometimes which is cool with me.

Black Hat SEO is usually considered to be any technique that manipulates the search engine using trickery in order to highly rank web pages. The debate rages whether white hat SEO this implies adhering explicitly to the search engines' quality content guidelines. To a degree I believe that to be true. Unfortunately the search engines indicate "acceptable" methods to manipulate it thus negating any validity to having web content standards.

So, how can one differentiate between ethical and unethical SEO techniques when their isn't any substantial regulation? It's difficult.

Whenever a webmaster engages in any form of artificial link building scheme (swapping, commenting, link wheels, useless article writing, directory listings, forum spamming ... on and on on and on) it is for the intent of tricking the search engine into believing specific web pages have importance and value to the Internet. This is clearly not right. Web pages should appear highly ranked because they have the most value to the Internet searcher. Essentially what I am saying is that most SEO other than direct on-site activity unfortunately falls into the grey-black areas.

White hat SEO seems to be a simple process of creating important and unique content for the Internet visitor to enjoy and then optimizing that content and those web pages so that they are search engine friendly too. What constitutes over-optimization doesn't necessarily equate to search engine manipulation so the lines are a bit unclear in today's age.

Sure, there are SEO techniques that …

I wouldn't.

Approximately 99.92451% of directory listings are a complete waste of Internet real estate. Their only purpose is for self-preservation, usually to attract click-throughs on their site's ads. Their links that they return back to your stuff is often "no-follow" or contorted elseway and of very little value to the Internet and to the search engine. That's a new word elseway.

The reasons why people want links so bad is in hope that the search engines considers their web page important because it has a whole whack of spam links pointing to it. This silly illusion the search engine is quite familiar with.

I would suggest you concentrate on writing important content rather than manipulating your content to appear to be important.

delete one or the other

I suggest you learn how to write intelligently. I can only imagine what you expect the search engine to highly rank for. It usually takes more than off-site manipulation to position web pages.

What to do in on-page if a website has been given to you without doing any single seo process on it? How to handle a website by doing only on-page SEO?

Here's a list of on-site / on-page SEO activities:

Rewrite Web Page Title Tag
Rewrite Meta Description Tag
Rewrite Meta Keywords Tag
Correct Erroneous Code
Rename Images
Rename Web Pages
Rewrite Image Attributes
Rewrite Headings Tags
Emphasize Keyphrases by Optimizing Copy
Correct Spelling and Grammar
Fix Internal Linking Structure
Correct Navigational Issues
Develop User-Friendliness
Create Search Engine robot.txt file
Create Site Map
Deploy XML Sitemaps
Assess Web Hosting Issues

Did you try Google+ Hangouts?

What's more PR going to give you?

Is it important for SEO to register your site with Alexa?

no

... White Hat SEO : Very ethical way to optimize a website ,use of manual methods to promote a web site .Like : Directory Submissions,Social Book marking forum posting etc.

Looks to me like 99.2% of the 50,000 directories out there are for the sole purpose of generating traffic so as to click advertisements on the directory site. Manually or automatically listing to these dumpster directories has no purpose for Internet visitor. A web page will not receive any traffic from these lists of links. The links do count as backlinks but the search engine realizes they are of little value. There are services out there that will list your web page to 10,000 directories for $19.99. Does any webmaster who care about their content really want to do this type of off-site manipulation.

Forum posting for the purpose of generating links and signature links is not right either. A forum is a place to involve yourself in a meaningful discussion and not a place built for you to dump links. This attitude of using forums to build backlinks has contributed to the de-valueing of forum links to the point that they are of practically no value to either the visitor nor the search engine.

... white head technique is genuine technique like taking back links from relevant sites etc.

... link building strategies are performed in an effort to positively influences off-site ranking factors. The idea here is that if your web page has relevant web pages linking to it then it must have some value for the related keywords. To manipulate this concept by artificially amassing backlinks is in fact grey hat to black hat SEO depending on the extremity and deployment tactic of the ranking technique. For example, soliciting for link in emails is grey hat, swapping links with other webmaster is grey hat, buying links from other web pages is considered black hat ...

Unless a link appears to have been placed naturally from one webmaster who thought your rersource was worth offering his visitors, then it is not white hat technique. A white hat link building technique is link baiting. That is when you write content that is so compelling, of such value or of such authority that webmasters, on their own accord, decide to link to your stuff.

SEO is not rocket science, agree, still there is some science in all the SEO tips and tricks that we use for website promotion. A thin line divides both still there is no certain definition as to which are white hat and which are black hat SEO techniques. Can someone define exactly which are white and black hat SEO techniques?

White Hat SEO involves optimizing web page content (paragraphs, heading, images ...), web page tags (Title tag, description, alt attributes ...) and web site components (domain/ webpage naming conventions, internal linking structure ...). White Hat SEO adheres explicitly to the search engine's Quality Content Guideline, except the parts that encourage off-site manipulation (link swapping with other relevant web page owners). Successful White Hat is accomplished when web pages rank highly in competitive keyphrase markets.

Black Hat SEO manipulates the search engine in an extreme fashion. In today's world, link schemes seem to be trendy tactics although techniques such as hidden text, cloaking and multiple doorway pages still can be effective by blackhats when cleverly deployed.

Most (say 85%) of all SEO are Grey Hat and don't often know any better. Usually things like keyphrase stuffing in footers / headers, link swapping, blog commenting, directory listings, signature spamming ... are common grey hat methods.

... the seal of email marketing ...

You mean "SALE" of email marketing or seal as in hork hork fat floppy Arctic creature?

Take a sec to explain this.

I was reading about this Pinterest social media assimilator thingy and it somehow through links adds value to web pages.

So I wanted to check it out and opened up an account. I can't figure out what it wants me to do with creating a board and such.

Anyone use this gizmo? What exactly does it do? How can pinning stuff improve search engine rankings?

Search engine results pages deliver qualified traffic to web pages of all Green PR values including PR0; with the exception of grey I think, as grey does indicate a negative PR value. The point about PR value ... oh ya ... it's fanatically over estimated to be the elixir of all ranking woes.

Hurry up! Go get some PR.

Fetch some find some just get it.

Content is good. Yes content is good. Yippee for content.

Think about this ... A PR0 web page can kick the snot out of a PR6 competing for the same keyphrases. This phenomena occurs in search engine results and can often have little to do with the degree of green link puke (Google PageRank) that is associated with the web page.

Just a thought.

You can go now. Get back to PR pumping up your pages now .. pm me how you make out with that ... yep ... you know it

... what am I doing wrong?

You are trying to manipulate the search engine into believing your web page is important because it has relevant links pointing to it.

mark it as spam

This story is a good example of how the once useful hyperlink has become fuel for generating illegal revenue.

This story also reminds me of how scammers plan well in advance how to exploit the search engines for a future time when keyphrases trend.

The formula for this is easy.

w+kw=t

words + keywords = total words

Another way to look at this common SEO conundrum ... the number of keywords that should be included in the sum total of all words is directly proportional to the number that will be included.

... I could complicate this a bit further ...

In other words, it will amount to be precisely no more or no less than the total number of actual keywords. As the ratio between words and keywords variates only slightly between authors, factoring in all the other elements that could influence the average total number of repetitions per author causes my formula to differentiate exponentially according to the sum of the average total keyword frequencies.

Hello,

I want to increase Google backlinks? I have been submitting to web directories and social bookmarking sites for years.

However, I just checked google backlinks but I don't see the increase.

What should I do to increase Google backlinks?

Thanks very much!

Check you link count using Yahoo for a more accurate assessment of the volume of backlinks that you have amassed. Google is aware of almost exactly that amount although it won't list them all in a link search. The point is ... these links are of little value to the Internet, little value for the potential visitor and thus little value to the search engine ... so insignificant that they don't merit mention.

Link building (an off-site optimization technique) is but one way to catch the search engine's attention. Focus on other off-site influences (blogging, Google+ posting, tweets, facebook statuses ...). Review your web page's content and optimize those pages. Create more web pages too. Your internal links are of more value than artificially built external ones.

well ... because no one has answered this in three days ...

Web log, weblog ... blog

What is blogging? What is a blogger? Why do you want to web log?

If your blog pages were devalued as a result of the "Panda effect" then likely you were doing things a bit on the spammy side.

I always optimize for both. Pick a handful of tough keyphrases and GO FOR IT! Then, simultaneously, cast a very very wide net for secondary keywords and keyword phrases.

There's much value in optimizing words this way because the lesser searched terms are extremely specific and ranking for them brings in highly qualified visitors. But that is an obvious SEO benefit. What most optimisers don't realize is that these obscure, rarely searched terms (that have little competition) enforce your primary keyword targets. They add intelligence to your web page's copy (textual content). The search engine understands the relationship between words, phrases, abbreviations, acronyms, verb tenses, synonyms etc. and will add value to your content as a result of being unique and well-crafted. Composing your sentences. Writing well indicates you feel your page is important enough to take the time to put it together correctly (rather than puking out a bunch of keyword nonsense).

What is the correct use of Anchor text? Does it ever happen that it is over used? There is so much said about this, friends share your opinions here. I want to know how much anchor text is enough.

Anchor text (and its associated link) becomes excessive when it begins to distract from the Internet visitor's quality experience.

Another way to look at it: if you are placing anchor text (and links) for the sole purpose of stimulating a search engine then it's unnecessary and "spammy". Theoretically, if it is of no value to the visitor then it is of no value for the search engine.

To overcome the Google Panda effect it would be best to revise the site’s content. Re do it using just a few keywords. Do you think there is some other way to overcome Google Panda effect?

How about creating web pages with no consideration of the search engine at all? Imagine building something with the intent of having a human being come visit your pages instead of devising methods that appease a crawler. Wouldn't that make your stuff unaffected by any significant search engine effect whether that be in favour of your web page or not?

The search engine understand natural language patterns. People will often incorporate related words in their describing of keyphrases.

Using your example, an Italian restaurant could have spaghetti dinners on the menu. These house specials could be of the finest European cuisine around town.

Google would understand all this as being an intelligently constructed sentence that used related words. Because it is intelligently crafted it must have been of importance for someone to care to write it that way. It is a natural pattern in the language.

The search engine rewards relevancy by using similar words to your keywords. By similar I mean in structure - altering prefixes and suffixes, pluralization, capitalizing .... The use of synonymous keyphrases, abbreviations, acronyms, etc. adds even more value. It makes the text more unique too and is rewarded for being well crafted.

That's what I think of when referring to relevancy in SEO. Relevancy applies to everything - titles, descriptions, anchor text, headings, paragraphs, image names, page names ...

Whether one-way or reciprocal, Google will treat it as it would any other artificially generated link to or from a dumpster directory site. The value of these types of links is so minute that in spite of amassing a huge volume of them it's not likely to generate much of a positive effect on your web page's ranking. A complete waste of time and energy. Instead of implementing pointless link building strategies, try creating something of value that is worth linking to instead.

SEO success is achieved when competitively searched keyphrases are highly ranked in the organic (free, natural) search results. SEO success can come in terms of video ranking, News ranking, image ranking but is usually associated with the positioning of web pages. SEO success can be accomplished by optimizing on-site ranking factors (content, architecture, navigation, images, page Titles, headings, emphasis ...), off-site ranking influences (link popularity, social media signals, external blog ...) or a combination of both.

I tend to agree that social signals will increasingly factor into the results pages, particularly G+ business pages. On that note, I'm not convinced that amassing a huge following will have much as much an effect as frequency of posting.

In 2012, Google+ will be the spammer's dream; copy/edit ridiculously/paste away!

Does SEO will bring a end to PPC. As PPC is done to attract visitors by putting the websites on top, will SEO will break this rule somewhere down the line in future.

We won't likely see an end to PPC (Pay-Per-Click) because there's just too much money in it for the search engine. If anything, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) will become obsolete before SEM (Search Engine Marketing which includes PPC).

Does using automated SEO software cause a website to be penalized? Suggestion please!!

Autometed, yes, autometed folks. In SEO, I tend to avoid anything automAted (that word's pretty similar to automatic, a morph of auto mating too), even dynamically generated web pages. Automats - automated link building machines (aka autolinkers, automats, backwards morphs to auto mats) are out of the question. So is content generators (congenetors) and any other Cookie-Cutter DOorway paGe-like uselessneSs (C-C DOGS). Then there's that new car's data input cross-dressing robot they're using now, the "automo-bi-tron". Maybe you're thinking about that?

I would, however, appreciate an automated microwave thingy; one that figures out exactly how much time and at what power level it needs to set itself in order to reach that hot yet not too googley-goo state inside my pizza pops for lunch today then serve it too me with a coupla' napkins. :)

They are all very real sir.

Also I would love to add a couple of points...

1. Check the backlinks for your website..this is very essential.

2. Check your competitors backlinks as well, this will be useful if your ranking drops or they move ahead.

What's the point of that exercise? In any results pages if you check the competitors backlinks you'll find that they vary. Some have lots of spam link building, some have none, some have lots of good high quality relevant links others have one or two. Some are accumulated naturally passed from one webmaster others more or less artificially; most stuff out there today's a combination of practically anything. That's it. End of backlinks reports forever. Let's move on to other exercises in this SEO life. Want something worth reporting? How about rankings in the search engine engine results pages for specific keywords and keyword phrases. That would make a neat SEO report.

I have started doing SEO for the website with dynamic pages (Shopping Cart Website).so kindly tell me what are the things to be considered in on page optimization. So it will help me when I analyze my website.

Depending on how many items you are selling, you may want to consider creating your own web pages rather than using a third party page generator. That way you'll have much more control over your on-site optimizable web page / web site components (titles, meta descriptions, headings, hyperlinks, graphics, web site architecture, logical page naming ...)

If you are stuck with some lame third-party paint-by-number page generator then make sure you use unique text to describe your product and not some manufacturer's or distributor's description because that would probably be duplicated over the Internet several times already and wouldn't be of much value to the search engine.

I want to prepare my SEO report for my official website but I am quit confused how to generate my SEO report so I would like to all of you to suggest me how to generate seo report! and which factor should I include in my SEO report...Thank you in advance

For natural (organic, free) results:

1. List keywords and keyphrases
ie buy widgets, widget, blue widget, green widgets sale, ...

2. Show their search frequency
ie buy widget is searched 1,000 times a month

3. List the keywords and keyphrases actual ranking
ie buy widgets ranks position 37 in google.com
buy widgets ranks position 7 in google.ca

4. Use Google Analytics to show traffic sources and the percentage from search engine results pages

Keyword density is generally considered the number of times a word appears on a web page divided by the total number of words (minus stop words) on the web page. The words can appear in paragraphs, captions, links, lists or headings.

Theoretically, any artificial link building technique is spamming.

What difference between PPC and CPC?

The first letter of the acronym?

Actually, PPC means Pay Per Click whereas CPC means Cost Per Click. Google uses the term CPC in Adsense instead of PPC because the actual value earned in Adsense for the click will vary, in spite of the maximum bid. PPC is a term still used by other search engine ad models and ,if my history is correct, originates from Overture (which once supplied all Google sponsored listings before they developed their own model and then was bought out by Yahoo who still uses it, although it may not appear that way).

How about creating a web page worth linking to rather than scrambling to make a web page appear to be important by artificially increasing its incoming links. Create something worthy of links rather than creating the illusion that something is worthy because of its links. See the reasoning there? Make important, unique new content. Forget about manipulating the search engine.

How i can check "be specific and check the attributes."

Check the HTML tag for the link in the web page's source coding and if it has the rel="nofollow" attribute then it is a nofollow link.

ie: <a href="http://www.yoursite.com" rel="nofollow">Your Site</a>

I started a new site almost a year ago (for another business of mine) and the sandbox effect (if there really is one) lasted less than two weeks. After the two week period, the web pages ranked very well and have maintained decent positions ever since; in spite of them having no backlinks at all.

So, essentially, in this case, I never observed any Google sandbox effect.

... white-hat ways are:

- Listing your site with directories
- Posting blog comments
- Posting forum comments ...

Directory submissions for the purposes of SEO is mostly a grey hat technique and certainly not whitehat. White hat SEO generally ceases after listing to the ODP.

Commenting on someone else's post for the purpose of dumping links is a grey hat to black hat SEO technique.

Having a forum signature filled with keyphrase rich hyperlinks and/or puking out links on forum posts for the sole purpose of hoping the search engine somehow like this is really very silly, useless and nothing than another greyhat spam sandwhich.

If you are going to work in English then you should be paying him.

I think you may be referring to "link juice". SEO juice isn't a term I've ever encountered. Maybe it is something else, I don't know.

But link juice is usually considered to be the Google PageRank that is awarded to a web page as a result of being linked from another web page. The "SEO" notion is that having many links pointing to a web page flows more Google Page Rank value to that webpage and that this, this moving of green googlebar puke from one linked-up dumping fountain to the open-mouthed masses of content mediocrities somehow over time has managed to create a global illusion that web pages will rank better because of it.

don't read this

Just for clarification (and a shot at the grey hats), being good at link juicing web pages is not the same thing as being able to perform SEO (search engine optimisation) well. Note: good (effective white hat) SEO doesn't derive from off-site/off-page activities (that's basically all artificial link building including link juicing SEO techniques).

... More links will generally lead to better Google PageRank and better search engine ranking ...

Higher PageRank (Google PR) doesn't mean squat in the results pages. A well-optimized PR0 (0 PageRank) web page with absolutely no incoming links can easily beat the fluffed-up mediocrities (PR 5-6) competing for the same keyphrase. I see this all the time and so can you if you look.

Web pages can survive fairly well by themselves without any off-site influence, provided they naturally outclass the linked-up fluff buy offering the search engine something indisputably unique, inherently important, exceptionally crafted with well optimized content. Link building SEO is for SEO weenies'. As a matter of fact, any attempt to artificially influence your off-site ranking factors is grey hat to black hat SEO and are practically all overly copy-catted techniques of little positive value generally and the only skill a person needs to be good at it is the quick abilities to copy/paste. Whooooooa. These guys are good (puking emoticon). Sorry for the rant folks. I feel better now.

Creating + Pages is fun. It is incredibly easy to rank stuff right now in G+ because hardly anyone is doing it right. And it doesn't appear to be another "just keep pumping out the spam ads like madmen all over the place" marketing successes, no. It is more based on human interactions socially and branding's everything here in Google+ Pages. I like the idea of first you are a human being then you can become branded business pages. You can also incorporate your other web entities to gain credibility in your brand. G+ to me is like attaching a powerful talking brochure to a limited web site/blog/Facebook marketing approach.

I read Google'll be unveiling a new toolbar over the next few days and there's other stuff coming up to incorporate in G+. As Google+ results are starting to infiltrate the web search results I see them smoking Facebook results out of the map in favour of their own social triggers in no time at all. Down they go. I would think that by ranking G+ pages in competitive markets now could provide a significant advantage over the keyphrase competitors in the very near future. I think it's mainly because of the simple conclusion that you'd be the first to gain credibility, in certain brand-like terms. It would be good to get in early in case this new G-frankenstein takes hold.

I already see the spammers amassing.

Try finding the friends it suggest you might want to …

It may happen quickly but likely it will take a long, long time for your domain to regain enough credibility with the search engine to highly rank your webpages; so long, in fact, that you may be better off moving your stuff to a fresh new domain or starting over from scratch.