Posts by canadafred

On page optimization is more important than off page, but few designers are able to create search engine optimized sites. People say start from the beginning. What should I check to ensure SEO friendly site design and development?

Also check your webpages' Google cache to ensure the search engine finds exactly the same thing the Internet visitor discovers when showing up at your pages. Often you can have sloppy code that restricts a complete crawl.

Another aspect of optimizing your site design is to have a solid internal navigation system. Make sure your web pages are deeply inter-connected.

You people touting Matt Cutts as an SEO expert are a bit mistaken. Matt may have an inside scoop on what rocks the search engine, no doubt, but even he can't control the frankenstein of a arena the electronic ranking mechanism that some brain fart of a garage cook-up has unleashed. Merely a corporate puppet, a performer. His every word about search engine optimization is not derived from his expertise in anything at all. Fffff ... a worshipped marionette preaching half-truths to starving masses; his god's some cowboy that sprinkles golddust as it roams around.

He sometimes tells us what the search would like to find in web pages and in search engine optimisation but really is at the mercy of a ranking machine gone mad. SEO expert? Maybe, but it's all about corporate image and not effective, expert SEO.

Right now its Facebook that can bring you more traffic as Google+ will need time to gain trust of users as it is launched quite recently. So for now I suggest you to use Facebook. Google+ is still in its beta version.

I don't know ... looks to me like their traffic to be had already on G+. Like the gal said earlier, it's free. It rocks because it's ... free. Facebook rocks and G+ rolls outs ... bigger and bigger ... why play catch up hockey down the road. The time to plus up and circle the globe is now. Grooooooow your own circles! I'll groooooow my circle, grow circle. Just kidding withya' there 'sinz.

In my point of understanding penalty means when your site do not satisfy with the Google's algorithm, then Google will remove/ban your site temporarily

Google doesn't often actually penalize a web page, it devalues it so that it lowers in rank. A weak page can be the result of many things including: poor content, bad SEO, little popularity ...

Canadafred, what do you mean as a search engine? You mean the ability to search for trends among users, harnessing the power of Google search? I can't see that as a make-it/break-it feature since anyone can create a social network and use Google's paid search appliance to harness the very same search capabilities. Not only that, but Google has even accepted he fact that Twitter is better at realtime search than they are.

I like the way it shows results from searches. Little drop down menu with avatars. I like the way it displays search results in the order as to what it deems important at this time, throws in a spark here and there. It's an interesting dynamic, kinda' perplexing figuring out what makes a shared post get to the top of those results. The results seem to be based on a combination of credibility and real-time factors.

It'll probably sift through duplicate content and determine which is more valid, devalue those that are redundant. It'll likely devalue inferior and outdated content too.

I'd think that maybe you have some sloppy code whereas the search engine crawler cannot determine what constitutes content and what is part of a string of code. Make sure you have all of your tags closed ie </script>.

Also you can check your Google cache to make sure that it has correctly discovered things like your important text.

Once upon a time, there lived a happy little link. It was all comfortable 'n cuddly 'n stuff and it felt real important because some nice webmaster included it in his meaningful content.

Then came PageRank technology and the links went nuts or the nuts went linking, I don't remember which.

Forum postings, yes. Those are good places. Yep.

Hey! I know! You should make like a video about how good of a search engine optimizer you are. Then you can post it all over the place. Put your happy-people-pleasing-face on and let 'er rip.

Oh ya ... if you mention that you've worked like crazy with links then that'll really make you stand out in the crowd of SEO wannabees.

Anyway. Good luck with your Internet marketing business aspirations.

What about as a search engine? I reckon there'll be a few searches coming out of that machine. Things are pretty dynamic over there in the Google+ results. It'll take me a bit to figure out what's happening. They're fun though, little quick clean search results pop-downs ...

I don't know. I may be right off topic here but there this Google+ thingy'. When you create your account you get brought into the circles. At this point you can still be one person but then you are offered business pages that will associate your brand with your existing brand's web presence. Soon, Google marries your G+ page with you brand web site and now the two are one: a person and a branded business page. Then once you've morphed into a business brand like this then you share circles around your products circlickly' and follow. Just keep following to be follwed by following followers.

Thing is though, I think you can become more than just one brand. Maybe one persona can sprout endless product sub-businesses morphologized hitherto unforeseen dynamicabilitinessness, justifiably. Never know what you can do in life.

What is web beacon??? Could you tell me, i am expecting the details regarding that.

I'm quite sure that a web beacon is an attribute in an image tag that sends data to a server. Typically this attribute is used on banner ads to track where click-throughs comes from.

Is G+ the beginning of Social Networking 3.0? Is it better than Facebook? Why? What? ANYBODY!!!!

... By using directory postings, I have been able to get my web site on Page 1 of Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

Can you tell us for what keywords? I would suspect they are rarely searched (non-competitive).

Google + business pages is an epic initiative by google but they made quite complicated either you have to use your personal profile or you have to sign in as a page it should have as in facebook.

I kind of like the idea of having to prove yourself as being a human being first and foremost, then be given the green light to morph yourself into circles of networked business conglomerates; pimping and pumping out plus points click click clicks.

Thanks for starting a discussion here.

I thought I'd mention, if you didn't already know, that you can post your resume in the Business Exchange category. Good luck on your job search!

We have to look at the site to be sure but almost anything can be Google friendly nowadays. The factor that determines this the most is your content (paragraphs, images, videos ...), how keyphrases are emphasized, how pages are inter-linked ... There are off-site considerations too that affect your rankings and have absolutely nothing to do with how your code is crafted.

G+ is a spammer's dream. Already search engine manipulators that are following me have figured out how to create multiple brand profiles for the purpose of selling me +1 shares in bulk ...

Hi,

Recently we have designed a website for a company this is the site ( www eugene-labs com ). Let me know whether this website is seo friendly or not. Waiting for your suggestions

I don't know about the rest of your web site but this page isn't going anywhere significant in the search engine results pages because of excessive keyword stuffing in the header and in the footer. I also noticed in the code that this webpage has some hidden content in the form of comment tags (for some reason these are located near the footer images) ... etc.

1. Get traffic (visitors) to your web site
2. Convert the traffic into leads

In search engine optimization, ranking web pages highly in the search engine results for specific keywords and keyphrases drives in targeted traffic (or qualified visits). This type of traffic converts easily provided your web pages facilitate the conversion (they are visitor friendly).

Writing fresh, catchy and meaty content deliberately attract links towards it.
- Check for grammar and syntax (some may argue that it doesn’t matter but it signals sloppiness)
- Include well-researched keywords in appropriate density

Yes indeed, write intelligently. Enforce your keyphrases using the language itself. If you craft your content then the search engine understands it is important enough to compose properly. Avoid repetition, compliment your important terms with synonymous ones. The search engine understands that writing well requires expressing ideas in various manners. Pluralize, use prefix and suffix variables, annotate, emphasize lightly, abbreviate, use acronyms, antonyms, morphology, lexicons ...

I have $125 and i want to advertise on both facebook and google..pls i would like to know if how much traffic i would have with this money..if i want you tell me how to split the money.

I think the best way to split your search engine marketing budget is this way: $0.73 to Google Ads, $0.27 to Facebook Ads and then the $124 that remains you can have a nice three course dinner with your honey. Now, this may not bring your web pages much traffic but it may make you happy tonight nevertheless.

1,000 directories so far! WOW! How long did that take you?

Just because you conclude the search engine should deliver a quantity of "qualified traffic" to your web pages doesn't mean it should or that it will. The search engine may provide you an indication of what may occur in the event it deems your web page of any value.

Legally you can do whatever you want with your site. Ethically, manipulating off-site ranking factors by participating in link schemes merits a certain demerit in your web pages' value.

My suggestion is to find ways to increase you web page's value internally by concentrating your efforts with on-site/on-page optimizable components, particularly your own, unique content. Then let the off-site influences dictate themselves, basically and naturally.

Who cares about deploying link building schemes if your pages highly rank already?

Optimize your content, optimize your web pages. Make the web pages themselves be your best ranking factor.

Funny nowadays how many Internet marketers think they are performing search engine optimizastion. Someone who can spam blog posts with hyperlinked comments is performing SEO. In some corners, any person that can list web pages in 100 dumpster directories in one day is an expert search engine optimiser. Email marketers somehow think they are practicing SEO. A guy that can generate Facebook likes is performing search engine optimisation. Seems like most people that that SEO is all about link building and has absolutely nothing to do with content or HTML tags or copy writing. In my opinion, most search engine optimizers in 2011 have no real search engine skills, they can't rank sites worth beans but can still manage to exist and create the facade that they are doing something of value. It's beyond me.

I've recently been contracted out by a company to handle their search engine marketing. They have another guy doing social media stuff and he has an autosurf program sending traffic to the site. It looks great in analytics but knowing how those programs work, i doubt they are converting.

My question is though, can google tell through analytics or other method that an autosurf is being used and will it negatively impact search engine position and ranking in google?

There are no ads on this website, its selling products*

Its not my website but I'd hate to have all of the hard work ive put in go to waste because of some autosurf website generating traffic.

Thanks!
Jeff

Hey Jeff. I did a bit of research about this. Autosurf is a watered-down Ponzi-like scheme that will stop operating after no new investors can be found. As you mentioned, the traffic generated from such foolishness would likely be useless.

My hunch is that if a search engine can detect some kind of link exchange or association between the pyramid participants then any off-site ranking influences as a result of participation would be negated (not penalized but not rewarded either).

Crafting Optimized Content

Rule #1, avoid over-repetitiveness.
Rule #2, craft unique content that exists nowehere else on the Internet
Rule #3, create web pages for Internet visitors primarily and not search engine robots

In your SEO copy writing toolbox and as part of emphasizing keyphrases, you should master the English language in such a way as to be able to intelligently enforce keyphrases using word variables (altered prefixes/suffixes, pluralization), synonimous keyphrases, abbreviations, acronyms ... morphology, lexicons.

I never read any mention of Heading tags. Heading tags (h1, h2 ...) can be incredibly useful when sprinkled on your web page canvass logically.

I hate that when people spam my telephone especially those robotic recorded messages. Don't encourage this crap.

I'd suggest you avoid any artificial link building strategies altogether and concentrate on developing better content and optimizing your web pages. The search engine knows how to detect most forms of off-site manipulation. You'll acquire more and better rewards by allowing any off-site influence to occur naturally (as a result of your outstanding content).

In order to achieve better rakings in the search engine results pages for your primary keyphrase you will have to implement a search engine optimization strategy. You can use all kinds of techniques to accomplish this. Search engine optimisation techniques are categorized according to how much the are geared to manipulate the search engine: White Hat SEO (follow the quality content guidelines explicitly), Grey Hat SEO (cheat a bit ie:link popularity strategies) and Black Hat SEO (outright trick the search engine into believe a web page is important enough to highly rank it).

Update: Oh. I see you have already done a bit of link building (google acknowledges 55). I'm guessing that isn't working well for you in your competitive keyphrase environment. Funny that I took the time to assess your top keyphrase competitors (regional search google.ca). The first place for "cell phone plan" had poor on-site optimization but had 17 links acknowledged and many of them were internal (in the same domain), the second contender was a bit better optimized and had 13 incoming links, the third however had no link popularity at all but the web page was very well optimized and the presentation exceedingly friendly.

Of the three search engine performances, which one do you think has properly made use of their time and resources in their web site development (in an effort to capitalize on the traffic of qualified visitors? note: quality Internet human visitors and not quantity of "hits" …

Very few, if any, unmerited link will be considered important enough for Google to list. Most links acquired artificially are of no value to both the search engine and a potential Internet visitor.

Can you explain how Google PageRank works? And how can I find out my site's PageRank? Thanks.

It doesn't work and it doesn't mean anything significant except (I assume) to Google.

I think you have things backwards. Google doesn't rank your site before a search is performed. When a search is performed then the search engine checks every web page on the Internet that it has discovered and compares each page to the search criteria. Then it ranks web pages according to what it has determined are the best pages for that particular search. It doesn't rank anything beforehand (well, technically it does kinda' rank backlinks according to credibility). The list that it generates in Webmaster Tools are words that it has found on your web page that it thinks you think are important based on frequency of appearances in that web page (and other ranking factors).

...What do you think of this way of charging for SEO services?

Do you think it is feasible?...

Try explaining all that to your client and see what the reaction is. Much too complicated for the average mind.

Thanks for the reply but extremely sorry, I could not understand what you have suggested for me here.

Sometimes, there are keyphrase markets (industry specific keyword phrases) that have little competition for the qualified traffic that the search engine results pages can bring. A substantial website is constructed in such a way as to capitalize on this untapped market.

Web sites that are built exclusively to cash in on non-competitive but lucrative keyphrases are considered substantial website (meaning contain substance).

I just read the most pitiful excuse of a blog article on "sunstantial websites". It was by far the worst conceivable pile of garble that exists anywhere in the Internet. It was so horrific an experience the mere thought of it causes me to regurgitate its written barf all over my keyboard in real time.

Ok.

Now.

A substantial website sorta' just comes along and exploits the lack of competitivenes in a hitherto untapped keyphrase gold mine. It's a money making machine from the get go.

I figured it would take the search engine a bit of time to realize Daniweb web pages are uniquely genuine and should be rewarded again as such.

As far as backlinks go, I don't get it. How do you not see that your own web pages are your biggest and best linking strategy? Seek externally all you want but you cannot control the fluctuating values of incoming links yet are in full control of your internal linking structure. Do you think you are fully capitalizing on your own off-page ranking influences. A link is a link.

... useless commenting on other people's blogs? signature spamming in forums? rotating link schemes? huh? There's no guarantee the search engine will favourably respond to any of these grey hat SEO techniques. These link building strategies are devised to pretend that a web page is important because it has useless links pointing to it. You may generate some Internet noise (hits) from these endeavours (and that will be difficult to sustain) but the actual human traffic that'll show up at your web page will be of little value, even for a click-through.

Will you tell me that which method or tactic is better from the point of view to get huge traffic and more good back links? I am using some SEO techniques but can’t get the keyword serp increase or steady. Can you tell me the reason behind it?

Rather than falling for some trendy link building scheme, offer the Internet something of value; something uniquely purposeful and intelligent. You may not get many backlinks (off-site raking influences) for your efforts but the search engines will recognize that your content is important and reward your web pages in the results pages rapidly and sustainably.

What is the Difference Between Reciprocal Link and Link Exchange?

I'm quite sure they mean the same thing: swapping links in an effort to please the search engine by artificially manipulating off-site ranking factors.

I was just reading the Toronto Star online and was pleased to see that Google’s ad network faces $500M U.S. probe. The probe is digging into whether Google unfairly ranks web pages higher in the results pages. Well, it's about time.

Maybe the American Justice Department can do something about the millions of Adsense fraudsters popping up all over the globe literally stealing our search engine marketing dollars; warehouses full of "Internet visitors" clicking through our search engine ads. It's ridiculous that such a scam can perpetuate unchecked for so long.

Pick primary keyphrase (short tail component) then, in addition, you can harnass the traffic from every related keyphrase variation imaginable. Things like synonymous keyphrases, abbreviations, acropnyms, altered verb tenses, altered prefixes and suffixes, plural forms, antonyms etc. all enforce your primary keyphrases by indicating that your content is intelligently written.

To flex your copywriting muscles, you can even get into linguistics a bit nowadays. I like use morphology whenever possible too enforce your primary keyphrase targets (invent new words by joining two or more others provided they become legitimately uniquely purposeful). In using the English language itself you develop rankings for secondary and auxiliary keyphrases (long tail component).

Example: SEO emcompasses both on-site and off-site ranking influences. The search engines reward intelligent, optimised writing. In search engine optimization (a form of Internet marketing), try to capitalize on the power of your web page's content.

uh ... things get indexed just about as fast as they appear on the Internet, maybe within seconds now.

Are you refering to a brand new domain? Seems to me that even brand spankin' new domains can get indexed almost immediately (and should the search engine instantly find a link to it can force a crawl; can even start the process of ranking your web pages within a couple of weeks in today's SERPs (search engine results pages) arenas.

Can anyone tell me what is character limitations for URL, Title, Description, Keywords, H1 and H2 Tags in SEO for On-Page Optimization?

Thanks,

Leo Brown

I agree with csgal, character limits are debatable. The rule of thumb I employ is to keep things short, natural appearing and get priority words before secondary ones, in general. You'll want to mix things up to avoid a pattern from being detected.

Hello
What is main technic of Black hat SEO....
Please tell Black hat SEO process..

There are many techniques that can be considered Black Hat SEO.

The most common types in today's Internet marketing world revolve around manipulating link popularity (and link relevance); essentially most link building strategies can be unethical. Theoretically, any form of artificially inflating the number of backlinks to a web page falls within the range of Grey Hat to Black Hat search engine optimisation. For example, normal link exchanges is considered Grey Hat but excessively exchanging links moves up the spectrum to Black.

oh that happened to me once, knocked down 10 of my sites. I moved to a better server.

Hello friends,
I am working on one of the website whose keywords were within 3 page of Google till last week when I started doing link building. But today when I checked the keyword positioning all the keywords were down and they were on the 6th and 7th page. I was really shocked to see this... please help me...I am building the relevant links and not doing over link building...
Waiting for your suggestion.
Thanks

It is difficult to simply blame your link building frenzy on your ranking disaster but is likely the case.

ah .. the joys of link building. It's like marrying someone you don't know. Unless you analyze your linking partners (their status with the search engine) you'll run the risk of having bad linking neighbours. Remember that when you link to a page or visa versa you then begin a relationship with a new partner. How it goes for your webpage marriage varies depending on several factors (relevance, history etc.). It is always search engine manipulation when you perform link building so beware of the consequences for trying to cheat the search engine into believing that your web page has gained link popularity.

Concentrate on your on-site ranking influences and leave the off-site stuff determine itself naturally.

The best way to promote your blog is to allow the search engine to highly rank your pages. You can eventually accomplish this by writing well. Don't sweat your off-site ranking influences, concentrate on your paragraphs. Craft your words to be intelligent and indisputably unique. The search engine will pick up on the fact that your articles are important because you spend time composing them. Use synonymous keyphrases and word variables (pluralizing, verb tenses, altered prefixes etc.).

You can also emphasize your keyphrases using bold, italics, underline, larger font etc.