Posts by canadafred

What is the seo benefit with rotating page titles?

Well, I don't know about benefit but if you keep swapping Titles from one page to another then you'll annoy the search engine eventually with this silly trickery. When you construct a web page, craft a Title and keep it.

Don't waste your time with these mundane, pointless exercises. There is no SEO skill to these off-site manipulation techniques. Everyone is doing it and everyone is getting the same meager benefits from it. Try performing search engine optimization instead.

Please share your SEO strategies for your e-commerce stores. Thanks.

Don't use the manufacturer's description of the product. Write your own extremely accurate assessment otherwise you will likely not get much reward from the search engine as trhe product would be described elsewhere exactly the same way at least once and your newer page will have duplicate content.

Also, use heading tags <hx>Label The Product</hx> and lightly emphasize keyphrases, synonymous keyphrases using bold or strong tags.

Try to be unique in your layout.

What I like lately is creating videos. Their title and description can be optimized in Youtube. You can cross link them to relevant content on your web pages. Videos will yield results from a Youtube and from a Google search. Videos are an awesome off-site marketing tool.

Just read ( blog searchenginewatch com/110412-160000 ) good article about how Panda is affecting authoritative UK web site. Some highly credible sites up to 99.7% down in traffic as a result. Ouch! There were some winners in the initial algorhythmic change though, ironically including blogspot.com up 22.80 percent.

quoted "...Much like the devastation unleashed on unsuspecting sites in the U.S. in February, today price comparison sites and many content sites (e.g., news, reviews, blogs) Google has deemed "shallow" have been hammered in the UK search results, according to preliminary data released today by Searchmetrics ..."

I have a client who has purchased several domain names relevant to her business. Some of them she purchased to prevent a competitor doing so.

Is there a limit to how many she should have pointing to the one website, even if they are all relevant?

There is no limit, per say, as long as the domains are just redirects and do not contain much duplicate content.

It can be good to build new sites on the empty domains, or a corporate blog or something else; provided of course, that you can justify creating new content. Often one web site is insufficient when promoting companies that offer more than one service or product, particularly when the services/products are unrelated. For example, I had a company that offered both eco-friendly and non-eco-friendly tourism related services. In all, I identified 5 separate business functions completely unrelated to each other thus decided on 5 web sites in order to promote it properly. In this case, I was able to influence my own off-site ranking factors by lightly cross-linking similar pages. This worked well for my client's rankings in a broader spectrum of keyphrase markets.

I just want to know that why this command has different result when used with "" and without ""

for example:

link: www[dot]domain[dot]com

link: "www.domain.com"

When you place a search query in quotations the search engine will identify exact matches of the words in the order you specify, otherwise, it can mix and mash results that contain some variation of the query. The dot is a separator.

I have a India based company's site,whose server is located in USA.I have optimized it for all countries.

When i search for a keyword in google.co.in it position in SERP is higher than position in Google.com.

what i know is that search engine consider the location of server for ranking.So my site's position in Google.com's SERP pages should be higher than google.co.in?

Please clear me this concept.

I'll go out on the line on this one ... I would suspect your keyphrase contains the word "India" and that the word "India" is liberally peppered throughout the webpage. I may be wrong.

Your Rank in SERP Can Increase Even with a Low or No PageRank. I would say that your SERP ranking is much more important now in getting your site seen. Before you know it, your PageRank will catch up as well.

As far as PageRank is concerned it determines the position of a page on the basis of its importance and links it has either it is voted by other websites or it itself cast vote for other sites it is basically a link analysis algorithm and in the execution of this algorithm only links of a website to other websites are considered and not the server it belong to.. I hope i made my point cleat :)

PR has little or no effect on ranking.

IP addresses (web host servers) can influence ranking significantly.

I doubt these calls are originating from Google. Probably scammers.

Let me see if I have my history right.

The Open Directory was created a long, long time ago, with the intention to essentially to be a leading search engine on its own merit. Instead of hiring editors to maintain the database they use "volunteers" that approve listings, edit titles and descriptiones etc. This "open" system worked well for a while and everyone was super horny to get a good ranking from the ODP.

The Open Directory evolved into DMOZ a few years later and ultimately was taken over by Google to act as a sort of Directory option in search, similar to Yahoo. Well, this concept didn't work out very well at all because of the amount of control the "volunteer editors" had over positioning one web site better than another. Because of the human influence on search results, the project became corrupted. Rumours were circulating that "ODP editors" were accepting bribes by eager web site owners (especially in competitive keyphrase arenas) and ultimately some of these cases were proven. DMOZ (the old ODP) lost a bunch of credibility but Google stuck with it and put it on the back burner; but never has fully disengaged it.

Nowadays the ODP is a big joke, a big fat useless joke that somehow survives, who knows how and who knows why.

Recommendations for quality auditing tools anyone?

I have tried quite a few fancy authoring softwares over the years but when it comes to coding quickly and effectively, I like to do it the old fashioned way and Notepad is the best Windows tool ever created; without it I'd go back to editing pages in DOS.

I would think that because you redirect page1 to page2 the search engine will include it in a crawl despite a robot.txt instruction to do otherwise.

You can be sure the search engine has spidered the site entirely. It will take time for it to sort the old from the new, maybe a week, maybe two.

I just noticed the logical naming changes that you made, good move! This will surely help your site out.

Maybe you can start with

1. Analyze their coding and internal/external (inbound/outbound) linking.
2. Analyze on-site SEO paying particular attention to their content. Are they white hat, black hat, grey hat?
3. How many web pages are linked internally (size of web site)?
4. How old is the site?
5. Are the main keyphrase competitors regionally hosted?
6. Do things (images, webpages ...) use logical naming conventions?

etc.

Aside from the coding snippet, this type of architecture seems like a standard way to do things in php.

I would set specific keyphrase goals, analyze the competition then develop an SEO plan and timelime.

Another way is to divide your ideas into two lists: on-site optimization and off-site optimization and then set about accomplishing manageable tasks one at a time.

... forget about the fancy tools. Where does the web page rank for the keyphrase? That is the guidepost to how well the page is doing.

I would think this happens almost instantly.

Now is the time to start thinking about optimizing your web site for the search engines.

The first thing I suggest is to read up on the search engines' quality content guidelines, find out what kind of content they are seeking.

Then read up on SEO (search engine optimization). Start optimizing your web pages and in preparation for the time that your website is mature enough to merit improving rankings in the results pages.

Don't be afraid to ask questions; everybody has to start somewhere.

which domain is better for a site which is focused for india?

co.in or .in?

I would think the effects negligible.

I'd suggest you start with two completely different sites right from the get go. When I mean different, I am talking about two web sies with unique designs and content. The search engine seems to like web sites that evolve over time more so than those that are static. Make sure, if possible, that the two sites are tightly inter-linked so as to reinforce each other's off-site ranking influences. It'll take time for your web pages to generate decent rankings but they will come with continued growth.

I have no idea. Unfortunately, I have fast come to the conclusion that neither has Google... :(

The bottom line for the search engine is to make profit. Their corporate motto "Do no evil" has been a farce from the get go. Fair play and ethical treatment of a customer's marketing budget are things of a distant past. There are just too many Internet marketers driving their mandates in today's search world and too few educated users who actually understand the advertising programs.

Most Internet consumers are completely clueless as to where in fact their search engine advertising money is being distributed.

So, how can a search engine stop exploiting the hyperlink at this stage? I don't think in themselves they are able to straighten out. The search engine definitely needs regulation at this phase of its evolution. Things have gone haywire again and there is no one there to protect any of us.

Google uses 100-200 different factors when delivering search results.

These factors are divided into on-site and off-site ranking influences.

On-site ranking elements include such things as: The Content, headings, logical naming conventions, web page title, emphasized words and phrases, image attributes, internal linking structure ...

The off-site ranking factors mostly refer to incoming links.

Pagerank drops and rises mean very little if anything at all. Even to the search engine, I am not sure PR has ant real significance.

To me, the green PR bar is a visual tool similar to a baby's soother, It is an illusion that both calms and confuses the masses of Internet marketers who want to believe that their web pages have some importance.

I remember when Google first rolled out PR. It worked amazingly, for about a week. From that point on, Pagerank technology became a "pot of gold" (literally).

Having multiple web sites performing separate functions is a good idea. Make sure that you cross-link them in a way that gels the relevance and highlights the important web pages (most likely the various landing pages).

You can use the same addresses and phone numbers, try to present them uniquely and position them in different places ie: on one web site put it in the header, another the footer, sidebar menu ... The search engine understands that often it requires more than one web site to deliver information logically.

Your web sites would work better if they each had their own unique architectecture (coding and layout mostly but navigation system too). Create some in a blog format to facilitate variation.

It is not wise to use the same copy (paragraphs) across multiuple web pages. The search engine will deem one more authentic than the others but award little value to the duplicates.

If the product description is supplied by the manufacturer chances are that it is already somewhere on the web. Take the time to rewrite generic content that you cannot avoid using to describe your products.

For me it´s clear that they will be many "innocent" sites that will get caught in the crossfire from Googles new algorithm ....

The problem is what does "thin content" or "content farm" really means and how does Google differenciate it?
Isn´t You tube a content farm that possesses a lot of thin content? Isn´t it the same with Ebay? they have a lot of pages with very thin content but nevertheless would never been seen as some - and why? because they surely are no content farms.

It would be easier for all webmaster and SEOs if Google would specify the meanings of "content farm" or "thin content" and explain his algo. But this won´t happen so it will be clear that they will be a lot of innocent victims.

I would think Youtube, Ebay etc are authoritative off the get-go and shouldn't be affected by regular search engine housecleaning, but they too may be on the verge of crumbling into smitherenes, who knows.

Most of the noise in the SERPs lately is revenue generating for the "Internet marketers" of this glorious world to thrive ... for the pennies and nickels to move around ... from one pocket to another.

To the trained eye, ad-driven agendas continuously pumping out their monstrocity chug along unscathed. The click for anything intensifies. Searchenginedoids are programmed and yet completely clueless to the workings of their master. all hung up resorting to the mass perpetuation of clicking of the money links.

No need to have an search engine optimisation brain bursting ... there tons of on-site searchengine optimization techniques to try out; such things as naturally emphasizing keyphrases by using them sparingly in headings, supporting them rather than repeat them in the content with word variables (altering prefixes or pluralizing for example), give an intelligent appearance by having synonymous keyphrases present in the content, abbreviations, acronyms, antonyms, morphologies ... Try keeping your spelling and grammar clean but keep writing and supporting, emphasizing naturally ... look at your logical naming conventions for web pages and images, work your attributes whenever helpful ... freshen up things ... tighten up anchors ...

Unique, intelligent content. By intelligent I mean natural (whatever that entails for the writer), well-written, well-structured, self-enforcing text (SEO copywriting). Offering the search engine this type of content regularly means that the content itself is important to the writer. The web page is really created with the intent that an Internet visitor will read through.

I know it is almost tiresome to hear in SEO circles but great content indeed stands the test of time, provided it is generally optimized (... that could include good spelling and grammar ...). As long as the forums are kept moderated as best they can be then Daniweb should get rewarded in the SERPs, over time.

I definitely agree, Google can't stay #1 forever when their ranking algorithm is exclusively based on backlinks and keyword density. That being said, however, is DaniWeb's content REALLY that bad that we deserved to lose over 70% of our traffic on Thursday?

The search engine needs to shake off the fluff once in a while, legitimate content can get swept away in the rinse cycle. I would think that as long as there's a continuous generation of truly unique, somewhat well-written intelligent seeming content the crawler should settle down, in time. Who knows, maybe it'll determine Daniweb pages authoritative across a large spectrum of niches and propel its targeted traffic through the roof, maybe next week, who knows. Anybody got a light?

Search engines need to find and rank intelligently evolving content otherwise they risk endlessly offering useless results pages.

No, not a complete waste of time I suppose. I often wonder if there's any natural ranking influence for paying listings. If there is, then to me it seems of an insignificant SEO advantage. But probably not a complete waste of search engine marketing money, somehow.

I always try to think what I can get for free. What can you get in SEO for free? ... hmmm ... free ... oh ... high ranking web pages in the organic listings for competitive keyphrase searches. I try to go for that; try to get a little more on-page/on-site search engine optimisation know-how along the way to boot.

What is White Hat SEO? How many things or techniques are included in it? Can anyone tell me how it proves better for getting search engine result?
Guide me on this subject.

White Hat SEO, ethical search engine optimization, usually describes the process of preparing webpages to be search engine friendly according to quality content guidelines.

In general, White Hat SEO concentrates more on the on-site ranking factors rather than manipulating the off-site ranking influences.

The advantages of deploying ethical search engine optimisation is in ranking web pages. The behaviour of high rankings webpages are more predicatable, they are more easily attainable and then more easily sustainable.

I am using blog posting, forum posting, comment posting, article submission to get website on the ranking track.
What is today’s Best Practice to get more back links and increase website ranking?

Best practice? Well, certainly not writing blog posts for the sake of attempting to get an SEO advantage, or dumping useless forum postings all over the place or commenting on other people's blogs in order to drop a hyperlink etc. etc. These type of activities are grey hat search engine optimization skills. These are some of the trendy, generic search engine manipulation techniques and they cannot guarantee effectiveness in the results pages.

Best practice? Create web pages that are uniquely useful and intelligently written. Deploy white hat SEO techniques as dictacted by the search engine's quality content guidelines. In other words, craft webpages for the Internet visitor primarily. Perform Internet functions that will enhance usability. It's kinda' ironic but I suppose the best SEO practice would be to not do anything for the sake of impressing a search engine. Go figure.

Hey Tim,

Provided the web pages were completely unique one from the other you'd probably get some boosting. Don't concern yourself with PR so much as with ranking web pages. Higher PR in itself won't generate better ranking in the results pages. I'd be concentrating more on the actual content of the webpages and their on-site optimization.

... which blog is better i.e. blogspot, bloggers, wordpress or we should install blog on our server ...

It's hard to know what combination of blogging software/platform would be best for your needs as successful SEO for blogging varies considerably.

Sometimes specific keyphrase markets influence method effectiveness; but using your limited variables, I'd say that you'd be better off with your own domain using a blogger or wordpress or practically any other CMS (content management system).

As far as keyphrase density goes ... it's whatever naturally evolves from half-decent writing that intelligently supports important keywords with a little bit of emphasizing to affect effect.

As mentioned earlier, keep regional sites hosted on country specific IP addresses (ie: host .ca on Canadian soil).

It's ok to have two or three web sites hosted on the same IP address but not 200.

If all the links that Google finds to your web page are internal ones (within your domain) then the percentage would be 100, I suppose.

The usual way is to open up a Google account and apply for Adsense.

Personal Loans, Home Loans, Business Loans,Real Estate Agent-Mumbai

This is the title tag i used for my site,is there any changes i need to made or it is ok?

Each web page has its own Title tag. This particular Title is obviously intended to impress the search engine and doesn`t catch my attention as a web surfer. Try to craft a Title for each webpage that both captures the search engine`s attention and encourages a potential visitor to click through the results page. By no means is this type of keyword stuffing effective marketing.

Do you win some kind of prize for that?

Also, you may want to include the associated web page (the iframed webpage) in your site map (Sitemap), that'll pretty much assure the search engine will reward the content (provided it's your content of course).

link baiting is a natural way of encouraging web surfers and webmasters to link to your web pages because, for whatever reason, they like your content and want to offer it to their webpage visitors/social contacts.

Hello,

I have been submitting my website and new pages as well as blogs to social bookmarking sites. However, I have only about 20 of them and keep submitting over and over.

It is good for new sites but old sites are not very effective.

What is the best effective ways about building links for websites?

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks.

This all baffles me but here's my answer.

thinking ... well about links maybe ... no perhaps about ... no ... how 'bout

It is always good to know how to write. That may take time and experience. Once mastered though, the language itself becomes the link bait best clean bet let's say. Come up with important new content. Links from those kind of web pages generate the links all over again by themselves based on merit. Links generated in whatever fashion naturally, are usually the ones that are offering the Internet something uniquely purposeful. Go for good links. Work towards writing well in order to attain them. Those kind of links are good ones.

how 'bout this Search Engine Optimization - Beyond Web Design Into the Results Pages

... whether they did (their link building) work properly or not ...

By properly, do you mean that the search engine will list particular links that were probably recently submitted by a link building strategist on your team? I don't think anyone can answer that for sure, not even the search engine. How it comes about to decide what links to display or when, why and the how of anything remotely logical will more than likely remain a perpetuating mystery.

Backlink generators... pros and cons!?

I would like to know the bennefits of using sites like <snip> to increase traffic.

I would say ... that ... well ... in SEO ... to be safe ... play by the rules ... beware of linky things that'll generate stuff for you. As a matter of fact, steer clear from the vast majority of link building schemes and ah ... smart Internet marketers know the benefits of establishing credibility with the search engine. They concentrate on delivering something uniquely useful to the Internet rather than seek externally to favourably influence his web page's off-site ranking factors.

Sure. No problem. Craft content worthy of naturally influencing your off-site ranking factors.

Do you have any special idea to get backlinks?

no exchange link
no blog comments
no forum signature

... maybe try writing something naturally worth recommending.