Posts by canadafred

I had read somewhere that its not easy to get quick links for yahoo and the final destination page for Bing.........how to get it.........

Thanks in Advance

Waiting for reply

... um, let me see ... offer both search engines the exact same content et voila!!?

Hi All,

Does there exist a free script which can create a sitemap for my website for free.

My website includes more than 2000 pages.

If there are paid sitemap generators, which one is the cheapest?

Regards
Vaibhav

There's tons of sites doing it well online and for free. Search them. See what they are doing ...

Sounds like I'm playing SEO doctor again ...

Acquiring backlinks is easy, get them from web surfers. Start by offering a web presentation that is completely brand new to the Internet. What I mean by this is to try creating web content that is both intelligent and uniquely useful. Use your words to construct sentences and headings for your web pages. Don't just make a mish mash of everyone else's webshit; craft obviously important content intentionally. Think about offering the kind of stuff that Internaughts naturally would want to link to? Frequently that may mean an Internet marketer requires to venture beyond your existing web site(s) into adding a CMS (content management system) component to your web site promotion strategy (ie: a corporate blog).

The search engines (are suppose to be built to) highly reward the pages they discover whose off-site influences are a natural phenomena and not some puke pumped up from a trendy linking scheme. Important webpages get precedencewhen the searchengines decide to offer a qualified searcher some valuable web pages most applicable for a keyword (and most often for keyphrase) search. Web pages and websites need to be well optimized too, internally! Real good evolving content is of value based on its own merit, but of course, it's not always that way in the SERPs (search engine results pages). If you can highly rank web pages in competitively searched keyphrase arena then there's no real need to seek external empowerment; to go backling hunting. Any …

Logic? Well, if you have a web page about dogs and you want that webpage to rank well in the search engine results pages for the query "dogs" then wouldn't the actual word "dogs" appear in your content?

The 3% rule is a common misconception. A word can appear only once or it can appear a dozen times or more, and in some cases, not at all. What is important here is to support keywords and phrases. You do this by crafting sentences using your keyword and all kind of intelligent looking variables; including altered prefixes and suffixes, pluralizing, acronyms, synonymous phrases, antonyms, etc. etc. Avoid excessive repetition of your important words. Get them in heading tags indeed but don't make it obvious that you are optimizing for it.

Natural. Construct web content naturally. Place words in tags seemlessly with the Internet visitor's experience paramount and the search engines will respond accordingly, secondarily. Don't force feed the search engine and disappoint a qualified visitor. Balance. It's all about finding a balance in your keyphrase presentation.

You don't need the -in- part as "in" is a stop word and has no value SEO-wise. The search engine will ignore it and it takes up character spaces unnecessarily.

Hi friends,
I m a PHP programmer and very new to SEO process. I m in the work of a movie information web portal. And my doubt is

Is there is any relation with web hosting and SEO ?
Any additional features or technologies needed for hosting in successful SEO ?

Which hosting you guys prefer ? ( I mean the server or trusted hosting company )

Please advise
Thanks in advance
Rajeesh

Consider an IP address like a really big house. Let's say that you live in that house with many other people. Now, if all your room-mates are low-life scumbags and the house has an established bad reputation in town then, without even knowing who you are, you are judged negatively right off the bat because of where you live. It'll be a challenge to change the town's mind.

Back to search engines. Why force the search engine to take additional time in deciding whether your web pages are just more spam from a bad neighbourhood?

It's always best to offer Google your version of a description because it sometimes actually uses it to describe your web page. A well-crafted description can be an eye-catcher for searchers and could mean the difference between a visit from qualified traffic, or not.

It is quite possible. Perhaps your web site was originally hosted on a clean server and now it shares an IP address that has been discredited because of a large volume of spam. I think the search engine's rule of thumb is that if your neighbours are a bunch of low life spammers then it is likely that you are as well. This may not be fair and just but is a significant indicator.

Pursuit of PR is a useless endeavour in search engine optimisation. Internet marketers around the globe seem endlessly convinced that PR means something significant in life but any search engine optimizer knows that pumping up a ridiculous little green puke bar doesn't often equate into acquiring any additional volume of qualified traffic to your web pages. How can it when a web page with a PR value of 0 like your very own can consistently and esily outrank PR6+ web pages optimized for the exact same keyphrases. Go figure.

An often stated approach would be to concentrate on that which is within your own power; your content in your web pages and how you optimize all that to encourage the search engine to believe your stuff is credible, unique and intelligent.

Well, you can link the crap out of anything but that'll only get you noticed. Your actual uniquely and intelligently presented content will be the overall deciding factor whenever you decide to generate a meaningful, long-term relationship with the search engine.

The search engine will eventually figure it out. Here's a tip. Keep your important things the same, only modify secondary content and then keep creating new web pages for more newer content. Maybe start by trying your hand at blogging.

You might to incorporate these secondary keyphrases within your content. Introduce them in top level pages and put some emphasis on them in lower level web pages to back them up. Use a lot of synonymous keyphrases, abrreviations, altered verbs/prefixes/suffixes etc. to endorse your additional intelligently crafted content. This technique will harvest many more long tail phrases you may not have already considered important in your web site promotion.

...or just do like a lot of other "Internet marketers" do, pick a subject any subject, and write a couple of paragraphs about it, offer lots of links to web pages that actually have something intelligently created about the subject then plaster the pages with all sorts of relevant ads and banners. Spam the shit out of the Internet with links all over the place to your useless stuff and wait for the search engines to like it, determine it must be good stuff and offer it as a valuable resource for a search query. Abracadabra, lickity-split.

It's probably finding this small tidbit of information to offer the searchers because it is the only actual content it has discovered about your web page (seems like an ad of some kind). That's a problem with framing other content, the stuff you frame isn't part of your actual web page. You can try placing real content before the framed content in order to offer the search engine something concrete to use.

I'm not positive but I thought it meant the amount of times in percentage that the search engine can actually show ads that are relevant to the content of the web page. Now, if this is true then there is a little problem because I've notice my ads change according to searches performed from my IP address; the search engine now seem to factor in my my search history to figure out the best ads to display that would cause for a click through. Therefore, I probably am wrong about coverage and as there is little if anything substantial in Google help about this, I'll shut up now.

Lots of stuff gets by Google (or they let go by). You must try to remember that the search engines have accumulated hetherto unknown wealth on the back of the lowly hyperlink and is not in much of a position to discredit links from other sources. It's a fragile world they live in because if all they said they could do about garbage links was true then likely they'd have to penalize themselves.

Search engine rankings are determined by both off-site and on-site ranking influences with on-site ranking factors clearly having the advantage. A web page can have a zillion links pointing to it but if the content within the web pages doesn't compare in value then the off-site influences are usually negligible. What I'm saying is that your competitor may be ranking better for more than just incoming link triggers.

Older domain names, provided they haven't been overly spammed out, have already established a certain degree of authenticity and credibility with the search engine. After a content overhaul they wouldn't normally require any probationary period to ascertain rank.

All SEO begins with deciding on effective keyphrases and optimizing web pages for them. Try to find ones that are attainable mostly using onpage and on-site search engine optimization. Try to figure out ways to make your web pages important enough on their own for the search engine to deem the content credible enough to highly rank in its results pages. See what I'm getting at ... craft web content in such a way that allows off-site ranking influences to determine themselves. Let links to your stuff come naturally, if any. Focus internally, all that which is within your control, your webpages, your coding and how the SEO things you do within your pages reinforce keyphrases and relate to one another.

... if the majority of your search engine marketing budget is being eaten up by "visitors" that spend less than a second on your web page then chances are that your ads are being clicked through by "Internet visitors" deriving from Adsense marketing networks. This practice sucks up your money and generating revenues for the owners of the web pages that your ads appear on. Don't allow the search engine to place your ads on all its "network partners" (as is the default I think).

In SEO, there are on-page/on-site optimizable components and then there are off-site influences (link building). On-site SEO in fact constitutes most of what real search engine optimization is all about. Effective on-page SEO requires honed skills that need to be developed over time and with experience whereas link building is a no brainer and can be implemented by the average first grader.

Get it? On-site optimizers have genuine SEO skills. They do not manipulate the search engines; whereas link builders are SEO wannabees' relying on tricking the search engines into determining that their webpages have importance due to the volume, relevancy and credibility of incoming links pointing to their webpages. One type of SEO is predictable, sustainable and powerful whereas the other is inconsistent and generally temporary.

Briefly, cloaking is the process of providing the search engine with one set of web coding (usually highly optimized) while the Internet visitor receives a friendlier, more appealing web page.

oh, OK, catch phrase? catch phrase, let's see ... how 'bout ... "We Ride The Edge"

I see an image of a computer geek at his terminal and there's a horse watering and tied up beside the nerds cubicle; then he hits the enter key, mounts his trusty steer and rides out of the office into the sunset.

Why waste any time with a search engine that doesn't index intelligently, hasn't even the capability to offer live web pages and demands a time consuming registration process of any kind. These types of search engines were popular in the mid 1990's and have hardly any purpose in today's Internet world.

... and as the serach engine results pages offer video and news results, they too fall into the "broader term" cscgal refers to, I think.

wowie me seen two dreams seo happy fred

the search engine will only really consider awarding any value to the first few instances of a repetitive link. I think it knows what stepping into a linking scheme looks like and shouldn't really devalue your web pages too much for a handful of these errors of linking judgement. Are your web pages indicating any PR value?

... with no keyphrase or competitor research? Sounds to me you'll be content to rank well for some pretty obscure keyphrases that'll barely be considered worthwhile achievements.

As you seem to be able to rank web pages well for specific obviously useful keyphrases, I'd suggest you'd try broadening your keyphrase reach by incorporating synonymous keyphrases, meaningful secondary keyphrases of all types and also go for that auxiliary keyphrase traffic (keyphrases you haven't thought important yet but will realize later because of the additional volume of targeted traffic it carries) you can net using word variables ... and ah ... throw in a dash of that effective linguistic capabilities you've been hiding.

well ... maybe start by writing intelligently, then throw in a little fundamental knowledge of how to emphasize keyphrases using on-site ranking factors and away you go ...

What about meta description of the site? Should that be the same for the whole site or should I have different ones for each page depending on what the page offers.

That's a good question. I used to think that having a different description for each web page works best but lately I'm noticing alot of web site (and particularly blogs with the same description for every web page) keeping the description consistent throughout the entire site and performing very well for the primary keyphrases. Varying descriptions each webpage will increase your keyphrase dynamicability and enforce more keyphrases somewhat but keeping the description the same for each page may have its advantage (for primary, important keyphrases), I think.

I have a few websites, where one is the name site and the rest are just for building links. What I have done is that I have created many category pages on the primary website. However, I have also used another domain name for one category page. Will this affect my ranking? I also want to know if this will give result than the regular linking practice. I am just praying that it doesn’t come with a negative impact. Has anyone done the same practice? Did it prove to be fruitful? If it had a negative effect, what did you do?

It all depends really.

The worse case scenario would be: if you have many similar-looking web sites registered under the same name on the same cheap server with essentially the same content throughout all the web sites and all pointing links to the same place, it will look fishy.

The best case scenario would be: the search engine doesn't detect the manipulation and ranks your important web pages according to their merit.

Hello,

I have 2 sites with PR4 and one of them dropped to PR2. I really don't know why is that?

I use the same seo strategies by submitting them to social bookmarking sites and article directories.

My question is,

How to increase and maintain Page Rank?

Thanks very much.

Why would you want to increase Page Rank?

I am doing a self study on SEO and it does make me interested so much about this Internet Marketing Business. I have tried such like profile links, forum posting, blog commenting and article submission trying to understand what SEO really meant and its sense. Then I got this idea of making it a part time job to earn money. Can anybody have any suggestions how to get a client? Just starting as freelance SEO VA or any Virtual Assistant job that I can do. I would like to start my rate as $35 part time. Any further information about the job and how to do such is highly appreciated. Thanks guys.

Well I would say that a good signature could steer some interest your way. You can put together a good signature that'll attract attention from your Control Panel settings.

Hey what's up. I only want to comment on your SEO tip #6 - Send your website address on the free website directory and search engine for free.

This sounds like it could be really good advice but there's caution to be had when swamping all the hundreds of thousands of dumpster directories out there solely for the purpose of attracting some kind of search engine link ranking juice in places most often created exclusively to meet easy ad link money/link sharing objectives. Although the search engine may like the revenue generation machine it has assisted in developing, it must'nt enjoy the obvious link scheming, link building, link manipulating intentions. Sure, it may be helpful in an SEO strategy to list web pages to reputable and to the industry authoritative directories and search engines, but hand-pick these few yourself.

Whatever you decide to do, do not buy into a "listing to 10,000 directories for $19.95 a month" (frequently outsourced or automated) schemes. All you may achieve from this kind of "SEO" is gaining poor credibility for your own web page content and having to somehow get forgiven by the search engine for having your links in every "bad link neighbourhood" on the planet.

wow ... over working meta tags or crafting a web page Title a little too long hardly merits being consider the same as Black Hat SEO techniques. No. Each search engine optimizers will learn in time to the extent he can flex his on-page optimization muscles. To me, and ironically, the kinds of teachings and triumphs and pains an Internet marketer gets by flowing with his own self-determined SEO experiences are part and parcel at becoming skilled in the fine art of white hat search engine optimization.

Hi, do you know how backlinks from domain affects subdomains and is it better to focus on backlinking domain or particular subdomain?

let me see ... that's a good question ... it sat here for 12 days unanswered ... I'll take a stab at it ... Ok. I have an answer.

It depends.

It depends on what you may ask.

Well ... this to me is not really about domains or sub-domains at all, but of an indecision to determine which web page is more important to you. I would think the rule of thumb here would be to better and more frequently internally link the one you deem more important.

What will draw qualified traffic from coming back and digging into your site deeper, then sharing it with his networks? Well, content of course. Evolving, uniquely presented, intelligent content. Optimized content and making full use of the optimizable web page components. Crafting web pages, not frenzily slapping stuff together in an effort to make the next link get-together in time. No,no, no. The art of SEO lies in the craft. It's only in this way can you rock and roll all the way up the hill to the top of the dumpster heap of mediocrities and then stay there.

Outsourcing link building is about as intelligent as declaring you have a bunch of spare money to give away. Everybody and their cousin is after your link building money. Some actually pay others to do this meaningless task, some get it done for free, some do it automatically using free software and web apps, others rely on exploiting the misfortunes of their local labour force many of whom don't even speak English (and barely can write in their own language), copy/paste click, copy/paste click all day every day in hot pursuit of a western hunger for some fabled green bar search engine elixer ...

Anyone know why when I upload a tested video to Youtube it gets chopped up and small pieces get removed and spliced together causing the song to be even more unbearable that it would be naturally. The result of snipping and glueing makes my videos completely out of sinc with the audio too.

Can you tell me what this site was coded in?
... but WP sites are usually a lot better looking... Any ideas?

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 3.0" /> looks like a blog to me

Thanks canadafred.

We seem to be doing alright, even with just a PR4 rating - on a decent day we can attract around 10,000 page views, which I don't think is too bad as the site was only started as a hobby about 18 months ago.

Ideally, I wouldn't carry any advertising at all, but the site is taking up an ever-increasing amount of my time and the rent has to be paid somehow!

A web page to get to a PR4 doesn't require any external links; can get from PR0 to PR4 based on the on-site ranking factors alone, especially with a powerful, naturally evolving and consistent internal linking structure.

Gotta' pay the rent somehow.

Can anyone advise what is the maximum number of text link ads to have on our <snip> Home Page without going down in page rank?

As of now we have a Page Rank of 4 and our Alexa rating is 285,000.

Sounds like you are almost afraid of having search engine ads or maybe you think you'll get yourself entangled into one of those ever so mutating third party ad network thingies'?

Ads are friendly suggestions to offer your Internet visitor. Are they friendly, are they effective, tricksters, even legal?

... and a rant about PR values ... What is a PR4 web page? How does a PR4 web page compare to a PR0 web page or a PR10 web page in the search engine results pages for competitively searched keyphrases? Check yourself and determine the merit of judging and implementing an SEO strategy dictacted by the performance of a little green bar that measures something almost incidental and offers the drooling link masses ratings 0 to 10 or greyed out .. a kind of perverse contest ... and the bunch of link builders go nuts ... outpowering each other PR point for point for link and link ... and the search engine ... perpetuating SEO fables ...

It is a strategic way to get one way link still one way is much better.

That makes as much sense as sending suckers to treat the pike when there is nothing better than an easy meal of walleye, which will be the most satisfying meal of any hungry trophy pike. Nothing compares! (Note: it is illegal to use walleye as bait in all Canadian provinces and territories unless you are indiginous to this land).

Those obsessed with seeking externally to empower their mediocrities basically admit that their own stuff cannot stand on its own two feet in the search engine results pages. Shouldn't they first consider creating their own off-site ranking influences if they are so hungry to feed their link monsters. Rather than depending on the effectiveness of someone else's linked-up crap that's been solely created in an attempt to meet their own "SEO" objectives ... see where I'm going ... why not stay focused internally, this way you take your additional on-site work and turn it into your best off-site ranking factor, let the rest of the linking stuff happen naturally according mostly to the merit of your web page's content ...

Hi guys,

Hope things are rocking with everyone.

I use a Wordpress theme that has a few links to its sponsors in the footer. I guess I should not remove or change them. So I would like to restrict the search engines from accessing that part of the site. This is because they could penalize me. I run the risk of being penalized on arbitrary links. However, I don’t know how to go about it. Can someone show me the right way to do it? You can also come ahead with any other ideas or suggestions. Thanks a lot.
Bye.

Hi, I also had somewhat the same concern when I replaced my old blogger template with a customized third party one that included a couple of links in the footer. The effects of the change were either negligible or non-existent. Seems to me that having a "signature" link or two in a blog template footer has become a common enough encounter for the spiders and they have adapted to distinguish this trend, then value it or devalue it accordingly.

Also, in my opinion, if you are using a third party template, out of respect for the template creator, credits to the developer should not be removed. They have provided something of value to you for free, retaining a simple link endorsement is a sign of your gratitude for their gift.

What is the proper way to comment on blogs? Using anchor text is important? Or isn't using a real Name more important to be accepted by the author? Doesn't Google know your trying to use anchor text since blog comment code is similar and that may penalize your site?

Anyone have feedback on this?

Comments should be added to blog articles when an Internet visitor has read the article and has something useful to contribute. This creates an opportunity for a textual anchor. A textual anchor should be deployed with the intention of having other Internet visitors follow, ones who have taken the time to read the original blog article, read your comment and are intrigued enough to click your link. So, however the commentor chooses to insert a link varies, of course real names seem more trustworthy than pseudonyms, but it is usually found that the more natural, logical the hyperlink is placed, the better both the Internet visitor and the search engine will respond.

Hi CanadaFred:

I've heard before that some sites opt for some misspellings on their key words to get traffic from people who typed it wrong. Something like if you are a writing service and have a page optimized for "good grammer", then people who are looking for you and misspells grammar as grammer would see your site instead of your competitors. Of course it works with popular misspellings.

Mispellings have long been considered to have an SEO advantage but the search engines know this and can track intentional mispellings and demerit web pages that tend to use this as a traffic generation source. The object of a search engine's game is to offer intelligent content and mispellings tend to indicate lack of. Content should always be created for the Internet visitor, primarily, and a web page loaded with intentional mispellings makes for a poor visitor experience and sends a negative impression to a potential customer who happens to stumble upon the web page.