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HTML validation provides several advantages in SEO. Firstly, it indicates to the search engine that you care about your web page and haven't just thrown it together haphazourdly in haste like a microwaveable dinner. Also, erroneous code can cause for a search engine crawler to reject a deeper crawl of the web page and capturing content and links beyond the errors; incorrectly nested elements seem to be the most cumbersome. Finally, clean code loads quicker encouraging the Internet visitor to return to that web page or dig deeper in sub-level pages whereas really badly crafted code can stop a browser from displaying the web page correctly or altogether (although this is less likely to occur today as most web browser compensate for even the most sloppy stuff).

I heard somewhere that clocking and doorway pages are blackhat seo technique and i had read more about it but i did get it so please tell me about those.

Cloaking is the process of providing the search engine with one set of HTML code while offering an Internet visitor another. The Internet visitor gets a normal web page while the search engine gets a highly optimized one.

Doorway pages (cookie-cutter pages) are additional landing pages (splash pages) that are slightly varied one from the other according to keyphrases and are intended to capture targeted traffic according to specific keyphrases. A web site should only have one landing page and in SEO, the landing page should clearly offer the search engine and the Internet visitor any primary keyphrases. Secondary and auxilliary keyphrases can be introduced in sub-level pages.

It is certainly better to create your own off-site ranking influences than to harvest external links forcibly but not in a manner intended exclusively to manipulate the search engine but rather in a way that encourages your Internet visitor to click the link for additional content resources, of yours.

Tips and tricks are always used in internet marketing . please suggest me the best tips to make my site promoted .

Like any other type of marketing, conjure up innovative ways to stick out in a crowd. Strive for uniqueness, authoritativeness and make web pages for people (not search engines) that are pleasant to visit.

Demand seems to admit its writers contributions are crafted for the sake of pleasing the the search engine primarily as a means of generating revenues and then perhaps in a modest gesture of contributing something important to the Internet. Isn't this ass-backwards? All the mediocre writers out in Demandland submit articles for the sake of offering some unique perspective on already over-written about topics, nothing more, nothing less. There should be no value merited to that kind of unnecessary content creation. Essentially it is glorifies spam in my books.

what is the relation between popularity and competition in SEO field? i don't mean the formula.i mean the conceptional relation. i mean can we say more competition cause more popularity or viseversa,more popularity cause more competition?

more competition about a topic means it is general that many sites talk about it and so maybe more people use the web for finding information about that topic and this cause more popularity. on the other side,if more people search a special term on the web means there is some need for that topic and this cause site owner to talk about that topic to attract more visitors to their site and it cause growing competition.

what is your idea? am i think wrong?

In SEO, usually, a competitive keyphrase is also a popularly searched one. In other words, a term that has a high search frequency has high competition in the search engine results pages.

Now, this isn't always the case. Sometimes a term is "trending" and can have little competition of significance but those situations are generally short lived phenomena.

Your ranking fluctuations have nothing to do with particular days of the week or how hard you blog on certain days. Either you rank or you don't and that depends on over two hundred on-site and off-site factors.

Google Pagerank has little bearing on where your web pages will rank in the results pages. A web page with a PR1 can outclass a PR6.

You hardly need backlinks to amass PR. A web page can attain a PR4 by itself with 0 backlinks (or it can be a PR0 with 100 backlinks).

PR is a dinosaur when it comes to search engine optimization. It once had a purpose (and that lasted for about a month).

Much of what I've read so far in this thread encourages the SEO newcomer to find trendy ways to link the shit out of his web pages regardless of the caliber of the content. To throw webpages together then seek reinforcement outside the work in order to make the pages appear to be important is, to me, lame, usually not very effective and does nothing to offer the Internet anything new of any real value.

As a matter of fact, link building schemes don't normally in themselves sustain high rankings in competitive keyphrase environments. It is always best to concentrate on enhancing the visitor's experience by deploying high caliber, original, well-optimized content on web pages that exceptionally, but naturally, make full use of the optimizable web page components.

Focusing on delivering unique web content and working with that which is within your control (the on-site ranking factors) ensures the search engine that your webpages are important, credible and worthy of a visit. Focusing on link manipulation indicates to the search engine that you feel your webpages inadequate to compete with web pages that are naturally important.

Examine your keyphrase competitors. Some have high caliber content with little or no outside support while others stand the test of time on their own.

Hello Everybody!
First of all i am glad to be here seems to be really good board and this will be my first post!
I have just launched dating website and i have submited my page to google!
How long does it normlly take to get page indexed?
Also i have noticed them some other ''bots'' are visiting my site like yahoo slurp and some unknown onces,i was just wondering how could that be if i have not subbmited my page with no one else apart of google!

I know it is really important to pick domain name and i think i have piked pretty good one!
As i can see i should not be pasting links so i wount i will just write it below because it is really important for me to know PRO opinion
domain is ::need.me.uk::!for me it seems to be good domain name but as we all know good once have been taken away long time ago,so how come this one was still there?and is it really that good as i think?

Thanks!

You can often get indexed practically immediately should the search engines find your web site linked from somehwre it crawls regularly.

Robots and crawlers will find your site should it be linked somewhere.

Your subdomain exists on a domain that doesn't really exist. Probably not so hot a name as you may think it.

You have an awful lot of repetitive content in …

If your articles are of any use to the Internet, they'll get found and read.

Maybe focus on uniquely emphasizing important keyphrases by crafting intelligently optimized content.

Search engine optimization is about amassing qualified Internet visitors by compelling them to click through the search results to your web pages; make the visit worthwhile for them.

sounds like some sort of SEO abracadabra to me

... Don’t go for spam links.and my experience is as follows ... Thanks

and then you go to describe five ways to spam. See the irony in all this? Links aren't your exclusive Google juice intended for you to spread around haphardly for the sole sake of pleasing a spider. No. Do something useful with your time like crafting exceptionally well optimized important web pages that uniquely offer the Internet something of value rather than go around making it appear that you have created something important enough to merit volumes of incoming links from all over the Internet swarming your mediocrities like a bunch of ...

- 5 keywords and/or 5 keyphrases per page (keep them relevant ie: abbreviations, synonymous keyphrases etc.) for Meta Keywords

- 2 short complete captivating informative sentences for Meta Description

- short, accurate, not overly repetitive yet compelling Title

- don't forget to disable the DMOZ description qualifier <meta name=”ROBOTS” content=”NOODP”> (if you don't want your web page's description in the SERPs appear ridiculous and outdated)

- concentrate on quality words and phrases in all your optimizable HEAD tags and try to always have your focus on the Internet visitor's experience and perceptions rather than the search engine's.

ya ... ok ... anyone think they're gonna' start acting like a search engine again rather than this shit stirring self-proclaimed global diplomat ... go Google

The robot.txt file is kind of obsolete, or at least fairly redundant, if you use XML Sitemaps.

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Hi Everyone,
I am doing work for an auction website from 3 months which got 2 PR in last google PR update and It's also generating good traffic but It's have only 3 back links in google so now I want to increase my site back links in google. Please provide me some good sites where I can generate do follow back links for my site which can be count in google.

Thanks in advance.

Google PR value doesn't really affect your rankings in the search engines so decide now, do you want to keep getting "good traffic" or do you want to manipulate the search engine? If you want to keep getting "good traffic" then do the classy thing and keep working on the website and crafting good content. If you want to increase your Goggle PR, one way is to keep begging people for backlinks like you are now doing.

Tips for Image Optimization

1)Use the HTML img-tag the right way
2)Don't scale the image via HTML
3)Use descriptive image filenames
4)Use the right format
5)Optimize the image for fast loading
6)Link the image

Tips for Video Optimization
1)Make sure that your video clips are relevant and informative
2)Give your video a Catchy Title
3)Keep Your Videos to five minutes or less
4)Make use of a Video Sitemap
5)Brand your Video with your Logo
6)Submit your video to RSS.

Just to add ...
Make sure you use Youtube! Make use of a unique keyphrase rich description and Title and name the video logically (ie seo-videos.mov).

Onpage SEO can only ever influence around 10% of the ranking factors google take into account. So its nothing to do with underlying code.

Just to clarify this, in some keyphrase races this percentage can appear to be accurate, but for the vast majority of competitive keyphrase arenas, when onsite optimization is effectively deployed, the web pages can compete with even the most manipulated contenders of the niche. Check the SERPs carefully, don't underestimate the power of well-optimized content. The effects of things like PR values and backlinks are extremely variable, not dependable and frequently completely negligible; in the face of high quality optimized content and skillful onpage SEO.

Just be sure that there is a link somewhere on the Internet that the search engine crawls, which is practically everything, including a forum signature.

Whether the keyphrase targets are competitively squabbled for by clever search engine optimisers or whether they take the form of long tail keyphrase net casting (that's all the secondary and auxiliary keyphrases some of them the web owner and the the SEO wouldn't think important to the bottom line, these incidentally, get discovered later on with traffic analysis), the price should be based on the results generated by optimized webpages. How many more qualified visitor's (qualified visitors meaning the ones that find the web pages because they performed a keyphrase search) are does his work enhance turning traffic into paying customers.

SEO in itself is quite useless for the average joe business owner or corporate presentations. Search engine optimization must also encompass the process of turning traffic into telephone calls, or orders, or whatever. Remember that SEO is a form of Internet marketing, a cost-effectively one that, when well done, drives in high volumes of quality traffic.

As there is only so much SEO one can perform on-site, on every web page. The fees should be based on these on-site optimization skills and their capacity to consistently rank highly for keyphrase searches.

A monitoring time of 6 months to one year is essential for the search engine optimizer to ensure that the search engine results pages performances are secure and to do only that which is necessary to attain and sustain decent enough rankings to warrant rehiring, whatever that may be.

Therefore, for me, SEO pricing …

Go to Wikipedia and read up on Search Engine Optimization.

Stop searching, start developing more optimized content then stop worrying about irrelevant search engine stuff like Google PageRank.

I never thought that there is green and grey hat SEO. Well, some webmasters now are using grey hat SEO because Google already detected the black hat SEO technique right?

Most attempted Black Hat SEO techniques are easily detectable despite the Internet marketer's explanation.

Grey hats are mostly the off-site ranking influences exploiters; the link builders; practically any linking scheme.

Note: the only natural link occurs when a webmaster thinks the webpage worthy of a link, offering an additional, pertinent resource for his Internet visitor. Most other incoming link strategies constitute search engine spam.

It all depends on many factors. First: ... follow the advice Google has on their site for webmasters.

... in addition, seems likely to me that you will eventually rank well for Google searches because other major search engines like your web presentation.

I would think to just keep doing whatever it is you are doing; hopefully it is enforcing keyphrase targets with optimized, visitor-friendly, fresh, unique, important, intelligent content!!

I'll throw in ... also, some other factors that could cause inconsistent results like this occur when:

- You are using a regional search (ie google.ca, yahoo.ca ...) in some of your keyphrase tests.

- Your web browser's search activity is personalized through Web History technology

Your site is probably too new. The search engine hasn't even a snapshot yet. Also, you have tons of hyperlinks to sub-level pages including those hidden by comment tags; fix this.

When Meta tags are used properly they can be of great value in SEO.

Meta Description, for example, offers the search engine your ideas about what the webpage is about. The search engine considers it and can be convinced that in fact your ideas are accurate and use your Description on the search engine results pages (instead of alternative descriptions it determines otherwise). Not only does this tag offer you a chance to compel your qualified visitors to clickthrough the search engine results into your webpage but it allows you to steer the search engines in the right keyphrase direction. The Meta Description undoubtedly is a fundamental on-site ranking factor that should be carefully crafted.

The Meta Keywords is another imporatnt HTML tag (that the search engines originally introduced to SEO) that allows the webmaster an opportunity to indicate what are the significant keywords/keyphrases for a web site, keywords you think merit attention. The search engines don't necessarily use this tag to boost value for the web page in a keyphrase search request, they generally use it as a guide post to what is of importance according to the webmaster.

hey dominique7

Your landing page is the most important page of your website. It introduces your keyphrase targets. Sub-pages both support your keyphrase targets and introdiuce secondary keyphrases and ultimately net in all the auxiliary keyphrases.

Secoindaries include synonymous keywords/phrases, abbreviations, acronyms, pluralized words, altered prefixes/suffixes, antonyms, morphologies, lexicons etc. (note: always remember that the search engine utilizes artificial intelligence and knows what is important and unique to a webmaster according to his use of words in the content, coding practices and employment of the optimizable web site components).

Auxiliary keyphrases, well, they are difficult to predict really. Those are the keyphrase searches that humans use and easily find your site ranked highly, because somehow as a result of your uniquely important web pages, they have (usually) easily discovered your webpages.

Javascript isn't too bad especially if they are linked files and not crowding your web page coding. Make sure your webpages are crawlable and that the search engine will find your content.

Just another way to look at it ...
It is always best to work with what is within your control, your web site and all its webpages. By focusing on the on-site ranking factors and enhancing the visitor's experience you'll never have to concern yourself with manipulating the off-site ranking factors (backlinks essentially). Keep focused on deploying high caliber optimized content and ultimately your work will overpower even the mightiest, trendiest link schemed, artifially pumped up mediocrities. Your web pages will (usually quickly) rank amongst the top keyphrase competitors and they will sustain themselves naturally. Quality backlink will come on their own or they won't come, this is irrelevant when you stay concentrated on developing a quality web presentation.

Hi all I have a small blog site with a decent number of views and i want to show that i can make a good bit of money from the google adds which i have placed on it. bascialy i want people to click the ads under where i have typed "please click these ads" and i will do the same for you on your site ? fair as fair i make so you can make to.

please pm me here if you are interested i will send you my link and you send me yours thanks.

Click me and I will click you is click-fraud.

... I want targeted traffic ...

So you best just look around here and figure out what search engine optimization is first then give it a go yourself or, if you lack confidence in being successful in the simple art of search engine optimisation then find someone else to do it for you.

If you try this yourself, concentrate on crafting intelligent content and focus your optimization on-site. Don't worry too much about making mistakes in SEO, practically any situation is salvageable nowadays doesn't really matter how shabby it is.

... link building, as an SEO strategy, is over rated. There are soooo many people manipulating the off-site ranking factors that your web pages get diluted in the sea of artificlially pumped up mediocrities and are as feebly visible as all the others wasting the qualified visitor's time, the search engine's resources and Internet bandwidth.

Content. Important, credible, authentic, unique and intelligently presented content will draw in links naturally (that means you don't have to devise any link building schemes), maybe not very many of them, but some and because these links originate from a webmaster's natural desire to offer his Internet visitor additional valuable resources, and are inherently relevant, intelligent and generally of established value, these naturally generated links affect the most positive influence on your web pages in the long term.

Essentially the formula could be:
1. Meaningful web content can sustainably stand on its own two feet in the search engine results pages
2. Useless web pages require search engine manipualtion in order to have a chance to temporarily appear as if they are important and of some value and get themselves offered in the rankings

Link building strategies come and go, they are trendy. They are effective as long as it takes for the search engine or the rest of the link schemers to catch up and to rapidly dampen their SERP performance whereas highly crafted, evolving, well-optimized web sites rock and roll the results pages today, tomorrow and forever. Link …

hello friends,

I also worked on domain site with SEO activities, but now i got to work on subdomain site, the site is india.liveoncampus.com.

Plz reply soon, its urgent!!!!!

There is absolutely no search engine optimization deployed on this site, unless you are cloaking with that funky redirect off the landing page.

... Please, review and give comments about my website (go to my profile, because I'm afraid I will be labeled as a Spam by admin)...

Hey and welcome,

Just to let you know ...

There a place in your Profile tools where you can put your link within your signature (Edit Signature).

You could mention your web site's url here, as it is somewhat pertinent to our general types of discussions we have here but if you would have hyperlinked it. oh well then, it may have been unhyperlinked or even snipped off!!! Ouch! But your posting doesn't look spammy in any way, to me at least. No, your posting seems a genuine cry for assitence in understanding a few Internet marketing things.

Hi everyone,
I want to know that how many back links can be sufficient for increase my site PR. Now my site have 2 PR and I want to move my site PR from 2 to 4 in next google PR update. I am also doing work on On-page and Off-page seo techniques.

Thanks in advance

Actually, you don't need any backlinks (that's when Google indicates 0 backlinks, Yahoo on the other hand will likely indicate some links it has found and the MSNbot gone mad wingding Bing does whatever it does) at all to have a web page assigned a PR4 value. On-site optimization and internal linking structure is sufficient to achieve this on its own (note: now of course it's nice to compliment normal business web sites with a corporate "external" blog; not for the so much for the purpose of feeding hyperpowered links back to the mother site but also as a source of credible and relevant content; any off-site element of your web presentation essentially should become an extension of the mother site. One should enforce the other. In taking control of your own off-site actrivities initially (and letting later off-site influences to determine themselves naturally) your off-site ranking factors are your on-site ranking factors elsewhere.

In cases when a PR4 value is assigned without any real external off-site influences indicates that the search engine is impressed with the package show of force and particularly impressed with the webpages. The whole shebang is well …

... Many thanks in advance

Common Blogging Mistakes

Blog Post Titles

As the subject of your post is used to develop the web page's name, you should try to get keyphrases in there. For example, if you want to promote your son's baseball career it would be better to entitle the posting "Saskatoon Little League Champion Grand Slam Win Tournament" rather than "Bobby hits one out of the park". This way you'll end up with a web page that is named saskatoon-little-league-champion.html

Labels or Tags or Blog Categories

Don't overuse tags. A blog post doesn't need to be in 30 different tags. Minimize the tags, maximize the postings in the tags.

Blog Comments

Moderate your comments. Remove spam swiftly. Intelligent comments should be kept with any links remaining attached. Encourage intelligent commentary.

Posting Content

Don't write one line, purposeless, meaningless, drab, boring stuff. Craft content. Work your paragraphs in SEO friendly ways. Figure out how to get images and videos in there, use the HTML tag attributes. Emphasize important keyphrases using bold, underline or any other method. Write unique, important sentences. Keep posts condensed to one or two subjects.

There lots more about SEO for blogging but that should get you started in the right direction.

HELP !
:'(

I just briefly looked at the web site in your signature gengenie and can probably write a book about all the things you are not doing right but let me just start with major HTML coding errors such as :

It would probably help if you took your Meta Description and Meta Keywords tags out of the <body> and into the <head> where they belong.

Then I'll simply add that you should spend a few days studying search engine optimization (paying particular attention to the on-site ranking factors), run your web pages through a free W3C markup validation service and then spend a day reading up on the search engines quality content guidelines.

Hi,

I optimized my wordpress with All-in-one-SEO and on general settings - but my description on google still stands as I wouldn't like.

Now, I found out that DMOZ put this description, but I didn't put that kind of description, how can I change it?

Thanks.

So you're stuck with your DMOZ listing. You'll have to remove your site's listing (rather than attempt to replace it which could be even worse) and rewrite your Meta Description to the way you want it to appear in the search engine results pages (I recommend two short but complete keyphrase rich sentences). Make sure much of your content on your landing page is relevant to your Meta Description (have keyphrases and keyphrase variables in paragraghs, headings, Title etc.).

This could take a while, I've seen up to six months. You may have to try removing your DMOZ listing several times depending on the expediency of the moderator.

Hey friends,

Please suggest me strategy plan (ways to reach the goal) for the following:

I want to reach top # 10 on Google for a keyword which has about 6,900,000 competitors pages. I am fine with ONSITE SEO, What are the approaches I can apply to do so, Let me know your suggestions friends :)

These 6.9 million web pages aren't your keyphease competitors, they are search results. You need only examine the first two or three search engine results pages for various of your keyphrases (across the various major search engines) to help you determine who are your keyphrase competitors.

Any help will be appreciated.

Although I could not make much sense out of the last couple of comments (or how it all apllied), I'm still inclined to suggest you consider going with a third party search provider.

Not too long ago, many businesses were jumping into creating a Twitter presence. I dont hear much of that now. So my question for you are:
1. Do you think its over rated?
2. Is Twitter "old" now?
3. Did businesses gained ROI with Twitter?

I find Twitter still very useful. Gets what you write here all over the place at the push of a button.

One of my SEO friend told me that he is having some secret method to find out niche related dofollow blogs. but he disagreed to share that with me. Is there anyone knows that method to find out dofollow blogs?

Put an ad in your local newspaper "searching for dofollows". That's the big secret. "Looking for the mighty dofollows, will take anything that comes along but niche related would be real nice ..."

Hi all,
I want to know about video blog and the problem is that Is it a good idea to place a video on a blog to make your blog post effective. And the reason behind this only to raise traffic to blog. Need guidance in this regard.

With Regards

Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya ... blog's a great spot for a interesting video. Put the video on Youtube and link your Youtube video from a well-constructed blog posting. Make sure that, while you are iin Youtube, that you compose a Description and craft a Title for your video, put it in the right category etc .. Away you go ...

reciprocal URL means with which site owners request link exchange

OK, here goes ...

Wow.

Thanks for showing up!

Alexa ranking don't mean squat when it comes to ranking web pages in the search engines, doesn't really matter what search engines your "target" ("target" quoted because targeting web pages for specific search engines is almost an obsolete SEO strategy).

There shouldn't be any significant considerations given to Alexa when deciding how to optimize webpages. Alexa can provide indicators as to what's happening on the web but they too are not very significant in the bigger scope of winning keyphrase competitions.

...Can someone make some suggestions on what I can do?

You might want to get your site listed on some authoritative industry specific directories, work Christian forums, use your launch as a news story and list with a news feeder ... you might want to try your hand at ranking your webpages in the search engine results pages for specific keyphrase searches (you can do this in the natural results using SEO which doesn't cost anything but may require you learn some new skills and it may take some time) ... what else .. try to get your web site address out in other media (newspapers, flyers, posters, magazines, bulletin boards etc.) ... get innovative!

...Can it be the reason to penalize the site by Google?...

Depends.

But first ... It's not really that a web page gets "penalized" for keyphrase stuffing. It's more as if the web page wasn't awarded value for that keyphrase because it was overly stuffed. You need to generate value of your own content, your own webpages both using the on-site and off-site ranking factors effectively.

Also on that note, webpages can get value once assigned taken away, because the source of generating the value (naturally or artificially) is gone or has itself been detected and determined to be of little value. So in this case, demerited web pages are usually a result of a bad backlink building idea (manipulating the off-site ranking factors) and have little to do with keyphrases (unless of course when the search engine optimizer chooses to continuously repeat keyphrase anchor text in the backlinks, rather than exercising his keyphease dynamicability).

Ok armed with that:

1. If I tell you "I'm a search engine optimzation expert and I am passionate about Internet marketing. Ethical search engine optimizer Bobby Joe Dufus offering world class SEO Services, for FREE!"

Then no ... the search engine should in fact reward this. But ...

2. If I tell you "Looking for SEO? I'm an SEO expert and am world''s best link building, best green bar pumper SEO. SEO expert Milton Miles Mcgraw offering the world FREE SEO services!!!!"

Then yes ... the search …

Aside with what has already been pointed out, you may consider evaluating the differences between and the pros and cons of the various ways websites can be optimized for the search engines. I suggest you go to wikipedia for the most accepted definition of white hat seo (search engine optimisation), grey hat seo and black hat seo. What your link exchanging qualifies is under grey hat seo. Your SERP (search engine results pages) situation can be rectified rapidily and decisively with the implementation of a sound, evolving search engine marketing strategy.

Then read the search engine's own quality content guidelines and away you go to long lasting sutainable search engine results, even in the most competitive keyphrase environments.