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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.

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...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.

happygeek commented: Well said sir! +11
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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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 …

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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

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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.

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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.

Allison2009 commented: Always I respect his replies. I read all his comments. I expect more contribution from him +1
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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.

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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.

canadafred 220 SEO Alumni Team Colleague Featured Poster

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.

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reciprocal URL means with which site owners request link exchange

OK, here goes ...

Wow.

Thanks for showing up!

almostbob commented: Thankyou, made my evening again +3
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You know, these are good questions. I don't know if I can answer any of them but accept a chance for an emotional outlet, this is therapeutic because it allows me not to stuff my rage for search engine manipulators to pile up to high. I release it slowly but steadily throughout. I do enjoy being free of any anger.

So, I have been holding myself back from blasting the Bookmarking search engine optimizers and its sister act the great News of the year story search engine optimizers. Does everything you people create need to be bookmarked or made newsworthy as SERP NEWS headlines. I'm so tired of searching for "search engine optimization service" and reading "SEO company from blah blah blah offers the first ever FREE SEO QUOTES!!! on the first page of results. Crapola, thinking themselves SEOs, just clever Internet marketers getting easy ad spaces by spamming the search engines their agendas as being news or finding ways to list their pages to be bookmarked as being of some importance and meriting something in return for creating the illusion successfully, SERP swindling ...

Have something worth bookmarking? Have something worthy as submitting as news for SERP showing? No. Not usually. You people look to make your webpages appear to be worthy of qualified visitors using search engine trickery. Looking for any good easy to get unmerited link and use the growing number of ridiculous News services for cheap, sometimes free, easy places to get your ads …

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Hi, I have two available names for my site. One is a dot com and the other is a dot me. My question is did dot me catch on? Anyone know any reason not to use dot me besides dot com is more popular and comes to most peoples minds? The .me is appropriate for the site but will that hurt the chances of people finding it. Any comments or experiences with dot me would be great.
Thanx.

Search engines usually consider a dot com TLD more legitimate than .info, .biz, .net, etc. and award some additional value to the webpages within. If I am not mistaken, the .me extension is a country specific one being often used for purposes beyond regional usage and would fall within the same "spammed out" pool of extensions originally intended to be country specific but exploited by Internet marketers globally (like the .tv, .it, .cc etc.). Having a web site hosted in a country another than where the extension derives (ie a .ca TLD hosted in India) would raise red flags for the search engines, especially if the extension is already well known to be playgrounds for spammers (or any purpose other than what the extension was originally created to identify).

canadafred 220 SEO Alumni Team Colleague Featured Poster

I wouldn't think it would matter very much. The bot will pass it by in search of other web content.

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Hi friends,

Pleases suggest me my product pages URL not indexing on Google search page so what can i do for this trouble.

Probably the first thing you'd want to do is to run your entire site through a link checker making sure there aren't any broken links. Then after that you could offer Google a complete Google Sitemap .xml file. See what you can find out after those two steps. The other thing I suppose would be that if you are using server generated web pages you may have to examine the coding to see if there something complicating a complete crawl of the webpage; usually culprits of this nature are things like having two body tags or two html tags or even too many nested tags in the wrong place ... static pages should be W3C compliant wherever possible to begin with. But always look at the sloppy coding factors ...

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Can anybody here clearly explain me about sand box?

I consider the Sandbox Effect a short period of time (2-6 months) that the search engine Google suspends a web page's actual ranking while attempting to determine the web page's legitimacy. The Sandbox Effect is often hardly noticeable in today's search engine results pages.

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Commenting on posts in order to gain some value somehow from the links ... whatever happened to the day when we commented on posts because we wanted to contribute something intelligent to a discussion?

canadafred 220 SEO Alumni Team Colleague Featured Poster

Gee, I must have been looking at the other fifty nine miilion link farm looking forums out there and not the ones you fine folks are refering to.

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Sure, there's short-cuts to improving "qualified" traffic but they all entail the development of search engine optimization skills. However, I'd first suggest you master the language, then learn HTML coding and finally educate yourself about the optimizable web page components (paying particular attention to how you craft content).

Now, if you don't want to do this, then keep trying the pitiful, trendy search engine manipulation techniques until you are blue in the face, then come back and read my answer again.

almostbob commented: pity the worth of this post, will excape the fix it quick mentality +12
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3 Simple Ways to Get Huge Traffic

and

Using these three simple ways to get huge traffic from internet.

What's this traffic going to look like? Does it convert well into telephone calls or product orders? Does it just bounce around with all the rest of the Internet noise?

Please define for me, what your HUGE traffic sources look like so we can all consider its worth.

canadafred 220 SEO Alumni Team Colleague Featured Poster

Here's a concept to consider, rather than figuring out ways to link the shit out of your web pages in an effort to appear to have important content, why not just craft well-optimized important content?

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These types of linking strategies are for SEO weenies. It's best not to force feed backlinking production and focus on creating a high quality user experience offering potential visitors important, unique content. Forget about manipulating the off-site ranking factors, do something different than the rest, get noticed for your creation and not for your illusion of having a worthy creation.

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Hi guys,

I'm currenty creating a site right now, and I'm just a little concerned about my ASP pages. How do search engines crawl these pages? Do search engines treat these pages differently compared to html pages?

Server generated pages get crawled the same as static ones. Word of caution however, server generated pages are usually quite sloppy and can interfere with a full crawl. Things to avoid are:more than one Title, embeded tags, duplicate tags like <head> and <body>, duplicated descriptions, excesses of general coding errors.

canadafred 220 SEO Alumni Team Colleague Featured Poster

DaniWeb is a NoFollow forum. So I was thinking if it helps much on building back links or improving SERPs. Please share your experience;
Are you getting links indexed from here? Or it really is good for increase traffic? I do know that this forum has high PR (PR6).

I guess you are referring to signature links.

Ya, they can help with traffic a bit, it is usually qualified traffic meaning the visitor is interested in visiting rather than forced or tricked into showing up.

Ya, things get indexed pretty swiftly here at Daniweb.

No, doesn't do much to improve PR. PR hasn't much significance in the today's SERP world anyway. The only value PR has is to Internet marketers. They use PR concepts to convince vulnerable web site owners that they do something uniquely special. "Look, my web site is a PR4! See how good I am at SEO? Can't rank webpages worth a shit but can sure pump up a little green bar."

canadafred 220 SEO Alumni Team Colleague Featured Poster

I stick a badge on my web site and another on my blog. Tie it in with my Twitter and my LinkedIn accounts pretty much makes for a half decent self-promotion mechanism. All the pieces are doing separately important, unique things yet are extremely relevant to one another. Spins qualified traffic to wherever they need to go in order to find out whatever it is they want to know (that didn't even makes sense to me so don't worry about it).

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Just thought I'd mention to you fine folks that there is no such a thing as a PR5 web site or a PR0 web site or a PR10 website.

There are however, PR0 web pages, like there are PR6 web pages.

A web site may in fact have a PR5 landing page (entrance page, splash page, cover page <--old school SEO derived from publication term), then it could have 20,000 PR1 web pages behind it; where most likely a link to your shit will be found. That'll be sweet eh? Go chase that.

Also as Jay noted, Google PageRank has little influence on where your web page will rank in a keyphrase competition, if at all. You should be focusing on increasing your webpages' search engine results pages performances rather than seeking stuff that ultimately hinder your web page success stories, if only by distracting you from what's important (SERP successes).

In today's upside down world, PageRank is only really useful to the Internet marketers who perpetuate the illusion that it is somehow the SEO pot of gold.

Shit, PR isn't hardly even useful to Google. They already know how to count; they found that out the first week they released this monstrocity, this green bar pumping mania that worked well, for about a week.

Lately I've been wondering: what capitalistically driven experiment are they readying to unleash to mankind next?

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If you have nothing interesting or useful to say about a blog post, one that you've just read intentionally because it intrigue your attention, then don't post a comment, and for f sakes, stop posting comments for the sake of posting comments. Hypelinks aren't your exclusive prostitutes created for you to exploit. They, unlike most of the spammers objectives, have purpose and usefulness to the web.

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4. alt
- u should place title :
alt="describe your img" width="900" height="200" border="0" title="describe your img"

That's a little over-optimized. The alt attribute suffices.

7. if you are not sure with pages bots has indexed type
cache:andFullYourSiteAddress

You probably mean site:andFullYourSiteAddress

8. google likes to pick some text from your site instead of your desctiption meta tag. to solve it put that in your head:

<META NAME="googlebot" CONTENT="nosnippet">

That's really poor advice if you don't mention the other side effects to adding this tag.

that is for now...sites in my signature are from this year, still under construction and all in polish so dont waste your time ...

Words from the insecure?

canadafred 220 SEO Alumni Team Colleague Featured Poster

Ya it's a spam machine alright. It must somehow serve to bolster the bottom line. Google, that overgrown, unsupervised forked tongue.

Don't be evil.

tiger86 commented: Fred, you have a very good insight on Google Buzz. thanks for backing me up +2
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Would you write on your ex's facebook wall to wish them happy valentines day? What do you think about communicating via social media to an ex and leaving all the hurt and past behind?

Facebook is an amazing vessel for rekindling lost friendships, especially romantic ones. After a long absense, my soulmate, my sweetheart recently came back to me in this exact way. For me, Facebook is the medium that makes this the best Valentine's Day ever.

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as you said due to signature here i am getting, i heard daniweb is no follow ...so how google will count signature backlink here...every link is no follow tag here...this is something i heard ..i dont know whether its fact or not..please clear.

Ya it seems to be nofollow. Good eye but that doesn't matter; signature links are still available in a keyphrase search therefore indicating they have been awarded value, somehow in spite of the nofollow attribute.

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say what!?! :)

I think he's saying that a person's brain is also a tool and in comparison to the SEO tools, is far better. Well, that would be good I suppose. :-/

canadafred 220 SEO Alumni Team Colleague Featured Poster

Have people gone completely bonkers? Most of what I just read is useless in value and quite often spam, and it's of the weakest variety.

I don't want some newbie to SEO getting the wrong impression.

Basic SEO Tips

1. Learn the craft of optimizing content.
2. Learn how to write well.

The Bonus Prize

You don't need any of these outside (off-site) ranking techniques (artificially inflating the volume, relevancy and credibility of incoming links). Make your own webpages empower themselves.

canadafred 220 SEO Alumni Team Colleague Featured Poster

thanks for the reply my friend but still I want to understand how we can get page rank and how backlinks works ..please share your experience if i have new domain then what is the fastest way to get page rank and what is simplest way to get backlinking...
thanks for your time.
Rajiv

Seeking Pagerank is a pointless pursuit. Seek rankings! New web site landing page can get out of the sandbox in a couple of months a PR4, with 0 backlinks.

Fastest way to get backlinks? You're doing it now. Google will assess your signature within a couple of hours of posting in this forum.

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Don't waste your energy trying to figure out the best way to manipulate your off-site ranking factors. Incoming links will grow naturally or they won't. It doesn't really matter when you are focused on working your own content. Concentrate on what's in your control, your web pages; their content and the optimizable webpage components. As far as linking is concerned, focus on internally linking your pages (more valuable than incoming links both ranking wise and PR wise). You are in a position (because you have several sites) to do some nifty network linking (cross-linking). Work your own stuff, the heck with trying to empower your pages externally.

canadafred 220 SEO Alumni Team Colleague Featured Poster

... What method better in term of SEO?...

The only correct answer would be that neither is much good for SEO. As you have experienced, these types of off-site ranking factor stimulation techniques can appear to be effective, in the short term, but they always lose speed quite rapidly and ultimately become almost a hinderance to better ranking.

The best SEO strategy to adopt at your stage would be to concentrate with the on-page components. Focus on the on-site optimization. Sure, do a little link building but do that wisely and secondarily. Don't count on outside influences to empower your stuff. Empower your own web pages.

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Hanging around search engine forums has educated me immensely regarding the relentlessness of human greed. If a swindler can enjoy profiting over the good heartedness of others wanting to help a brother in need, then they can do just about anything else for money.

Although this unsavoury type of low-life has been around throughout the ages, the Internet propels these scumbags into the global stage, sometimes as lone wolves and sometimes in highly organized masses.

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Thanx Fred for a nice summary, I guess theres still a lot for me to head for before I start complaining that SEO is not working. But my big issue is to find the right phrases to be emphasizing on, like said software, database ... are too generic saturated words, any clues. Hey can I PM you for a quick word?

No need to PM. Keep it on site it could make for some good discussions on the basics of SEO that we all can learn from.

This is my opinion about which keyphrases to target.

Naturally, do some constructive keyphrase tests both for keyphrase search frequency and to examine the keyphrase's competitiveness. Have a look at the potential traffic sources.

Then you have to weigh things over. You could go for this and go for that and be way over your league in no time or, you can play smart. Go for a little bit of everything. Some big prizes, some smaller ones, some not so popular but extremely convertable...

Go for a handful of the big ticket babies, scoop a bucket of secondary keyphrases and ultimately net in the auxiliary keyphrases (those are ones you wouldn't have thought of).

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We're a tiny firm working on a niche software product for databases. I am looking at ways to increase visibility, I have covers the SEO basics like titles, metatags, long URLs a few inbound links. I also work the online discussions on a couple of forums. My question is what tactics would help me get 'Quality' traffic to our website. I'm not interested int getting thousands of hits which result in zero sales, any help and advice is appreciated. Thx..

In SEO terms what you are looking for is considered "qualified traffic". Those are web surfers using the search engines to pick out the best webpages for them to visit.

In order to be highly visible to qualified visitors you need three things to happen and I've listed them in order of importance:
1. High ranking web page for the keyphrase search
2. A Captivating Title
3. A half-ass description (in Google, the assigned description can be your meta offering, it could be a seemingly haphazard selection of tid bits of your web page's content or it could even be, on the extremely rare ocassion, your, often bizarre and always outdate: the dreaded DMOZ description).

The question now is how do you achieve those three objectives. The answer is that you will when you have successfully convinced the search engine that your web pages are important, credible, unique, intelligently crafted, and have established authoritativeness.

You'll do this over time. There will be on-site work …

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... drleerobinson.net ...

1. Determine what your important keyphrases are.
2. Modify the Wordpress template to include meta description and meta keywords.
3. Rewrite your Title to include primary keyphrases.
4. Emphasize the keyphrases in the content using <em>,<hx>,<i>,etc.
5. Write many more, intelligently written, unique, captivating, keyphase-rich articles.
6. Modify the image names to be logical (ie laser-surgery.gif) and use keyphrase-rich alt attributes that clearly identify the images.

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the only relevant answer, when one provider has this much of the market, they dictate terms
www google com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769 Submitting a sitemap is the second item in Google's instruction sheet

Don't get me wrong, a Google Sitemap can be essential for larger site but there is nothing more ridiculous than a five page website with a hyperlink to their "Site Map" when absolutely every page is accessible from every page. People include a web page with just the Site Map on it because the "search engine" suggests it and it has become standard in web design. What the search engine means is that if you have a site whose linking structure is difficult or impossble to crawl and you want to ensure that we can find your difficult to find pages then submit a sitemap and we'll find your stuff. Rather than correct your navigational system, force feed the spider. In this scenario, Google wants to compensate for poorly developed linking structure, which, because of the enomous amount of sloppy web design in today's Internet, is kind of pitiful in a way. If webmasters could accomodate their designs to meet the need of search engine crawlers then the search engines wouldn't "require" site maps or Sitemaps. Rather than penalize for sloppy design, as they often say they will, they encourage more of it. Typical Google.

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I am usually leary of bots but it might be good for submission tools.

There's really no point to them. Whether your web pages are listed in ten dumpster directories or 10 million the results will be the same, your webpages will appear to be the generic mediocrity, like the rest of them, desperately seeking ways to appear to be important web pages.

Artificially attempting to increase your link popularity in this way can also be hazardous to your rankings. Who will be your linked page associates? What are these directories you've just listed your beloved stuff to? Is your coveted web pages, that you have spent your energy creating, in bad neighbourhoods? How 'bout really really bad places?

These are the things (and more) that most users of these auto submit garbage tools will never know, until it's too late of course. Then they'll have to spend their energies convincing the search engine that their webpages are in fact legit SERP contenders but that'll take time and skill that most will not have.

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Hello friends:

I have been using a lot of methods to advertise my sites including social bookmarking sites, web directory, article directory, etc.

My websites are indexed good for some keywords for some days. But these keywords are not indexed at all for some days. I don't know what causes this.

Is there any good SeO tips to get my sites indexed permanently for some keywords?

thanks very much!

There could be several reasons for the ranking differences including result events caused when Google personalizes your search results. That's when you are logged in to a google account with Web History activated, then clear it or simply shut it off.

You'll also get different rankings as a result of the search engine delivering a different set of results almost randomly from its various datacentres.

Rank fluctuations are also often a result of using different regional Google interfaces.

Now, the fluctuations could also be caused by the regular crawling patterns and database refresh rates.

It could also be ... well that's probably about it in your case.

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Note: A Green Hat SEO is someone who is relatively new to search engine optimisation and hasn’t much experience with the different SEO hat shades: white, grey and black hat search engine optimization techniques. They are usually wandering around, bewildered looking a bit, searching the Internet for some effective but trendy, easy to implement search engine manipulation technique. They want to quickly pump their webpages to the top, lickity-split; the SEO abracadabra. Those are types that’ll bite into practically anything that makes a little sense.

OK ok ok here you go, for the greenhats ...

1 - Learn how to optimize the web site’s components. That means to craft web page content rather than haphazardly throw it together, write nice web page Titles and Meta Descriptions, emphasize various word forms of your keyphrases, deploy a powerful textual internal webpage linking structure, use concise but distinguishing logical naming conventions, craft compelling and accurate tag attributes, use good grammar, check your spelling, after editing text check your spelling again, custom fit intelligent copy writing and throw in a friendly navigation system while you are at it, code CODE coooooodddde, error free coding people W3 compliant, make for an all round good user experience and finally .... have a little bit of fun too I guess.

2 - Have a little bit of fun.

3 - Have a little bit of fun.

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canadafred 220 SEO Alumni Team Colleague Featured Poster

my blog aint even there in the first 10 pages of google when i search for it.How do i make importance of creating ppear first.Someone please help me???

Almost nobody has mentioned the iimportane of creating unique, fresh content. Make stuff. F the short-cuts.

canadafred 220 SEO Alumni Team Colleague Featured Poster

...I have a PR 5-6 site, but traffic is low...

There's no such a thing as a PR5 website. You have a PR5 webpage, the landing page probably, within a site that has other webpages of various PR values.

PR is awarded from both internal and external web sources. In Google's eyes, a link is a link. Internal links are far more valuable than most external ones but for far more than just PR spreading. PR is an almost useless indicator. I suspect it means something economically to the search engine and they still use it to confuse GreenHat SEOs into thinking it is the pot-of-gold to infinite riches. Developing nations especially are still in a PR frenzy because of this illusion. Everybody wants PR and when they get it they can't understand why the telephone's not ringing off the hook. Traffic, sure they get some additional traffic but it isn't of any quality.

canadafred 220 SEO Alumni Team Colleague Featured Poster

... can some one help me with the more knowledge about link baiting. How can we do it more effectively?...

I realize that this is slightly off-topic but it is a good question. Link baiting is a fair, honest, rewarding and natural way of influencing a webpage's off-site ranking factors.

The best way to do this is by creating exceptional, unique, intelligent and authoritative content; a little controversial is good too. If your web page has something that no other webpage has then it is fodder for link bait. Have a breakthrough idea, link bait. Just invented something new, link bait. Have an intelligent political perspective, link bait. You get the picture?