Posts by jay 11

Hi,
So we can say that these days viral marketing is more popular than nomal marketing and we should prefer it over other marketing.
Thanks

I wouldn't say it is more popular than traditional marketing methods. It's just another way to get your message across. :)

yep! i agree with you, there should be an ethical way of putting in links, but i had to shutdown my blog (i had one blogger blog) and i removed a ll the no follow tags from it. in 7 days time my blog was full of 236 comments! i had to make it a no follow again, bu still they didnt stop coming. eventually i had to turn it off

That's a shame. One (arguably counter-productive) way of combating spam is blocking the IP address(es). Anyone have any experience with this?

OK so if h1 tags are not really rated much anymore then what is? I am new to HTML and need to make sure my new site has the best SEO and performs well in rankings. Any help in this area would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

There are no shortcuts really. At least none that won't come back to bite you later on. :) It's probably best to develop your site in a manner that is natural for users and compliant with web standards. There are 'code validators' you can run your site pages through to help make sure there are no glaring errors.

Yes I do.
Targted traffic doesn't change very much, even if you change your presentation. If the search engines deem your site worthy of targeted traffic then they won't alter their minds overnight because of a few navigational changes. If something is working well for you, stick with it; don't go on the other side of SE ethics because I said so. Link strategists best to keep link strategizing less fall prey to SERP oblivion.

So you monitor the same thing that InsightsDigital monitors. Since it is obvious that we would all monitor SE traffic, and like you said, there shouldn't be much change, I believe the question asked was, "What else do you monitor to determine if the site refresh help?"

I personally think you're full of shit and are looking for a reason to feel good about yourself.

Okaaay... personal feelings aside, do you have anything worthwhile to add to this discussion?

yea.. sphinn is a lot like digg, but tailored to Internet Marketing news and discussion.

i think it is not important for user ,because using css i can change the heading tag result to be shown like bold tag.
what is important in SEO is the main issue.

Well, like I said, i don't think the search engines care which tag you use. So if you wanted, you could go with whatever is most aesthetically pleasing.

Hello,

I have changed all of my pages on my websites to SEO friendly URLs. I noticed the increase on Page rank on some pages...

I have changed from /index.php?id=1234 to /index/i-like-this-forum/.

So, my question is, does anyone notice the same thing?
Does my SEO pages affect Google page rank?
Thanks a lot.

It's probably just coincidence. Changing the file extensions should have No impact on Google PageRank. I'm not even sure it would have any impact on a sites rankings in the SERPs. Though I could be wrong. Anyone else care to weigh in?

Maybe make note of the "before and after" numbers for bounce rate and time spent on site. Also look at the traffic for internal pages. Have any dropped off significantly? Redesigns can sometimes throw off your existing users. It may take some time for them to get used to the new look and feel. Figure out what all the shiny new buttons do and re-learn how to navigate to their favorite parts of the site... so keep in mind that initial stats can be a little misleading.

to show subtitle in page which one is better?bold tag or heading tags.

In terms of SEO, I don't think it makes a difference. You should probably just go with whatever you think is best for your users.

Hi Rick - SEO does a lot of things for a lot of people. Do you have a more specific question??

RE: is authority of outbound links important for SEO?

While linking to other websites can help search engines categorize your website, it really isn't necessary from an SEO standpoint. You should really only link to other websites if it makes sense from a user standpoint.

yea.. i'm closing this thread

Hi Isaac, there is a very similar discussion already at DaniWeb that may help you determine what to charge for advertising. Check it out here - http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread230582.html

Aside from Reputation Management (which is a huge reason why businesses get involved with social media) i think the main marketing objectives companies seek are A) additional avenues for promoting time-sensitive material; B) SEO/Link-baiting; C) Branding

Personally, i think the best way to learn about a social media platform is to register with the network and get hands on experience. As far as external resources, I keep tabs on TechCrunch, Mashable, Sphinn, and the individual blogs from Twitter and Facebook.

tiyabatra - I see that you copy and pasted this exact same explanation from other places on the web. We welcome your comments, but please try not to spam us. :)

Ok.. here goes nuthin! :)
In order to participate in Pay-Per-Click Advertising, you must sign up with Google AdWords, YSM, Microsoft adCenter or some other search network. Once you sign up, you can create ads and place bids on relevant search keywords. The higher the bid, the better the placement. The more relevant keyword(s), the more targeted audience. When someone searches for those keywords, your ad is displayed at the top or alongside the search results. If someone clicks on the ad, your account gets debited. In other words, you pay-per-click. ;)

SEO ... stands for Search Engine Optimization. SEO techniques can be done on your own. The idea is to optimize both the on-site information and various off-site factors in order to enhance your website's visibility in the major search engines. For more info on SEO - try looking into the DaniWeb SEO forums.

You can choose some keyword from high paying keyword adsense. (you can find it with googling)
And combine it with adword keyword :D

just idea :)

How do you do this??

For most of these, you just need to visit the search engine and type the following into the search box:
link:yourwebsitehere.com

Hi Karen, Thank you for this question. There is actually NO correlation between Google PageRank and web traffic. In other words, a site with high pagerank does not mean that it will get more traffic than a site with low pagerank.

Ultimately, you really don't need to worry much about Google Toolbar PageRank. Instead, focus on providing quality and unique content. Make sure to optimize your website's code so that search engines can easily crawl and index the site. Advertise on other relevant websites to get in front of your target audience. Look into setting up PPC campaigns with Google AdSense, YSM, and Microsoft adCenter.

What do you think?

There *shouldn't* be any issue as long as the Debit card is associated with a major credit card (which most debit cards are) AND there are sufficient funds within the customer's account.

Have you been having issues - or just wondering?

Could anyone provide insight into at what price point you would stop selling through an e-commerce site and move to a face to face, consultative sales model? I have a client who is eager to have an e-commerce offering but I am pretty certain their price points or their business model for implementing their products is conducive to an e-commerce application.

Good question. I think it mostly depends on the product or service and target audience. Would the client be selling a high-priced tangible item or are they looking to promote a service?

There's no reason they couldn't do both. But if your gut is telling you that they are probably not going to convert many online sales, than it might be better to just go with an online application. Maybe also look at what their competitors are doing?

Domain parking is for registered websites that are not developed or are in the process of being developed. Instead of displaying a blank page or a message that says "site under construction," you can have your hosting company (or a third party) display ads on the site. If anyone clicks on those ads, you get a portion of the revenue.

I've never really heard of "article parking," but it sounds like another way of saying "made for adsense." In other words, you can publish an article and display adsense around it. Does that sound close to what you are looking for?

I have a website and i want to sell some useful resources from my website but i want to know effective Advertising sales strategies for this product.

Waiting for experts answers:

What strategies are you currently using?

Have you noticed that email auto-signatures now include social media info but no longer include physical mailing addresses? Times are changing :)

Yes - i have been noticing this! In an email, I think it makes a lot more sense to substitute the physical mailing address for either your website and/or social media components. It's funny though when you sometimes see emails with bottom heavy signatures. We had one client who had their Name, Title, Company, email, website, physical mailing address, phone, fax, Facebook logo (pointing to the company's fan page), Twitter Logo, and LinkedIn. In most cases, their signature had more to say than the email itself! :)

Hi,

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Hire me for this job @ 5$ per link

Thanks,
San
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Hi San, please try to keep discussions on topic. If you would like to advertise your SEO services, you are welcome to do so in the Business Exchange forum located here at DaniWeb - http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum152.html

Great! They caught on! Now i'm gonna have to go back to solitaire :( Seriously though.. that's a lot of wasted time and money. Sounds like they need to put some restrictions in place - ie. declaring specific guidelines (as you mentioned), install monitoring software, block the sites, and wait for the lazy employees to weed themselves out. :P

"There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited." - sun tzu

If I recall correctly, googlebots used to use H1 tags to weigh the "importance" of text on a page - so they were, at one point, perceived as beneficial from an SEO standpoint. However, when google saw that webmasters were abusing H1 tags to emphasize keywords and manipulate search rankings, they stopped using them as a ranking influence. Nowadays, all an H1 tag does is tell Google that you are using a heading. It has no impact on how your site will rank.

The six minute video clip is a bit hoaky (particularly Schmidt's attempts at humor) but there are some interesting takeaways from this interview, like:

• figuring out how to rank real-time info is "the great challenge of the age."
• broadband will be comfortably faster than 100MB (at least for the Western world).
• distribution distinctions between TV, Radio and the web will go away.
• Today's teenagers, who seamlessly jump from app to app, are a model of how the web will work 5 years from now.
• Content will move more towards video (no surprise here really)

Here's more from the Interview...

I saw that one of our staff writers (happygeek) recently wrote about how a UK Broadcaster (Channel 4), a public TV network, partnered with YouTube so that they can stream their content and increase distribution for their programming. In turn Ch. 4 gets a share of the revenue generated by YouTube ads. This is the first deal of its kind (at least with a major Public Network) and a clear sign that these two distribution channels are already in the process of merging.

I think search engines would not ban your site if there were backlinks from banned sites.

Right - you probably won't get banned but keep in mind - A link is essentially a vote of confidence. You don't really want to get votes of confidence from banned websites. :)

I am Google Adsense User, i want to know such keyword from which i can make $10 per click or very close to this amount.

Anyone know such keywords .

You *could* set up an AdWords account and do some reverse engineering. :)

seems pretty cool and i could definitely see myself using it... tho it doesn't look like it returns coupons for the States just yet.

Ha - i just read an article about this yesterday. While I can see myself maybe adding a photo (already have a logo on there), I think i'm a little hesitant to add social components to my biz card. In theory, your going to give your business card to people you intend to do business with. Do I really need that person to know my LinkedIn or twitter handle? Seems like a phone number and email address would be adequate. Or am i missing something? Why would you need to add these?

All the other people so far have respondwd like idiots.

Create something worth visiting. That's it man. You don't have to seek artificial enhancement. Build something uniquely purposeful.

damn dude.. anyway to artificially enhance your etiquette? :)

While I agree with the "Field of Dreams" approach, i think it imprudent to ignore basic marketing tactics.

Yep - some good advice so far. Think about your current users as well. What can you do to keep them coming back and searching for you? Also - what unique products and services could you promote (via social media, on-site or newsletter email) that could get people talking? Any contests you could run or prizes to give away? Viral marketing is a powerful tool that can help brand your business, get people linking to you, and ultimately help sustain and increase your sites visibility in the search engines.

If you are going to submit to a directory, be sure to submit to the ones that have editorial integrity. In other words, does the directory reject spammy or low quality sites that do NOT meet their criteria for inclusion? Steer clear of the directories that link to anyone and everyone who submits. A directory that links to low quality and spammy sites has little to no link value to offer.

The travel industry is very competitive but it sounds like you have a specific niche targeted - which is good. How deep is your website? Do you provide comprehensive and unique information about Mauritius? Think about offering your visitors a travel guide for the Mauritius area. Research relevant keywords and tailor the content of your site to what you believe people are searching (ie. "Cheap Mauritius Rentals").

Think about setting up an AdWords campaign. Bid on longer-tail queries as they usually convert better and are often cheaper. Also - think about bidding on common misspellings of "Mauritius." I would think that this destination is often misspelled and you will find that the keyword bids are extremely cheap.

This makes sense. Unfortunately tho, I think corporate censorship will discourage a lot of the free thinking and unwieldy comments you see in these new social venues. I'm sure a lot of people will hold back, post less, or abandon social media all together out of fear of breaching some sort of contract. It's a shame really..

Good stuff! I don't participate in LinkedIn much but the more I hear about its marketing potential, the more intriguing it sounds. I guess I just thought that it was a watered down/boring version of Facebook - only for suits. :) Though, I just did some poking around, and see that some of these LinkedIn groups have tens of thousands of members. Duh..

Needless to say - i think i'll give it a shot...

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I'm not sure I follow. Are you looking for a hosting company that can support rich media files and high bandwidth sites?

Maybe look into buying advertising on various academic message boards and discussion forums? Maybe start offering your services in Craigslist? Put up fliers in Academic buildings? Set up a Facebook fan page?

I have a client who is hot to start using AdSense to get some more revenue and he said that he heard that AdSense participation can provide an SEO boost. While I told my client that he should not expect a great deal of revenue I had never heard about the possible SEO benefits. Can anyone confirm or refute this?

FWIW, implementing AdSense will get Google to give your site a good, deep crawl. They naturally do this to make sure they display Google ads that are relevant to the website's content. I have heard of cases where webmasters, who added AdSense, suddenly notice better SERP placement or have seen new pages indexed. Then again - others (including myself) noticed no change at all.

I'd be interested in hearing how this works out for you and your client - that is, if you decide to give it a shot...

How can you tell this? Do you own CNN and Yahoo?

Yes - i own them both and according to my analytics - Yahoo gets a ton more traffic than CNN. :icon_wink: And FWIW - So does Facebook, MSN, and Wikipedia - which are all ranked, in terms of TBPR, lower than CNN.

Seriously though.. it's fairly common knowledge and pretty well documented that these sites get far more web traffic than CNN. More importantly, there is absolutely no direct correlation between traffic and PageRank. I guarantee you that if your PR decreases, it does not necessarily mean that your traffic will too (and vice-versa).

Usually a greyed-out PR means that a webpage is severely enough penalized to merit exclusion from the SERPs.

Really? These days it seems that a greyed-out PR (no PageRank information available) means just as much as a PR0 or a PR27 for that matter. :) In other words, it pretty much means nothing. I've seen plenty of pages with "grey bar" that are still indexed and even out-rank (in the SERPs) those that have PR info.

In my experience, the only thing that remains consistent about TBPR, is the inconsistency of what it displays.

On all my sites - and I have a lot - I can see a direct relation between pagerank and traffic. The better the PR the more traffic I get. And this is data from today, not some weird thing that I heard or so.

That might be true for your websites - but in general, there is NOT a direct relationship between web traffic and Google Toolbar PageRank. If there was, then CNN.com (PR 10) would get more traffic than Yahoo! (PR9). That's just not the case.

OMG - I wonder what is the click-through rate and conversion rate for this very expensive keyword. As an advertiser, I would pay this much if the CTR and conversion rate from these visitors generate income to the site.

Individual Lawsuits involving asbestos inhalation and mesothelioma could result in millions of dollars for the plaintiff, so if an agency converts one click into one case... it could be profitable for the next 2-3 years. Not to mention the cases that turn into class action lawsuits where hundreds of millions could be involved.

if a website does not show up in the search results, especially for a query on the site name, then it was probably banned.

Google doesn't share *when* they will update their search results or pagerank. No one knows but Google.

Besides.. i wouldn't put much emphasis on PageRank these days... It has no bearing on how your website will rank in the search results and the only people who pay any mind to it - are webmasters.