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Ahhh Davey you beat me to it! I think this is really great news overall for the internet, its users, and most importantly user privacy.

Unfortunately I do fear that this will be the beginning of the end of websites built "just because" - ie. fan sites, hobby sites, etc. Not many of these people are going to want to pony up an additional $100+ a year for an SSL certificate plus the money for a dedicated IP to work with that SSL cert.

On the bright side it may help boost web site design and development companies sales because the average user probably won't want to spend the time buying an SSL certificate or making a self signed certificate.

@Rogerandre - all those Companies will be able to help you get an https site and walk you through the process if not do it themselves for you.

If you need the traffic now; then I'd suggest doing a PPC campaign through adwords. A well targetted PPC program may get you the results now until the SEO results begin to show up.

Also be cautious of anyone who calls themselves an SEO professional. Those are few and far between.

Hi Ketul,

The average DA for a website is 30-40 while the average PA for an index page is 45-55. So you really aren't doing that bad in the overall scheme of things. Depending on the type of website and if you are concerned about ranking then I would highly recommend watching your entire website's mozRank (mR). That scales between 1 and 10 and takes into account your individual PA and overall DA.

Also take note that PA really only matters when you are focusing on improving a single page. If you focus all of your pages on optimizing for PA then your DA will also increase over time.

Welcome to Daniweb,

If you want to create an online reputation for selling internet marketing services you first need to understand what internet marketing is. Once you can effectively do the marketing on your own websites it will go to show other Clients how effective you truly are. Think of it as providing a statisical portfolio.

If you got penalized by any google update you have a long long journey ahead of you. Read as much as you can about SEO best practices and begin implementing them on your website(s). It will take time and patience and you probably won't see results for 6+ months. Keep in mind most people that got hit by Panda were generally victims of creating spammy content and spammy links. You are going to need to disavow those links and focus on creating quality content to reverse the damage that has been done. Depending on how bad you got hit, it may be worth your while to scrap the website(s) hit by Panda and start over fresh.

Alexa is just another way to measure your website. It can be found at alexa.com. Some say its pointless but others swear by it. Personnally I like Alexa only because it goes to show how effective the content on your website is. Alexa takes into account five main metrics of your website:
-# of visits on your website (new and returning visitors)
-# of pages visited on your website
-# of inbound links
-Quality and diversity of visits (this includes bounce rate and where your visitors come from)
-Time on site

I didn't include alexa reviews because they don't have the same weighting to your Alexa score that they did back pre-2013

By scoring higher in Alexa it helps as positive reinforcement that your website is producing content that is either keeping people coming back or engaging new audiences (or if you are renting traffic through PPC then atleast you know your ads are drawing people in). This is pretty valuable to know and by knowing which region they are coming from it acts also to help make sure that you are getting the traffic you want instead of just relying on Google.

The big downside to Alexa is although they are freemium; to get the actual Alexa widget on your website to work how you want it, it will cost you a subscription fee. Also without all of your visitors having the Alexa toolbar the results aren't as accurate as they could be.

Because …

Hello everybody,

For those of you who don't know, on July 24th Google released it's Pigeon update. According to Search Engine Land (see the article here), on July 24th US webmasters began to witness considerable changes in their local rankings. As of right now we are monitoring our Client's sites and have noticed small incremental changes for our US clients but nothing yet for our Canadian or European Clients. I'm sure that will begin to change over the next month or so.

As of right now this update does not appear to be penalizing any sites however it does appear to be a core change to the local search engine ranking algorithms. This does appear to put more importance on more traditional ranking methods (synonoms, correct spelling, etc.) for websites targeting local niches but that is so far these methods are relatively untested. As of right now though it is nearly impossible for anybody to tell exactly what has changed and what will work to increase local serps. According to search engine land one thing that does appear to be happening is that directory services are beginning to rank alot better (Yelp, YP, etc.). This may make it more valuable for anybody doing local SEO to make sure that you are infact submitting to high PR, do follow and high reputation directories relevant to the categories of your website(s). Still be cautious though because spammy links may still get you in trouble with Google Penguin on some of …

I am not 100% sure what you are asking. From what i have gathered you have created two landing pages. I am going to assume that on both pages they are titled: Web Development Company in XYZ and Website Development Company in XYZ with only the one word changing.

If I understand correctly basically both of those pages are the exact same minus the difference between the keywords Web and Website. Google has cracked down on this significantly and it might still work in odd occurences however this tactic has fallen into the grey hat SEO tactics list. Especially with the value SEs are putting on unique content. So you probably wont notice any advantage if any of having these two landing pages in the SERPs especially if everything is similarly worded. Big SEs have become smart enough to recognize the changing of one word per sentence and could actually penalize you for re-using content.

Second to that SEs can also detect keyword derivatives. So if it sees a word like development it will count the words develop, dev, etc. as derivatives and subsequently boosting your keyword density based off of that.

What Dani said. However if you are asking whether there is a market for flipping websites and doing it yourself.....The answer is yes, heck the lazy man's approach is just domain flipping itself so yes it is possible but you need to do alot of research on how to increase the value of a domain (there are ALOT of factors). With a good inbound link network and a solid understanding of SEO you should be able to pull it off in a relatively decent amount of time. I'm sure google will be able to help you get started with a few good tutorials and notes on others that have spent the last decade+ doing it.

@Lax - one popular metrics that larger search engines (especially google) loves is the popularity of a website and its bounce rates. If a video is effective enough to draw people to a website; you gain the popularity aspect of that algorithm (see Alexa top 100 - none of those sites have less than a few million unique visits a day).

That brings us to bounce rates; if you have created one video that has capitvated enough people that they actually want to engage your website (not just visit the main page and decide they've been decieved) OR if your website has more videos like the one they just watched; they are likely to stick around longer. If they stick around longer = lower bounce rate.

So thats from the search engine/viewer prespective. Ontop of that if your video references your site's content in context then when people are searching for that content you'll also have your video ranking in the SERPs for hopefully the same or similar keywords to your website. Additionally the search engine may also look at that video as an additional resource to prove you belong in that content category thus adding more authority to your domain/page. The more authority your webpage / domain has; the higher you rank.

End of the day you need to remember that Search Engines nowadays are putting very strong value on new and original content and its weighted more towards video and images then it is written content. So in …

Good morning bhavna,

First and foremost you should research the Countries you plan on promoting your product in. If you are offering products or services you may need permits, licenses, etc. to conduct business (online or otherwise) within those Countries. Although North America and Australia are fairly open to allowing you to engage their consumer bases there can be some legalities behind it. This isn't advice anyone here can or should consult you on. However I do know within the last three months I've read two articles about small business which were charged $1mil + fines for importing / exporting products on the banned list. One of those Companies sold a box of $0.50/per rubber gaskets to give you an idea of how serious trade legislation is.

Next after you clearly understand if you can legally do what you want; you should actually identify a clear marketing plan. This is your roadmap; if its well written you should actually be able to develop measureable KPIs to track which will tell you if what you are doing is actually working. The marketing plan should go into detail about both online and offline marketing strategies. For online it should cover Copy & Ongoing Copy Generation, Landing Pages, Conversion Pages, SEO, SEM, SMM, SMO, email marketing, viral advertising, and anything else that fits your business and what it has to offer.

If any of this has lost you, you should consult with a professional (and not the type that spams your inbox garaunting …

Although wikipedia gives them both very similar definitions they are slightly different and as trends and strategies change those definitions will continue to change. In way they are both just buzz words being used by alot of Companies to show that they are knowledgeable in the social media niche of online marketing.

Social Media Optimization for me is more about optimizing a social media page about a website, brand, company, etc. to maximize their exposure both organically through followers, shared content, and in the eyes of search engines. The latter being sometimes a concern if my Company isn't involved in the marketing strategies of the website itself as we have had Clients Social Media sites outrank their own website in the SERPs. The goal with SMO is really to drive as much traffic to the conversion point as possible.

Social Media Marketing for me is two fold; the first is working with Clients to develop and effectively manage PPC advertising programs on the social media channel(s) that are most likely to have the highest ROI for that Client. The second part of SMM for me is actually convincing social media users that the product, service, Company, etc. is actually being presented to them through a reliable/trustworthy source and not directly from the Company. Basically taking a bandwagon approach to try and generate new leads, or in layman terms: if all my friends are doing this, then maybe I should be too! Which then equals more leads = more conversions.

Davey …

No no no; keywords in title tags need to be organically placed. For example, you have an article about "World's Worst SEO Companies"; your objective is to get visitors for this article. To put the name of the article in the title is fine because its organic - thats what the page is about and its unique to your website. To put for example: SEO, SEO Companies, World's Worst SEO Companies - Not a good practice.

And @couponsgrid; when you build a link you put an alt tag and the name of the link instead of the full url correct? I hope you do because it isn't 1995 and users kind of expect links to be somewhat short and pretty nowadays. As long as you aren't building "Seattle Based Web Design" followed by a link that says "Washington Web Design", etc etc internally on your website you're fine. Nothing wrong with having a link with keywords (as long as they are organic to the language the page is written in as almostbob mentioned) but best practices will tell you not to make the title or alt spammy in nature - it can be a fine line. Search Engine Crawlers scan links when they do their crawls by having 50 followed inbound links titled "Puppies for Sale" on various C-Blocks and Domains won't help you rank well for a completely unrelated set of keywords (ie. mexican restaraunt), because puppies for sale have nothing to do with restaraunts or mexican restaraunts. Most …

Since most of the web services you mentioned are ran by different Companies they would be reluctant to share user information with each other for privacy reasons.

Stop worrying so much about .edu and .gov sites. Every post you mention them. Build strong content that people want to link to and which will be relevant enough to someday be worth of those .edu/.gov links.

Right now if the SE's keep going the way that they are, more priority is going to be going to how viral content goes. So writing great content which gets shared through social media is going to do better and be worth way more of your time then wasting hours upon hours trying to get a single .edu or .gov link.

It is speculated that .edu and .gov still hold alot more weight then other domains. However some might argue that backlinks using keywords to your site would be more effective especially when linking from high ranking relevant websites.

Hey guys and gals,
I know I could probably be posting this on the Joomla forums but I have come here instead to get a clear explanation from this community because it has always delivered great results in the past. My curiousity on how Joomla's index.php works is getting the best of me lately. For those of you not maybe familar with how the Joomla file structure works everything is launched off a root index.php file and using various includes and require's they have linked together all the elements which deliver the CMS system itself. I quite like this approach because it does keep your root directory looking quite clean. I have spent hours going through the code and trying to figure out how it works with slow progress. What is bugging me is how without switching off of the root index.php it (Joomla) is able to deliver multiple template files and different content for every page. One would think that the basic idea is that you build your template files, every link you click on calls on the template dedicated to that main page/article/post/etc and reloads the main index file thus providing you the appropriate template - I know thats a very basic explanation but I am wondering if anyone familar with this application can elaborate further on how this actually works? Thank you.