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These are the facts for a real life case study. unique ip address 160,000 this month logged with a basic but accurate program written in house approx 8000 unique ip's a day . 227,000 hits this month aw & in house agree . + 5000 zipped software downloads from site …

Hello everyone, If your like me and you want to find the right developer to do SEO for your website (one that will not get you banned from the search engines for using strange or obscure techniques), then selecting the right developer for your website is crucial. You really need …

I'm new to this forum (and relatively new to SEO for that matter), but I've been reading through some of these threads and have a question regarding keyword analysis. I work for a relatively small online niche retailer, and we've only recently (in the past 6 months) started implementing an …

If you use outbound links on your site with the nofollow attribute do you still loose link juice? Thanks

when you search my webpage by name I can see more than 300 results due to back links but when you try to find out what search engines like google has as links to my web page it only shows a few pages. could you help me understand why? thanks!

I was wondering if you would get penalized for makeing your file extension a major keyword and then added the extensionsn to be run through as php? like http://"whatever"/index."keyword" or even have the index page a rediredt or write an htaccess for the index file.

Haven't heard anyone mention that the page ranks were updated yesterday!!! Some of my internal pages lost thier rank altogether, while other gained PR for the first time... My hompage stayed the same. Did anyone notice any changes with thier website?

Hi my site unfortunately had an unsecured image gallery, which a spam bot got hold of. The image gallery is long gone but I still get the spammer bot hitting the page, over a year later. I'm assuming they're getting the links to the image gallery via search engines. The …

I've noticed that the page rank for << url snipped >> varies considerably when using the search query 'direct democracy'. One of my users believes the number of times he visits the site may have an effect. Does anybody know if this is the case.

Have noticed a huge drop in backlink count and pages indexed this week. Anyone else notice this? Has it affected traffic from the engines for you?

Directory submissions are a proven way to build link popularity for any site which will ultimately let you gain higher search engine rankings. But, it is time consuming and tedious too. Many people just do not have that much time to do it themselves and cannot even hire others who …

Today I noticed that a company in my industry has put up sites like [url]www.brandnamewidgets.com[/url], which are disclosed on-site as being "powered by" the original domain. Even though the sites are devoted to the brand name widgets in question, all the links go to the company's domain where those items …

I am pretty sure the favicon.ico is coming up with someone bookmarks our site, but I am not sure why webresource.axd would be listed in my traffic reports as an exit or entry page. Striptresource.axd is another one that shows up fairly often. I am using NetTracker 7.5 if that …

If a site seems to 'work' - the visitors (mostly new) appear happy with the content/structure etc, and the search engines are happy to rank it - is there any value in making small, regular changes to the content to make it appear 'fresher' to the engines, even if this …

We had a 3-4 on google for key search term. Generally speaking the site is in good shape, but I am starting to slip (now 5). We have been adding content steadly, but have not added backlinks in some time. We are simply not in a position to do this …

If a site seems to 'work' - the visitors (mostly new) appear happy with the content/structure etc, and the search engines are happy to rank it - is there any value in making small, regular changes to the content to make it appear 'fresher' to the engines, even if this …

Hello Everyone, I am richard canon from London, UK. I am running my business in mobile phones and its accessories. Please suggest me to for SEO how to get desired with targetd visitors on my website. My website url is << plug snipped >> What i have to do to …

I usually use overture to see how many searches were performed for different keyphrases and I figure that's about 25% of all actual searches on all search engines. What are some other free resources to find out how many searches are performed for different key phrases? Thanks!

This site << url snipped >> hasn't been indexed by major search engines like google yet. it is like 3 months old i think. can anyone explain where it has gone wrong? Thank you.

I have a popular history website that comes up in google's top 10, frequently number 1 to 3, for a lot of civil war related searches such as "thirteenth amendment" or "causes of the civil war." The site has been on the web for over 10 years as a free …

Hi everyone, first of thank you for looking at my post. I am currently working on a project. A main website contain my company description, and information and links to 3 separate website / shopping cart (currently 3 maybe more later) The 3 websites are different companies, selling different products. …

hey, i was wondering if i own a domain called hmm, lets say.. greenapples.com will it pop up in google's first page if some one were to search the word "green apples" like with a space in between? thanks

Is there a way to implement a site search for secured pages? I am planning on changing the site search on an existing company page. We currently use Atomz and I am considering changing to Google Search Business Edition. My boss wants to keep the secured pages hidden from a …

I just checked on google for an updated link:domainname count, and mine changed. I checked some competitors, whose counts have also changed. Not sure if they're about to do any meaningful updates, but I always like seeing that Google is alive and updating. Does anyone know if the link: count …

NOTE: This is not my site, nor do I promote it. I want everyones opinion on it. I was surfing the net doing my daily SEO research when I came upon this website that guaranteed 1st placement on 40 major search engines, including Google. Not only that, they said it …

I'm working on a new site that was created with .css However, I'm just an html kinda guy. I haven't learned .css at this point. It does seem like a cleaner look as far as coding goes. I have tried to update the meta tags and title for each page …

Looking for opinion and recommendations... My site is a PR 3, with about 90 backlinks (most of a good quality), a small amount of content is added per month. To improve I have been told that adding a blog to my site could help. Do you agree? And, if so, …

How to increase page rank? please give any suggestions are forums helpful and if so then is page rank important in context to search engine optimization.thanks in advance.

One of the best ways to improve your Web site marketing is to analyze the existing traffic to your Web site. Until you understand who is coming and why, it'll be difficult to improve. There four ways to analyze Web site traffic: * Install a counter on your Web page …

Hi everybody, until yesterday i had around 31,000 pages indexed by google . (i check it daily by site:[url]www.mysite.com)[/url]. today morning when i checked google is showing only 14000 pages. any idea guys? is it temporary or am i going to be in trouble? thnx....