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[VaultBoss]

You're welcome!

Glad I could help you...

Steve Lorenzo SEOVirtuoso
Helping YOU To Get Found!

[aprilm]

Hi Terry, thanks for this thread. I have been using Wordpress to create my site, and I installed a plugin that has an advanced editor. One of the options is I can create layers, are layers SEO friendly?
Thanks!

[gman2319]

Thanks for this absolute Gem of a thread. I have my share of SEO queries, but i will go through the thread before I delve in. Thanks again! Bookmarked

[webbyworld]

Hi Terry,

I have about 200 new websites I just put up. They are all privately registered, but all on the same shared C Block, and a lot of them have similar words in the domain name, like "Houston Texas" or "Garments for Sale". They all have original content, but because of the close domain names, close niche (different, but close), and they are all using the Thesis WP theme, I am worried about getting the same links to all of them.

I just don't want the websites to have all the same links and leave footprints. Also, I don't want links from bad neighborhoods or properties linking to porn and gambling websites.

My only concerns are having good clean links that won't get me in the sandbox or trip a filter.

How should I get different links for them?

If I submit all the sites to Web directories, Web 2.0 sites, Articles links, Press release links for them will it work ??

Please help me

[DireStraits]

Originally Posted by aprilm

Hi Terry, thanks for this thread. I have been using Wordpress to create my site, and I installed a plugin that has an advanced editor. One of the options is I can create layers, are layers SEO friendly?
Thanks!

If by layers you mean "absolute" positioned divs / box elements, then yes. Google doesn't take into consideration much of your CSS styling information (except in trying to stop spammers and such by people who use the same colour text as their background to get away with keyword stuffing and other such stuff).

When Google visits your site, they see only the text. Turn off your page styles, disable your javascript and even your images. What you see is basically what Google sees. If you can see your text, Google can see it too.

There's no reason why absolutely positioned box elements / layers should be detrimental to your SEO.

[Piscola]

Hi Terry, i have a question regarding backlinks,

If i do some forum porfile backlink o comment backlink and i put 2 different keywords for a same website, because im trying to rank for 2 keywords, is this good or not in terms of linkjuice????beneficts?error?

Like this

[url=hxxp://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com]keyword2[url]
[url=hxxp://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com]Keyword1[url]

[Alexander CPA]

Originally Posted by Piscola

Hi Terry, i have a question regarding backlinks,

If i do some forum porfile backlink o comment backlink and i put 2 different keywords for a same website, because im trying to rank for 2 keywords, is this good or not in terms of linkjuice????beneficts?error?

Like this

[url=hxxp://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com]keyword2[url]
[url=hxxp://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com]Keyword1[url]

Yes you can do this without any problems, although the backlinks will show up as a single backlink, as backlinks are based per page, not on how many backlinks you infact have. It's definitly a good way to save time and rank for two keywords at the same time.

[Piscola]

Originally Posted by Alex Brooks

Yes you can do this without any problems, although the backlinks will show up as a single backlink, as backlinks are based per page, not on how many backlinks you infact have. It's definitly a good way to save time and rank for two keywords at the same time.

Thanks but i see some controversy in what you say.. because if i make 3 backlinks with different keywords for the same wesbite.. this will count as 1 backlink as u say ( 1 backlink per website perpage)........
...

But finally you say that is a good this method to save time and to rank for 3 or more kw, but this is useless if they just count as 1 backlink.. do you get the idea?

Thanks, but i don't get the idea of your explanation.

[jeffhard]

by the way;/ great information.. i got answers of my questions.. thanks

[BorsaBella]

Here is my question, thank!

Best Plan of Attack for Local Google Maps and SEO

[Jusiam]

Hi Terry, thanks a lot for this thread. I really appreciate the help you are giving on this thread.

I have couple of question which has been bugging me for quite sometime. I have searched the forums but didn't find any conclusive answers.Here goes...
1. I have around 18 mini WP sites( all build 3-4 months back and all have the keyword in the domain name). 9 of them are on page one and 6 on page two of the search engine. The remaining three were also on page one but a couple of weeks back their ranking drop from page 1 to page 5-6.
I have done the same type/pattren of link building( profile, articles and bookmark,) on all my sites but how come there is a mixed variation in the ranking, And why those 3 sites were penalised and their ranking dropped?
2.The second question is How do i get those three sites up again to its previous #1 position. Is it a google dance?

I am sure most warriors are facing with this problem. Your view on this will be very appreciated. Looking forward for your reply.

[JDE]

Hi, thanks for this thread. With all the info out there, it's hard to know whose advice to follow.

I have a few questions:

1) Are you able to get similar "organic results" for keyword rich domains by using subdomains, like BestProductEver.domain.com? Then, instead of having to buy multiple domains, you could do KeywordPhrase.domain.com, and be able to set up different subdomains for each slightly different keyword phrase, without having to give your wallet to Godaddy?

Alternately, putting the keyword phrase AFTER the domain seems to work well for organic results for the Article sites. Would you be better off using Domain.com/KeywordPhrase/, then put an index file in the KeyworPhrase directory on your site?

2) What are the best tools / websites you use for optimizing for SEO, and for submitting to the search engines?

3) Does putting keywords or keyword phrases in the meta field "Keywords" in your html make any difference for SEO, or are the SEs only looking at content in the site? If it is important, do you get penalized or "sandboxed" by repeating parts of the phrase, e.g. "weight loss", best "weight loss" product, "weight loss" reviews, etc. Or can you just use "weight loss", product, best, reviews, etc. for your keywords.

4) How important is using the exact or similar keyword phase in the title of the page?

Thanks in advance for your reply,

Jim Everett

[SamstaUK]

I've been doing some keyword and competition research.
I've been analysing back links with the Yahoo site explorer, and I don't know whether I should pay more attention to the number of back links an individual page has, or how many back links the entire site has.

For example, for one of my keyword results, the page that shows up in google only has 14 back links, but the site itself has 8149 back links, would it be possible to rank with say, 25 back links to my own site?

Cheers,
Sam

[Brankas]

nice tread from new member like me.. posts that need to be in the bookmarks

[blueorca17]

Originally Posted by yuyuan

Agreed with you. I also find that Bing is relatively easy to rank, and their search results is quite similar to Google. Surprisingly, Yahoo has become harder to rank. (Although some warriors have a lot of success on Yahoo but not Bing).

Thanks for your input. As long as we create quality content and focus our optimization on the big G, ranking for BingYahoo! should not be a problem.

Ranking on Yahoo is a piece of cake...I agree that working hard to rank on Google will take care of all of the other search engines.

[stern112]

Terry has not posted since January. No need to keep asking questions.

[msfunding]

Can't find the answer on the site, thought some one here could help.. Embedding a video on a wordpress site, am I better using youtube based video or uploading the video to my site or does it not matter from an seo perspective.

[ltgreenenergy]

Hi,

I will be working now to optimize a Local Business listing and I don't have strong knowledge about it. Can you please give some tips and advices so that I can succeed this new journey.

[BBAkwe]

Hello TerryG and others.
Kindly look at this report http://www.e-backlinks.com/report.ods which can be easily opened with MS Excel or Openoffice.

The keyword "seo backlinks", the clients website (e-backlinks.com) and website of topmost Competitor (seo-back-links.com) at number 1 spot on Google, were rigorously analyzed to determine how both competing websites were performing for the above keyphrase.

Everything was analyzed; all the zones,
url
title
meta description
meta keyword
body
anchor text
image alt tags
h1
h2
h3-h6
onpage and offpage profiles of both URLs were stripped to reveal what the topmost competitor had done to land at the top of page 1. To eliminate guesswork and make it easy to implement the recommendations of the report, there are actionable comments to guide developers.

Finally, the actual backlinks that the client (e-backlinks.com) should use are listed so they can save time and money from investing in backlinks that sometimes get deleted.

For some keywords this new tool can generate up to 100 actual backlinks and;
Up to three competitors can be analyzed for one keyword.

Kindly study the report and tell me how you rate the tool.
Thanks
BB Akwe

[jjcali]

I am promoting a couple of domains but the keywords are very competitive (up to 900M competing pages in Google). For the main keyword we rank within the top 10, but the goal is to be within the top 3 but for all high traffic keyword phrases and there are many.

I have 200 unique articles written already, and I am having each sentence manually rewritten three times. I hope to have my articles ready in 2-3 months. I used article spinners before but the results and links didn't help so this will be a manual process now.

I am thinking of posting to SEOLinkVine, 1waylinks .net, ArticleMarketingAutomation, and try Big Mike's ArticleBot as well as SENuke. I am not sure which will work best. Any suggestions?

[CET]

Originally Posted by yuyuan

Agreed with you. I also find that Bing is relatively easy to rank, and their search results is quite similar to Google. Surprisingly, Yahoo has become harder to rank. (Although some warriors have a lot of success on Yahoo but not Bing).

Thanks for your input. As long as we create quality content and focus our optimization on the big G, ranking for BingYahoo! should not be a problem.

Really? I've found Yahoo's algorithm to be very primitave and easy to rank. For example, Yahoo in their infinite wisdom places HUGE weight on keywords in domains. I've taken clients from page 2 to #1 by doing nothing more than getting a domain with the keywords they wanted and setting up a 301. Presto; #1!

Yahoo still looks at the Meta Keywords tag for cryin out loud! I'll be glad when Yahoo starts using a respectable algorithm.

[Heat]

Hey Terry thanks for sharing your knowledge

I have some questions for you but here is my situation:

I have a couple sites that are on page 2 in Google out of about 2 million results without quotes and my goal is to get them to the number one spot in Google if I can.

The sites are each about 9 months old, have good On page SEO and lots of unique content

and have the following in terms of links:

-social bookmarking
-video submission with tubemogule
-high PR blog commenting
-web 2.0 links

my main problem/concern is the SOC on the first page is pretty strong

lots of sites with domain age, high PR and thousands of backlinks including Amazon.com as well as several merchant sites that are selling the same product I am.

My questions are there any back link services here or any other forum or even software you would recommended using to beat out these types of sites?

any suggestions of what I can do to beat the big dogs out and get the number one spot?

I can send you my urls and current SERPs for each keyword

Look forward to hearing from you,

Cheers,

Heat

[jazbo]

lol this old thread again. Terry G vanished months ago after the rep he/she built up in this thread failed to convert to sales in his/her WSO.

[paulinegean]

Are you still active on here? I had a quick question. Thanks

[clicknow4cash]

Originally Posted by jjcali

I am promoting a couple of domains but the keywords are very competitive (up to 900M competing pages in Google). For the main keyword we rank within the top 10, but the goal is to be within the top 3 but for all high traffic keyword phrases and there are many.

I have 200 unique articles written already, and I am having each sentence manually rewritten three times. I hope to have my articles ready in 2-3 months. I used article spinners before but the results and links didn't help so this will be a manual process now.

I am thinking of posting to SEOLinkVine, 1waylinks .net, ArticleMarketingAutomation, and try Big Mike's ArticleBot as well as SENuke. I am not sure which will work best. Any suggestions?

Top 25 Article Directories and Free Content Sites Ranked by Alexa and PageRank

I think this will be helpful. Not my site btw

[peter gibson]

Originally Posted by syedsbar

That is some inspirational stuff. Never knew that opinions could be this varied. Thanks for all the enthusiasm to offer such helpful information for every one
see this... and get best results.

[senojetan]

What's your thought on link magnets? and is a unique article going to make that much of a difference?

[Global Citizen]

so i assume this thread is dead since terry is not longer around?

[maharvey]

Does anyone have a contact number or email for lookatmeitsterryg? I don't have enough posts to PM him, his blog phone numbers don't work, and he's not responding to his business's email address. Thanks!

[ripley607]

Hi, I posted this question on a separate thread this morning but got no replies so i thought id copy n paste it here instead.


We've all seen it, when the same website occupies the first few positions in the results page for a certain keyword.

Question is, is it possible to get my website in between these results or do i have to beat the TLD altogether?

Any help appreciated.

[relyonhim7]

Thanks for the SEO tips, will be putting these to use.

[Jamieh]

Terry

Can you answer this question....

After 10 days over due and trying every method in the book to get my partner to labour, how on earth did you make it start while I was reading this thread last night at 0100 GMT.

And on the flip side my SERPS are all up!

Thank you.

BTW - A 9lb 2oz girl Called Millie born at 0254.

[resiymarko]

Wow yeah I've never looked into it that deeply. I in reality be grateful for this advice. Hopefully I can start some decent SEO work on my website. I'm giving you thanks for that last post since it was quite helpful.

[ElMundodelExito]

Originally Posted by jazbo

lol this old thread again. Terry G vanished months ago after the rep he/she built up in this thread failed to convert to sales in his/her WSO.

Yeah man, people keep asking questions but nobody answer them.
I think this is a good opportunity to another SEO guy come here answer all those questions and build up a good reputation.

[dagaul101]

Looks as Terry has gone, but the thing with SEO is it's always changing, so what may work even a year ago might no longer work as well

[victoriakeenato]

Yahoo and Bing newly just reached a deal to unite their search algorithms... How do you think it will affect optimization endeavor on in cooperation Yahoo and Bing? Will like to hear your opinions in this.

[stevenjotello]

Bing Yahoo and has just recently reached an agreement to merge their search algorithms ... How do they affect optimization efforts at Yahoo and Bing? Do I have your opinion.

[DireStraits]

Originally Posted by stevenjotello

Bing Yahoo and has just recently reached an agreement to merge their search algorithms ... How do they affect optimization efforts at Yahoo and Bing? Do I have your opinion.

One might reasonably assume that if the algorithms were to merge (and thus become "one and the same"), the result would be more a reflection of Bing's existing independent algorithm than of Yahoo's (which seems, on the surface, to be comparatively primitive). Thus, one's SEO approach would perhaps pander to the existing (or future) preferences of Bing, and that would - hopefully - be enough to attain good (and similar, if not identical) rankings in both?

I would think Microsoft's interest in the acquisition of Yahoo's search engine would be less on the basis of them wanting to "invest in (and leverage) their technology", and more to simply acquire the brand/website and thus capitalise on their market share?

Anything else would strike me as being similar to Google offering a primary school child an extortionate sum of money in exchange for the answer to "what is the square root of 4?". In a word: absurd.

[fannyballard]

Welcome back. When it comes to using individual domains vs. subdomains, what is yours? How did you use each technology and what were the results?

[tennisconnexion]

Is signature links are helpful in getting higher position in SERP?

[ScrapeBoss]

Signature links can really help. However, it depends on whether or not the links from the site is do-follow or no-follow. If the forum allows the search engines to follow the links to your site, then those signature links can really help.

In a situation where those links are no-follow, they would only be useful for getting traffic to your site from the forum. There will be no SERP benefit in this case. However, one thing to also take into consideration is that search engines still disregard no-follow tags and go ahead to the sites you are promoting. That is why whether or not a site uses do-follow, it is still good to have a signature.

Originally Posted by tennisconnexion

Is signature links are helpful in getting higher position in SERP?

[shanewhite203]

Agree with you. I also think that Bing is relatively easy to classify, and their results are very similar to Google. Surprisingly, Yahoo has become more difficult to classify. (Though some are very successful warriors, but not Yahoo Bing).

[markowe]

Hold IT! Spambot! Do NOT start replying to this thread (from 2009!!)

[Ant Marshall]

Hi Terry, you could be an amazing help to me right now.

I'm self employed and work as a partner of a company that helps businesses grow. We run seminars and an academy etc..

I've just been given a job to do which is worth about £130 to me. It's simply an SEO report on a website of client.

We have built them a new portfolio and website but I need to come up with a report for the current website to show what would be beneficial to keep.

Where can I start? How should I go about this?

Really stuck and it needs to be done in the next two days.

Ant

[joshirer]

Ok,
i have trying to figure out how this keyword cloud is generated?
It seems that all my competitors have backlinks in it but and I want in too. But how I will get there?

Here's the page: www[dot]vippitehdas[dot]com.

Keywords can be seen in the low left on the page. And if you put mouse over some of the keyword it will show you amount of topics and in the status bar can be seen the link which it points. I so desperately want also in this list but dunno how it's generated? Any light here?

Rgds,
Josh

[MuchoBrento]

Terry

I'm starting a site that brings together a couple hundred service professionals into a professional networking forum. The professional group is going to be set up for natural stone restoration professionals (a niche market that is typically very blue collar and not tech savvy).

I'd like to be able to use our site to help generate new leads for the professionals in our group (as a bonus of being a member).

Do you have any suggestions on how I can do this? BTW... each member will be the only member from their particular region, so that a contractor from Dallas will be the ONLY contractor from Dallas that's a part of our network. I'd like to be able to drive new leads to my members through a "Find a professional in your area" link on the home page. But, I'd also like the individual bio pages to generate leads for those contractors. So maybe the url "Dallas"(dot)mysite(dot)com generates leads from customers in Dallas.

Is there a way to optimize my site structure for lead generation? (I'm just throwing out guesses here, but would having each city.mydomain.com hosted with different webhosts be helpful???)

Thanks