Ask the SEO Guy Anything!

[GIahGroup]

thanks amte for your response..

I found a nice site to compare your site listings with the original G algo Vs Caffeine Listings.

http://www.comparegoogle.com

A little movement in my sites.

cheers

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Alright guys, I'm getting somewhat inundated with requests. I'm thinking of a few things for you guys:

1. I'll do an ebook on SEO
2. I'll offering some private coaching
3. I'll open up my seo services to you guys

What do you guys think should I do?

[rliddle]

Do an ebook, and make it easy for everybody, I would buy it.

[realtorkimberly]

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.

Question I asked and deleted was
a mistake when review question is answered in the above post, my apologies

[realtorkimberly]

Hi GIah Group, Interesting research and helpful I will be sure do more tests before submitting my site.

[realtorkimberly]

I'm still here 7:00am, 6hours No wonder I haven't completed a site yet.
TerryG any info on SEO I'm all ears,

The research that GIah Group posted showing the small difference in caffeine and no caffeine made a big difference, site is going.

Questions you ask?
A newbie somewhat
I'm sure I can post a short list of questions, before submitting my website if my answers are not already in front of me.

Thank-You
Respectfully,

Kim

[realtorkimberly]

Hi again TerryG, Can you list any of your site we can view for examples?

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by realtorkimberly

Hi again TerryG, Can you list any of your site we can view for examples?

What specifically do you want an example of? The majority of my clients are larger businesses and are held under NDA.

[Shaun Lee]

Hi Terry, as of now, I have about 1200+ backlinks, at least 300 are from different IPs and from pages with PR 4 and higher.

But still, my current blogspot is ranked at No.59.

There's something that is bugging me too, why is it that my blogspot ranks higher in a broad search rather than in a phrase search?

Thanks!

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by SRLee

Hi Terry, as of now, I have about 1200+ backlinks, at least 300 are from different IPs and from pages with PR 4 and higher.

But still, my current blogspot is ranked at No.59.

There's something that is bugging me too, why is it that my blogspot ranks higher in a broad search rather than in a phrase search?

Thanks!

I guess the only question here is "why is it that my blogspot ranks higher in a broad search rather than in a phrase search?", right?

Answer: Why does it matter? People don't use quotes to search generally.

[stern112]

Terry--


How can I hire you?

[amerigo]

Just sent him a PM, basically asking the same thing ><

Originally Posted by stern112

Terry--


How can I hire you?

[LookItsMeTerryG]

stern112 - I replied to the PM.

amerigo - Added you to MSN.

[dandimit]

Wow, there is some really great info here. Good job on the thread.

[RoseannaLeaton]

Hi Terry,

Any advice on how to get out of the sandbox? I think I got in there by building links too fast and also too many similar anchor text links...(from what i have read) no reciprocals, no link buying...just a lot of articles written and submitted. Any help appreciated.

[lmccarroll]

Hi Terry,
Can you recommend a good shopping cart for SEO? We have 500-1000 products.

Remember, stay charged, power up!

Liam

[Shaun Lee]

Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG

I guess the only question here is "why is it that my blogspot ranks higher in a broad search rather than in a phrase search?", right?

Answer: Why does it matter? People don't use quotes to search generally.

I thought broad search would consists of something like "buy computer because attacked by mouse", when the keyword is "buy computer mouse". And phrase would mean "buy computer mouse cheap" or something like that.

Is it? Or I'm looking at things all wrong?

[LookItsMeTerryG]

RoseannaLeaton - As long as nothing really spammy was done you should just need a few weeks or months of age. Diversify your links a bit, be more natural. Whatever you do - don't stop building links. A site that ends up in the sandbox (if it even exists, but theoretically) that stops building links will basically admit to manipulating their rank. If you weren't manipulating, you couldn't stop it, right?

lmccarroll - I'm a big fan of Interspire. I've tried pretty much all of them I think by now. Mals Ecommerce is really neat and lightweight for a free option.

SRLee - I thought you meant searching with quotes. I've never really heard the broad/exact terms used outside of PPC. We normally just call that type of effect 'long-tail'. In the end, focus your content a bit more and build better links/trust/authority. It's basically always the same..

AJD101 - I laid out a basic version of my method earlier in this thread. Other than that, not really.

Jboxer - That would be a PPC question. Not really my forte.

[raphael7]

Hi Terry


Thank you so much for giving us this great tips and information for free

I want to start new site (product niche- Portable Gas Grill)


I chose domain name portablegasgrilltips.com


I also chose approximately 15 long tail keywords from Adwords Keyword Tool


thermos portable gas grill

portable propane gas grill

sunbeam portable gas grill

weber portable gas grill

portable gas bbq grill

coleman portable gas grill ....





Is it good link structure for my new site ,or this is to spammy for google



portablegasgrilltips.com/thermosportablegasgrill.html

portablegasgrilltips.com/weberportablegasgrill.html

portablegasgrilltips.com/colemanportablegasgrill.html



If this link structure is not best solution for me ,please give me your advice how to solve this BIG problem for me

[Justin Wheeler]

Wow.

Some interesting questions and answers here.

I was just wondering on the importance of .edu links and the best ways to get them.

Also having just started migrating some of my sites from static html to wordpress am interested in the whole pinging thing. I know that wordpress automatically pings pingomatic and am keen to know which other pings I should be doing when I create new posts, assuming of course pinging is still a good thing to do.

Hope you get a chance to answer otherwise hope you include the above in your e-book!

Best wishes,

Justin

[maveric]

Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG

Alright guys, I'm getting somewhat inundated with requests. I'm thinking of a few things for you guys:

1. I'll do an ebook on SEO
2. I'll offering some private coaching
3. I'll open up my seo services to you guys

What do you guys think should I do?

Hi Terry. Thanks so much for sharing your time here- amazing stuff!

I would love to see an EASY to follow ebook- one that someone with a very basic knowlege of SEO could pick up and succeed with...

Even better would be screencasts! I, like many, learn best visually.

Question: How does local SEO differ in technique from general SEO? In other words, if I pick up an ebook or something on SEO in general, how much of it will be useless or give bad information with regard to local SEO?

Thanks again!
Eric

[LookItsMeTerryG]

@ raphael7 - That will work, whatever makes sense. I think you could shorten them though and not stuff so many keywords in. Something like: portablegasgrilltips.com/thermos.html would be fine.

@ justinw - .edu links don't hold more weight because of their extension.. it's just a coincidence that they normally have really good trust and authority. I always just email for them, make a donation, offer to produce content, give a speech, partner with them for market research, etc.


As far as pinging, my generic list is:

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

@ maveric - Local search runs more on citations (local business can't naturally get nationwide links etc for the most part) from major data providers such as infousa, yelp, YP, etc. If I do write something, it'll include both types of SEO.

@ serps - Get links from international tlds. Make sure to remove any geographic targeting set up in webmaster tools too.

[technomartrga]

Hopefully I can start some decent SEO work on my website. I'm giving you a thanks for that last post because it was quite helpful.

[Justin Wheeler]

You rock.. Thanks.

[Raul991]

So as i understand co.cc is actually a sub-domain. In SEO terms, does it hold less weight compared to paid domain like .com

[usenet]

Hi SEO Guy !

I've bought two domain names made of two keywords that get a lot of searches in google, many more than my original domain name (if I believe the adword tool), what is the best way to put these domains to use ?

I'm thinking of just redirecting them to the old domain, and everytime I make a backlink to the website, making two more backlinks to the redirection domains ? Is this the best way ?

thanks

[irenef25]

I have heard that Google doesn't give any importance to backlinks. Is it true? If backlinks don't have any importance then what's new algorithm of Google?

[myalcin]

Hi,

I have a question. I have a website. When I typed on google.se related keywords early today, it was listed on the first page and it was also same yesterday, but suddenly today lately listing disappeared. My website was listed as a part of directories which I submit as a link exchange. I can not see my website anymore on listings. It may be because of too many link exchange? Actually there is not many. May that be reason? I heard link exchange is not good. I mean Google does not like it.

Thanks.

[seekersharer]

I would be seriously interested in some of your coaching. Especially as it relates to local search optimization.

Please PM me with the details of what your program might entail and how i might contact you.

[Marigold]

I have a one year old domain with about 70 original good quality posts.I am getting as of today 100-120 average visitors.I want to make it 1000 visitors per day.I am willing to try anything to achieve this target.Can you help me in this regard?Any suggestions?Can it be done within 3 months?
I have several keywords in the first page.My main keyword is in the second position of first page.Can you help me with any tips to get one 1000 visitors per day within 3 months?If successful I will report my result here.I know it requires a lot of hard work.......I am not looking for any shortcut.I am willing to put in the work required to achieve this result.

[Marigold]

Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG

@ Kirahster - Yeah, it'll "count", I wouldn't recommend it. However, you'll rank well in Bing Instead, opt for the main 3-4 directories, LII, DMOZ, etc.

@ GIahGroup - I find that the url is somewhat inconsequential in terms of SEO. I basically choose mine in the interests of branding. Exact match domains are really doing well in caffeine, according to my limited tests.

@ serps - Promote it the same way you would with a normal site. Identify your target demo, figure out what they're searching for and rank for that. That'll get the SEO taken care of. Overall marketing is another story. As far as successful affiliate, there are literally hundreds of more qualified people on here that can answer that. I'm just a SEO guy

@ pakidesigner - Not really. Just software that spins content.

How can I rank for highly competitive keywords?I know I can because nothing is impossible.

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Raul991 - That's not a subdomain. A subdomain would be sub.domain.com or similar. The downsides of a domain like that aren't anything but it's harder to get humans to link to you and to remember the domain.

usenet - Nope. I'd develop them out on different hosting accounts with completely unique content.

irenef25 - Not true at all. Google loves inbound links. The new caffeine update seems to place more emphasis on on-page factors though, (more than they used to, not more than on link building).

myalcin - Could just be Google's normal weirdness. Give it a few days to a week and report back if it doesn't show up.

Marigold - This is a very hard question to answer. It's possible that the niche doesn't even have 1000 uniques per day to offer. It really depends on how you did your research.

[LilBlackDress]

Here are my questions Mr. Terry G.

If you were planning to promote a relatively new website, would this be a good plan?

1. Submit site to directories (or are they now worthless except for DMOZ?)

2 Submit site to search engines (or is this not needed?)

3. Submit site to RSS feeds (submit each page or the domain as a whole and just once or on a regular basis?)

4. Write articles for popular directories (ezines, Go)

5. Spin articles and mass submit to a large number of directories

6. Make comments on Do Follow blogs (what about no follow?)

7. Try to make comments on .gov and .edu blogs

8. Social Bookmark

9. Participate in Forums

10. Build Linkwheels on web 2.0 properties

11. Offer up quality content to other webmasters

12. Exchange links with quality sites

13. Ping



Do you agree with this plan. Is there anything you would add or remove?

And how SAFE is it to automate some of this using;

~ RSS bot
~ Onlywire Bookmarker
~ Mass Article Directory Submission etc.

Thanks so much!!!

[irenef25]

Originally Posted by LilBlackDress

Here are my questions Mr. Terry G.

If you were planning to promote a relatively new website, would this be a good plan?

1. Submit site to directories (or are they now worthless except for DMOZ?)

2 Submit site to search engines (or is this not needed?)

3. Submit site to RSS feeds (submit each page or the domain as a whole and just once or on a regular basis?)

4. Write articles for popular directories (ezines, Go)

5. Spin articles and mass submit to a large number of directories

6. Make comments on Do Follow blogs (what about no follow?)

7. Try to make comments on .gov and .edu blogs

8. Social Bookmark

9. Participate in Forums

10. Build Linkwheels on web 2.0 properties

11. Offer up quality content to other webmasters

12. Exchange links with quality sites

13. Ping



Do you agree with this plan. Is there anything you would add or remove?

And how SAFE is it to automate some of this using;

~ RSS bot
~ Onlywire Bookmarker
~ Mass Article Directory Submission etc.

Thanks so much!!!

Great plan you have made. I think all these web promotion techniques you have listed is extremely necessary for a newly created website to get noticed by search engines and to drive enough visitors. Amongst this list i would have removed only one thing and that's "link exchange". Also, i don't believe on the automated software's or the submission services.

If you build quality content automatically other webmasters will be attracted towards your site and offer you to exchange links. Whether its dofollow or nofollow both the blogs are going to benefit you, dofollow in terms of backlinks and nofollow in terms of traffic.

The RSS feed submissions to the feed directories is much worth as because the more you submit your feeds the more your backlinks will be.

Thanks for the great plan.

[clarissa25]

Originally Posted by irenef25

Great plan you have made. I think all these web promotion techniques you have listed is extremely necessary for a newly created website to get noticed by search engines and to drive enough visitors. Amongst this list i would have removed only one thing and that's "link exchange". Also, i don't believe on the automated software's or the submission services.

If you build quality content automatically other webmasters will be attracted towards your site and offer you to exchange links. Whether its dofollow or nofollow both the blogs are going to benefit you, dofollow in terms of backlinks and nofollow in terms of traffic.

The RSS feed submissions to the feed directories is much worth as because the more you submit your feeds the more your backlinks will be.

Thanks for the great plan.

hi i had a question on this one. should u submit your rss feed over and over again. For instance lets say I submited the rss feed of my homepage to 100 rss places aleady>? should I keep submitting it to the same engines?

Also, will no follow links on blogs still get you traffic even if you do not use keywords in the name field?

[usenet]

thanks !

how does .org compare to .com and .net in terms of SEO ? any difference in page ranking ?

[fortony]

PLEASE do some kind of a ebook! You look like you know what you are talking about, so I for one would be willing to pay a reasonable fee for it too.

These forum are not the best way of giving the kind of overall advice you are giving. An organized, ebook would be better for everyone. Otherwise, it is too difficult to know what you have answered etc.

[barginboyrob]

What's the most efficient way of linkbuilding, is social bookmarking and rss worth it?

[oketiva]

Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG

Hey guys,

I've been a longtime lurker here browsing around (we're talking YEARS of this stuff) and I've decided to give something back. If you've got a SEO related question or need some advice, ask here and I'll answer!

About me:

I've been doing SEO professionally for clients for about 9 years now, have several of my own sites (read: more than 60) top 3 in Google and am a ridiculously intense data hound. All of my campaign efforts are recorded, analyzed and tweaked, thus: I'm not just rehashing information found elsewhere. The majority of my knowledge comes from the data produced by setting up several test sites in several niches.

Most importantly, I'm not selling anything here. Just offering some free advice from someone that's been around a while and has consistently produced top rankings.

Let's go!

Ti Terry
Explain briefly, step by step guide on SEO writing from choosing a domain name. Eplain how to add backlink and how to register site on directories.

[bbenson19]

Have you tested linkwheels and is it better than just creating backlinks directly to your site without any relation to the other sites? Thanks in advance. I can't seem to increase my rankings even if my competitor has only 27 backlinks and I already have 90+ backlinks. I'm still in the second page.

[LookItsMeTerryG]

LilBlackDress - See my notes below:

1. Submit site to directories (or are they now worthless except for DMOZ?)
I'd only submit to the trusted directories, IE: DMOZ, LII, etc.
2 Submit site to search engines (or is this not needed?)
NO.
3. Submit site to RSS feeds (submit each page or the domain as a whole and just once or on a regular basis?)
Submit the main feed to appropriate places.
4. Write articles for popular directories (ezines, Go)
Sure. Just don't go overboard.
5. Spin articles and mass submit to a large number of directories
Eh..... probably not.
6. Make comments on Do Follow blogs (what about no follow?)
Sure. Do both, it doesn't matter and looks more natural.
7. Try to make comments on .gov and .edu blogs
Sure, see above.
8. Social Bookmark
Sure, don't go overboard (bookmarking demon, etc)
9. Participate in Forums
Yes. But for brand building and good advice, not links.
10. Build Linkwheels on web 2.0 properties
Sure, if you have the time.
11. Offer up quality content to other webmasters
Yes, yes, yes. Do this first, or after directories.
12. Exchange links with quality sites
Minimal, but sure.
13. Ping
Probably not necessary.

I wouldn't really automate much.... if you're not spamming, there's not a TON of work to be done besides content creation.

[LookItsMeTerryG]

clarissa25 - The law of diminishing returns applies here pretty quickly. Traffic? Depends on the traffic of the blog you commented on.

usenet - Nope, no difference.

barginboyrob - Efficient as in time spent: Linkbait. Efficient as in effect: Direct emails to authority sites.

oketiva - Choose the domain based on branding, not seo. Most directories have the step by step you want in creating a listing.

bbenson19 - Link wheels are junk links for the most part. They are effective, but I think nowadays, time is better spent elsewhere (unless you're using something to automate it). As far as your site and the number of backlinks, are they IP diverse and quality? Compare the type to your competitors and you'll see why.

[pauljeaston]

how can i achieve at least pr 1 with the fastest way? Backlinking? My site's onsite seo is already ok.

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by pauljeaston

how can i achieve at least pr 1 with the fastest way? Backlinking? My site's onsite seo is already ok.

Backlinks are the only way.

Also, just an update for you all, I've been hard at work on the ebook, it's really coming along nicely. Very comprehensive and some strong stuff in there.

If you're interested in the book, please RSVP by visiting: Terry G Publisher Profile - iContact Community and Enter your info into the signup box on the bottom left.

[Jay Rhome]

I've got access to some very good PLR review sites. They come with 20+ articles each.

After a few steps, I click go and the website is live. Problem it's ALL duplicate content obviously and as I want to use SEO to drive traffic, that is a problem.

I want to rewrite the articles and reviews to make them more unique as I don't know exactly how many people will publish them but my guess is that it's 100s.

If I rewrite the material before, the time spent on doing that the site is not live. If I rewrite after, when the SE bots take their first peak the site is basically a duplicate SITE since both the contents and layout are the same as lot out there.

What would you chose to do? Modify the site before publishing, or publish and modify progressively while the site is live?

Thanks

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by Jay Rhome

I've got access to some very good PLR review sites. They come with 20+ articles each.

After a few steps, I click go and the website is live. Problem it's ALL duplicate content obviously and as I want to use SEO to drive traffic, that is a problem.

I want to rewrite the articles and reviews to make them more unique as I don't know exactly how many people will publish them but my guess is that it's 100s.

If I rewrite the material before, the time spent on doing that the site is not live. If I rewrite after, when the SE bots take their first peak the site is basically a duplicate SITE since both the contents and layout are the same as lot out there.

What would you chose to do? Modify the site before publishing, or publish and modify progressively while the site is live?

Thanks

Modify the site before publishing, for sure. Sorry for a short answer, but why make it confusing and harder than it is?

[Rapidgrowth]

Greetings from Sydney Australia,
I am about to launch a stepup-system of network opportunities, but I want to make sure team members can get quality traffic to their site without too great an expense. My Question is due you think automated traffic club and we build squidoo lens would do the job and are they good value for money? And autotraffic club second opition for $1497 will that really do a better job for the money? Thank you
PS sorry could not give you links, new to forum

[seobro]

OK now that both mixx and digg no longer pass link juice what strategy are you using to get backlinks? How will the nofollow craze, affect us?

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by Rapidgrowth

Greetings from Sydney Australia,
I am about to launch a stepup-system of network opportunities, but I want to make sure team members can get quality traffic to their site without too great an expense. My Question is due you think automated traffic club and we build squidoo lens would do the job and are they good value for money? And autotraffic club second opition for $1497 will that really do a better job for the money? Thank you
PS sorry could not give you links, new to forum

I'm not familiar with either of these services. Read some testimonials and look at examples, that's all I can recommend.

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by seobro

OK now that both mixx and digg no longer pass link juice what strategy are you using to get backlinks? How will the nofollow craze, affect us?

These didn't factor heavily into my strategy anyway. You still need nofollow links, they're definitely part of a legitimate, natural link profile. The link building that I do for myself and my clients has basically been the same for years now. I'm not changing much, if anything at all. Trust and authority are still king.