SEO - Frequently Asked Questions

[NETDAWG]

Originally Posted by mdzarate

Great job!

Does anyone know if we can copy and give away this information? I was looking for an SEO ebook with PLR so I can give it away on an email sequence or as a ebook for free. I would be willing to pay for the rights to give it away of course or can anyone recommend a good SEO ebook with PLR?

thanks

I'm sure it's fine if you use and share the information given here, it's been posted publicly. It's really just a great offering to the community without any strings attached.

[jordan25]

thank you very much. this is excellent threat for beginners

[jmontalto21]

Excellent advice. Well thought out and very helpful.

Social bookmarking ezine articles and squidoo is something I am going to try.

[ydraw2011]

Yeah this is great material but you have to remember that you should spend 20% of your time worrying about all the SEO stuff and 80% of your time creating great content. If you create great content all the other stuff will take care of itself

[momentumrider]

Originally Posted by billian

You probably wouldn't want that. From my personal experience and there are studies I read (sorry, can't give you any links) people are clicking less the very top position (first result). The second, third and fourth are getting more clicks. But if you are insist, then I think just keep doing what you do right now, looks like you are doing the right thing.

Billian, sorry but I have to disagree with the 3rd-4th positions getting more clicks. The 2nd positioned website on the SERPs maybe, when it has a more targeted and well written title tag and description it can get more clicks than the top ranked website.

What are those studies you've read? Can you share them here?


Regards,
Jon

[Thomas Samson]

Hi, I'm new to this whole online business thing and i was wondering what's the best way to help generate good real traffic to a website

So far I've been looking into plus ones alot, and I can see a big change in the traffic towards my site, and I have made alot of sales.

Any other suggestions of things I can use ? Sorry if this seems a bit amateur of a question to ask


The website I used for plus ones is called plusonesgold.com, and it was pretty cheap for what I got.

I also looked at socialmonkey.com for backlink building ? suggestions ?

Regards

Thomas

[chrissyb]

Originally Posted by momentumrider

Billian, sorry but I have to disagree with the 3rd-4th positions getting more clicks. The 2nd positioned website on the SERPs maybe, when it has a more targeted and well written title tag and description it can get more clicks than the top ranked website.

What are those studies you've read? Can you share them here?


Regards,
Jon

I've often thought the reason why the top position wouldn't necessarily get the most visits and I believe that screen real estate plays a part - I find my self clicking in the middle of the list of the SERPs when I'm working on larger resolution screens. But then I make a point of clicking through a few pages, and not limiting myself to the first page...

I don't know if there are any studies, it's just an instinct...

[MarkWW]

A quick question:
how can you tell if your article has been indexed on google?
i submitted a unique article (diff from the one that appears on my website) on the top article directories with different titles, now if I google the article name it wont show up on google.

Just the one I submitted on ezinearticles is showing up, and its not linked to the article page directly, but to a summary page of ezinearticles. is this normal?? how can u tell if ur article has been indexed?

[wngo924]

wow, this is an amazing source of information, I have been trying to piece together what is SEO from various sources and nothing came close to such detail answers.

[aaronclancy]

Originally Posted by chrissyb

I've often thought the reason why the top position wouldn't necessarily get the most visits and I believe that screen real estate plays a part - I find my self clicking in the middle of the list of the SERPs when I'm working on larger resolution screens. But then I make a point of clicking through a few pages, and not limiting myself to the first page...

I don't know if there are any studies, it's just an instinct...

Studies show that the top results are spread like this for the top 3 ranks - give or take (according to Market Samurai research)

#1 - 43%
#2 - 17%
#3 - 9%

By the bottom of page one you are down to around 3-5%.

Over 75% of clicks go to page one!

We often assume what we do is what the average consumer will do. This is not true at all, and it is really important we test and track the common user.

[aaronclancy]

Originally Posted by ydraw2011

Yeah this is great material but you have to remember that you should spend 20% of your time worrying about all the SEO stuff and 80% of your time creating great content. If you create great content all the other stuff will take care of itself

Totally agree. SEO just appears complicated, but because people often do nothing and just think about it too much, they think that it is either difficult or a black art!

[sushilsilicon]

1. What is the function of "indexer" part of the Google search engine?
a. It helps to retrieve web pages from the world wide web
b. It helps to gather information from other search engines
c. It helps to sort the documents that Google has retrieved
d. It helps to generate meaningful results based upon the user's search term

2. Which of the following free tools/websites could help you identify which city in the world has the largest search for the keyword - "six sigma"?
a. Yahoo Search Term Suggestion Tool
b. Alexa
c. Google Traffic Estimator
d. Google Trends
e. WordTracker

[fmolina2010]

How I wish I had this when I was starting out. Nonetheless, this is a gold mine for someone who wants to understand SEO better. Great info indeed!

[seoforu]

Great resource--All you need for SEO. This resource is good for newbies. Thanks for such useful stuff.

[opportunist86]

After reading this, I guess I didn't know anything after 3 months since I engaged in internet marketing.

[samcapra]

Great Information, extremely thorough and informative.

[bwhosting]

Ohh, nice steps for the seo beginners, it's help full to a web master as well.

[honeyclarck]

i am new in this field. So thanks to all to give the such great information.

[janni321]

This is really informative post on SEO. It covers all the key factors of SEO factors. SEO professional can make their SEO campaigns more effective.

[aaronclancy]

Essentially SEO is made up of many things, but ultimately it comes down to two factors
1) Build pages
2) Get links

Word out the nitty gritty in between as you go.

[seoampsteve]

Good one... Would be Quite helpful for Lots of Forum members.... I would suggest to do it for Internet Marketing as well.....

[sadek]

Now that is a ton of valuable information and a lot of work you put into it.
Thanks a lot for this.

[globalvision]

thank you about SEO

[danielwatson1992]

Really great post. This post might help the SEO people.
Thanks for share...

[suzanstive]

in simple word seo is on line marketing only it helps to get good online business. it increase your traffic, clicks and visitor to your website seo is good business but having healthy competition in market

[Drewry_Media]

to talk about search engine optimization, do you know of any free good video bookmarking sites, whereas a person can upload one video, and that one video goes to multiple social video networks at once ? :-)

[angelinawillium]

I want to know more about guest blogging.

[ReasonWhy]

Originally Posted by aaronclancy

We often assume what we do is what the average consumer will do. This is not true at all, and it is really important we test and track the common user.

That's truth, but how strong is the temptation to do everything as "I think is right"

[jesusthomas12]

Is SEO spam, bull****, dead etc.? Who knows. The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, BBC etc. certainly don’t think so. They practice SEO like most of other website owners. Last time I checked all the people who blame SEO for global warming, the Iraq war, the global economic crisis have optimized their websites according to SEO techniques. By the numbers SEO is booming all the time for several years a in a row. A page that has what you're looking for is then created for you and displayed in your browser. Unfortunately, that type of page will not be accessible by the search engines because it doesn't actually exist on the server. If there are specific pages that are created through specific search criteria that many people would be looking for on your site, those are the ones you should create links to in your site navigation and your site map.

[Priya12]

Thanks you for this information.

[PamT]

I am grateful for this information and appreciate all the initial entries and the feedback that follows.

Can anyone address this issue?

My partner has been doing all the SEO work for our site. He got us to the first page for a number or our keywords and then we decided our next step should be social bookmarking. We started using OnlyWire to help with the posts. In one week we submitted 3 posts. Then, almost overnight, we found that none of our keywords were on page 1 of Google anymore. In fact, some of them are beyond page 3!

He doesn't feel it's a sandbox issue but we don't know what it is. Are there any suggestions as to how to quickly recover that ground?

[simontts]

Andy, this is excellent piece of work and I'll add my thanks to those already posted. I noticed that you talk about pinging backlinks using pingler, pingomatic etc. I have had much better results since using Linklicious - i.e. the links actually get crawled.

Do you (or others) have a view on this?

[jkthomas]

seo is the solution to get business

[albert110]

Search engine

A search engine is a software application that is used to spider, store, index, and display search results from the pages around the Web. Google, Yahoo, and Bing are the three major search engines.

SEO

SEO, an acronym for Search Engine Optimization, is a set of tools and skills used to finetune pages, so that they rank well in search engines. Two of the main SEO activities are keyword research and link building.

SEO tools

SEO tools are various programs and pieces of code that allow to perform SEO tasks. For instance, there are tools for keyword research and link building, for Backlink Anchor Text Analysis, etc.

[Drewry_Media]

this sounds very worthwhile to indulge in. Do you have video training courses about this also? =)

[SocialSponge]

After 12 years in the internet marketing arena Google is still foreign to me in many ways. Anyone got answers for these questions and perhaps can help me do them with some of my sites?
1) If you type in Google "San Diego Printers" the first result is a company called ww.sdprinters.com. Well underneath their link are links to pages in their site.
2) Anyone got experience dealing with a google merchant account. I am looking to list the products for google, and I see you have to setup a feed, anyone got experience with Google Merchant Services?
3) Who has a good tutorial on doing page titles and meta tags for google, I consider myself pretty good at it but I am not getting the rankings I am looking for.

I am really trying to master and understand Google more, all my sites are legit sites, not marketing sites so I feel with relevant content I should be ahead of the game. Is there a google tutorial out there?

thanks
G

[jaxxmont]

This thread proves that you can never know too much. I work for an SEO firm and I learned a few things just by skimming through here.

Thanks everybody for sharing and I am willing to answer any PMs if you have any questions regarding SEO

Leo

[Drewry_Media]

if I may say, I love the Internet marketing game, as I wish I knew how to do things online in terms of publishing and web marketing 10 years ago. Back then, I was just getting knowledge of what affiliate marketing was, and knew nothing about dedicated service, having your own website, blogging, online forum communities, and all that other stuff. Today, although I don't have my Masters degree from college, I am humbled and grateful for the "Internet education" I do have, in learning from people in warrior forum, as well as other places on the Internet, how to be better in search engine optimization, as well as Web publishing efforts. Looking forward to completing my college education momentarily :-)

[techotalk]

thanks for this top quality infromation

[Iriss]

When I have a question about Google and SEO, I try to minimize the problem. Let's say there are 10 pages of unique content on the some subject to appear in top result for some keyword. Why should Google give you credit and not 9 others? Hmm... let's see...

Remember this: things you are in control of as a web master are less important than things you are not in control of as a web master. Anyone can create unique content. Just write a lot of random words and stuff paragraphs with keywords. It doesn't really matter that much. And why should it?

People would never use Google if that's the kind of unique content people would find when they are searching. Google is well aware of these types of manipulations, more so than many people realize...

This makes sense because Google certainly doesn't want you to control your own success. Their job is to determine a set of circumstances and behavior patterns that validate your content as relevant to the entered keywords.

From my personal experience, here are some of the realizations I made over a period of time that matter if you want to build traffic:

+1 point for Your content is unique
Yes, it's a plus, but so what? Most content is unique anyway! So it's not that important if we really think about this...

I would say that the following is more important:
+1 point for Relevant content. (Relevance is determined by anchor text, I'll get back to this later, that's the key rule for Google, because ideally the web master does not have control over anchor text. Other people use anchor text to describe your website, not you.)
+1 point Backlinks are more important than your content.
+1 point The content of the page you are backlinked from must be relevant.
I am sure Google pays attention to this, too.
+1 point A site about cheese links to a site about cars Ok, still counts, but not as good as:
+2 point A site about cars links to a site about cars
I came to the realization above after I noticed that they actually can determine what your website is about, what its niche is, without you supplying them any information directly. They have a tool that shows advertisers what the site is about. And somehow, they determine that. Yes, it's to do with your keywords, but other things as well.
+1 point There are keywords in the title of the page you are linking from
+1 point post 100 links back to your site in 1 day
+100 points post 1 link every day for 100 days, every other day
Do you really think that Google doesn't know that it's possible to backlink 1 site in 1 day with 10000 links using robots? Sure they do! So, they take TIME in consideration. I assure you that they absolutely do. But if they don't, they are stupid. I don't think Google is stupid.

+1 point backlink anchor stackability
This one I invented myself after observations... What I mean by this is... let's say 10 sites links back to your site as
{a href = "yoursite"}car{/a}
and another 5 site links back to your site as
{a href = "yoursite"}red{/a}
This helps your web page to be more relevant for "red car", because you get +10 for "car" and +5 for "red".
I am a software engineer myself and have thought about these problems from the programming point of view... this looks like a very legitimate idea.

Power of link anchor text
Additionally, many people know this, but if you search for "click here", you will find Adobe.com, because there are so many links saying "click here" pointing to adobe, that Google thinks that what it's about. Is Adobe.com about "click here"? I don't think so. It's about software and products like Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, etc. But this tells us that anchor text is incredibly powerful above all others.

So, even if you have unique content about anything, as long as there are backlinks that use anchor text... that anchor text will define what the site is about... more than your unique content itself!

I don't know everything about SEO, I am sure there are other important things Google keeps track of I don't know about.

Do you have anything else to add to this list? Would love to hear about your ideas.

[Iriss]

Thanks for this helpful information. May I add that Google also counts consistency of back linking.

For example, 100 backlinks posted in 1 day is not the same as,

1 backlink posted every day for 100 days.

The second example is more valuable to Google.

[Ikmal Syifai]

Originally Posted by Iriss

Thanks for this helpful information. May I add that Google also counts consistency of back linking.

For example, 100 backlinks posted in 1 day is not the same as,

1 backlink posted every day for 100 days.

The second example is more valuable to Google.

Yap, drip-feed backlinks are always more valuable.

[showkatahmad]

Thanks for the info i like this

[Lucy Mayan Palace]

That was a very informative thread but Im still wondering, how many links do I have to do at day to able to get my webpage in a great position?

[amherstsowell]

Thanks for the huge information.

[Trevor]

Thanks for the write-up. I also believe that most of the people that aren't successful at SEO are people, who just can't keep building links and working on a site for a time period long enough to get any results (usually a few months).

Consistency is key.

[prcys]

Right that consistency is the key as in SEO one has to be continuous in all the process else others tries continues and our site get the drop in the results. As i have heard from many people that asks that i do not have any change in my site and not any activity still it dropped from before! So this is due to stop the process of the work for the results.
And in SEO the most consistent process is link building which never going to end and which benefited for the long term.

[Majin]

Good informations, it will help a lot os people, thanks

[phamminhloan]

Thanks for useful topic. i am looking about it. thanks for all...

[transcriptionservices]

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