Ask the SEO Guy Anything!

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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!
#guy #seo
  • Profile picture of the author yuyuan
    Hi,

    Yahoo and Bing recently just reached a deal to merge their search algorithms... How do you think it will affect optimization effort on both Yahoo and Bing? Will like to hear your opinions in this.

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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    From what I understand they're not merging per se, they're getting rid of Y! search altogether and allowing Y! to maintain it's ad sales, the portal, etc.

    So, if that's true then I see it staying essentially the same in terms of optimization efforts. My advice, and what I'll continue to do until further developments arise (Bing makes their algorithms, etc..) is to do what you've always done... optimize for Google and you'll rank in Bing as a result. It's just more efficient that way considering G is capable of sending A LOT more traffic than Bing as of late.

    Now for some specific tips for Bing, if you find that you're ranking where you want in Google and not in Bing, I'd focus on some directory submissions and optimize your onsite content. (title tags, semantics, bold keywords, etc). They believe a bit more in these types of links and they're fairly easy, albeit time consuming. Overall, I find Bing is relatively easy to dominate if your site has a well rounded link campaign.
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    • Profile picture of the author ametis
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      • Profile picture of the author rimam1
        Hey Terry,

        This is turning out to be one of the most popular posts on the Warrior Forum. It's much appreciated.

        I have two Wordpress blogs that are optimized pretty well but they don't show up anywhere in the first 100 pages of Google (1000 results). They are relatively new domains (one month) and have lots of competing pages, but some results on the first page of Google have less than 200 links to their specific pages and/or domain. Do I need to give it more time and build more links? I've optimized sites before and gotten on the first page of Google in as little as 3 weeks before, so I'm confused as to why this is taking so long. The only difference is that these two keywords have more competing pages (about 15 million for each one) but I don't pay attention to competing pages. I'm more concerned about how well the pages are optimized. I've written the basic SEO steps I've taken below but am stumped as to why I'm nowhere in the Google results for my keywords.

        I don't mind being on page 87, because I can move up quickly from there by getting links. Funny thing is that both sites ARE indexed. I'm sure they'll appear soon, but I wanted to get your opinion.

        Thanks,
        Raza
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        • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
          Originally Posted by rimam1 View Post

          Hey Terry,
          I have two Wordpress blogs that are optimized pretty well but they don't show up anywhere in the first 100 pages of Google (1000 results). They are relatively new domains (one month) and have lots of competing pages, but some results on the first page of Google have less than 200 links to their specific pages and/or domain. Do I need to give it more time and build more links? I've optimized sites before and gotten on the first page of Google in as little as 3 weeks before, so I'm confused as to why this is taking so long. The only difference is that these two keywords have more competing pages (about 15 million for each one) but I don't pay attention to competing pages. I'm more concerned about how well the pages are optimized. I've written the basic SEO steps I've taken below but am stumped as to why I'm nowhere in the Google results for my keywords.

          I don't mind being on page 87, because I can move up quickly from there by getting links. Funny thing is that both sites ARE indexed. I'm sure they'll appear soon, but I wanted to get your opinion.

          Thanks,
          Raza
          More time, more links, better links, more content.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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    • Profile picture of the author andrewaff
      I have a website based on Amazon like a white label. How to promote this site for organic search , any idea..
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        Originally Posted by andrewaff View Post

        I have a website based on Amazon like a white label. How to promote this site for organic search , any idea..
        As long as you plan correctly you'd promote this the same way you promote all sites. The most important things here IMO would be to choose a good niche with branded products as by its very nature you'll be dealing with more longtail searches and "brand + product + variation" (if applicable) type queries.

        Something specific to this that I've seen people do wrong in the past would be just simply pulling in a feed or autogenerating the listings. You SHOULD write your own product descriptions and optimize each page title etc, individually.
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    • Profile picture of the author realtorkimberly
      Originally Posted by yuyuan View Post

      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
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    • Profile picture of the author blueorca17
      Originally Posted by yuyuan View Post

      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.
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    • Profile picture of the author CET
      Originally Posted by yuyuan View Post

      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.
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      • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author jamespatterson
    MY QUESTION:

    Haha here goes... How do I get my site ranked number one for the google term: "be your own boss"?

    -James Patterson

    P.S. Just being silly. I realize there is quite a lot of competition for that keyword. My real question is how can I get on the first page of google for a broader keyword? And how do I figure out which broad keywords to go for? (And how do I find them in the first place?)
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by jamespatterson View Post

      MY QUESTION:

      Haha here goes... How do I get my site ranked number one for the google term: "be your own boss"?

      -James Patterson

      P.S. Just being silly. I realize there is quite a lot of competition for that keyword. My real question is how can I get on the first page of google for a broader keyword? And how do I figure out which broad keywords to go for? (And how do I find them in the first place?)
      I'm a big fan of the Google Adwords External tool for finding related keywords and such. Wordtracker (what most people like) is really becoming unreliable as of late (for me anyway..).

      I can't post links yet, but google this "adwords external" and you'll find what I'm talking about. In about 30 seconds I found a few terms that may help you:

      be your own boss ideas
      how to be your own boss

      Now it should be noted that the traffic for these secondary phrases is a fraction of the searches for the main term "be your own boss", but I think it'd be smart to focus on keywords like these for 2 reasons:

      1. When you optimize for these, I think you'll find that you'll begin ranking for your main term "be your own boss" anyway.
      2. A term like "how to be your own boss" appears to be more targetted and could possibly have higher commercial intent, thus lending revenue and traffic earlier in the project.
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    • Profile picture of the author rlcanfield
      Originally Posted by jamespatterson View Post

      MY QUESTION:

      Haha here goes... How do I get my site ranked number one for the google term: "be your own boss"?

      -James Patterson

      P.S. Just being silly. I realize there is quite a lot of competition for that keyword. My real question is how can I get on the first page of google for a broader keyword? And how do I figure out which broad keywords to go for? (And how do I find them in the first place?)
      Hi James
      I did some research just for fun on your keyword "be your own boss"
      What I found is the broad traffic to that keyword is 487 searches per day and the exact search is 178 searches per day.Total competing web sites that mention your keywords is 2,080,000

      Here is what you'll need to get on the first page of Google for the keywords "be your own boss" Purchase an aged domain name that is greater than 13 years old with all of the keywords in the domain name. Purchasing an aged domain name will be of great help to you for PR ranking. Then make sure that your keywords are in all of the following:
      Title Tag, URL, Description Tag, Header Tag.

      Then start building the Backlinks to your web site and remember the quantity and quality of backlinks is very important. So here is a little help of what you need.


      2 (.edu) or (.gov) backlinks pointing to your site.
      134 Page backlinks pointing to your website.
      209 Index pages point to your website.

      I hope this has been of some help to you.
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  • Profile picture of the author jamespatterson
    Very good points but then again how do I go about finding these keywords through google external keywords? Should I be looking for low traffic? How do I know if the keyword is broad enough to be a winner?

    -James Patterson
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by jamespatterson View Post

      Very good points but then again how do I go about finding these keywords through google external keywords? Should I be looking for low traffic? How do I know if the keyword is broad enough to be a winner?

      -James Patterson
      My method for adwords external is something like this:

      1. Type in your main keyword, make sure the "synonyms" box is checked and once the results are populated, select "exact" from the drop down on the right.
      2. Look at the traffic... something that has "insufficient" data - I'd normally ignore this.
      3. A lot of it is just using your head to determine whether or not you think someone is actually typing these things in... and how frequently. One that looked good to me, but didn't make much sense was "be your own boss make money online". I just don't think many people are actually typing that in.

      I'll take the list of potential keyword phrases I found and simply search them in Google. I'll look at the total amount of results (be it 1,000,000 or 100,000), then look at the types of pages showing in the top 10 organic listings. If you see a lot of sub-pages or some social media sites (scribd, article directories, squidoo, etc) then chances are it's not very difficult. If there's mainly root domains and trusted sources (cnn.com etc) then the term is probably more competitive.

      Something that's always important to me is commercial intent.. so I'll take into consideration the amount of ppc ads appearing next to the results and what types of advertisers are there as well to figure out if people are actually making money from this keyword.
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  • Profile picture of the author jamespatterson
    Wow yeah I've never looked into it that deeply. I really appreciate this advice. 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.

    -James Patterson
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    • Profile picture of the author textbox
      Welcome back. When it comes to using subdomains vs. individual domains, what is your preference? In what ways have you used each technique and what were the results?
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        Originally Posted by textbox View Post

        Welcome back. When it comes to using subdomains vs. individual domains, what is your preference? In what ways have you used each technique and what were the results?
        Ooh, this is a good one!

        I really only use subdomains when I'm doing local stuff as it's part of my strategy to completely and utterly dominate the local listings... what I do here has often removed all of the other local competitors and left my site next to the map all alone!

        My preference is individual domains, but for several reasons:

        1. I prefer to "own" at least 4-5 of the top 10 results with my own properties, all with links pointing towards my main "hub" site.

        2. I'm a big fan of the "linkwheel" type setup, but I take it a step further. I'll build my own industry resources (to get those good links that aren't really available to commercial websites and to establish my company or myself as an expert on the subject).

        However, in terms of ranking for a specific keyword, I don't think either method really has an advantage over another, just different ways to do the same thing. I'm always testing and collecting data so it's just easier for me to use separate domains.
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        • Profile picture of the author russriedle
          You had mentioned dominating local listings. I'm strongly considering starting a business that helps offline local businesses create an online presence and for those who are already online to increase their rankings. Could you go into more detail about how you use SEO to dominate local listings?
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          • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
            Originally Posted by russriedle View Post

            You had mentioned dominating local listings. I'm strongly considering starting a business that helps offline local businesses create an online presence and for those who are already online to increase their rankings. Could you go into more detail about how you use SEO to dominate local listings?
            I'm considering it... but I'm also considering doing an ebook on this. I don't know how I feel about giving away the golden egg so to speak though.. this is something I've only ran across 1 other person doing (and he's not even doing it to the max benefit...). It's literally the only thing I've ever found in SEO that has to be a loophole or something... it works THAT well.

            However, for the time being I'll point you in the right direction:

            * Expand the local profile as much as possible, video, images... reviews.

            * Local SEO runs essentially on citations from major data providers. There's tons of lists around that list the important ones, thought it's some of the unmentioned ones that really put the icing on the cake as far as this method is concerned.

            * Google Maps likes to rank businesses according to proximity to city centroid... any hyper-local information you can provide about your business helps.. phone numbers, physical addresses, associations...etc.

            That should be enough to get your gears spinning
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            • Profile picture of the author russriedle
              LOL....I had a feeling you would say that but since the title does say, "Ask the SEO Guy Anything!", I thought I'd ask. Thanks for the pointers.

              How about this....since I was the first to ask how 'bout I get a review copy of your ebook when it's complete?

              I'm also adept at proofreading and could help there as well.
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              • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
                Originally Posted by russriedle View Post

                LOL....I had a feeling you would say that but since the title does say, "Ask the SEO Guy Anything!", I thought I'd ask. Thanks for the pointers.

                How about this....since I was the first to ask how 'bout I get a review copy of your ebook when it's complete?

                I'm also adept at proofreading and could help there as well.
                Sure thing, if I decide to go that route. Or you could hit me up on MSN. My biggest concern is hordes of people using this and Google cracking down. I've gotten a lot of complaints from competitors, etc when using this for clients, it's not the most ethical thing in the world.. you're basically tricking Google into thinking that when a person searches for "los angeles web design" (this isn't a term that I've done this with, for all you sneaky back-engineering types) or whatever they're looking for your brand.

                PM me for my MSN SN if you really want some help.
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                • Profile picture of the author FJM2010
                  Wow tons of great info, thanks for the local listing info as well..cheers
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            • Profile picture of the author imvaltaylor
              ok Terry G , I'm not a warrior but I am new to this site as of today and I am in training so please don't get upset with the simplicity of my question related to this post. I want to do this. I want to market my business locally and and get ranked on the 1st page of google. if I understand this correctly I need to set up subdomains for the surrounding cities like houston.mysite.com and the cities surrounding houston as subdomain and just market the same site, include google maps and images? and of course get the right keywords. I am understanfing you? Val
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            • Profile picture of the author TimD
              Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

              I'm considering it... but I'm also considering doing an ebook on this. I don't know how I feel about giving away the golden egg so to speak though.. this is something I've only ran across 1 other person doing (and he's not even doing it to the max benefit...). It's literally the only thing I've ever found in SEO that has to be a loophole or something... it works THAT well.

              However, for the time being I'll point you in the right direction:

              * Expand the local profile as much as possible, video, images... reviews.

              * Local SEO runs essentially on citations from major data providers. There's tons of lists around that list the important ones, thought it's some of the unmentioned ones that really put the icing on the cake as far as this method is concerned.

              * Google Maps likes to rank businesses according to proximity to city centroid... any hyper-local information you can provide about your business helps.. phone numbers, physical addresses, associations...etc.

              That should be enough to get your gears spinning
              Terry, this is pure gold. If you do create a package - put me first on your list. I think this is an enormous untapped market. If you can crack the 10-box, that's got to be the fastest way to the top of the page 1 for local companies.

              Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author billionareHuman
    have you seen this pattern of traffic from google: 10 visitors a day, 30 visitors a day, 100 visitors a day. It seems to happen for many of my sites? Once they are 100 a day I tend to think I've earned a little bit of trust.

    How long does it approximately take you to earn trust for a website where the traffic tap is turned on?
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by billionareHuman View Post

      have you seen this pattern of traffic from google: 10 visitors a day, 30 visitors a day, 100 visitors a day. It seems to happen for many of my sites? Once they are 100 a day I tend to think I've earned a little bit of trust.

      How long does it approximately take you to earn trust for a website where the traffic tap is turned on?
      This gets into that whole "does google collect visitor data?" category. I've thought about this a lot and basically came to the conclusion that Google PROBABLY isn't really collecting bounce rate data or anything else of the sort, so if true, what is actually happening here?

      I think that the normalization of rankings process is to blame for this effect. When you perform a search in Google, they're actually doing a "wet finger in the air" type of thing to figure out where sites are ranked, pulling from your local datacenters and collecting a sort of "average". This happens all over, producing different rankings in different cities, especially early in a sites promotion.

      10 people a day probably means you're beginning to be higher in the rankings in certain geographic areas, 30 people = it's spreading and becoming "normalized" over a larger amount of datacenters, etc. Now I've got no doubt that the rate of normalization can be affected by trust.

      With the link building that I do, and advocate for others, trust isn't really an issue. The key is creating a natural, well balanced link profile.
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  • Profile picture of the author billionareHuman
    great advise thanks Terry

    How important is it to add content on a regular basis? How often do you recommend adding fresh content especially for new sites. I have seen a site gain Trust on links alone with no content updates but I have seen other sites gain no Trust from just link building an needing fresh content to have a change in rankings. I guess it's a combination of the 2?
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by billionareHuman View Post

      great advise thanks Terry

      How important is it to add content on a regular basis? How often do you recommend adding fresh content especially for new sites. I have seen a site gain Trust on links alone with no content updates but I have seen other sites gain no Trust from just link building an needing fresh content to have a change in rankings. I guess it's a combination of the 2?
      I think it really depends on the niche of the site. A news site should have regular updates, while a store... probably not so much. My rule here is to just focus on the reader.. are they looking for tons of fresh content? On an authority resource site it isn't necessary, as long as they're getting their questions answered by the available content. Just whatever makes sense.
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  • Profile picture of the author tamtu
    Would you please clear this for me...when I am done optimizing the home page and would like to optimize another page. Will obtaining back links from the same sites as for homepage reduce the value of the back link for the new page or do I have to get them from different set of sites?
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by tamtu View Post

      Would you please clear this for me...when I am done optimizing the home page and would like to optimize another page. Will obtaining back links from the same sites as for homepage reduce the value of the back link for the new page or do I have to get them from different set of sites?
      Get as many separate sites as possible to link to your domain, whether it be homepage, internal page.. whatever. I've often found that sites aren't ranked by the amount of total incoming links... they're actually ranked by the amount of separate sites linking to them. It's a must to build links to other pages as well, spread them out!
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      • Profile picture of the author Stephen Liew
        Hi SEO Guru,

        My questions will be

        1) Does hyphenated Domains affect SEO ranking ?

        2) Do we really need keyword related domain name or any domain name will also get high ranking in Google ?

        Cheers,
        jtliewim
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        • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
          Originally Posted by jtliewim View Post

          Hi SEO Guru,

          My questions will be

          1) Does hyphenated Domains affect SEO ranking ?

          2) Do we really need keyword related domain name or any domain name will also get high ranking in Google ?

          Cheers,
          jtliewim
          1. Nope. The only thing this really effects would be brand building and recognition... you'll probably see a lower amount of type-ins, etc.

          2. Nope. I've found that as long as you have the keywords somewhere in your url (can be a page name, etc) you'll get whatever benefits that can be had from this.
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          • Profile picture of the author pengerik
            Regarding importance of domain name, it's a real bonus to have your main keywords in the domain name. The age of the domain also works in your favour, so new domain with/without keywords in it, normally takes a tad more work/time to get ranked.
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      • Profile picture of the author dubo
        Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

        Get as many separate sites as possible to link to your domain, whether it be homepage, internal page.. whatever. I've often found that sites aren't ranked by the amount of total incoming links... they're actually ranked by the amount of separate sites linking to them. It's a must to build links to other pages as well, spread them out!
        That's answer my question too.
        Now, it make sense for me how make my internal page can be high rank too...

        My question:
        1. Do you know how Yahoo rank the page, since it is difficult for me to get on top rank on Yahoo. I just curious to know :confused:

        2. Sorry to be dumb, but I honestly don't know about it. What is backlinking? How can we create backlink and made it effective?
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        • Profile picture of the author sanjid112
          Originally Posted by dubo View Post

          2. Sorry to be dumb, but I honestly don't know about it. What is backlinking? How can we create backlink and made it effective?
          I have that same question with dubo above there...
          Can u explain to me? :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author billionareHuman
    as long as they're getting their questions answered by the available content
    your right about that and that's how I thought Google would think aswell, it makes sense. That's where Google should be collecting user behaviour data and ranking based on that however you said you think they are probably not?
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by billionareHuman View Post

      your right about that and that's how I thought Google would think aswell, it makes sense. That's where Google should be collecting user behaviour data and ranking based on that however you said you think they are probably not?
      No, I don't believe they are. For an information resource like the one described above, assume the visitor searches for "term x" and lands on your page "term x information". If you're doing a good job providing a useful site with great usability, they wont' need to browse around the site and view tons of pages before satisfying their needs... meaning: the more effective and knowledgeable your articles, the higher the bounce rate. Theoretically speaking.

      So if Google was collecting this data... I think bounce rate would be the most important metric to them.. and considering what I've said above, they'd be limiting the amount of truly useful content available through their engine.
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  • Profile picture of the author Amenda Jessera
    I have a question: What is the best way to get FAST SERP?
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    • Profile picture of the author FreshMedia
      Hi, I just made a post before finding this one. I was wondering on the differences between wordtracker and google. I found a good keyword that had 6,600 global searches a month in google. This was with a "phrase" search. I'm assuming this calculates to around 200 searches a day. Why does wordtracker only show 15 searches a day. Who should I trust? Thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        Originally Posted by FreshMedia View Post

        Hi, I just made a post before finding this one. I was wondering on the differences between wordtracker and google. I found a good keyword that had 6,600 global searches a month in google. This was with a "phrase" search. I'm assuming this calculates to around 200 searches a day. Why does wordtracker only show 15 searches a day. Who should I trust? Thanks.
        With the G adwords external tool it's important to select "exact" from the drop down box on the top right to get an accurate number.

        I don't really recommend using wordtracker for anything except discovering possible keyword combinations etc... I've found that their traffic estimates are off by a LONG shot.

        I normally base my predictions on the adwords external tool, but also take into consideration data that I get from google trends... by taking a keyword that I rank number 1 for and putting the new keyword against it. Since I rank number 1 I DO know the traffic for that term and I can compare if the 2nd is higher or lower on the graph to get an estimate.
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        • Profile picture of the author FreshMedia
          Thanks TerryG. I got some responses from my post and they also recommend not to trust wordtrakcer.
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          • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
            Originally Posted by FreshMedia View Post

            Thanks TerryG. I got some responses from my post and they also recommend not to trust wordtrakcer.
            NP I think you'll find that's the general consensus among the knowledgeable.
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            • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
              On line 666 of google's key alogrythm what is the line of code they are using?
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              • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
                Originally Posted by Intrepreneur View Post

                On line 666 of google's key alogrythm what is the line of code they are using?
                Well, I'd put the code out but the big G would sue the pants off me. Here's a visualization:

                Makes perfect sense, right?
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                • Profile picture of the author debra
                  Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

                  Well, I'd put the code out but the big G would sue the pants off me. Here's a visualization:

                  Makes perfect sense, right?
                  Hey Terry...

                  You got that graphic in a jpg to download?

                  I tried drawing it out but it turned out looking like some metamorphic goop! So much for the crayons.
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                  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
                    Originally Posted by debra View Post

                    Hey Terry...

                    You got that graphic in a jpg to download?

                    I tried drawing it out but it turned out looking like some metamorphic goop! So much for the crayons.
                    Yep, it's available here: http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/6...ealgorithm.jpg
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                  • Profile picture of the author nitikasnv
                    Hi,

                    As per my searches i found bing is providing better search results than
                    google.

                    As far as SEO results concern Google always provide me better results in terms of ranking of my site for targeted keywords and traffic.

                    Thanks
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                  • Profile picture of the author luhur99
                    hi there.. just want to ask you about this question , is it possible to get ezinearticle get index on page 1 google with competitor that have PR 5 or have competitive niche

                    if can how can I do that ..??
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                    • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
                      Originally Posted by luhur99 View Post

                      hi there.. just want to ask you about this question , is it possible to get ezinearticle get index on page 1 google with competitor that have PR 5 or have competitive niche

                      if can how can I do that ..??
                      Getting indexed and getting ranked are different things.

                      To get a page on a top SERP position, after it have been indexed, of course, you'd have to build backlinks to it, from as high as possible PR pages on trusted sites.

                      EZA (EZineArticles) or any other article directory already has a good standing and generally speaking a high PR already, BUT Google and the gang (the other SE's) will rank pages individually...

                      So, even when you place an article with them, you shouldn't expect it to inherit the portal's PR w/o you doing any work, so to speak.

                      Basically, you stand a better chance to beat the PR5 competition on 1st page SERP's with an article on EZA, IF and only IF you work on it as you would do with any other page (properly research KW's, carefully write with on-page SEO in mind, etc...) and after publishing, starting to build backlinks to it...

                      You benefit from EZA's domain age, reputation (PR) etc... which you wouldn't have normally on your own fresh domain.

                      However, the work and investment involved would be such that I myself always avoid it and rather build all on my own domain (blog) in terms of efforts, only placing a few hand written articles on EZA and then other main article directories, but the focus still stays upon my own...

                      Guess it's a matter of choice. I prefer to own my content, not to be at the mercy of EZA...

                      There is one more thing to think of...

                      On EZA, each article will be a separate page.
                      You write 5 articles, you'll have 5 pages to work on...
                      The aggregated results from your efforts will go to EZA though...

                      On your own blog, for instance, each article you add and fight for it to get good rankings, will push up your main domain as well and help you, in the medium - long term future, get indexed faster and ranked higher for future to be written content on the same domain.

                      With EZA you always start from fresh...

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                    • Profile picture of the author User-Name
                      I have the number 2 site for the term
                      general life insurance Results 1 - 10 of about 87,300,000 for general life insurance
                      generallifeinsurance.org
                      the google keyword tool gave me this term is searched 4200 times a month and was worth something like $12
                      I have 3 questions if you can help me that would be fantastic.
                      I was in the number 1 spot and it was quite good now i am number 2 it is hardly worthwhile
                      Why such a difference between 1 and 2?
                      I was number 1 for less then a day why the sudden drop?
                      (I have been number 2 for some months)
                      The top site is a pr4 with many backlinks if I get more backlinks then it will i regain number 1? (thie site I wish to beat is 13 years old)
                      I have numerous number 1 positions this one has me perplexed/beat
                      Thanks for any thoughts/help
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                    • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
                      Originally Posted by joelchrist View Post

                      My new site did not get index by google. Can you suggest some better ways for quick indexing?
                      There is no better way than sbmitting your new site directly to Google.

                      Read this here:
                      Adding a site to Google - Webmaster Tools Help

                      Hope it helps...

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                  • Profile picture of the author Palaecro
                    Hey Terry,

                    I just have a few questions which I'd love to have your take on.

                    #1 - When launching a new site with a new domain how do you begin a backlinking campaign. In that how aggressive do you go right off the bat? I understand consistency is everything but I'm having trouble figuring out a good starting place. I've read conflicting information that says as low as 5-10 backlinks/week max at first and some others say you can go to 50/week for the first week then up to 300/week by week 4. What's your take on this.

                    Also as a follow up do you ever intentionally go after no-follow links to mix things up?

                    #2 - Your Favorite Gurus to study/follow? In regards to SEO and why?

                    #3 - Do Backlinks that are created in a profile of a forum account act the same as backlinks that are linked via a thread for the purpose of SEO? Or are they worthless until a post is made?

                    #4 - The 3 SEO/IM tools you cannot live without?

                    #5 - Not sure if you'll know this one, but the "Unsubscribe Strategy" where-by you target competitors using unsubscribe links in Adwords. Does this still work? Since I started fiddling around with Adwords recently trying to do this and Adwords kept dismissing the links as not having enough traffic to warrant their use.

                    Huge thanks in Advance!
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                  • Profile picture of the author 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
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                • Profile picture of the author realtorkimberly
                  Of course Terry, I understood all of that one...... I get it..... lol
                  Sincerely though thanks for all your info.
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by Amenda Jessera View Post

      I have a question: What is the best way to get FAST SERP?
      If you mean getting indexed quickly, social bookmarking will do that. In terms of getting ranked quickly... choose a low competition niche and get a direct match domain name. If you meant something else, let me know!
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  • Profile picture of the author abpanama
    Thanks for the free help.

    Until a few days ago my site (abpanama) was on the page 1 of google for several terms, including "panama real estate" and "panama real estate listings"
    Now my site is nowhere to be found? It seems like it no longer appears in Googles index.
    If I search google for "abpanama.com - I get this result as #1:

    UK - Gas - Electricity - Electricity Supplier - Gas Supplier - Gas ...
    Electric meter electric meters electric shaver electric skillet electric stove electric stoves electric supply electric utility electric violins electric ...
    Panama Real Estate | Panama Property Listings | Investments - Cached - Similar -

    I have no idea who or what this site is and how it is linking to my site.

    Similarly, if I search "panama real estate listings" on page 3 or 4 this appears:

    UK - Gas - Electricity - Electricity Supplier - Gas Supplier - Gas ...
    Smart Meter Technology provides real business energy solutions, saving time and money, it can also improve the effect business has on the environment. more ...
    utilities4u.co.uk/ - Cached - Similar -

    Clearly the above site has nothing to do with 'panama real estate listings'
    I have contacted my host and the other sites host (different companies) who say it is not their issue

    Any ideas - is this a google glitch or virus, or ?? I have tested my site and don;t see any issues, nor does anything show in my google webmaster account
    And more importantly, how can I fix it and restore my sites rankings?
    I am losing a lot of business and traffic.

    Any help would be much appreciated
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by abpanama View Post

      Thanks for the free help.

      Until a few days ago my site (abpanama) was on the page 1 of google for several terms, including "panama real estate" and "panama real estate listings"
      Now my site is nowhere to be found? It seems like it no longer appears in Googles index.
      If I search google for "abpanama.com - I get this result as #1:

      UK - Gas - Electricity - Electricity Supplier - Gas Supplier - Gas ...
      Electric meter electric meters electric shaver electric skillet electric stove electric stoves electric supply electric utility electric violins electric ...
      Panama Real Estate | Panama Property Listings | Investments - Cached - Similar -

      I have no idea who or what this site is and how it is linking to my site.

      Similarly, if I search "panama real estate listings" on page 3 or 4 this appears:

      UK - Gas - Electricity - Electricity Supplier - Gas Supplier - Gas ...
      Smart Meter Technology provides real business energy solutions, saving time and money, it can also improve the effect business has on the environment. more ...
      utilities4u.co.uk/ - Cached - Similar -

      Clearly the above site has nothing to do with 'panama real estate listings'
      I have contacted my host and the other sites host (different companies) who say it is not their issue

      Any ideas - is this a google glitch or virus, or ?? I have tested my site and don;t see any issues, nor does anything show in my google webmaster account
      And more importantly, how can I fix it and restore my sites rankings?
      I am losing a lot of business and traffic.

      Any help would be much appreciated
      PM me your URL and I'll take a peek.
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      • Profile picture of the author abpanama
        Thanks - it is abpanama.com
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    @abpanama - Your site has a lot of terrible incoming links. Footer links, sitewide rented links (which are easily detected now as most of them aren't showing any longer, but are still indexed in Y! site explorer). However, this doesn't seem to be causing the issue.

    Google

    A search for the title tags displaying in your G listing only pull up the original site, not yours. Very peculiar.

    I checked for the regular culprits, meta refresh, etc... nothing. Can you take a look at your server logs and see if any of your site pages were edited recently? Is the site running off a DB (mysql..)? If you're using a script see if there are any updates to the script due to SQL injection or something of that nature.

    Please, report back with your findings.

    @F27 - Have you tried site:yourdomain.com to see if the pages are indexed?
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    • Profile picture of the author abpanama
      I can't see anything unusual in the server logs or files being edited.
      The properties on the site are pulled from a mysql database, but the content is static. How would I test the sql injection - whatever that is??

      I just noticed too that the page rankl has dropped from 3 to zero. It is the cross ranking with the utilities site that confuses me most.

      Thanks again for your help
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        Originally Posted by abpanama View Post

        I can't see anything unusual in the server logs or files being edited.
        The properties on the site are pulled from a mysql database, but the content is static. How would I test the sql injection - whatever that is??

        I just noticed too that the page rankl has dropped from 3 to zero. It is the cross ranking with the utilities site that confuses me most.

        Thanks again for your help
        Man this sounds an awful lot like Meta Refresh..

        Google

        I'm telling you this has something to do with that. Your own pages are linking to them.
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  • Profile picture of the author abpanama
    I have checked my site for external links and there are no links to that site!
    Is there anyhitng else I can check or test?
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    It's not going to be an external link if it's a meta refresh type exploit.

    Read this: Stop 302 Redirects and Scrapers from Hijacking Web Page PR - Page Rank
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  • Profile picture of the author abpanama
    If you do the same search in other search engines it comes up with zero results - this only seems to be happening in google.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
    Problem:

    3 Year old site (more than 2 years top 5 for major keywords_) suddenly gets de-ranked to Google results page 5 for ALL keywords.

    Nothing unusual in those sites: just unique content, relevant, and nothing weird. TO ME it looks a very personal (and handmade) penalization. Happened to more than 3 of my sites ALL in same day, October 28th 2008.

    Question:

    What do you advice?
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    @abpanama - Google is faster, I'll bet you'll see this soon in the other engines as well. I spoofed my user agent as Googlebot, so it's not just targeted towards Google. Did you read the link I posted re: Meta Refresh?

    @Fernando - PM me your urls.
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    • Profile picture of the author abpanama
      ok, did a search of my pages on the server for any meta refresh tags and could not find any. Also checked htaccess for 302 redirects - nothing.
      Anything else I can try?
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        Originally Posted by abpanama View Post

        ok, did a search of my pages on the server for any meta refresh tags and could not find any. Also checked htaccess for 302 redirects - nothing.
        Anything else I can try?
        Check all of your javascript includes as well. If that turns up nothing I guess submit here: Requesting reconsideration of your site - Webmasters/Site owners Help or you could try to reach out to matt cutts - Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
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      • Profile picture of the author craigshinney
        Wow, this is one of the best topics I've ever read through. Really appreciate you going to so much trouble!

        I wanted to ask quickly about pingbacks. I recently started using Unique Article Wizard to submit my articles and I'm finding I'm getting lots of pingbacks that are awaiting my approval. Should I approve or delete them, and what are the benefits and/or drawbacks of doing so?

        Thanks again!
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    • Profile picture of the author abpanama
      I did a search for meta refresh tags in the site and found nothing. I also looked for any 302 redirects and found nothing.
      Anything else I can try?
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
    Terry, sorry but i won't reveal the url's.

    Guess i was expecting some possible ideas to what (maybe) happened to the sites!! Don't know, i am tired of reading about so many stuff... The sites are now on a new server, all WP fresh installs, and they don't go higher than page 5.

    It's just damn weird.

    Well, thanks anyway mate
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    Well for general advice then..

    * Target trusted, authority sites: the closer you can get to bbc.co.uk, cnn.com, whitehouse.gov, etc... 1 link hop away is great, 2 is good, etc .

    * Remove/Stop building spammy links

    * If you've got mainly 1 type of links (say.. directories for instance) balance out a bit. A diverse link profile is an effective one.
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    • Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

      Well for general advice then..

      * Target trusted, authority sites: the closer you can get to bbc.co.uk, cnn.com, whitehouse.gov, etc... 1 link hop away is great, 2 is good, etc .

      * Remove/Stop building spammy links

      * If you've got mainly 1 type of links (say.. directories for instance) balance out a bit. A diverse link profile is an effective one.

      what do you mean by spammy links? do you mean leaving do follow links in other spammy sites?

      thanks for reply Terry
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    • Profile picture of the author ronb107
      Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

      Well for general advice then..

      * Target trusted, authority sites: the closer you can get to bbc.co.uk, cnn.com, whitehouse.gov, etc... 1 link hop away is great, 2 is good, etc .

      * Remove/Stop building spammy links

      * If you've got mainly 1 type of links (say.. directories for instance) balance out a bit. A diverse link profile is an effective one.
      Is there a software product that you would recommend for generating quality one-way links? Currently I'm looking at Brute Force Linking Loophole.

      Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author ThomasMeyers
      Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

      Well for general advice then..

      * Target trusted, authority sites: the closer you can get to bbc.co.uk, cnn.com, whitehouse.gov, etc... 1 link hop away is great, 2 is good, etc .

      * Remove/Stop building spammy links

      * If you've got mainly 1 type of links (say.. directories for instance) balance out a bit. A diverse link profile is an effective one.
      What are some SEO tricks to get hubpages to rank higher?
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  • Profile picture of the author Seekness
    Hi Terry, quick question.

    I just recently changed the link structure on my domain from http://www.site.com to http://site.com

    Will all of the existing backlinks that point to my site via http://www.site.com now be rendered useless by Google?

    And going forward, will I only get value out of backlinks that point to http://site.com ?

    Thanks!
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by dandee0014 View Post

      Hi Terry, quick question.

      I just recently changed the link structure on my domain from http://www.site.com to http://site.com

      Will all of the existing backlinks that point to my site via http://www.site.com now be rendered useless by Google?

      And going forward, will I only get value out of backlinks that point to http://site.com ?

      Thanks!
      Do a wildcard 301 redirect to the new url. You'll lose between 1 and 10% of your incoming link strength, but shouldn't matter much.
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    • Profile picture of the author lonniewa2
      I have a website that today is ranking number five that get decent traffic in the #5 spot. The only problem is that every 1-2 weeks my website split position with the website in the #6 spot. When this happen my traffic dries up and so does traffic.

      Have anyone else ever experience this if if so what did you do to finally take that spot for good. The website is endless.com that I am trying to overtake.
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        Originally Posted by lonniewa2 View Post

        I have a website that today is ranking number five that get decent traffic in the #5 spot. The only problem is that every 1-2 weeks my website split position with the website in the #6 spot. When this happen my traffic dries up and so does traffic.

        Have anyone else ever experience this if if so what did you do to finally take that spot for good. The website is endless.com that I am trying to overtake.
        That's a pretty strong site you're up against. However, here's a little trick that's helped me from time to time:

        Identify the strongest page on your site, add a link to whatever page you're trying to rank pointing towards that page with your anchor text. (assuming this isn't going to be homepage -> homepage).

        In any case, more and better links will solve this issue.
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        Originally Posted by serps View Post

        First of all I like to Thank Terry for huge contribution here and starting with this thread. This thread is really great and i got lots of knowledge so its really cool to be here.

        I have some questions for you terry.
        How to generate Leads?


        I like to start Affiliate Marketing so what basic things i have to do on SEO part?
        Leads are generated by driving targeted traffic to the sales mechanism. Most people will drive targeted traffic through PPC or SEO, email campaigns or article marketing.

        As far as starting with SEO, do some initial keyword research, pick some terms with high commercial intent, low competition, snatch a domain name and get some quality, keyword focused content and a well optimized site structure.

        After that you get to begin the FUN task of link building!
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    • Profile picture of the author Pnigro
      I have a Wordpress site dedicated to the "get your ex back" niche.

      I'm writing articles for different keywords and I want these articles to rank well for their respective keywords.

      My questions:

      1) Since my whole site is dedicated to one specific topic, should I just have one category where I put all my articles?

      2) Should I let Google index this category? Why or why not?

      3) Should I worry about this stuff?
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    • Profile picture of the author Kristi61
      SEO Guy,

      Here's a tough one for you! Look at my thread on this forum:

      Emergency! SEO Experts! My horses lives are depending on me!

      I need all the help I can get!

      Thanks,
      Kristi
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      • Profile picture of the author kyhawk2
        I have 20 sites I am promoting using a cpa offer for car insurance in a coaching program I am in.
        An example is Free Automobile Insurance Quotes for Missouri
        The others are similar...see the very bottom. I bought some articles and I am basically just subbing in the key word name of each site and domain
        (automobileinsurancequotesmissouri) in each article where insurance is named. I swapped my domain insurance keyword for insurance about 3 times, including the article title.

        One of first thing I did was put in keywords. Each site has the same keywords pretty much,just changing the state or city for each domain. I just did a copy from source below.

        After I put in my articles, should I now change my keywords to equal the articles titles and make my tags the article titles also? I am not too sure what my tags are for. I have a software called blogfinder and I need to name my tags.
        Thanks in advance for any advice.

        meta name="keywords" content="automobile insurance quote missouri,
        missouri automobile insurance quotes,missouri free automobile insurance quotes, missouri online automobile insurance quotes,missouri automobile insurance rate quote,missouri auto insurance quote, missouri auto insurance company,missouri automobile insurance rate quotes" />
        <link rel="canonical" href="http://automobileinsurancequotesmissouri.com/" />











        4
        carinsurancesmissouri.org
        carinsurancesohio.net
        carinsurancesphiladelphia.org
        carinsurancesrichardson.net

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        budgetcarinsuranceatlanta.com
        budgetcarinsuranceflorida.org
        budgetcarinsurancelosangeles.net
        budgetcarinsurancemissouri.com
        budgetcarinsurancemiami.com
        budgetcarinsuranceohio.net
        budgetcarinsuranceohio.com
        budgetcarinsurancetampa.com
        budgetcarinsurancetexas.com

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        sportscarinsuranceorlando.com
        sportscarinsurancephiladelphia.com
        sportscarinsurancetampa.org
        sportscarinsurancetexas.net


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        automobileinsurancequotesmissouri.com
        automobileinsurancequotesnewjersey.net
        automobileinsurancequotesphiladelphia.com
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    • Profile picture of the author gtrplyr
      Just a question about domain length..

      I knwo that if my main keyword is not available as a domain name, often its ok to ass a suffix to it in order to get the domain...ie "purplewidgetinfo.com" if "purplewidget.com" is already taken.

      But what if adding a suffix makes the domain real long...example:

      "professionalgreenwidgetsonline.com" if I am trying to rank for "professional green widgets"

      What negative impact, if any, will that have on me getting ranked and using articles to get backlinks, etc..?
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        Originally Posted by gtrplyr View Post

        Just a question about domain length..

        I knwo that if my main keyword is not available as a domain name, often its ok to ass a suffix to it in order to get the domain...ie "purplewidgetinfo.com" if "purplewidget.com" is already taken.

        But what if adding a suffix makes the domain real long...example:

        "professionalgreenwidgetsonline.com" if I am trying to rank for "professional green widgets"

        What negative impact, if any, will that have on me getting ranked and using articles to get backlinks, etc..?
        Ha! A bit of a freudian slip there, "ass a suffix".

        These seem to rank fine, though, I wouldn't want to be a position where google is truncating my domain url.... so I'd keep it under 70 characters or so, at most. Also, shorter is better for type-ins and people linking to you, in most cases.
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    • Profile picture of the author josephalford
      hey LookItsMeTerryG

      i m new in this field...i need ur help pls guide me i want 2 start seo work but i want 2 know from a to z.also tell me shall i create blog for seo or u prefer website?
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    • Profile picture of the author Leads4Builders
      Hey Terry,

      Is there an SEO Reporting Software that you use to send reports to clients? I do it the old fashioned way with Excel, and was wondering if there's an affordable software out there that will allow robust reporting and white label reports I can send to clients.

      Thanks
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        Originally Posted by Leads4Builders View Post

        Hey Terry,

        Is there an SEO Reporting Software that you use to send reports to clients? I do it the old fashioned way with Excel, and was wondering if there's an affordable software out there that will allow robust reporting and white label reports I can send to clients.

        Thanks
        I don't do reports for clients, other than send them Google Analytics every month (and that's only in some cases where we're doing conversion optimization, etc). If you're clients are THAT intense about exactly what spot there were they particular day at that particular time, I'd drop them Anyone that's hired me knows I don't deal with the daily "my site dropped a spot" phone calls. That's one of my main criteria before taking on a client, I ask "are you going to call me every day and ask me why your site is doing this or that?". I don't focus on ranks, I focus on ROI because in the end that's all that matters.

        However, to answer your question: for Mac I'd recommend "Advanced Web Ranking", and for PC go buy a mac
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        • Profile picture of the author Leads4Builders
          I agree...I focus on ROI too, however, I think it's critical to give them reports for those first few months when they aren't ranking yet. If not, I've found that they wonder if you're really doing anything, even though you're working hard behind the scenes to get their site ranked. I give them the expectation that it can take a few months, but they often forget, or get impatient, so reporting their progress is key.

          Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

          I don't do reports for clients, other than send them Google Analytics every month (and that's only in some cases where we're doing conversion optimization, etc). If you're clients are THAT intense about exactly what spot there were they particular day at that particular time, I'd drop them Anyone that's hired me knows I don't deal with the daily "my site dropped a spot" phone calls. That's one of my main criteria before taking on a client, I ask "are you going to call me every day and ask me why your site is doing this or that?". I don't focus on ranks, I focus on ROI because in the end that's all that matters.
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          • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
            Originally Posted by Leads4Builders View Post

            I agree...I focus on ROI too, however, I think it's critical to give them reports for those first few months when they aren't ranking yet. If not, I've found that they wonder if you're really doing anything, even though you're working hard behind the scenes to get their site ranked. I give them the expectation that it can take a few months, but they often forget, or get impatient, so reporting their progress is key.
            I guess I'm ruthless... If that was the case, I'd say "cool, go work with someone else." I've never used contracts with my clients or needed to. However, I screen them pretty hard... I'll accept maybe 1/10 leads. It's a luxury that comes with years in business and a rolodex that requires its own room
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    • Profile picture of the author Gabung
      Wow TerryG, you are so nice giving free seo advices for others. Two thumbs for you...
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    • Profile picture of the author jimmy506
      Hi Terry,

      I have several domain names that are names of different products that I want to sell on my website.
      In other words: The product name is in the URL.

      I can't afford to have separate hosting for each one and I've heard that Google doesn't like it when you just redirect lots different URLs to your main selling site.

      Do you know of a way I can make use of these domain names? Should I redirect them to a free blog, put the product on that and then direct them to my my site to make the purchase?

      Thanks very much,
      Jimmy
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      • Profile picture of the author jimmy506
        Hmm... not sure what I was thinking in my last post.

        I guess the only way having the product name in the URL helps is if I have an actual website for that product.

        So many good URLs, How can I afford hosting for each one...
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    • Profile picture of the author StevenK
      Terry,

      Is it true that Google does not like affiliate sites and purposely ranks them low?

      I recently read a report written by a so-called SEO expert that an affliate site does not stand a chance to obtain a ranking in the first 5 pages, regardless of quality content, large number quality backlinks, etc.

      It was his opinion that Google basically considers affiliate sites to be spam sites and provide no value or experience to the user.

      Thanks,

      Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    Originally Posted by F27 View Post

    Yes I tried my domain but it's not, can you see it:

    twitterscripts.net
    Submit here: Bing URL Submission and also ensure that you've got a robots.txt file appropriately setup (I didn't see one), pinging the bot might help as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author firewife
    hi , u are cool
    and i just want to know under what situation , the google cross index thing happen ?

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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    @AllThings - Yeah, that's part of it. Basically, there are 2 rules of thumb when it comes to highly effective link building:

    1. Look as natural as possible. Think to yourself "What kind of links would a legitimately awesome site in my niche acquire?" The answer isn't 80% anchor text links with the same keyword etc... it's probably a lot of links with "click here" or "original site" or something leading back to your site. Bloggers and webmasters of high authority sites don't care about your anchor text when linking to good content.

    2. Build a well rounded, diverse link profile. Spread out your links evenly among all of the different types: 1 part directories, 1 part articles, 1 part social networking, 1 part web 2.0, etc. If you have 90% links from the footers of spammy sites, this is easily detected and will be dealt with accordingly.

    @firewife - Look for my answer a few posts above.
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    • Profile picture of the author abpanama
      Thanks for all your help.
      One other strange this I found - in the google results for sites linking to the utilities site, other than abpanama there are several other sites that are also owned by me. However the sites are hosted on different server accounts, and when I check the log files nothing has been updated or accessed for months. When I check these sites they also don't show any outgoing links.
      I will ask my programmer to check the java includes as I don;t know how to do that.
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        Originally Posted by abpanama View Post

        Thanks for all your help.
        One other strange this I found - in the google results for sites linking to the utilities site, other than abpanama there are several other sites that are also owned by me. However the sites are hosted on different server accounts, and when I check the log files nothing has been updated or accessed for months. When I check these sites they also don't show any outgoing links.
        I will ask my programmer to check the java includes as I don;t know how to do that.
        Figure out what the sites share in common, could be something as simple as that popup you have that has been compromised.
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        • Profile picture of the author abpanama
          Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

          Figure out what the sites share in common, could be something as simple as that popup you have that has been compromised.
          The only thing all the sites have in common is
          an aweber sign up form
          all domains registered with godaddy
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    • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
      Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

      1. Look as natural as possible. Think to yourself "What kind of links would a legitimately awesome site in my niche acquire?" The answer isn't 80% anchor text links with the same keyword etc... i
      I have a slight disagreement with this because, while it's right to vary anchor text for several reasons, it's something that makes people unduly Googlenoid.

      Most people don't bother to get more than a few hundred incoming links. With that small number the anchor text variations don't seem to matter that much. The number is too small for Google to accurately analyze. Even very small numbers of outliers can skew the distribution. As one gets more links, Google has more data and can make a more accurate analysis.

      So, if you don't have a lot of links, you're not ready to worry about this yet. Google isn't going to care that the 10 links pointing to your site have the same anchor text but if you have 10,000 total links with all of them having the same anchor text, they'll take notice.

      Also, the keyword used to anchor link makes a difference. If you link on a non-commercial word, like your name, this doesn't seem to cause the Google algorithm to take any notice. But if you're linking on something like '****', 'viagra' or some other highly competitive or spammy keyword you'll get heavy scrutiny quickly.
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

        I have a slight disagreement with this because, while it's right to vary anchor text for several reasons, it's something that makes people unduly Googlenoid.

        Most people don't bother to get more than a few hundred incoming links. With that small number the anchor text variations don't seem to matter that much. The number is too small for Google to accurately analyze. Even very small numbers of outliers can skew the distribution. As one gets more links, Google has more data and can make a more accurate analysis.

        So, if you don't have a lot of links, you're not ready to worry about this yet. Google isn't going to care that the 10 links pointing to your site have the same anchor text but if you have 10,000 total links with all of them having the same anchor text, they'll take notice.

        Also, the keyword used to anchor link makes a difference. If you link on a non-commercial word, like your name, this doesn't seem to cause the Google algorithm to take any notice. But if you're linking on something like '****', 'viagra' or some other highly competitive or spammy keyword you'll get heavy scrutiny quickly.
        Yeah, exactly. I agree with this 100%. I should have clarified to include these points. It DOES seem that the amount of anchor text links you can have without being filtered is dependent on the niche more than anything.
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        • Profile picture of the author lonniewa2
          Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

          Yeah, exactly. I agree with this 100%. I should have clarified to include these points. It DOES seem that the amount of anchor text links you can have without being filtered is dependent on the niche more than anything.
          Can you guys give a ball park figure number when deciding if it is time to vary the anchor text? If I get 500 links with the same anchor text would that raise some eyebrows at Google?
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          • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
            Originally Posted by lonniewa2 View Post

            Can you guys give a ball park figure number when deciding if it is time to vary the anchor text? If I get 500 links with the same anchor text would that raise some eyebrows at Google?
            It depends if you've got 0 other links or 2,000 other total backlinks. If 500 is a relatively small number compared to your whole, it shouldn't be an issue.
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            • Profile picture of the author lonniewa2
              Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

              It depends if you've got 0 other links or 2,000 other total backlinks. If 500 is a relatively small number compared to your whole, it shouldn't be an issue.
              What I meant starting with zero links on a new website. I want to try and rank for my main keyword and your main keyword only. At what number would you start varying the anchor text?
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          • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
            Originally Posted by lonniewa2 View Post

            Can you guys give a ball park figure number when deciding if it is time to vary the anchor text? If I get 500 links with the same anchor text would that raise some eyebrows at Google?
            It's too complex and variable to give an exact number. 500 links anchored on "Lonnie" that are distributed across blog comments, social sites and forums on many sites won't be a problem. 500 links anchored on "Viagra" from a small group of sites might give you trouble if things aren't squeaky clean.

            Just use good judgment, use care with automated link building tools and don't be stupid and you're unlikely to have any problems.
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by anthonyronnie View Post

      Websites that use only flash- how are they the first rank?
      Most likely it has to do with their backlink strategy. If you can give me a specific example I'll be able to provide more insight.

      In my experience, while targeting a major 3 character keyword with over 188,000,000 results in Google, there is a well known international brand sitting around number 5, with their "domain.com/noflash.html" page. This seems to often be the deciding factor when the niche is REALLY competitive but the site has an otherwise strong backlink profile.
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  • Profile picture of the author debra
    Hey Terry...

    I waited to ask..then I resisted...now I can't help it.

    I get asked all the time a question, as I'm sure you do too. I answer and the response is usually "huh" because I have a hard time putting it in newbie laymen terms. I even tried explaining with example. No workie.

    So...here it goes:

    What is the difference between a search engine spider, crawler and bot? And...what are thier functions?

    Remember...2nd grade level. I'm not sure if all of us would be smarter than a 5th grader. (sorry...couldn't resist that either)
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by debra View Post

      Hey Terry...

      I waited to ask..then I resisted...now I can't help it.

      I get asked all the time a question, as I'm sure you do too. I answer and the response is usually "huh" because I have a hard time putting it in newbie laymen terms. I even tried explaining with example. No workie.

      So...here it goes:

      What is the difference between a search engine spider, crawler and bot? And...what are thier functions?

      Remember...2nd grade level. I'm not sure if all of us would be smarter than a 5th grader. (sorry...couldn't resist that either)
      I've never actually been asked this question. For all intents and purposes they're synonymous.

      Sidestep a bit and answer the question with some generalities on how SE's work. I can sit here and spin my wheels telling you about how the crawling and indexing of a site is determined by index design, data structure, how the challenges of natural language processing are handled by the individual spiders, etc, etc, etc.

      To break it down to a 2nd grade level, imagine the spider as a person in a library, they go to a shelf, grab a book (a website) read the book, take notes for later reference and archive the information to relay to someone else when asked.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shana_Adam
    Hi I had a question,

    How many people on the internet actually use " " to search

    most ordinary people would not even know to use the quotation marks. In that case how accurate are the search results. Does it represent the ordinary customer that one is targetting
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by Shana_Adam View Post

      Hi I had a question,

      How many people on the internet actually use " " to search

      most ordinary people would not even know to use the quotation marks. In that case how accurate are the search results. Does it represent the ordinary customer that one is targetting
      How many people use that? I have no idea. I suppose if one was particularly determined, they would look at the AOL data that was released a while back for a definitive answer.

      As for accuracy of results and demo representation, I'd say if someone is using this, they're a much more sophisticated user, which in my experience is a harder sell (they're more apt to search for reviews, look at SSL information etc), but that doesn't necessarily mean they're not a good target for your sales efforts. It's all relative to your niche.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chadisa
    Hey LookItsMeTerryG,

    Finding this thread is actually a God send because I am currently stuck with two of my clients and I can't for the life of me where I am going wrong.

    Both clients weren't even ranked for their keywords before I began working with them. Their keywords are super competitive and very general. In both instances I got them to rank somewhere between 8 and 11 on Google in about a month or so. They are both established sites and have been around forever but never built links, etc.

    My problem is no matter what I do I can't get them to move into the top 10. I know it's like playing king of the hill meaning the closer you get to the top of the hill the harder it becomes to reach it. I am building as many links as I think I can without going into spammer land. Any suggestions?

    Thanks in advance.

    Chadisa




    Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

    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!
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by Chadisa View Post

      Hey LookItsMeTerryG,

      Finding this thread is actually a God send because I am currently stuck with two of my clients and I can't for the life of me where I am going wrong.

      Both clients weren't even ranked for their keywords before I began working with them. Their keywords are super competitive and very general. In both instances I got them to rank somewhere between 8 and 11 on Google in about a month or so. They are both established sites and have been around forever but never built links, etc.

      My problem is no matter what I do I can't get them to move into the top 10. I know it's like playing king of the hill meaning the closer you get to the top of the hill the harder it becomes to reach it. I am building as many links as I think I can without going into spammer land. Any suggestions?

      Thanks in advance.

      Chadisa
      PM me their urls and keywords. Alternatively you can hit me up on MSN (get my SN through a PM). It likely has something to do with the kind of backlinks you've been building.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vijay M
    I use Seo4Firefox and was checking one of my keyword.

    The site at 6th position started in 04 and its "Traffic Value" is listed as 78 and the site listed at 10 position has its "Traffic Value" at 30,000.

    Does this "Traffic Value" reflect the traffic for the whole site or just for that keyword?
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    I'd just vary it as you go.
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  • Profile picture of the author michael_nguyen
    Is it ever worth analysing a keyword in quotes? So many people say look for keywords in quotes under 50k result pages blah blah. I believe that what matters is the strength of top 10 results.

    Assuming I'm going along the right lines, how would you classify a strong site? Is it a PR of 4 or above with 3 figure backlinks ? Could you give an example?

    With consistent backlink how many would you say is needed to go past the existing results and is it possible to give time frames.

    Do you have ball park figures you could share suchs:

    Scenario 1
    First page competition
    mainly PR 3 and below
    Average backlinks according to Yahoo site explorer is ~ 400

    Solution
    ~ 500 PR7 backlinks
    Squidoo, hubpages, wordpress, blogger etc

    Is it even possible to think like this and be close ? I've learnt
    and have been mentored by a person thats specialises in Niche
    marketing and he also says that some decisions are based on
    gut instinct. Do you do this aswell?

    Best regards
    Michael
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Is it ever worth analysing a keyword in quotes? - Maybe, I don't really do this, but it could show you your "real" competition that are optimizing for this term.

      How would you classify a strong site? - PR is a worthless metric for really seeing the strength of a site. I go to Y! Site explorer and MajesticSEO and view the kinds of backlinks the site has been acquiring. If they're mainly links anyone can get (blog comments, etc) then the site isn't so strong.. but if they're NYT editorials and such, the site is quite strong. An example would be Techcrunch.com

      As far as ballpark figures, not really. Several things are needed in order to overtake a top listing, some of which are link velocity, link relevancy, position of your site within the overall niche, gross number of separate domains/ips linking to your site, etc. It isn't always just a numbers game.
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      • Profile picture of the author michael_nguyen
        Thank you for the reply. I might just have to re evaluate my PR idea.

        You make a good point about PR being a "worthless" metric because I had a pushchair niche website and within it's first month online, it had a PR of 3. If I didnt know better I would have thought that would be tough one to crack but all the backlinks I built to that site were from free websites. So thank you, I will take that into consideration!

        Another question thanks.

        What tools do you use to help you anaylse whether a keywords is worth pursuing apart from Y! and MajesticSEO. Do you use MNF ?

        I use MNF and I find alot of rankable keywords for the clients but I feel the software might be targeting the "really" easy keywords and filtering out other keywords that might be as easy to rank.

        Michael
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        • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
          Well, I didn't mean all free sites were worthless, they still play their part in an overall link building strategy. So if what you're doing is working, don't stop!

          I don't use MNF. I just use Majestic, Y! SiteExplorer and the Google Adwords external tool.
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          • Profile picture of the author michael_nguyen
            Thanks. When you start building backlinks for a keyword, what is your time frame before you expect stable results?

            As of now, my strategy is to create 4 - 5 backlinks a day and then bookmark each backlink. What do you feel is a safe number of backlinks to build per day?
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            • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
              Originally Posted by michael_nguyen View Post

              Thanks. When you start building backlinks for a keyword, what is your time frame before you expect stable results?

              As of now, my strategy is to create 4 - 5 backlinks a day and then bookmark each backlink. What do you feel is a safe number of backlinks to build per day?
              All of this is relative to the niche. I'm pretty good about generally making it front page in 4-6 weeks, then top 3 6-8 weeks later for MOST of my terms. Though, some of the more competitive ones have taken 12-15 weeks.

              As far as a safe amount per day, I don't think there's really a such thing.. just use your head and don't get spammy.
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              • Profile picture of the author michael_nguyen
                Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

                All of this is relative to the niche. I'm pretty good about generally making it front page in 4-6 weeks, then top 3 6-8 weeks later for MOST of my terms. Though, some of the more competitive ones have taken 12-15 weeks.
                Can you tell us your backlink strategy in terms of eg bookmarking , squidoo etc or is this gold?
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              • Profile picture of the author maldoror
                Your knowledge and experience are so much appreciated. Your generosity more so.

                I am still going through this amazing post. Could you recommend any good SEO firms one could hire out for standard seo, 8 year old site pr3 , 5 keywords in a competitive niche. I tried the E Lance thing but my goodness it is messy. Are your services for hire?


                [



                QUOTE=LookItsMeTerryG;1041286]All of this is relative to the niche. I'm pretty good about generally making it front page in 4-6 weeks, then top 3 6-8 weeks later for MOST of my terms. Though, some of the more competitive ones have taken 12-15 weeks.

                As far as a safe amount per day, I don't think there's really a such thing.. just use your head and don't get spammy. [/QUOTE]
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                • Profile picture of the author inter123
                  Hi.

                  A quick question: if my domain name (say is www.joejohnson.com) is totally unrelated to the keyword (dog training guide), how much more difficult will it be to rank then if the domain name included the keyword?

                  Thanks.

                  Jim.
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                  • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
                    Originally Posted by inter123 View Post

                    Hi.

                    A quick question: if my domain name (say is www.joejohnson.com) is totally unrelated to the keyword (dog training guide), how much more difficult will it be to rank then if the domain name included the keyword?

                    Thanks.

                    Jim.
                    I cannot quantify the answer as in x times more... but you got it right yourself - it will be much harder than if you would have domain with the KW in it...

                    Actually, the niche being SO competitive anyway, I wouldn't even bother, if I were you...

                    Rather try to find a long tail Keyphrase with lower competition like "curly haired blonde pudels dog training" if you know what I mean

                    Joking aside, I bet you can find a good long tail KW to work with, that may also have the corresponding domain still free - go buy that.

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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    Well, I prefer to work smarter not harder... so I don't go for the shotgun blast approach.

    I identify (and create) industry resources, authority sites and 99% of my efforts are built on building trust, not TONS AND TONS of links.
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  • Profile picture of the author michael_nguyen
    I do niche marketing so my keywords for the clients might be 6 foot black table how would you go about things if your efforts were based on purely links? The use of normal web2.0 sites ?
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by michael_nguyen View Post

      I do niche marketing so my keywords for the clients might be 6 foot black table how would you go about things if your efforts were based on purely links? The use of normal web2.0 sites ?
      No, I'd look for manufacturers etc and try to get links from them. A good review or interview with a manufacturer will go a long way. A lot of times they'll put you in their press section, etc.

      Although, I'm not sure that's such a good term to optimize for anyway. SEO is about ROI not bragging rights, IMHO
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      • Profile picture of the author michael_nguyen
        Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

        No, I'd look for manufacturers etc and try to get links from them. A good review or interview with a manufacturer will go a long way. A lot of times they'll put you in their press section, etc.

        Although, I'm not sure that's such a good term to optimize for anyway. SEO is about ROI not bragging rights, IMHO
        I made that term up but I have a veryyyyyy close term to that one of my clients have and as it's a buying keyword, I'm sure there will be ROI.

        Thanks for your wisdom
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        • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
          Originally Posted by michael_nguyen View Post

          I made that term up but I have a veryyyyyy close term to that one of my clients have and as it's a buying keyword, I'm sure there will be ROI.

          Thanks for your wisdom
          NP! Glad to hear you're providing your clients with actual value, something that the majority of our industry forgets about.
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          • Profile picture of the author michael_nguyen
            Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

            NP! Glad to hear you're providing your clients with actual value, something that the majority of our industry forgets about.
            Yeah and I bust my gut doing it! In the month of July I created altogether ~ 150 niche sites, all buying keywords. Many have made sales and I'd say about 75% are currently on page 1 of Google. I've ended the service and now it's time for me to dominate.

            1 full month working for clients on demand is too stressful for me I even forget to eat
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  • Profile picture of the author peter gibson
    Here's my foray into the breech.

    Terry. I've used Angela's backlinks for a few months now (along with Pauls) and on one domain they had me temporarily on the first page of google. Before this I was at around position 24.

    After doing nothing else more than the usual (writing articles, submitting to EZA only with the relevant keyword link, social bookmarking, e.t.c...) I have now been placed at position 46. This is not the normal "dance" seeing as I've been there now for some time, regardless of my other link building methods.

    I guess my question is this, since a number of A and P's links being turned off or turned to nofollow (due to spam), is my site being thrown to the wolves somehow? Since some of the sites in these packets are reporting spam links, is this possibly affecting my SERP?

    This site is about 2 years old and has never been below position 26, however since applying these links and continuing in my normal link building strategies, the site has dropped a lot.
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    • Profile picture of the author Chadisa
      Originally Posted by peter gibson View Post

      Here's my foray into the breech.

      Terry. I've used Angela's backlinks for a few months now (along with Pauls) and on one domain they had me temporarily on the first page of google. Before this I was at around position 24.

      After doing nothing else more than the usual (writing articles, submitting to EZA only with the relevant keyword link, social bookmarking, e.t.c...) I have now been placed at position 46. This is not the normal "dance" seeing as I've been there now for some time, regardless of my other link building methods.

      I guess my question is this, since a number of A and P's links being turned off or turned to nofollow (due to spam), is my site being thrown to the wolves somehow? Since some of the sites in these packets are reporting spam links, is this possibly affecting my SERP?

      This site is about 2 years old and has never been below position 26, however since applying these links and continuing in my normal link building strategies, the site has dropped a lot.
      Yeah I am worried about that as well. Are we really hurting our sites by using Angela's and Paul's link strategy?
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by peter gibson View Post

      Here's my foray into the breech.

      Terry. I've used Angela's backlinks for a few months now (along with Pauls) and on one domain they had me temporarily on the first page of google. Before this I was at around position 24.

      After doing nothing else more than the usual (writing articles, submitting to EZA only with the relevant keyword link, social bookmarking, e.t.c...) I have now been placed at position 46. This is not the normal "dance" seeing as I've been there now for some time, regardless of my other link building methods.

      I guess my question is this, since a number of A and P's links being turned off or turned to nofollow (due to spam), is my site being thrown to the wolves somehow? Since some of the sites in these packets are reporting spam links, is this possibly affecting my SERP?

      This site is about 2 years old and has never been below position 26, however since applying these links and continuing in my normal link building strategies, the site has dropped a lot.
      I think you already know the answer to this question I'm not going to comment on A & P's anymore since every time I say anything remotely negative I get tons of angry people essentially telling me to leave, etc.

      If you're doing something that seems to be hurting your results, why not stop for a bit and see if you go back up?
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  • Profile picture of the author Chuck Avants
    Thanks for your advice---it's a bit over my head but I see value in it.

    I am trying to get going in the IM biz.
    My technical skills are minimal at best.

    What is a plan of action that would use minimal cash and provide an ongoing income of say $10 -$50 a week?

    Thanks, Chuck
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by Chuck Avants View Post

      Thanks for your advice---it's a bit over my head but I see value in it.

      I am trying to get going in the IM biz.
      My technical skills are minimal at best.

      What is a plan of action that would use minimal cash and provide an ongoing income of say $10 -$50 a week?

      Thanks, Chuck
      This is a really broad question. I mean, this can be easily accomplished with Adsense or affiliate marketing. You'd probably have to do less work with the affiliate side of things, as less traffic would be needed to make $50 than with adsense.

      I'd suggest doing some article based marketing (for affiliate stuff) or a blogspot blog for adsense. SEO for this project will be the critical element and probably the deciding factor whether or not the project is a success.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbbenchmarke
    Hi,
    Haven't posted much on here yet...just kind of getting started in the whole IM game and trying to figure things out.

    Anyway here's my question: I'm thinking about putting together a bunch of minisites based around products and monetizing them with adsense. However I'm trying to keep the costs down so I'm wondering if I use .info domain names which are about a dollar; will it affect my rankings? Assuming SEO is the same, will I likely see a difference from having .com domains which cost about ten times as much?

    Thanks in advance.
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by sbbenchmarke View Post

      Hi,
      Haven't posted much on here yet...just kind of getting started in the whole IM game and trying to figure things out.

      Anyway here's my question: I'm thinking about putting together a bunch of minisites based around products and monetizing them with adsense. However I'm trying to keep the costs down so I'm wondering if I use .info domain names which are about a dollar; will it affect my rankings? Assuming SEO is the same, will I likely see a difference from having .com domains which cost about ten times as much?

      Thanks in advance.
      Well, they say that .info will rank as well as .com .. but I've seen several keyword match domains keyword.com or buykeyword.com rank on a standard wordpress site without any content... can't say I've ever seen this for a .info.

      However, the only issue could possibly be a lower trust for a .info, in which case a careful, well thought out link campaign focused on trust building should offset whatever negative factors that are tied to the domain.
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      • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
        Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

        Well, they say that .info will rank as well as .com .. but I've seen several keyword match domains keyword.com or buykeyword.com rank on a standard wordpress site without any content... can't say I've ever seen this for a .info.
        I have seen this with keyword match .info domains.

        The problem .info's have more often is that the .com is already been used and has an active site that's been around for years and has old links and authority links. If the keyword is a popular one, there will be other authority sites sitting between you and a slot on page 1. Lastly, human approval of links to a .info is harder to get because of the spammy perception of them.
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        • Profile picture of the author frozen74
          I have found a dropped domain about hotels let it cheaphotels.net and when i check google keyword tool with exact phrase
          it gives 49,500 for cheap hotel and 27,100 results for cheap hotels (plural one) I checked competion by allinurl and sites like blogspot or ezine article so cheap hotel has more competion and cpc for cheap hotels is higher than cheap hotel. So my question is when i buy the domain cheaphotels.net which keyword shall i target cheap hotels or cheap hotel and how many article and how much time is neceserry to rank in page 1
          thanks


          PS:allintitle results for cheap hotel is 37,000 and for cheap hotels is 18, 000
          *for cheap hotel blogspot.com, Position: 13 youtube.com, Position: 19 youtube.com, Position: 20
          * for cheap hotels ezinearticles.com at Position: 20
          intitle:"cheap hotel" 13,400
          intitle:"cheap hotels"2,770
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          • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
            Originally Posted by frozen74 View Post

            I have found a dropped domain about hotels let it cheaphotels.net and when i check google keyword tool with exact phrase
            it gives 49,500 for cheap hotel and 27,100 results for cheap hotels (plural one) I checked competion by allinurl and sites like blogspot or ezine article so cheap hotel has more competion and cpc for cheap hotels is higher than cheap hotel. So my question is when i buy the domain cheaphotels.net which keyword shall i target cheap hotels or cheap hotel and how many article and how much time is neceserry to rank in page 1
            thanks
            Target both of them in the same articles etc. It should be easy enough to work them into your content.

            As far as how long, some people can do it in 4-6 weeks, others in 10+. Really depends on how effective your link building efforts are.
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      • Profile picture of the author sbbenchmarke
        Thanks alot TerryG, I could see how the trust thing could affect how individual users perceive the site. If I decide to go that route, I'll definitely take that into consideration.
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    • Terry, do you recommend to direct all our websites in one hosting account or spread sites around with multiple hosting accounts for security reasons.

      Also, what's your experience with seo in regular html sites and wordpress. Do one perform better than the other or it really does not matter?
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  • Profile picture of the author nicas_87
    I need to know, how many links we need to create to uplift our page rank pr0 to pr1 ?
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by nicas_87 View Post

      I need to know, how many links we need to create to uplift our page rank pr0 to pr1 ?
      There's no definitive answer to this question. Here is some literature to help you understand the PR process a bit more:

      United States Patent: 7058628

      Here's the abstract from the patent application:

      A method assigns importance ranks to nodes in a linked database, such as any database of documents containing citations, the world wide web or any other hypermedia database. The rank assigned to a document is calculated from the ranks of documents citing it. In addition, the rank of a document is calculated from a constant representing the probability that a browser through the database will randomly jump to the document. The method is particularly useful in enhancing the performance of search engine results for hypermedia databases, such as the world wide web, whose documents have a large variation in quality.
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      • Profile picture of the author frozen74
        thanks for your reply
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  • Profile picture of the author spada
    i have a question about outgoing links to other sites, is it harmful?
    and another question about PR, is it count per page? i mean if the first result on google for specific keyword a page have PR3 or PR4
    (for specific url not the domain ex: domain.com/store/1.php) and don't have any backlink to this specific page put have a ton of backlinks to the domain, is it hard to dominate this keyword?
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  • Profile picture of the author firewife
    disappointed
    my question has not been answered
    down!!!!!!
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by firewife View Post

      disappointed
      my question has not been answered
      down!!!!!!
      I already answered the question earlier and told you to scroll up and read it.. Do you really need me to repost it for you?

      Also, I'm not quite sure what "down!!!!!!" means.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ehsan_am
    When you want to check a keyword's competition. Do you use "" or you just do a normal search. I'm asking this because i have been struggling with this for a long time. I have several long tail keywords that show over 33 000 000 or more pages when I search for the long tail keyword without quotes. Wen I search for them with quotes there are like 2000 pages and I generally rank first page for these when I check my rankings. How do you interpret these rankings considering that people never search with quotes.
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    • Profile picture of the author spada
      Originally Posted by Ehsan_am View Post

      When you want to check a keyword's competition. Do you use "" or you just do a normal search. I'm asking this because i have been struggling with this for a long time. I have several long tail keywords that show over 33 000 000 or more pages when I search for the long tail keyword without quotes. Wen I search for them with quotes there are like 2000 pages and I generally rank first page for these when I check my rankings. How do you interpret these rankings considering that people never search with quotes.
      I have the same question
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by Ehsan_am View Post

      When you want to check a keyword's competition. Do you use "" or you just do a normal search. I'm asking this because i have been struggling with this for a long time. I have several long tail keywords that show over 33 000 000 or more pages when I search for the long tail keyword without quotes. Wen I search for them with quotes there are like 2000 pages and I generally rank first page for these when I check my rankings. How do you interpret these rankings considering that people never search with quotes.
      I don't use the quotes personally. I don't think it really helps anything because in the end you're really competing with the top 10 results anyway. A better measure of competition is to look at the domain age and their backlinks using MajesticSEO and Y! Site explorer.

      And to answer your second question, yes, more links are likely needed. This basically verifies that Google realizes your site is related to these words.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ehsan_am
    I actually know what the difference between "" searches and broad searches are. I'm more interested in the interpretation. When you rank well for the quoted keyword search, is that an indication that your are on your way to rank pretty well for the broad search since this should mean that you have optimized your page correctly and you just need more backlinks and link juice??
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  • Profile picture of the author ThalesMM
    Build backlinks only for the main page (address.com) of the website with only one anchor text (one keyword) is bad?

    I've read that you should link back to some random pages of your website and also change the anchor text so it doesn't look spammy.

    Does it make difference at all or can I use the same www address and same anchor text for each keyword I want to rank for?
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by ThalesMM View Post

      Build backlinks only for the main page (address.com) of the website with only one anchor text (one keyword) is bad?

      I've read that you should link back to some random pages of your website and also change the anchor text so it doesn't look spammy.

      Does it make difference at all or can I use the same www address and same anchor text for each keyword I want to rank for?
      Not necessarily bad, but not as effective as a natural link campaign. I'd build links to several pages on the site and vary the anchor text a lot. However, you'll want a higher concentration of your desired keyword anchor text than the others.
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  • Profile picture of the author ThalesMM
    Thanks, I was just doubtful about it, but now you said it'd be better to build links to several pages as it looks more natural, I'm going to do it so.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dr.faizan
    Hello. My name is Faizan. I am a medical student from India. I have a blog of 1 year old with page rank 2. I need seo for my blog but being a student I cannot afford to pay the seo expert so I am willing to work on profit sharing basis. Can you tell me if there is anyone who can do good seo for my blog and get into onto top page. I will pay them 25% of my profit.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ehsan_am
      Originally Posted by Dr.faizan View Post

      Hello. My name is Faizan. I am a medical student from India. I have a blog of 1 year old with page rank 2. I need seo for my blog but being a student I cannot afford to pay the seo expert so I am willing to work on profit sharing basis. Can you tell me if there is anyone who can do good seo for my blog and get into onto top page. I will pay them 25% of my profit.
      If someone wants to do that work he/she just puts up a site him/herself and cash in 100% profits.
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      • Profile picture of the author Dr.faizan
        Originally Posted by Ehsan_am View Post

        If someone wants to do that work he/she just puts up a site him/herself and cash in 100% profits.
        Hello.. You are right that they can put up a brand new blog and keep the full earnings but from where can they get the articles.. And myself being a medical student can get good informative health related articles.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea Brown
    I'm not sure if anyone already posted this question, but here it is anyway:

    What all should I be doing after I make a blog post? I have a brand new blog and right now I'm just bookmarking each post with OnlyWire.
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by Andrea Brown View Post

      I'm not sure if anyone already posted this question, but here it is anyway:

      What all should I be doing after I make a blog post? I have a brand new blog and right now I'm just bookmarking each post with OnlyWire.
      I wouldn't be bookmarking each post on the same account across several services.. that's just not natural really. Besides, my thoughts on social bookmarking benefits are that they are generally just temporary (except the big few), but are fantastic at getting a new site indexed quickly. If your readers want to bookmark this on their own, even better!

      Make sure you've got a big ping list and if the posts are of above average quality, shoot an email to other blogs related to your niche to see if they'll run the story as well. I've done very well with that last part and most people seem to ignore it altogether.
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  • Profile picture of the author ex9to5guy
    Two weeks ago I decided I want to use IM as my main source of income. Now I do not know where to start. So far I have listened to Yaro Starak podcasts, adam short and xfactor. do you suggest anything for a n00b to read to get more of an understanding of the basics.

    Also im not sure what i really want to do yet. Adam Short says create e books, and others say its easier to work as an affiliate. Others have told me i should just work on one soild site and one site only. Then I have also heard its easiest to start in PPC. What would recommend for a n00b that can probably put in 2-3 hours a day
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    • Profile picture of the author Rocketguy
      I am really interested in the Local search, but I can't pm you yet. Is there any possibility of an ebook coming out soon?
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        Rocketguy - There's a possibility of 2 things: an ebook, or a straight up service/membership site. Through this thread I've went from the new guy with no connections to having an inbox full of people wanting to JV on a product. Interesting to say the least!

        dragonlordcs - That's more or less called siloing. The verdict is still out on that one for me, it really depends on what domain name you secure in the beginning. I'd recommend you read this: SEO Siloing

        AllThingsArePossible - Here's what I do. Since I create about 5 sites a week (generally at least 3 of these are on the same topics, week after week), I'll buy a new hosting account every week. However, I do a good bit of interlinking and such.

        As far as static HTML over Wordpress, I've got an interesting take on this. I used to (up until a few months ago) be kind of a go-to-guy for wordpress seo from colleagues and friends. I've since switched to static html sites using xsitepro and recommended several others to do so as well. I really like the program and for the amount of sites I manage and the drastically decreased time spent getting a SEO friendly site up off the ground, it's a no brainer. For me its essentially about volume and time spent on building the foundation. A well SEO'd wordpress site can rank just as well as a well SEO'd static page, no difference.

        VladWorks - I dont' really understand the issue. If the site is doing well for your keywords in the engines it must be indexed. Do a site:domain.com query in Google to see if it's there. If it's not: Bookmark it on various social bookmarking sites or try to get a few blog posts posted on sites with great authority and trust.
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by futuremills View Post

      Two weeks ago I decided I want to use IM as my main source of income. Now I do not know where to start. So far I have listened to Yaro Starak podcasts, adam short and xfactor. do you suggest anything for a n00b to read to get more of an understanding of the basics.

      Also im not sure what i really want to do yet. Adam Short says create e books, and others say its easier to work as an affiliate. Others have told me i should just work on one soild site and one site only. Then I have also heard its easiest to start in PPC. What would recommend for a n00b that can probably put in 2-3 hours a day
      There are tons of schools of thought on this topic. Here's my own 2 cents:

      I often recommend that beginners just get started on a blogger blog for a few reasons: it's free, you can't really screw anything up, you can still profit (from adsense or affiliate or even PPC... doesn't matter) and finally, IM is about knowledge and testing. I feel you can learn and hone your skills for basically free until you figure out exactly what it is that you're doing.

      However, if you've got a friend or someone that will coach you through the process, by all means: let them!
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  • Profile picture of the author dragonlordcs
    I just posted this thread and wondered what you thought...

    Can you get the same SEO results for a niche market from either of these site designs or is one better than the other?

    Website A: nicheproduct.com
    Website B: nicheproduct.com/subnichepage

    Website B would of course be a directory type site with links to all the subniche pages. Website A would be a one niche market site.
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  • Profile picture of the author VladWorks
    I have been working on a website and it does pretty well on the search engines for the keywords I have been optimizing for.

    I run all sorts of analysis tools and I always get back that google has not indexed any pages.

    Website runs on Wordpress with All in One SEO installed and configured.

    I have a sitemap that has been successfully submitted to google with webmaster tools.

    I have a manual sitemap with text link on the footer of the website that lists all the pages in a text based link format.

    Running out of ideas on how to get the pages indexed.

    Any ideas? Did I miss a step?
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  • Profile picture of the author inovica
    Hi there!

    I've only recently started on the SEO game but think things have been going ok. I've been following all of the advice in the book and been trying to cover every angle necessary. (in-bound linking, blogs, social media, articles, PR, on-site keyword optimisation etc)

    The site that I have been working on has been jumping around in Google between the 3rd and 4th page for months now. It changes on almost a daily basis and no matter how consistent the SEO efforts the result seems to be no different.

    Can you shed any light on why this may be?

    Thanks!

    Emma
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by inovica View Post

      Hi there!

      I've only recently started on the SEO game but think things have been going ok. I've been following all of the advice in the book and been trying to cover every angle necessary. (in-bound linking, blogs, social media, articles, PR, on-site keyword optimisation etc)

      The site that I have been working on has been jumping around in Google between the 3rd and 4th page for months now. It changes on almost a daily basis and no matter how consistent the SEO efforts the result seems to be no different.

      Can you shed any light on why this may be?

      Thanks!

      Emma
      I'd really have to see the results page to tell you, but are there a lot of "fast news" items being included from day to day in the index?
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  • Profile picture of the author chrisnyce
    Hello SEO Guy,

    I submitted my site to Google and Yahoo. So naturally when I punch in my URL it shows up. How do I know if it's been indexed yet in regards to page rank? Also, how long does it take?
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by chrisnyce View Post

      Hello SEO Guy,

      I submitted my site to Google and Yahoo. So naturally when I punch in my URL it shows up. How do I know if it's been indexed yet in regards to page rank? Also, how long does it take?
      If you're talking about PageRank, then install the google toolbar and you'll see a number there between 1-10 in a few months.

      If you're talking about just ranking for your terms, watch your analytics program and you'll know when you start getting traffic from the SEs.
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      • Profile picture of the author chrisnyce
        Thank you SEO guy! Is it possible to rank for terms right away or does this happen after some time has passed? Just wondering if I need to do more work to bring my quality score up.
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        • Profile picture of the author Sue Calhoun
          Hi and thanks for posting all these answers

          I have a few sites that were PR 3, dropped to greybar, then back to 1. Also drop in SERPs for some of these, not all, but from say 17 to 298. Some sites, the reverse, i.e. still at PR3 but SERP rank still drops by several hundred. The SERPs greatly affect my traffic (o' course) the PR does not. Should I care about PR?

          None have been deindexed, but what exactly does that mean? I still have all my pages indexed when i check site:URL.

          These sites have about 300 inbound links each, and growing as I build.

          I have heard all of these referred to but how are they related, and does one cause the other, and what could cause this (I know that's kind of open ended, but some basics would help) - visual inspection by Google? Too many similar anchor text (I vary it quite a bit tho').

          Thanks in advance
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        • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
          chrisnyce - It really depends on the amount of established competition targeting the same keyword, but yes, it normally ALWAYS takes some time to start ranking.

          bzzyb - PageRank doesn't really relate to ranking in Google. It's more of an overall health score and can be used to kind of "guess" your TrustRank. I talked about PageRank here: http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...ml#post1042876 and I suggest you read that for a better understanding. Now as far as dropping for your keywords, several things might have happened.. without knowing the url it's nearly impossible to tell you what to do to come back. One catchall answer would be to build trust by getting backlinks from authority sites. This never seems to fail.

          Pnigro - Read about SEO Siloing it's basically what you're talking about. Good categorization does seem to help the big G, but don't be doing domain/folder/folder/folder/keyword.html or anything, just do what makes sense. For a niche that is smaller I wouldn't do it at all. I'd say the biggest criteria for whether to do this or not would be: does it make sense from a usability standpoint?
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          • Profile picture of the author Pnigro
            Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

            Pnigro - Read about SEO Siloing it's basically what you're talking about. Good categorization does seem to help the big G, but don't be doing domain/folder/folder/folder/keyword.html or anything, just do what makes sense. For a niche that is smaller I wouldn't do it at all. I'd say the biggest criteria for whether to do this or not would be: does it make sense from a usability standpoint?
            This is exactly what I wanted to hear.

            Thanks brah.
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            • Profile picture of the author pixelcrafter
              Dear SEO Guy,

              i've been studying and practicing the SEO for quite sometimes and got ZERO result.
              The gurus seem never reveal the real back end of the SEO strategy.
              They always say that I have to do the rss submission, social bookmarking, etc but none of them is specific enough to get the real SEO result.

              I believe you are not that kind of Guru as you have spent your valuable time to open this thread and teach us about SEO.

              Here is my case :

              Question = What are the steps to get top ranking in Google ?

              Overview =
              * my site are wordpress-based sites
              * competiton (for most keywords) = below 200.000
              * search (for most keywords) = around 20.000 per month

              I have done =

              * Submitting the RSS feed using rss submit software
              * Social bookmarked the homepage using BMD to 125+ bookmarking sites
              * Building back links using UAW
              * Submitting articles to Ezine
              * using SEO pack plugin for wordpress
              * creating SQ lenses
              * creating Hub pages
              * submitting the homepage to web directory

              Why I can't get top ranking in G?
              What is wrong with my steps?

              Kindly guide me.

              Bset Wishes,
              -Pixel-
              PS:
              I've just stop using UAW as it is not worth the price.
              Now, I doubt the BMD as my site drop from 10th page to nowhere.
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              • Profile picture of the author califmike2003
                Dear Seo Guy

                Very simple question, im kinda new to this stuff, have wordpress site on sports cars, top 5 things i should do first to start the seo process ? thanks.
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                • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
                  califmike2003 - I'd submit the rss feed to several rss directories, get some listings from blog directories and make sure to post useful, se-friendly content on a regular basis. When you DO post, try to syndicate the post through email to other like-minded bloggers in your niche in hopes they'll publish it as well with a link back.


                  rimam1 - Regarding fresh content my thoughts are this: If it makes sense in your niche (news or something) that content is posted frequently then do so. If it doesn't (most ecommerce ventures) then don't. My suggestion for ecommerce sites to have a blog isn't for fresh content, it's to help them get links that aren't normally available to commercial pages. For link building with an ecommerce site I'll just do a lot of interviews, try to get links from manufacturers, join related industry associations, create resource sites, etc.


                  3Darmory - They give you an undisclosed percentage of the revenue generated from the click. So if advertiser x is paying $1.00 per click, Google will then give you x% of that price. CPM is handled similarly.
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              • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
                pixelcrafter - You've done a good job so far, but you really need to go after links from authority sites. The links you're getting right now.. basically anyone can get, Google knows that, thus they don't do very much. Here's a few tips for finding and getting better links:

                1. Create an industry resource. Depending on your niche, there's probably an opportunity to create a resource for buyers or sellers... something like an overall "industry news" site or association you can start. Shoot for customer advocacy if you can, as these seem to get a lot of natural links. If a company is reviewed well, they'll likely highlight that on their website gaining you a link from them to your resource site, strengthening it. Likewise, you'll see consumers recommending people check your site before purchasing... good, essentially free backlinks. After you've done this you essentially have created your own authority site, link to yourself and you'll see a good boost.

                2. Create a photo site. If your niche is product based you can create a website around images of that product (herbal supplements are good for this, cars...etc) and license them through CC where in order to use the images they have to attribute the source. You'll get a lot of "free", quality links generated this way. Some clever things to do would be to disable right click so people absolutely HAVE to copy/paste the code you've given them and keep the link intact. Doesn't work 100% of the time, but most of the time it will. People have been using this tactic with smiley websites for years.

                3. Crawl through the relevant categories in DMOZ and the Y! directory and email the content sites there. To take this a step further, find sites that have dead links pointing to non-existent websites and let them know and ask that they replace the dead link with yours. Xenu link sleuth is great for this, and free!

                4. Offer yourself for interviews. Great way to get some coverage, generate a few sales and/or traffic.

                These should get you started
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  • Profile picture of the author EMGhb
    Is there monthly search volume for subcategories or derivatives of your chosen niche? If so, it might be beneficial to split your articles into a few different categories.
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    • Profile picture of the author Pnigro
      Originally Posted by EMGhb View Post

      Is there monthly search volume for subcategories or derivatives of your chosen niche? If so, it might be beneficial to split your articles into a few different categories.
      This is what I don't understand.

      Why would it be beneficial to split my articles into different categories? Is this going to help them rank better?
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  • Profile picture of the author Excursion
    hey There, Used to be a member here for a while, but couldnt remember my pass. And the email I used to sign up I no longer have access too..

    But anyways.

    I am starting a new MMA forum, What would be some good ways to get members and top of the SERP's for keywords like MMA forums and UFC forums?

    Thanks in advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author rimam1
    Thanks for this informative post...

    1). Does Google reward sites with fresh and new content?

    2). If so, how do you take advantage of this if you have an ecommerce site? I'm sure you could add a blog, but if you sell granite countertops online, how do you optimize your site so it gets ranked high? Are links the only thing that really counts?

    Best,

    Raza
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  • Profile picture of the author 3Darmory
    Hi Terry,

    I have a question, could you please tell me how the adsense income generated? I mean how Google pays on the basis of per impression or per click?

    Thanks in advance.

    Bye
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    • Profile picture of the author 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?
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  • Profile picture of the author NTN
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    Hi Terry,

    Thanks for all your input, really helps us newbies. I have a question, it probably seems stupid to you. Let's assume I have 200 Keywords or Phrases. I understand Title Tags, Meta, etc... but how do I utilize those Keywords? Where do they go? Keyword stuffing on page, hidden in the Footer of the site in same color background, etc...

    Thanks so much.

    NTN
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    • Profile picture of the author Kappa
      I need an answer to the above question as well, how do I get my site ranked? Right now, my site is indexed but is not ranked for my main key word, which is my title tag as well as in blog posts. Why not? What is the sure fire silver bullet "Google has to see the light" way to get your site indexed for a certain keyword phrase?
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    • Profile picture of the author dgarlock
      Terry,
      from all I've read so far, you're quickly becoming the go-to guy for SEO...

      here's my question:

      I've developed an "authority site" using Drupal, which is currently in the sandbox, but near to going on a live server. I have a ton of PLR content that needs to be re-written and my thought was to do a few articles a day.
      I don't think it's wise to let the SE's see this nascent site until I can add more content and continue to build it out, so...
      I'm thinking I should exclude them with my robots.txt for a short period of time with:

      User-agent: *
      Disallow: /

      thoughts?

      best regards,

      Dave
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        Originally Posted by dgarlock View Post

        Terry,
        from all I've read so far, you're quickly becoming the go-to guy for SEO...

        here's my question:

        I've developed an "authority site" using Drupal, which is currently in the sandbox, but near to going on a live server. I have a ton of PLR content that needs to be re-written and my thought was to do a few articles a day.
        I don't think it's wise to let the SE's see this nascent site until I can add more content and continue to build it out, so...
        I'm thinking I should exclude them with my robots.txt for a short period of time with:

        User-agent: *
        Disallow: /

        thoughts?

        best regards,

        Dave
        I'd say keep it in a staging environment until you're ready, or simply put the site up without content, then add as you go.

        "What the standard "Disallow" directive cannot still do is to make Google drop the page out of the index. So you may end up seeing those blocked pages in Google SERPs - Google won't know what they actually contain, so it will make judgements based on both internal and external references to that pages."
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  • Profile picture of the author Sowemimo Oladele
    Hello TerryG,

    Thanks for what you have shared so far, and please always expatiate on your IM terms a litle bit, it seems to be vocabularies for some of us that are not IM expert yet

    I have 3 questions for you.

    1. What is the meaning of having keyword bold like url, keword density, title tag etc in onpage optimization and how can I make sure it is done on my site to have a better onpage optimization??

    2. Is it a spam to have links from a no follow site that is niche/content is totally different from ones targetted niche e.g A digital system niche site having an external links from weight loss site ?? and If we notice a spamy link, how can we delete or remove it linking to our site ??

    3. You said you have of late been using xsitepro, how do you see the learning curve and how easy it is to add monitization methods be it adsense,affiliate links, images etc. I would appreciate if you can share what type of monitization you have use on a xsitepro design site and its success.

    Thanks in Advance
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    • Profile picture of the author NTN
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      Hi Terry,

      I posted before but maybe you missed.

      Thanks for all your input, really helps us newbies. I have a question, it probably seems stupid to you. Let's assume I have 200 Keywords or Phrases. I understand Title Tags, Meta, etc... but how do I utilize those Keywords? Where do they go? Keyword stuffing on page, hidden in the Footer of the site in same color background, etc...

      Thanks so much.

      NTN
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        Originally Posted by NTN View Post

        Hi Terry,

        I posted before but maybe you missed.

        Thanks for all your input, really helps us newbies. I have a question, it probably seems stupid to you. Let's assume I have 200 Keywords or Phrases. I understand Title Tags, Meta, etc... but how do I utilize those Keywords? Where do they go? Keyword stuffing on page, hidden in the Footer of the site in same color background, etc...

        Thanks so much.

        NTN
        Just use them naturally within your content. I'd put a keyword in your h1, title tags, meta data, etc, as necessary. Here's an example:

        Poison Ivy Cures | Cure Poison Ivy

        I'd never recommend keyword stuffing or any other "tricks" like that, G figured these out years ago and they simply don't work for long if at all.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sowemimo Oladele
      Originally Posted by Sowemimo Oladele View Post

      Hello TerryG,

      Thanks for what you have shared so far, and please always expatiate on your IM terms a litle bit, it seems to be vocabularies for some of us that are not IM expert yet

      I have 3 questions for you.

      1. What is the meaning of having keyword bold like url, keword density, title tag etc in onpage optimization and how can I make sure it is done on my site to have a better onpage optimization??

      2. Is it a spam to have links from a no follow site that is niche/content is totally different from ones targetted niche e.g A digital system niche site having an external links from weight loss site ?? and If we notice a spamy link, how can we delete or remove it linking to our site ??

      3. You said you have of late been using xsitepro, how do you see the learning curve and how easy it is to add monitization methods be it adsense,affiliate links, images etc. I would appreciate if you can share what type of monitization you have use on a xsitepro design site and its success.

      Thanks in Advance
      Hello TerryG,

      You haven't answered my question

      Anyways, I have an addition:

      4. What is the different between www.keyword.com and keyword.com with respect to SEO?
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        Originally Posted by Sowemimo Oladele View Post

        Hello TerryG,
        Thanks for what you have shared so far, and please always expatiate on your IM terms a litle bit, it seems to be vocabularies for some of us that are not IM expert yet

        I have 3 questions for you.

        1. What is the meaning of having keyword bold like url, keword density, title tag etc in onpage optimization and how can I make sure it is done on my site to have a better onpage optimization??

        2. Is it a spam to have links from a no follow site that is niche/content is totally different from ones targetted niche e.g A digital system niche site having an external links from weight loss site ?? and If we notice a spamy link, how can we delete or remove it linking to our site ??

        3. You said you have of late been using xsitepro, how do you see the learning curve and how easy it is to add monitization methods be it adsense,affiliate links, images etc. I would appreciate if you can share what type of monitization you have use on a xsitepro design site and its success.

        4. What is the different between www.keyword.com and keyword.com with respect to SEO?
        1. Generally those are elements where you'll put the keyword the page is focused on. So if you're going after "blue widget store", you'll have that term appear in your title, h1, alt text, bold, in the beginning of the copy, at the end of the page, etc. This is going a bit far for most sites, but is often what people are talking about when they say on-page optimization. To me onpage optimization pertains to internal linking, ensuring the content is spiderable, content quality and usability.

        2. Technically, yeah, it's probably spam. If you weren't trying to manipulate your search placement would your site naturally acquire links from that other site? I wouldn't delete them, just build more and better ones.

        3. I love XSP. It's super easy to use, hardly any learning curve and adding monetization is copy/paste type stuff. I've used adsense extensively for this and done well.

        4. None, as long as you stick to one and don't use both in your url paths or backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeSi
    Hi Terry,

    I have an old site with alot of backlinks pointing to it.

    According to Majesticseo its about 18000, but according to Google wbmaster tool it is only about 5000.

    I am now running the Majesticseo URL through a backlink checker and see that most of the pages do exist and seem to contain links to my site, I have not finished this yet but a guess is that 10-12000 pages would link to my site.

    So it seems I have a large number of links out there which are not indexed by Google.

    1) Is this really so or is Google hiding links in their webmaster tool?
    2) What would be the best way to alert the search engines that these pages linking to me exist and should be spidered?
    If I put up a directory on my main site it might look like a reciprocal link exchange so I guess that would be less effective.
    3) Is there any tool which can take a list of URLs and somehow notify the search engines that these URLs should be spidered?

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by HeSi View Post

      Hi Terry,

      I have an old site with alot of backlinks pointing to it.

      According to Majesticseo its about 18000, but according to Google wbmaster tool it is only about 5000.

      I am now running the Majesticseo URL through a backlink checker and see that most of the pages do exist and seem to contain links to my site, I have not finished this yet but a guess is that 10-12000 pages would link to my site.

      So it seems I have a large number of links out there which are not indexed by Google.

      1) Is this really so or is Google hiding links in their webmaster tool?
      2) What would be the best way to alert the search engines that these pages linking to me exist and should be spidered?
      If I put up a directory on my main site it might look like a reciprocal link exchange so I guess that would be less effective.
      3) Is there any tool which can take a list of URLs and somehow notify the search engines that these URLs should be spidered?

      Thanks
      1. Google doesn't give all of the data, for sure. Y! site explorer is more accurate, but MajesticSEO (which you're using) is my absolute favorite for this.

      2. Try pinging them and building a few links towards each backlink... it's called a "link backrub" and I highly suggest using it.

      3. Same as number 2, I'd just do it by hand with link building or pinging/bookmarking.
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    Originally Posted by threatlevelorange View Post

    How can I improve the website in my signature?

    Is there software that can do SEO work for me?

    What is the easiest way to build backlinks?

    How important do you think Google Maps and Yahoo Local are to attracting customers in your immediate are? Compared to adwords and organic listings?

    How can I bring huge traffic to a blog that is presenting adsense ads?

    Do you know how to post links to yahoo answers?
    For onpage stuff I'd recommend changing your meta desc tag, it's a bit spammy at this point. Also, try to use full url paths instead of just "bathroom.html" or something.

    The easiest way to build backlinks would be to just produce very good, useful content that others will naturally link to.

    I personally love and utilize google local/maps whenever/wherever possible. It definitely has its part in an overall marketing campaign, especially for local business.

    SEO will get you the traffic to the adsense site and also participate in communities, digg, stumbleupon, etc.. Good linkbait will do wonders for SEO and traffic.

    Yahoo answers seems to (as of late) only show links for the answers that were chosen as best answer. Although, this isn't always the case.
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  • Profile picture of the author MacFreddie
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    Originally Posted by threatlevelorange View Post


    How important do you think Google Maps and Yahoo Local are to attracting customers in your immediate are? Compared to adwords and organic listings?
    Don't want to interfere with Terry, he is the go to guy for SEO, I can personally attest to that.

    But Google Maps is HUGE for local organic, especially when combined with LBC.

    A must for any small business.

    Mac
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  • Profile picture of the author aniebee
    First - thank you so much for offering this great advice for free! I've read the entire thread and learned a lot!

    1: For Mac in the link above, what is LBC?

    2: For Terry or others "in the know" I understand the power of linking web 2.0 sites to my money site. But, recently I read some material that emphasized the importance of creating your own blog farm and to build up the authority of these. Then to link these to your money sites.

    The idea is not new, but it hit me for some reason. They said to have a multi class-C hosting account. Then to add 10 blogs per C-class. Make these blogs with generic topics and to NOT connect them in any way. They are to look like stand-alone sites or wordpress sites.

    After building up the individual blogs, you can use the power of these sites to help boost your money sites. The goal is to eventually have 1000 of these blogs, all created over time. Obviously you want to create some links to your money sites, but to do the bulk of your link building - promoting to these blogs.

    What's the consensus on this? Do you know where I can get more information about this?

    Thank You!
    Ann
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by aniebee View Post

      First - thank you so much for offering this great advice for free! I've read the entire thread and learned a lot!

      1: For Mac in the link above, what is LBC?

      2: For Terry or others "in the know" I understand the power of linking web 2.0 sites to my money site. But, recently I read some material that emphasized the importance of creating your own blog farm and to build up the authority of these. Then to link these to your money sites.

      The idea is not new, but it hit me for some reason. They said to have a multi class-C hosting account. Then to add 10 blogs per C-class. Make these blogs with generic topics and to NOT connect them in any way. They are to look like stand-alone sites or wordpress sites.

      After building up the individual blogs, you can use the power of these sites to help boost your money sites. The goal is to eventually have 1000 of these blogs, all created over time. Obviously you want to create some links to your money sites, but to do the bulk of your link building - promoting to these blogs.

      What's the consensus on this? Do you know where I can get more information about this?

      Thank You!
      Ann
      LBC is Local Business Center. Do a local search in google and you'll see the map popup with results next to it.

      Link farms are still effective.. but I wouldn't recommend them on any long-term business website. The problem is they leave a very big footprint (increasing of course with amount of spokes in the farm). If you're clever it'll work for a while, no problem. Just be a bit "googlenoid" as another member here puts it. Use different whois info, no interlinking, do them over time and don't setup more than a few at a time pointing towards you.
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  • Profile picture of the author VladWorks
    Lots of great info in this thread.....

    Thanks for all the help so far Terry. You solved more than one of my issues so far.

    Cheers.
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  • Profile picture of the author actionplanbiz
    Is a SEO'ed youtube channel useful?
    if so how can i fully benefit from it?

    thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by actionplanbiz View Post

      Is a SEO'ed youtube channel useful?
      if so how can i fully benefit from it?

      thanks
      I'd focus on the individual videos as they tend to rank higher than the profiles do. However, a good link from a profile isn't hurting anything.

      hey LookItsMeTerryG

      i m new in this field...i need ur help pls guide me i want 2 start seo work but i want 2 know from a to z.also tell me shall i create blog for seo or u prefer website?
      Both are fine, the biggest tip is just to get going and try things!

      Can a shared account vs reseller account effect SERP?

      I've read a couple accounts where people have stated it was easy to rank for the primary domain, but add on domains were a struggle (not only when ranking for clients but also their own sites), and that google sees the domains in this format:

      www-primarydomain-com/www-addondomain-com -vs- just www-addondomain-com

      And this brings me to question #2, dedicated ip. Does it matter if you put all your sites on a shared ip (that is exclusively yours) or is it better to have a dedicated IP for each domain (as far as SEO is concerned)?

      Thanks
      I personally prefer a dedicated IP for each site, especially since I tend to focus on ecommerce. Your question though brings into mind the whole "bad neighborhoods" theory... I'd really not worry about it yet though. If you find you're doing everything else perfectly and you can't seem to move then perhaps look into it.

      I know that when you first start out with your website you should try to rank for the less popular keywords first. I have already been able to rank pretty well for these less popular keywords and I was wondering what was the best way to transition to ranking for the more popular ones? Because if I immediately change my title tags, H1 tags, etc. I will stop ranking for the less popular keywords that I already rank highly for and I will probably not yet be able to rank highly for the new more popular keywords leaving me with no keywords to rank for and no organic traffic. How should I reconcile this?

      Thanks,
      I don't know why you'd change the pages to target a different term, just create new ones around that specific phrase or keyword. That should solve both problems.
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  • Profile picture of the author superassassin
    Can a shared account vs reseller account effect SERP?

    I've read a couple accounts where people have stated it was easy to rank for the primary domain, but add on domains were a struggle (not only when ranking for clients but also their own sites), and that google sees the domains in this format:

    www-primarydomain-com/www-addondomain-com -vs- just www-addondomain-com

    And this brings me to question #2, dedicated ip. Does it matter if you put all your sites on a shared ip (that is exclusively yours) or is it better to have a dedicated IP for each domain (as far as SEO is concerned)?

    Thanks

    P.S. changed the dots to dashes since I can't post links (even though it's not really a link anyways)
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  • Profile picture of the author marketingjitsu
    I know that when you first start out with your website you should try to rank for the less popular keywords first. I have already been able to rank pretty well for these less popular keywords and I was wondering what was the best way to transition to ranking for the more popular ones? Because if I immediately change my title tags, H1 tags, etc. I will stop ranking for the less popular keywords that I already rank highly for and I will probably not yet be able to rank highly for the new more popular keywords leaving me with no keywords to rank for and no organic traffic. How should I reconcile this?

    Thanks,
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  • Profile picture of the author stefan16
    Hi Terry,
    Currently I have this blog on blogger platform and I've been building links to it for the past 4 months, it is not doing too well in term of search engine ranking. These are my questions:
    1. Is it more difficult to rank good using blogger platform? I'm planning to publish it on my own domain but that way I'll lose all the backlinks, alexa rank, and being indexed by google. Is it worth it to publish now?
    2. Is it doable to change my focused keyword now? Or is it easier to just drop this one, focus on other main keywords and use my current articles to start another campaign?
    3. If I am going to start a campaign, which one do you suggest? a regular website or a blog?
    4. I've heard alot about using linkwheel; does this method really works?
    5. I've tried Angela's backlink and have doubt about it. Do you think that create link in your signature at a high PR forum will really do the trick? The forum doesn't even has anything to do with my current niche.

    Any suggestion will be really appreciated
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    • Profile picture of the author stefan16
      Hi Terry,
      I've posted before, but you probably missed it:

      Originally Posted by stefan16 View Post

      Hi Terry,
      Currently I have this blog on blogger platform and I've been building links to it for the past 4 months, it is not doing too well in term of search engine ranking. These are my questions:
      1. Is it more difficult to rank good using blogger platform? I'm planning to publish it on my own domain but that way I'll lose all the backlinks, alexa rank, and being indexed by google. Is it worth it to publish now?
      2. Is it doable to change my focused keyword now? Or is it easier to just drop this one, focus on other main keywords and use my current articles to start another campaign?
      3. If I am going to start a campaign, which one do you suggest? a regular website or a blog?
      4. I've heard alot about using linkwheel; does this method really works?
      5. -deleted- I've just read that you don't want to comment about A' and P' backlink.
      Any suggestion will be really appreciated
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  • Profile picture of the author jsanderz
    Hi,
    Quick question, in your opinion what is the best keyword software?
    Many thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andy1750
    Hi SEO guy,

    Have two questions for you. Have outsourced some back linking recently with a company that offers blog commenting. However, looking at what's been done so far they have only commented on nofollow blogs! Are they any benefits of nofollow blog commenting or have I wasted my money? Was some discussion recently about whether Google is now ignoring nofollow.

    Second question. Can you override a site's no follow settings with rel="follow" in the html in your backlink?

    Thanks,

    Andy
    Signature

    Not trying to sell you anything :-)

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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by Andy1750 View Post

      Hi SEO guy,

      Have two questions for you. Have outsourced some back linking recently with a company that offers blog commenting. However, looking at what's been done so far they have only commented on nofollow blogs! Are they any benefits of nofollow blog commenting or have I wasted my money? Was some discussion recently about whether Google is now ignoring nofollow.

      Second question. Can you override a site's no follow settings with rel="follow" in the html in your backlink?

      Thanks,

      Andy
      Nofollow is fine. The trick is emulating a natural link profile. Sites will get nofollow links naturally. If you have 100% dofollow links, that's not natural. As for overriding, nope. I'd recommend (if you're not already doing this) to do more than blog comments though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jay Rhome
    First of all Terry, thanks for this thread, your time, and your precise answers. I picked up many good tips.

    Here are my questions:

    #1 Subdomains
    ex:
    kitchen.homestuff.com
    toilets.homestuff.com
    vomitroom.homestuff.com

    You said above that if we consider them from the perspective of SEO, there'd be no difference between the above and taking different URLS for each one? If so, are there any benefits to doing subdomains compared to simply using keywords in the title tags, H1, etc.? I know it'd help for PPC but for pure SEO purposes?



    #2 How quickly can we build links to our own new or fairly new domain in a non spammy (****, etc.) niche? In other words, is the "Google Sandbox" real?


    #3 As a follow up to point #2, could you critique my plan:

    Let's say I get 60 articles on 20 different keywords written for me - 3 versions per keyword. I use version 1 on my site; version 2 on EZA; version 3 on hubpages or squeedoo. Then I spin them to be put on 2.0 sites. Plus I bookmark them, RSS, the whole 9 yards.

    Basically, with a totally brand new site, in about 2 weeks I'd have lots of content on the site, plus LOTS of outside content, links and linkwheels pointing to the different pages on my domain. Is that too much too fast, or since the links are spread throughout the pages of my site, it's a great plan?


    BTW, do the link juice from the different pages help drive them all up the ranks? (I guess that's #3B )



    #4 How can we know if a Wordpress theme is "SEO friendly" or not? I'm not talking about permalinks, SEO plugins and whatnot, but about the theme itself. How can we measure this, if it's relevant at all. I see this come up often but I don't know how to gauge this.


    Thanks a lot Terry!!
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by Jay Rhome View Post

      First of all Terry, thanks for this thread, your time, and your precise answers. I picked up many good tips.

      Here are my questions:

      #1 Subdomains
      ex:
      kitchen.homestuff.com
      toilets.homestuff.com
      vomitroom.homestuff.com

      You said above that if we consider them from the perspective of SEO, there'd be no difference between the above and taking different URLS for each one? If so, are there any benefits to doing subdomains compared to simply using keywords in the title tags, H1, etc.? I know it'd help for PPC but for pure SEO purposes?



      #2 How quickly can we build links to our own new or fairly new domain in a non spammy (****, etc.) niche? In other words, is the "Google Sandbox" real?


      #3 As a follow up to point #2, could you critique my plan:

      Let's say I get 60 articles on 20 different keywords written for me - 3 versions per keyword. I use version 1 on my site; version 2 on EZA; version 3 on hubpages or squeedoo. Then I spin them to be put on 2.0 sites. Plus I bookmark them, RSS, the whole 9 yards.

      Basically, with a totally brand new site, in about 2 weeks I'd have lots of content on the site, plus LOTS of outside content, links and linkwheels pointing to the different pages on my domain. Is that too much too fast, or since the links are spread throughout the pages of my site, it's a great plan?


      BTW, do the link juice from the different pages help drive them all up the ranks? (I guess that's #3B )



      #4 How can we know if a Wordpress theme is "SEO friendly" or not? I'm not talking about permalinks, SEO plugins and whatnot, but about the theme itself. How can we measure this, if it's relevant at all. I see this come up often but I don't know how to gauge this.


      Thanks a lot Terry!!

      1. There's evidence that Google treats subdomains differently than pages, in that a domain can pass a penalty to a sub domain but generally not vice versa, unless interlinking is taking place. It seems this exception is in place to protect free site providers from incurring penalties based on user content. I'd recommend just using good category structure and placing everything on the main site. i.e.: domain.com/category/page.html

      2. Don't go overboard. I know that's a relative answer, but the idea is to "ramp up" instead of "die off". Whatever you do, make sure that you can increase long term instead of slowing. Is the sandbox real? I don't know. Probably not. There are so many ideas about what the sandbox actually is.. If sandbox = age filter, then yes. I'm positive that exists.

      3. Good plan, but you'll need more and better links in the long run.

      4. Make sure the theme validates and remove as many dynamic queries from the code as possible. Hardcore urls using full paths, make sure text is displayed correctly (use a text browser such as lynx to view this).
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      • Profile picture of the author Jay Rhome
        Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

        2. Whatever you do, make sure that you can increase long term instead of slowing.
        I never though of that one. Though it seems a given that some sites go through surges "naturally" and then slow down

        3. Good plan, but you'll need more and better links in the long run.
        Such as? Links from 2.0 sites, EZA, bookmarks, RSS feeds are what I know to do. Going back to point #2, I see my strategy is a bit of a initial burst and then it slows down. Mmm.

        As you keeping adding sites, you continue outsourcing the backlink building for your older sites all the time? I don't see doing that myself as my network of sites grows over time.

        4. Make sure the theme validates and remove as many dynamic queries from the code as possible. Hardcore urls using full paths, make sure text is displayed correctly (use a text browser such as lynx to view this).
        I don't really know how to check for that. I'll Google that one. Unless there's a SEO Theme Checker software out there:rolleyes:

        Thanks
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        • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
          Originally Posted by Jay Rhome View Post

          I never though of that one. Though it seems a given that some sites go through surges "naturally" and then slow down

          Such as? Links from 2.0 sites, EZA, bookmarks, RSS feeds are what I know to do. Going back to point #2, I see my strategy is a bit of a initial burst and then it slows down. Mmm.

          As you keeping adding sites, you continue outsourcing the backlink building for your older sites all the time? I don't see doing that myself as my network of sites grows over time.

          I don't really know how to check for that. I'll Google that one. Unless there's a SEO Theme Checker software out there:rolleyes:

          Thanks
          You should target authority resource sites with high relevance to your subject matter. The first and easiest way to find these would be to go to dmoz and browse to your niche and try to get a link from every site there. Emails work best, phone calls if you can find a number work fine too. Don't be afraid to offer a donation for their time

          When "I" build a site, I'll do some backlinking myself, but I design the site to be a link magnet.. with tons of linkbait content, so yeah, my links only increase for the most part. More links doesn't equate to harder work, just smarter work. You'll find that you'll get links just because you rank well for something often times. A boon to any site, for sure.

          To check the code just open up the editor panel in wordpress and scout through it. Alternatively there are a lot of people out there than can do a 1 time SEO setup for wordpress, PM me for who I'd recommend. (heck, it may even be myself, I've done this for warriors in the past).

          Edit: Just a bottom line thought here: Effective SEO oftentimes isn't actually "seo" in the common sense. It's actually just marketing 101. If you were trying to launch and promote a business on the internet without search engines, you'd go to high traffic, authority type sites to get plugs and links anyway. I'd personally want a link from any site that has a "resources" page or any targeted directory that has traffic and can establish visual trust for the viewers... often times these end up being the "golden" seo links. I tend to view SEO as a byproduct of a quality marketing campaign instead of a standalone initiative.
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  • Profile picture of the author l23bc
    good question on the seo theme links with so many blogs using the same themes does that mean more blogs get put to googles sandbox faster

    just curious to know that answer
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        Hello TerryG,

        after create website or blog what is the next step???? pls guide me.thanx
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      @ l23bc - No, you're not being penalized because of a common theme unless there are problems with the theme structure or coding.

      @ josephalford - Build links, integrate yourself into the niche community.

      @ divengrabber - I'm not sure I understand your question. Title and content are relative to each other.
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  • Profile picture of the author divengrabber
    What type of keyword research i follow to promote site. Tille or Conetent which i place on my site. Which is the most important first.
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    • Profile picture of the author zankee
      use google wonder wheel to start with your keyword research, or googles external keyword research tool. just google "keyword tool external"

      once there what better person than google to tell you what your keywords are?
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  • Profile picture of the author bus4bus
    I have a question. I am currently using Google Adwords and just started using it 3 days ago. So I am completely new to this.

    I have made ads that are typically about home based businesses. I have used a number of different keywords and I use the keyword tool. When I make the ad and add keywords, Google says the keywords are a quality of 7/10 all the way to 10/10 and that is after the review. That's good.

    But the very next day I go back to check the keywords and the second day it says, 1/10 and poor landing page. Is it a matter of changing the keywords every single day for each ad?

    Thanks for your time.
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  • Profile picture of the author Simo
    Hi Terry,

    I have a question from a client of mine who is running both a website and a blog

    Which of the following hosting scenarios (if any) would produce a better SE ranking:

    (a) both sites are hosted with the same web company
    (b) they are hosted at different web companies (i.e. they have different IP addresses)

    Would appreciate your feedback.

    Cheers,

    Andrew
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      @ Simo - I'd host them on the same server. Unless you're using the blog for something else... I've always had my business blogs at domain.com/blog.

      @ vuedoolor - Yeah, kinda. They aren't as strong as if you'd get 3 separate links from 3 separate ips... but they'll do.

      @ tvanslooten - There isn't one. You've got to actually analyze the efforts of the sites ranking high for the term to figure out what's going on.
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      • Profile picture of the author Harmony
        Hi,

        How can I manually check if a blog allows pingbacks?
        How do I manually search for blogs that do allow pingbacks?
        How do I check if a blog or webpage uses "no follow"?

        I curious how to do these without a software tool. I'm just not sure of the exact wording to put into a google search for the above.

        Thank you.
        Harmony
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        • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
          Originally Posted by Harmony View Post

          Hi,

          How can I manually check if a blog allows pingbacks?
          How do I manually search for blogs that do allow pingbacks?
          How do I check if a blog or webpage uses "no follow"?

          I curious how to do these without a software tool. I'm just not sure of the exact wording to put into a google search for the above.

          Thank you.
          Harmony
          I don't know of a way to check, but a google search would be this: "trackback from your own site"

          Google that and you'll get a list of sites that accept it. To take it a step further, try: "trackback from your own site" keyword like this: "trackback from your own site" tea - Google Search
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  • Profile picture of the author vuedoolor
    Here's my question:

    There are 3 articles on Ezinearticles.com linking to my mydomain.com/money-site.html

    Article#1 links to mydomain.com/money-site.html with anchor text "make money"

    Article#2 links to mydomain.com/money-site.html with anchor text "affiliate marketing"

    Article#2 links to mydomain.com/money-site.html with anchor text "work from home"

    Does Google see that as 3 different votes and give credits for all 3?
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    • Terry:

      Great thread you've started here and thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge!

      I'll make my question brief but then I'll provide some background why I'm asking...

      What is the most reliable way to get a quick and dirty look at the real competition for any given keyword so we don't waste time targeting a keyword phrase that is impossible to rank for?

      ***********************************

      Background:

      Almost all the ebooks I've read regarding keyword research and SEO say to target keywords with low competition (duh). The recommended way to check the "real" competition is always the same in these books: do a search for the keyword in quotes.

      They further go on to say that you should target for those keywords whose results show less than 100,000 (again, when searching using quotes). While some "SEO experts" have told me this method is silly to begin with, this practice is preached a lot and has actually worked very well for me so I'm not sure what to think.

      At any rate, this method hasn't been working that great lately because it appears Google tweaked their algorithm recently in light of Google Caffeine rolling out. What I've noticed is that the results returned when searching in quotes has gone through the roof. For example, a keyword phrase searched in quotes before might have returned 9,000. Today, that same keyword phrase searched in quotes returns over 600,000.

      Now this isn't ALWAYS the case, but I'm finding this a lot lately. Google has definitely tweaked some things because the results are not even close anymore. And this isn't a Google dance or data center updating thing either as these new higher numbers I'm seeing have been this way for weeks.

      Travis
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  • Profile picture of the author AbdulAzim
    Hi,

    Thanks for opening this thread.
    I would love to ask questions also.

    1.Is link wheel can be considered as black hat seo method?If not, why?

    2.Let say I have squidoo page, hubpages, blogspot blog that link to my main site,
    I bookmark my squidoo pages,hubpages and blogspot blog.I also submit them to
    top rss directories.And promote those three site with article marketing.
    Can this be considered as link wheel?Or one of its kind? This method is not black hat right?

    I read this article : Black Hat Vs White Hat Authority Web 2.0 Link Building | Internet Marketing Blog, List Building - ProIMer

    Is that true that the second method is white hat?

    Thanks

    Azim
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  • Profile picture of the author Joshua McCoy
    Wow, quite an amazing thread you've stared here Terry!

    Thanks for sharing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joshua McCoy
    After all the great advice, I still got a few questions for you.

    If someone is using blog commenting as one of their backlink strategies, does the authority of the page itself matter, or just the domain?

    I know you said pagerank is bad way of judging authority. But for example's sake, let's say the link is on a site with a pagerank 9, like bbc (you gave that example earlier). Do you think a link from a pagerank 6 page would hold more weight than a pagerank 2 page?

    This is assuming all other factors equal. (Age, relevancy, amount of links on the page, ect.)


    I had another question about xsitepro. I have the software and have messed around with it a little bit, but never actually launched a site with it. It seems to me that it breaks a site up into modules, and then you edit each module individually. In my experience, this seems to make for a clunky looking site that doesen't flow well together and/or look very visually appealing to the visitor.

    So I guess the few questions I had about xsitepro are: Do you buy custom templates/graphics ect. to use as a css base for the whole site, and put the site together from there so when you add the text, pictures and other stuff to each individual page the site looks professional?

    Also, would you be able to give me a brief overview of how you form a site with xsite pro?

    ( I know that last question could take several pages and was very vauge. I'm not so much looking for help adding modules ect., I've thoroughly went through the tutorials and other guides. I'm speaking more from a perspective of making the site look visually appealing, layout, ect., so all I need to do to add a new page to the site once I've set it up is add text, images, links, ect. and publish it. [Which I know how to do already])

    Last question:

    Would you recommend a particular hosting service for uploading the site through xsitepro? Or maybe another way of putting that is have you noticed any servers or types of servers that don't work well for publishing the site within xsitepro? An answer on either side of that coin would work for me.


    Any help on the xsitepro stuff would be very much apprecited, as I haven't took the time to learn most html code yet.



    Thanks again for all your great posts, I've had alot of my questions answered already in this thread.
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      @ - Joshua McCoy - "If someone is using blog commenting as one of their backlink strategies, does the authority of the page itself matter, or just the domain?"

      Just comment on whatever is relevant. I wouldn't worry about this, at all.

      "Do you think a link from a pagerank 6 page would hold more weight than a pagerank 2 page? This is assuming all other factors equal. (Age, relevancy, amount of links on the page, ect.)"

      If all factors were equal they'd have the same pagerank. The answer is of course, but only because that's the only metric you're giving me in order to make my decision.

      "So I guess the few questions I had about xsitepro are: Do you buy custom templates/graphics ect. to use as a css base for the whole site, and put the site together from there so when you add the text, pictures and other stuff to each individual page the site looks professional?"

      No custom templates, just use the ones there. With the type of sites that I create in XSP I'm not worried about how good they look. I use XSP for speed and ease of generating quick MFA sites. As far as hosting, I like cpanel hosts, doesn't really matter though. They should all work fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author robvegas626
    Hi Terry. Incredible thread. Quick question: if you shorten a URL (using TinyUrl or a similar service), and then post that link somewhere, will Google still count it as a back link to your site? Does shortening a link rob it of any "link juice?"

    My blog posts have extremely long, ugly URLs and posting the full link makes it look like spam. But I want to make sure I get credit for a back link when I post it.
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by robvegas626 View Post

      Hi Terry. Incredible thread. Quick question: if you shorten a URL (using TinyUrl or a similar service), and then post that link somewhere, will Google still count it as a back link to your site? Does shortening a link rob it of any "link juice?"

      My blog posts have extremely long, ugly URLs and posting the full link makes it look like spam. But I want to make sure I get credit for a back link when I post it.
      I wouldn't try to "bandage" this issue. Honestly, I'd make the urls shorter to begin with. But, despite what some might say, I've never seen a shortened url show up in my backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author rliddle
    This is a great thread, is there a methodolology to targeting Bing and Google simultaneously?
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  • Profile picture of the author Lorens
    Hi Terry,
    Thanks for helping warriors in your thread. I also would like to ask you a question.

    How much traffic is getting #1 ranked website and other websites in google's top10. I have noticed that there is no difference between #1 and #2 ranked websites, however, some people say that #1 website gets about 40% of traffic. What can you say about it?
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by Lorens View Post

      Hi Terry,
      Thanks for helping warriors in your thread. I also would like to ask you a question.

      How much traffic is getting #1 ranked website and other websites in google's top10. I have noticed that there is no difference between #1 and #2 ranked websites, however, some people say that #1 website gets about 40% of traffic. What can you say about it?
      I'm not exactly sure. I find it varies between niches. I know a lot of guys quote the AOL data that can be found online... One of my clients sat at number 3 and when he moved to number 1, did 3 times as many sales for the same keyword. I know for one of my own ecommerce projects I currently sit at number 5 for a keyword, have been 8, 10, 12... and to be honest, no noticeable difference in sales or traffic..however, the sites that outrank me are much less usable and my site is better in terms of design and usability AND product offerings.
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    • Profile picture of the author rimam1
      Lorens and Terry,

      Google released some stats saying that the first result gets about 42% of the clicks and it goes down from there. Market Samurai takes these stats into consideration when calculating their SEOT (SEO traffic) estimates. Contact the Market Samurai folks to get these stats. They can probably direct you to the Google report that breaks down the amount of clicks each position gets.
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    • Profile picture of the author mistyone
      Thank you for being willing to help us all with your knowledge, it is very much appreciated.

      My questions are:

      (1) I have WP site that I never did anything with until this year, then I started building links to it and it was starting to do very well.

      Jan 516 uniques
      Feb 358 " "
      Mar 835 " "
      April 1,051 "
      May 2,110 "
      June 2,494 "
      July 4,301 "
      Aug 3,217 "
      Sep now while this month isn't complete I can tell by the daily visits that it is on the downwards spiral.

      A couple of other sites seem to be heading in the same direction.
      I don't believe this is the Google dance but you may tell me otherwise. I have done some link building with Angela's link packages, some social bookmarking, pinging, RSS submission and some article directory submissions. I don't want this site losing so much traffic as it is selling an affiliate product. What would you suggest?

      (2) When I search to see where my sites rank in Google I can't use Google.com to search, it keeps reverting to my local Google site, how do I overcome this or doesn't it matter. Do I see the same result in Google.co.nz as someone else would in Google.com?

      (3) When I look at the results of 'backlinkwatch', for the above site, it shows predominantly links from one of my other sites, as I have a link to it on my landing page. Will this be harming my site? (They are both weight related and both PR3)

      (4) When I look at my sites in webmaster tools I see lots of URL's being shown as 'not found'. How do I get rid of these results, could these not found URL's be harming my site. (I have an automatic posting plugin, sometimes I cull the posts out because they aren't on topic enough, which is what I think these URL's are)

      Look forward to your response

      Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author mj39weeks
    Hi

    I've been trying to crack this whole SEO/Google/PR/Backlink riddle and whilst I've made progress, I think it's now time to bow to greater knowledge.

    In your opinion/experience who offers a good SEO service I can pay to try and boost my Google rankings?

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Gee S
    Hey Terry,

    How do you personally get links to your website?

    Also which link building services if any do you use? Do you use any automated tools?

    Gurpreet
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by MrEyeconic View Post

      Hey Terry,

      How do you personally get links to your website?

      Also which link building services if any do you use? Do you use any automated tools?

      Gurpreet
      I've laid a lot of that out in this thread already, but:

      1. I create sites to be link magnets, therefore I don't "get" links, links come to me.

      This is a bit more information than I wanted to give in this thread, but for example: I own a tea ecommerce site, we hired a well known tea video blogger to do on-page video product reviews and overviews. He links to us, as do his fans, etc. For my instrument string ecommerce projects, I have authoritative histories of instruments, interviews with players, I offer discounts to teachers with a coupon code (their name) and have them link to our site.

      2. I email/call high authority sites.

      3. I produce quality linkbait.

      4. When I've exhausted the list of industry resources and such to get links from, I create my own resources and link back. This helps me get those links from competitors and so forth that aren't available to a commercial site.

      I don't use any services, other than my own, but everyone once in a while I'll play with SENUKE for fun.
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  • Profile picture of the author thegamecat
    Hi there, thought I'd help out with something regarding building your own network of sites and gaining backlinks between them - in reference to:

    I personally prefer a dedicated IP for each site, especially since I tend to focus on ecommerce. Your question though brings into mind the whole "bad neighborhoods" theory... I'd really not worry about it yet though. If you find you're doing everything else perfectly and you can't seem to move then perhaps look into it.
    Every domain needs a seperate IP.
    Every IP must be on a different class C IP range - you can usually achieve this by putting each domain on a different host.
    It is even believed that you should either reg the domain with different contact details or use a WhoIs Guard (you can get this free for a year if you buy your domain with namecheap.com).

    Building link networks is harder than it initially looks but once you have the strategy in place the deployment can be smooth and re-usable so win win.
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  • Profile picture of the author simba999
    Terry,

    We really appreciate the time and effort you are taking to give us all this great information! Thanks so much...

    Sheila
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  • Profile picture of the author babuni
    I am a beginner in this SEO subject so if my questions are foolish just excuse me.

    1) Does on page optimization of basic static site and a CMS/e-commerce site will be similar? How to optimize on page a flash site... does it also similar to a static site?

    2) How to use a low competitive keyword in a site whose content is created following LSI.....I mean to say how to use keywords in a LSI followed content so that a search engine find it as a keyword among synonymous/related?LSI keywords?

    It will be a great help to a beginners to me if you spare some time and answer these questions.
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by babuni View Post

      I am a beginner in this SEO subject so if my questions are foolish just excuse me.

      1) Does on page optimization of basic static site and a CMS/e-commerce site will be similar? How to optimize on page a flash site... does it also similar to a static site?

      2) How to use a low competitive keyword in a site whose content is created following LSI.....I mean to say how to use keywords in a LSI followed content so that a search engine find it as a keyword among synonymous/related?LSI keywords?

      It will be a great help to a beginners to me if you spare some time and answer these questions.
      1. To optimize for flash: convert to html . They say they can read it, but I wouldn't want to take any chances. Yeah, optimizing a CMS and a basic site are the same, you'll want to highlight the same elements etc. One just normally takes longer than the other.

      2. I'm not sure EXACTLY what you mean by this, but as long as you use keywords and related keywords, you'll be fine. Well, as long as the spiders see them anyway.
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  • Profile picture of the author islander1
    Hey SEO Guy,

    I have a site that I started in April and it was ranking Google page 1 for several keywords till last week, when they were all gone. The search sitename.com still comes up with my site, so it is still indexed, but I'd like to find out what happened and how to fix it.

    I don't use any 'black hat' techniques that I know of, only articles, social bookmarking, and Angela's backlinks. If I PM you the site name, could you take a look at it for me?
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by islander1 View Post

      Hey SEO Guy,

      I have a site that I started in April and it was ranking Google page 1 for several keywords till last week, when they were all gone. The search sitename.com still comes up with my site, so it is still indexed, but I'd like to find out what happened and how to fix it.

      I don't use any 'black hat' techniques that I know of, only articles, social bookmarking, and Angela's backlinks. If I PM you the site name, could you take a look at it for me?
      Sure, PM me, I'd be glad to check it out for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    Thanks rimam1. Really appreciate being appreciated, ya know?
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  • Profile picture of the author jacksonlin
    Terry

    1. Is the duplicate content issue a myth? I have heard that duplicate content does not affect you unless you have the same content on the same domain. Otherwise if it's on a different IP address it's known as Syndication. However, I have done a Google search of a few of my article paragraphs in "quotes" and I have found that sometimes the articles that come up on the first result that Google considers to be first importance is not my site! I know my articles are 100% unique, but then I use AMA and UAW and spin 3 versions of the same article and get it syndicated.

    I have been able to achieve first place rankings for many keywords on this on Google, however I'm worried that some day this might be detrimental to me?

    2. How long does the Google dance last for? I have a site that's 9 months old and there are a select few pages that I have been doing more aggressive backlinking. These pages got on the first place of Google and were there for a few months, but suddenly these few days they have disppeared - they aren't even in the top 1000 and they are just "not found" according to Market Samurai.

    I have been constantly building backlinks slowly and steadily however, I have occassionally used Angela's and Pauls backlinks as a link boost a few times in the past 2 months. I have never had an issue with it, but now some of the pages are not even ranking. This is strange because I have had 7 pages that have received this kind of backlinks and half of them have no problem and are ranking well, whereas the other half are gone.

    Could it be a Google dance?

    Thanks Terry!
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by jacksonlin View Post

      Terry

      1. Is the duplicate content issue a myth? I have heard that duplicate content does not affect you unless you have the same content on the same domain. Otherwise if it's on a different IP address it's known as Syndication. However, I have done a Google search of a few of my article paragraphs in "quotes" and I have found that sometimes the articles that come up on the first result that Google considers to be first importance is not my site! I know my articles are 100% unique, but then I use AMA and UAW and spin 3 versions of the same article and get it syndicated.

      I have been able to achieve first place rankings for many keywords on this on Google, however I'm worried that some day this might be detrimental to me?

      2. How long does the Google dance last for? I have a site that's 9 months old and there are a select few pages that I have been doing more aggressive backlinking. These pages got on the first place of Google and were there for a few months, but suddenly these few days they have disppeared - they aren't even in the top 1000 and they are just "not found" according to Market Samurai.

      I have been constantly building backlinks slowly and steadily however, I have occassionally used Angela's and Pauls backlinks as a link boost a few times in the past 2 months. I have never had an issue with it, but now some of the pages are not even ranking. This is strange because I have had 7 pages that have received this kind of backlinks and half of them have no problem and are ranking well, whereas the other half are gone.

      Could it be a Google dance?

      Thanks Terry!
      Duplicate content is definitely not a myth. There's waaay more to this subject than I can even spell out here in a 500 page thread. If you really want a good understanding (and geek out a bit) read the patent here: United States Patent: 7158961

      "A similarity engine generates compact representations of objects called sketches. Sketches of different objects can be compared to determine the similarity between the two objects. The sketch for an object may be generated by creating a vector corresponding to the object, where each coordinate of the vector is associated with a corresponding weight. The weight associated with each coordinate in the vector is multiplied by a predetermined hashing vector to generate a product vector, and the product vectors are summed. The similarity engine may then generate a compact representation of the object based on the summed product vector."

      Even spun articles can be considered duplicate content... If you were doing this though, at LEAST spin to 50%, ignore the 30% generally recommended. Someone once told me that any 2 articles in the english language can be a maximum of 70-80% unique, regardless of the particular topic they're used on (due to speech patterns, sentence structure, etc).

      For the 2nd question, look at your backlinks over time using MajesticSEO or similar. Do you have any decay anomalies? The angelas and pauls type backlinks often are temporal links with inflated decay profiles. As are bookmarks, directory listings and bought blog posts, comments, etc. All poor quality links, IMHO. They work yes, but temporarily at best (most of the time).
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      • Profile picture of the author carlo_sim
        So what is the best way to create backlinks and where can we get quality links?
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        • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
          Originally Posted by giansim View Post

          So what is the best way to create backlinks and where can we get quality links?
          For some ideas, check my reply here: http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...ml#post1174108
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          • Profile picture of the author smam
            First off, great thread and thanks for sharing, its been really helpful.

            What things/topics do you need to learn in order to become a seo professional and be able to offer a service to others. What services does a competent seo professional offer?

            I can glean some from reading posts and searching the net, but would like a definative outline so i could focus my efforts.
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      • Profile picture of the author jacksonlin
        Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

        Duplicate content is definitely not a myth. There's waaay more to this subject than I can even spell out here in a 500 page thread. If you really want a good understanding (and geek out a bit) read the patent here: United States Patent: 7158961

        "A similarity engine generates compact representations of objects called sketches. Sketches of different objects can be compared to determine the similarity between the two objects. The sketch for an object may be generated by creating a vector corresponding to the object, where each coordinate of the vector is associated with a corresponding weight. The weight associated with each coordinate in the vector is multiplied by a predetermined hashing vector to generate a product vector, and the product vectors are summed. The similarity engine may then generate a compact representation of the object based on the summed product vector."

        Even spun articles can be considered duplicate content... If you were doing this though, at LEAST spin to 50%, ignore the 30% generally recommended. Someone once told me that any 2 articles in the english language can be a maximum of 70-80% unique, regardless of the particular topic they're used on (due to speech patterns, sentence structure, etc).

        For the 2nd question, look at your backlinks over time using MajesticSEO or similar. Do you have any decay anomalies? The angelas and pauls type backlinks often are temporal links with inflated decay profiles. As are bookmarks, directory listings and bought blog posts, comments, etc. All poor quality links, IMHO. They work yes, but temporarily at best (most of the time).
        Just giving you an update:

        1. My articles are spun 3 times for each sentence, and I have done article comparison tests for uniqueness and the least amount of uniqueness I get is 60%. So I think should be fine in regards to the duplicate content issue?

        2. My sites are back again in the rankings! I think it was a bit of a Google dance of sort, the ones in question have their SERPS back!

        Hmmm...Interesting isn't it?

        J
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  • Profile picture of the author Dr Dan
    Great info and thanks so much for sharing. I have got so many of my questions answered in this one thread alone.
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  • Profile picture of the author islander1
    Terry thanks for looking at my site and for your recommendations. I sent you an email with some further questions.
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  • Profile picture of the author SRLee
    Hi Terry, I've got some questions related to SEO and I hope you can solve them for me.

    Questions:
    1. Can a Blogger blog hit the No.1 spot in Google?
    2. I have been linking to my landing page (Blogger blog with only one post). Is it effective? I'm linking to the main page, and not deep links.
    3. I have been building 12 links per day since weeks ago, and I have yet to see any results in this relatively easy niche. Why is this the case?
    4. How long could I see some results, at least in the Top 50 with my current rate? I have around 750 inlinks according to Yahoo! Site Explorer.
    Here are some stats to help you:

    Number of competing pages
    Exact search:
    58,000
    Phrse search: 557,000
    Broad search:
    557,000

    Number of open-source pages on first page (exact search): 7

    Number of inlinks for the No.1 website (as displayed by Market Samurai): 100+

    Thanks Terry! Any help is appreciated!

    -Shaun
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  • Profile picture of the author rliddle
    Hey Terry, been following this thread forever. Thanks for all your advice. You really know your stuff, and I can't believe you do all this for free. Can I give you a link or 2 for one of your sites as a Thank You!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author amerigo
    I have a network of sites, I used the same kind of template for each (customizing it for each site though)

    I covered h1-h2-h3 headers, meta keywords, onsite text (unique per page) internal relevant links, keyphrase in url, files, and path.

    I ranked well, then all of a sudden dropped of the face of google for all of my keyphrases after the google algorythm update about a month ago.

    an example of one of the sites
    http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...ver-month.html

    I have continued to add content (and plan to add more) continuing with web 2.0 page creation (unique content) and link wheels around those.

    Yet my traffic completely died for the entire network, and I no longer show up in serps (but don't appear to be penalized).

    I have no msgs in my webmaster account, even after sending multiple reconsideration requests (no replies).

    I am at my wits end, and any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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  • Profile picture of the author clarissa25
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    hi terry, u mentioned that directory links, blog commenting social book marking and profile linking is just temporal. so is there any point in even doing this sort of linking? When u say that it seems i should spend most of my time on article marketing instead since its more long term. am I thinking right?
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    • Profile picture of the author McBrett
      Hi Terry G. I've got an SEO business question for you.

      What's the best technique you've found to generate SEO leads? PPC, Referrals from past and current clients, positioning yourself as an expert in niche communities like the Warrior Forum?

      I appreciate you starting the thread and look forward to your reply.
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  • Profile picture of the author lonniewa2
    Can you please take a look at my question below?

    http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...clean-ips.html
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    @ smam - Learn to consistently rank a site in the top positions for long term timeframes. Learn to focus on providing ROI to clients, instead of just rankings. Lean superior customer service, time management, frugality and budgeting. Learn to be humble, never trust Google and always be working on your own projects (for testing and income).

    @ SRLee -

    1. Yes.
    2. Depends on the niche, I'd always have more than 1 page though. Hard to build trust and authority with only 1 page.
    3. Your links take a long time to show up but, you may be acquiring low value links that aren't being indexed.
    4. Depends on how IP diverse they are and how tough the competition is. 750 links from 1 site is nothing, 750 separate sites linking to you is great.
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    @ amerigo - Stop with the link wheels and build more diverse links. Build links to internal pages. Stop sending reconsideration requests, to my knowledge you aren't doing anything wrong.

    @ clarissa25 - Yeah, I didn't mean NOT to do them, they do have their place in a good link profile. Article marketing fits in with those too. I call them all "b level" links. A level links are those with editorial review implemented in the approval process. Anything with trust, authority and age will pack a much larger punch than the freely available links. For my clients... I'm not out building thousands upon thousands of links per month. A good month I may only get 20-30 links for a client... but those 20-30 will be MUCH more effective than 1,000 of the lower quality links. It's quality over quantity, for sure. I prefer to work smarter not harder, wherever possible.

    @ McBrett - 99.9% of my clients come from referrals. I don't actively market my services. My business website hasn't been finished nor updated since we redesigned almost 2 years ago. I'm nowhere to be found in Google and don't care to be. It seems that when you make someone a lot of money, they can't stop talking about you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kirahster
    Hi Terry,

    Do you think that directory submissions are worthwhile for SEO. If I submit my site too 500 directories, will that count as 500 backlinks?

    Thanks,

    Ciara
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  • Profile picture of the author GIahGroup
    Nice of you to offer some free SEO tips.

    Tell me whats going on with Google SERPS, do you think an exact KW specific URL still ranks well?

    EXAMPLES:

    Site A
    I have 1 URL ranking at position 7 page 1 on G - competition is 18,100 000 approx broad match.

    It has one post, zero content, and I forgot to update for 4 months still page 1.

    Site B
    Again exact match KW URL with 18 posts added daily over past 30 days and pinged ranks position 38 with 297,000 compitition in SERPS??

    Also do you think having dashes-in-your-url.com effects the SERPS in any way.

    Looking forward to your feedback as based on the above results its hard for me to build a strategy around what works and what should be working.
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  • Profile picture of the author pakidesigner
    my quick question about seo is that:
    is there a tool available which create a unique content automatically..if so please let me know the link
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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    • Profile picture of the author Marigold
      Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

      @ 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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    • Profile picture of the author realtorkimberly
      Hi GIah Group, Interesting research and helpful I will be sure do more tests before submitting my site.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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?
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    • Profile picture of the author 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
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    • Profile picture of the author maveric
      Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

      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
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  • Profile picture of the author rliddle
    Do an ebook, and make it easy for everybody, I would buy it.
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  • Profile picture of the author realtorkimberly
    Hi again TerryG, Can you list any of your site we can view for examples?
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by realtorkimberly View Post

      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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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!
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by SRLee View Post

      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.
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      • Profile picture of the author stern112
        Terry--


        How can I hire you?
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      • Profile picture of the author SRLee
        Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

        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?
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    stern112 - I replied to the PM.

    amerigo - Added you to MSN.
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  • Profile picture of the author dandimit
    Wow, there is some really great info here. Good job on the thread.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author lmccarroll
    Hi Terry,
    Can you recommend a good shopping cart for SEO? We have 500-1000 products.

    Remember, stay charged, power up!

    Liam
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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    • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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:

    HTML Code:
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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 :confused:
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    • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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    • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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!!!
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    • Profile picture of the author irenef25
      Originally Posted by LilBlackDress View Post

      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.
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      • Profile picture of the author clarissa25
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        Originally Posted by irenef25 View Post

        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?
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  • Profile picture of the author usenet
    thanks !

    how does .org compare to .com and .net in terms of SEO ? any difference in page ranking ?
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    • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author barginboyrob
    What's the most efficient way of linkbuilding, is social bookmarking and rss worth it?
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  • Profile picture of the author oketiva
    Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

    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!
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author pauljeaston
    how can i achieve at least pr 1 with the fastest way? Backlinking? My site's onsite seo is already ok.
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by pauljeaston View Post

      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.
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      • Profile picture of the author pauljeaston
        Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

        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.
        Thanks Man! I'll be following more and will work hard to get that links.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by Jay Rhome View Post

      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?
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by Rapidgrowth View Post

      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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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?
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by seobro View Post

      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.
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  • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
    I can appreciate your comment on not automating BUT I looked at my competitor who is DOMINATING with almost every keyword in a very competitive niche.
    They have 7000+ backlinks.
    I examined a few of them and they have obviously spun articles and submitted. And done a lot of other automation.
    How do I compete with 7000 backlinks w/o following their example?

    What do you feel are the most effective ways to build traffic?

    BTW wouldn't it make sense for me to submit to the directories they have, post blogs where they have etc. In addition to new places.
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  • Profile picture of the author scfc22
    Hi Terry,

    I've sent you a PM with my url, I'm hoping you can provide me with an action plan of how to reach #1 for the keywords mentioned in my site. At the minute I have a few good PR backlinks into my site - they contain some of my keyword, though not all.

    Please tell me whether I need to now focusing on article marketing etc etc

    Thanks for your time!
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  • Profile picture of the author Raygun
    Really big thanks for the pointers and the answers. My question is, does social bookmarking really helps in SERP or traffic or both? How? Just curious since I've heard many things about bookmarking but just confused as to how. Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Easy Cash
    OK Terry - here is one for ya.

    What is a 'silo structure' and how does it affect your page rank?
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  • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
    Yes and what about using automated bookmarking like onlywire..hurt or help?
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    • Profile picture of the author markpocock
      Hi Terry

      Sent you a PM earlier today asking your advice.
      Hope you can help.

      Thanks in advance

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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    LilBlackDress - Yeah, get the links they have, but that's what I consider "reactive SEO" and leaves you always following behind the curve and working in a "shotgun blast" type manner - instead of working smarter, you're working harder.

    scfc22 - Do everything, build links every which way and focus on trust and authority.

    Raygun - Social bookmarking has its place in a campaign, yes. I like to allow that to do as it will, by itself.. I don't find it really adds up to attempt to manipulate SB's. Provide useful content and your readers will do it for you.

    Easy Cash - I know I've answered this question either in this thread or on this forum before. Silo-ing is generally something that I'm asked about in regards to XSitePro, as it's one of the features of that program. SEO Siloing Read that for more info.

    LilBlackDress - Onlywire is fine, but I'd rather let my readers do that work for me. More natural that way too.

    markpocock - Replied.
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    • Profile picture of the author DripDrop
      Terry, Thanks for this thread.

      Does Google penalize for having too many backlinks all at once? Should you try to follow a more natural looking backlink progression initially?
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  • Profile picture of the author Charleskidd
    Man you know alot I thought I knew alot.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    I have a site that I am trying to build up through writing articles based on long tail keywords without much competition. My article repository now has 10 articles built around the keywords but so few rank as the site is only 6 months old and has a PR 0.

    I am starting to wonder if these articles will eventually show up in the SERPS for those keywords as I have backlinked the heck out of them and used good on page SEO. Any suggestions?
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  • Profile picture of the author Jay Rhome
    I've wondered lately about the usefulness of converting some of my articles into VIDEO articles.

    The way I see it, if we post articles on EZA and web 2.0 sites, we want some direct human traffic of course, but it can be most useful for SEO purposes when linking back to our "main hub" or "money site"

    As for videos, unless they are very entertaining, we won't get much views or human visitors to our sites from them, but they could very well still be useful for SEO.

    Yet I wonder if there is a minimum number of views required before Google and other SE pass on link juice?

    Do you think they are worth the effort? (For sales page and such sure they are, but speaking from a purely SEO perspective)

    Thanks

    P.S. You rock this thread!
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  • Profile picture of the author pauljeaston
    Hi, I dominate most of the top 20 in google with my articles. However my main site is in number 60. Competitors with few back links with the same domain in .com and .info are in top 10. I have mine in .org. I have lots of back links. What do you think is wrong?
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    • Profile picture of the author Raygun
      Originally Posted by pauljeaston View Post

      Hi, I dominate most of the top 20 in google with my articles. However my main site is in number 60. Competitors with few back links with the same domain in .com and .info are in top 10. I have mine in .org. I have lots of back links. What do you think is wrong?
      Seeing sites also like yours makes me wonder on how that happens. Articles with your site and keyword ranks better that your actual site. Why is that? Hope we get an answer..
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  • Profile picture of the author smkyle1
    Hi Terry,

    Thanks for offering this free service. I'm a relative SEO novice. I have a single site that I set up 18 mos ago with my husband. For the most part we've had an 85% bounce rate almost since the inception of the site (based on Google Analytics). Then suddenly, on Sept 5, 2009 our bounce rate dropped to the low 40%'s and even dipped into the high 20%s. Then, as suddenly as it dropped, it returned to the mid 80%s at about 7:00 pm on Sept 27, 2009.

    Because the difference was so dramatic, I checked to see if I had done anything on Sept 5th and found that I had installed a couple of Wordpress Plugins. The one I thought could have possibly impacted the bounce rate was SEO Booster Lite. But I had no way of knowing. Now, I am completely perplexed because, to the best of my knowledge, I haven't done anything different with the content but the bounce rate has gone back.

    Any ideas?

    My site gets approx 1250 visits per day. It's called the LA Progressive.

    Thank you,
    Sharon
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  • Profile picture of the author makeittoday
    hi terry,

    thanks for your contribution

    i've learn't quick well some

    basic skills from this questions and responses

    thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    DripDrop - Opt for a natural link profile whenever possible. Sometimes a legitimately good site acquires a ton of backlinks very rapidly... so no, no penalty, unless they're extremely spammy, even then its not a "penalty" per se.

    Marhelper - They should yea, Google is being a bit slow with updating the index these days, probably due to the caffeine integration. However, it'll all depend on the competition and the quality of your backlinks.

    Jay Rhome - Any link you can get probably has "some" value. As far as views required and so forth, I seriously doubt it.

    pauljeaston - Poor quality backlinks and the methods/speed by which you are acquiring them. Trust/Authority seem to hold the answer here.

    admin@subashseo.com - No idea what that means.
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    • Profile picture of the author policy
      Terry,

      Very insightful thread, thanks so much for starting this and answering so many questions!

      The scenario: There was a competitor's ezinearticle in #1 of google, my ezinearticle was indented under his article. I tried to outrank him with backlinks, and then did some social bookmarking using onlywire.com and then my ezinearticle dropped off the front couple of pages. (I since read that using onlywire on an ezinearticle isn't good and makes your article drop.)

      How exactly will I get back to that position, and hopefully get in front of my competitor's ezinearticle? His ezinearticle only has about 5 backlinks, mine has around 30 or so.

      Is it possible to bounce back onto the first page, and better yet, is it possible to beat my competitors ezinearticle?

      Thank you so much,
      Kyle
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    • Profile picture of the author pauljeaston
      Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

      DripDrop - Opt for a natural link profile whenever possible. Sometimes a legitimately good site acquires a ton of backlinks very rapidly... so no, no penalty, unless they're extremely spammy, even then its not a "penalty" per se.

      Marhelper - They should yea, Google is being a bit slow with updating the index these days, probably due to the caffeine integration. However, it'll all depend on the competition and the quality of your backlinks.

      Jay Rhome - Any link you can get probably has "some" value. As far as views required and so forth, I seriously doubt it.

      pauljeaston - Poor quality backlinks and the methods/speed by which you are acquiring them. Trust/Authority seem to hold the answer here.

      admin@subashseo.com - No idea what that means.
      Does that mean that I will not rewrite and send it to article directories like myarticlenetwork or unique article wizard?
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  • Profile picture of the author ShopZipCode
    Terry if you change or add a new page in your site will it affect your rankings?
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    policy - Completely possible. Build more and better backlinks, I can't say that enough.

    pauljeaston - No. It just means that you'll work on strategies that build trust and authority as well.

    ShopZipCode - Yes, for that page and possibly others. It really depends on what you mean and what the page is intended to do.
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    • Profile picture of the author pauljeaston
      Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

      policy - Completely possible. Build more and better backlinks, I can't say that enough.

      pauljeaston - No. It just means that you'll work on strategies that build trust and authority as well.

      ShopZipCode - Yes, for that page and possibly others. It really depends on what you mean and what the page is intended to do.
      So that means myarticlenetwork still works. What do you mean by poor quality back links then?
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      • Profile picture of the author StevenK
        Terry,


        I own about 110 "affiliate" web sites that are about 5-6 years old. Each domain name contains a specific keyword. Most are .com, .net. and .org. Just a few .US


        All sites have been neglected by me but are still active. The last site was probably updated over three to four years ago. Many probably have dead merchant links. All are just collecting dust and I just keep renewing the domain name annually and the hosting costs nothing.


        Because they are aged, are they of any value? Does Google consider the age of a established domain name when determining rankings?

        Thanks,

        Steve
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        • Profile picture of the author KevinWaldo
          Terry -

          Thanks for actively moderating this thread - kind of a fun and useful idea!

          OK, here's my question. I have an e-book site freetvsecrets.com. Of course I had intended to center on the keyword "free tv", but I've had a lot of trouble getting Google to even let me buy PPC traffic to "free tv". Despite the fact that it's in the domain, meta-tags, title, alt tags, and content, Google gives it a quality score of 2 for "free tv" and I just found out using the Google Webmaster tools that the keyword DOESN'T EVEN SHOW UP when Google crawls the site.

          Does the word "free" somehow get discounted? Google's Webmaster tools actually tell me that the site shows up when people search "tvsecrets".

          I recently registered free-tv.ca under the thought that maybe that would allow Google's crawlers to focus on the "free tv" keyword - does that make any sense?
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        • Profile picture of the author peter gibson
          Originally Posted by Steve-K View Post

          Terry,


          I own about 110 "affiliate" web sites that are about 5-6 years old. Each domain name contains a specific keyword. Most are .com, .net. and .org. Just a few .US


          All sites have been neglected by me but are still active. The last site was probably updated over three to four years ago. Many probably have dead merchant links. All are just collecting dust and I just keep renewing the domain name annually and the hosting costs nothing.


          Because they are aged, are they of any value? Does Google consider the age of a established domain name when determining rankings?

          Thanks,

          Steve
          Yes your aged domains are worth more to buyers and google as well. In terms of SEO, buying an aged domain is always potentially worth a bit of an investment if it's truly a viable niche.

          If you have no plans to revamp them perhaps you can sell them at flippa or even list them here for sale. I may even be interested in a few if you want to PM me a list of your niches and the keywords you were going for.
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  • Profile picture of the author cagliostro
    I own and run a dynamic website for specific classifieds. For two years now, using adsense.

    While it has grown in means of traffic, it is not enough to make some real monthly money.

    So reading here i realized that i THOUGHT my site is SEOed. It is but i'm not targeting anything, just providing "honest" page titles.

    So now i have done my work and have a list with keywords and phrases that pay well and have medium competition. All that stuff...

    The question is how much i should add them to the pages. And where.

    For example i have 20 main categories with goods. Then i have tones of subcategories in them. And last i have the Classified post itself.

    Should i put the words in the first two, all three ?

    I have no idea.

    thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author PowerWealth247
    Question: How can I get my place high in the 10 box of local businesses on Google ? I've got reviews, photos,etc but still not on first page or front 10. Thanks for any insights.
    Terry
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  • Profile picture of the author TheLeffer
    Hi, thanks for taking your time to do this.

    How important is building backlinks to all your pages? I just build backlinks to my homepage since it is the one that is ranked highest in search.
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    Hey Guys, just wanted to pop in and let you know I didn't abandon this thread. I'll be back tomorrow, I'm putting the finishing touches on the ebook.

    I'll get to all these questions tomorrow (and hopefully some more .
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    • Profile picture of the author Max Whitson
      I gotta a question for ya!

      Unlike most people here, my site is pretty much 100% user content or well the users make the content. It is a classified ad site.

      Some of the techniques such as having keyword achor text are very hard to implement since so much of the content is, once again, user generated.

      The only thing I have doing to promote the site is yahoo answers, and some link building by adding my link to other sites with my keywords. Besides that, I have no idea how to promote the site.

      This is very frustrating since I know this site has tons of potential, but it seems I just can't get the word out.

      Can you please give me some insight on how to increase traffic with a user generated site?

      Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author khairulazan
    I'm just a newbie in SEO...

    Thanks and appreciate that i can learn much from you all..
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  • Profile picture of the author actionplanbiz
    how can you tell which keywords are worth building SEO on?
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Lee
    I recently had some articles written, that I was planning to post on EZines & other article submission sites, But my business partner posted them on blogs using the "free traffic system" before I had a chance to get them up on article sites.

    It's been about a week, is it too late to submit them to article directories? I don't want to get hit with duplicate content.
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    cagliostro - The idea would be to seo every page and build links to each category page. Also make sure when a user posts an offer the page itself is seo'd decently well.

    PowerWealth247 - Fill out the profile as much as possible. Be seen with uniform data on as many of the data providers Google checks data with as possible. Some to be on: merchantcircle, infousa, hotfrog, yp, etc.

    pauljeaston - Almost everything works in some way shape or form. Low quality links are those that are non-merit based, while higher quality are going to be merit based, for the most part.

    Steve-K - An aged domain is good, but when you sell it and the registrar data + hosting data changes, Google will reset it (most of the time).
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    • Profile picture of the author pixelcrafter
      Dear SEO Guy,

      I've been asking some people about this,
      But, the answer are not the same. It makes me confuse.

      Please tell me your opinion about SENuke.

      Is it save to use it ? Is it a black hat tool ?

      Thank you so much,
      Best Wishes,
      -Pixelcrafter-
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    • Profile picture of the author bandonflyer
      Quick question...

      I have a client that is creating a new site but has a large volume of pages for the site (> 1500). It is going to be "odd" in Google's eyes to just launch a site with that much content from the beginning? Should it be dripped out as new content 10 pages a day or something? My concern with the drip approach is that (a) it will take a long time and (b) it will train Google to expect a lot of posts per day that won't continue once the site has published it's core content.

      Thanks for the help...
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      • Profile picture of the author bandonflyer
        International seo question...

        When doing local market seo in a foreign language/country, are US .com links considered to be "less relevant" or is it really about the content and authority of the site vs. the international impact of the root domain?

        thanks
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        • Profile picture of the author ronb107
          Hey SEO Guy:

          I'm starting an AdSense website (as the publisher) and waiting for approval from Google, but it occurred to me that to reduce reliance on Google there should be good alternatives.

          I've looked at Yahoo APT, but apparently there is no way to sign up! What's with that.

          Then I looked at BidVertiser, but the ads that it shows are not really relevant.

          Can you recommend alternatives that are equivalent to Google?

          Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author islander1
    Hey SEO guy,

    Thanks for the great thread. I have a question about getting articles to the top of Google. Specifically, I'm writing articles and submitting them to EZA or GO, then I social bookmark to 20 sites, and add another 60-80 high pr backlinks from Angela and Paul's packages.

    I've done this for a couple weeks now on keywords with less than 300,000 competition. Most of these are keywords with other articles in the top 10 and should be easy to compete for.

    However, I'm not seeing any results yet with this method. Others say it works, but so far none of the 30 articles I've done this on so far are showing any movement. In fact, some don't even appear to be indexed yet by Google!

    Am I missing a step here? What am I doing wrong? Is this just a flawed method or is there some part of it I'm not doing right?

    Thanks for all your help and advice!
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  • Profile picture of the author SirLucius
    Hey,

    I'm having some serious trouble with Google Webmaster Tools. I have three websites, all based on Wordpress. I spent two months backlink building and for some reason they wouldn't index well. As it turns out under Settings in the 'Privacy' section it was selected so that the search engines would not index the pages. I changed this so the search engines can index the pages about two days ago. How long will I have to wait for this to take effect?

    My next question is that I created a sitemap.xml file at xml-sitemaps.com; uploaded it to the domain, and then submitted this to Google webmaster tools. That down has two sitemaps: /blog/sitemap.xml which indexes perfectly fine and was created with an xml-sitemap plug-in through Wordpress; and the other one is at exampledomain.com/sitemap.xml" webmaster tools says:

    "We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit."

    But when I go directly to the URL in my browser, "www.exampledomain.com/sitemap.xml" I see the XML file and document tree. I'm confused as to why the .xml file is not being read properly by Google. How do I fix this issue?

    Thanks,
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  • Profile picture of the author mobility
    Hi SEO Guy,

    I have a question about backlink building and the "disappearing from Google" experience. I have a 10-month old domain that was ranking initially in position #8, with only a handful of backlinks. The phrase I am optimizing for is easy (less than 500K competing pages for broad match), and I want to be number one.

    A few weeks ago, I built about 40-50 backlinks over a period of 3 days. I made sure to vary anchor text, etc. I am NOT new to backlink building. Here is my question... It seems that whenever I build backlinks for a new domain (a domain that is less than 2 years old), the site disappears for about a week, and then reappears higher in the SERPS than it was placed originally. It always causes me to freak out a bit when my site disappears from Google. Let me be clear: my site is still indexed -- it is simply GONE from the SERPS for the phrase I am targeting.

    Is there any way to prevent the "disappearing and then reappearing" experience when building backlinks for a new domain? Right now, I am not making money from this site, since it is temporarily "missing" from the SERPS for my targeted keyphrase. I almost wish I hadn't started link building since I was at least making money when it was in position 8.

    Any way to prevent the "disappearing and then reappearing" experience?
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  • Profile picture of the author MaxReferrals
    Okay, my question, keeping it simple.

    Why would Google rank these two identical keywords of mine,
    in different positions?

    1. honeybells --> #7
    2. Honeybells --> #4

    What's the deal with how they treat that capital "H"?
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    KevinWaldo - Nothing really comes to mind here except to use a tool to view the actual text on the page and what Google sees. Ensure your site is spiderable, first.

    jimmy506 - The BEST way to do this would be to grab fresh class C ip's and setup informational sites around each of those domains. You'll rank them and attempt to sell (or link) back to your main site. This is honestly what I'd do. In the meantime, just leave them redirected, no harm, no foul.

    TheLeffer - Build backlinks to every page you wish to rank (and even if you want, the ones you don't). This helps with authority and really strengthens the entire site.

    Max Whitson - Word of mouth might be big here. Get some yard signs or flyers and put them on busy street corners. Offer extended or "featured" listings in exchange for a link back to the site (for seo & traffic purposes) or something of the like. Look for blogs or directories that have lists of free classified sites and email them to get listed on those. Syndicate some press releases and get some interviews with blogs, newspapers, whatever.

    actionplanbiz - Often times I'll run a brief PPC campaign on those keywords to see what they convert at. That seems to help. I use this with all of my traffic estimate data and site analytics.

    Mr Marketer - The law of diminishing returns will apply, but sure, go ahead and syndicate them further, why not? I'd spin them to make them more unique and then do it, for optimal effect.
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  • Profile picture of the author StevenK
    Terry,

    I registered all the domains new about six years ago. All those years on the same servers too!

    Because they are aged, will I benefit with a significant edge if I decide to invest the time to update them?

    I am trying to decide if it is worth the many, many hours of work to make them search engine ready. Hopefully, high rankings.

    Thanks,

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    pixelcrafter - SeNUKE is a nice, fun program to play with and has its uses for sure. However, it's only a small part of the overall SEO you should be doing for your sites.. and make sure to use it sparingly.

    bandonflyer - Nope, why would they care?

    bandonflyer - It depends if the business itself is international. A dentist is Germany shouldn't be getting links from sites in St Louis, Missouri... you know? I try to keep it to the same country, it seems to be more effective.

    ronb107 - Exactly. As far as Yahoo, it's invite only as far as I know. My favorite ways to monetize are selling direct ads (if I have to..) or selling the product itself. However, affiliate offers could do pretty well for you or some joint partnerships with manufacturers or stores that have a related product.

    nomanbd - That's a really really difficult question to answer in the context of a post. My strategies, for the most part are laid out in this thread and in the WSO I did. If you have a specific question, I'll be able to answer that much more easily.

    islander1 - Sometimes it just takes time to see any effect. It seems that what you're doing (not what I normally do, but few people are willing to stop doing those types of links), is working for some people... so I guess just wait a few more days/weeks and see what happens.

    SirLucius - Question 1: Wait for google to reindex the site. This depends on how often they cache your site... but you can't really figure that out since it hasn't been indexed Question 2: This happens to me sometimes, delete it from webmaster tools and resubmit, that seems to fix it.

    mobility - This is a fantastic question and I can't believe it hasn't been asked sooner. I'm going to answer this separately, it requires its own post.

    MaxReferrals - I see this all of the time. It has to do with your anchortext and really muddies up keyword research. Now, on top of figuring out the right keywords, you have to figure out the right case as well! Get an even amount of backlinks for both... or more for the term that people are using...

    Steve-K - As long as you don't change the registration info then technically they won't be "reset", however the age benefit is kind of debated and I've seen it go both ways. I'd do it just to do it though, makes sense to me.
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    dubo - Yahoo and Bing aren't engines that you would normally focus on. Most of us just optimize for Google and rank in those 2 as a result of those efforts. For the 2nd question: Check this out - Backlink - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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  • Profile picture of the author AJD101
    Hi hope you can help. I have a site doralinksdoll .net. In my webmasters account if i look at search results from google US in the last 7 days it shows me at position 1 thru 8 for many of my keywords. Yet if I do a goole search the first one is a sub page at position 150. The site was last cached on Oct 4th. I am getting zero traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author AJD101
    Can you reccomend a robts.txt file for wordpress. when I usr sitemap generator plugin it creats a default one but in webmaster tools it always gives me crawler access problems. Sitemap generated
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /

    Sitemap: http://XXXXXXXX.XXX/sitemap.xml

    I have changed this to
    User-agent: *
    Allow: /

    Sitemap: http://XXXXXXXX.XXX/sitemap.xml but am not sure if this is the correct thing to do.
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    • Profile picture of the author ronb107
      Hey SEO Guy:

      Is there a way to improve the relevancy of the adsense ads, specifically on an page level.

      I have a site that has 5 pages, each focusing on a different aspect of a niche, yet the adsense ads seem to be the same for all.

      I think I read some place that an html placed before and after a Title or keyword in the content will help Google improve the adsense ads' relevancy.

      Thanks
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      • Profile picture of the author Gift
        SEO Geek,

        There are scripts using Javascript which gives a new Onpage explanation.
        It's like standing on the word Javascript above, and by hovering the word you get a few lines which give you a definition to the word javascript.

        The script emphasize only the first time the KW appears. This script is supported by Joomla.

        My question is:
        Is there any disadvantage with using this script?
        I'm asking as I've seen a KW shows up only one time, and by using Javascript I'm afraid the kw itself is screened to google.

        Thanks in advance!
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      • Profile picture of the author mistyone
        Hi there ronb107

        I think what you are talking about is on this page in Google Adsense help: https://www.google.com/adsense/suppo...y?answer=23168

        It shows you the code you need to use.

        Hope this helps
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        • Profile picture of the author The Artful Surfer
          I'd like to ask a question about H1 vs H2 tags...

          I just realized that my templates are using the H2 tag for the headings in the body of my web pages. The h1 tag is only used for the title of the site on the very top (not a keyword, just the site name).

          Since my keywords are in my headings in the body, should I change these h2 tags to h1?

          Will this help me boost my rankings? Is there a notable difference between h1 and h2 and h3 in terms of SEO and rankings?

          I'm worried that changing this might backfire and hurt my rankings too. Any thoughts?
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  • Profile picture of the author Sandycmy
    Hi SEO Guy,

    I'm planning to launch multiple courses for my specific country. My niche is not IM. How should I do the SEO in a systematic fashion for all the sites.

    I have planned to book keyword domain names for all -- though all fall under a specific institute -- Does this makes sense in long term?

    How do I ensure that all my pages ( specially Article pages) rank good ?

    Once achieved -- what should I do to maintain the seo ?
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    • Profile picture of the author dan_kru
      What about different versions of a salespage like:
      domain.com/index.html
      domain.com/index.htm
      domain.com/index.php
      and
      domain.com/index1.html
      etc.
      or
      domain.de/index.html
      domain.net/index.html
      domain.info/index.html
      etc. for splittesting with different prices on different platforms with different advertising, all sales separately recorded? Any effects on SE positioning, cause basically all have same content.

      What about the same procedure with different domainnames:
      domain1.com/index.html
      domain2.com/index.html
      etc., to avoid prospects can compare different offers too easily like temporary free version tests for listbuilding?

      Thanks and regards,
      Dan
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  • Profile picture of the author actionplanbiz
    how do i SEO a Opt in Page? can i just have offpage seo? or do i need onpage aswell?
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    AJD101 - Google webmaster tools isn't always showing you the correct data. To really know where you rank, just watch your analytics and traffic.

    AJD101 - I'm not exactly following you, but it looks like you have robots.txt data in your sitemap file..

    Gift - If it's done with javascript then no, I wouldn't use it (for SEO purposes). I'd have to see an example really to tell you if it's worth doing or not.

    The Artful Surfer - Nope. Only 1 h1 tag per page. Generally you won't use it for the sitename, but for the post titles or article titles.

    Sandycmy - If everything is related I'd just do it all under one big site with good category structure. It will help consolidate the trust/authority and your article pages will be easier to rank as a result.

    dan_kru - Yeah, that's not optimal at all. To do a/b variate testing use google website optimizer or one of the other tools that kind of fix this problem. At worst, I'd use some tactic to make sure the other versions didn't get indexed.

    actionplanbiz - While you CAN rank a site for keywords not related (through link building) it's a good idea to semi-optimize the page itself before engaging in link building. Then just do everything as normal.
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    • Profile picture of the author LaurenceOs
      First post! hey hey hey

      If you made a site in a high competition subject how would you approach the situation?
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  • Profile picture of the author St Croix
    Hi Terry,

    I have an interesting one for you:

    I went after a KW that I thought would convert really well if it was presold with an 'authority' looking website. After writing about 10 pages of great content and spending way too much time on the professional design, and ranking it in 3rd place on Big G, I've found that the 'authority' site isn't converting for the KW. Just a silly mistake going after a KW that was probably more suited to a story/review presell page.

    Anyway, I'm wanting to move the content of my authority site to a new domain and re-rank for a more appropriate KW in the same niche, and replace the original KW site with a simple review landing page.

    In your experience, will big G get all uppity about the content disappearing altogether from my site and appearing on another domain for another KW? I'm happy to wait until the new review site content is cached before I launch the new authority site. But does Google have some magic long-term cache that can remember seeing that old content somewhere before, and throw a penalty at either of the sites?

    (That probably sounded very convoluted)

    Thanks mate
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  • Profile picture of the author actionplanbiz
    what should i do onpage before i start working offpage SEO?
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  • Profile picture of the author nicolasy
    how to get more external link?
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  • Profile picture of the author desireeaib
    I've got a newbie question. I've built a site and like a crazy women optimized for the wrong keyword. Yes a keyword phrase NO ONE is looking for. I got distracted really honestly forgot what I was supposed to be SEO for. And it's #1. So I'm reworking the site for keywords that people are looking for and doing some backlinks and article writing EZA and other places. How long will it take Google to re visit my site? And can I do a keyword phrase for another page on my site for another search phrase?

    Also, my boyfriend wrote a slamming pre sells letter (he's really good copywriter and I never knew it) and I wanted to get do another site just to put that pre sell letter on then link to my site, but I'm told or read Google doesn't like 1 page pre sell letters like that.

    What to do and can I fix my mistake with my keyword phrase?
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  • Profile picture of the author twisted_one
    TerryG, Thanks for such an useful thread and also for your time in replying us.

    I am a learner & everything I learn are only from online resources. Everytime when I hear someone talk about their website, they say either "I have optimized it for one good keyword/wrong keyword". Now what puzzles me is what is a Good or Bad Keyword? I mean

    1. what are all the factors does it depend on (like how many number of searches made for that keyword, how much does clicking on such keyword ads pay you, etc).

    2. Also, I don't know what does keyword analysis mean? Where does it start from and where does it end. What are all the process involved in it? Can you point me to a valid, reliable resource, please?

    3. At any point of time, given a word to you - what are the steps do you follow to see if that word is a good keyword or not.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnhoefer
    Excellent thread! Thanks Terry. I have only been on this site for a week or so and I have learned so much from this forum, this thread and all the questions as well.

    I am competing in the local insurance niche, which is a tough one to crack. The second the ebook comes out on how to dominate the local market, let me know and I will buy immediately.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rapidgrowth
    Sir,
    Can you give your expert opinion if this is true on the following from Brad Callen's seoelite site.3 major points you MUST know to rank highly for your chosen keywords.

    1. Google ranks websites by those that are deemed to have the most authority on the given topic/keyword.
    2. Google pays much less attention to what is actually on your web page itself than what most people think. Yes, you heard me right. You don't actually even need to mention your keyword anywhere on your website to rank highly for the keyword!

    Google looks at who's "voting" for a website, to determine how highly it ranks. If important sites are "voting" for your website, you will rank highly.

    3. You must know EXACTLY why the top 10 ranked sites in Google are currently ranked where they are. You can't guess by simply looking at their web page itself.
    As I said above, what is on the web page itself has VERY little to do with the reason they're ranked where they are. It has as little as 2% to do with their ranking...

    I have no defined keywords in my url or website Question 2 is it really necessary to have keyword density/relevant keywords added to my website pages to help obtain Google 1# or not?

    Thank you for your time

    Adrian
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    LaurenceOs - I'd do an in depth competitor analysis and plan accordingly. For a site that has substantial competition you've got to plan link building and SEO into your business strategy.

    St Croix - Yes and no. I'd leave the content there so to speak, as long as it was on internal pages and 301 redirect to the new source. You'll lose between 1 & 10% of your incoming link strength but you shouldn't receive any negative consideration from Google.

    actionplanbiz - That's a huge question. I guess the most important aspects are ensuring easy spidering, highlighting the right content and a good site structure.

    nicolasy - Read through this thread, there's tons of ideas.

    desireeaib - Leave the content where it's at and re-optimize. The most important part here is the link building. Just build new, solid links for your new terms and make sure to include new content on the site.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheDebtEliminator
    Hello Terry,

    I am wondering about using one of my PR4 domains that is no longer a money site to 301 directing it to a 45-day old money site?

    Will I take a chance of G penalizing me?

    Or should I put up a blog on the PR4 site and just link it to the new money-site.

    How is best for me to transfer the link juice and stay in good graces of G?

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  • Profile picture of the author Dillinger
    Hi,

    I am fairly new to seo and am looking to start my first Niche site. But am slightly confused as there are several keyword tools, but which is the best?

    The two i have been looking at is keyword discovery and Market Samurai, what are your views on these two tools?

    Many Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author glide21
    Whats your view on these new Video submission sites like trafficgeyeser? Is video really a good SEO leader?
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    • Profile picture of the author Spark
      Originally Posted by glide21 View Post

      Whats your view on these new Video submission sites like trafficgeyeser? Is video really a good SEO leader?
      Yes, I would like to know this as well.

      I actually open a thread as well. However just wish to confirm that doing those normal SEO will be more than enough to get high ranking for our videos.

      Does getting TG will have much faster result? [Standard Version - $49]
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  • Profile picture of the author bobmcalister
    how can I get my videos on youtube to show up on the first page of serps ? is it that important ot have them linked to a website? threw up a video, posted to several video sharing sites, it ranked for a day or 2 and has disappeared .
    thanks for your help

    also , is it absolutely mandatory for a site to have a sitemap ? I have been told tha tit makes very little difference.

    thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author debra
      Originally Posted by bobmcalister View Post

      how can I get my videos on youtube to show up on the first page of serps ? is it that important ot have them linked to a website? threw up a video, posted to several video sharing sites, it ranked for a day or 2 and has disappeared .
      thanks for your help

      also , is it absolutely mandatory for a site to have a sitemap ? I have been told tha tit makes very little difference.

      thanks
      Robert-

      This thread has the right ideas on bringing videos up in the serp:
      http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...Vk34w9Cl9TZo7V
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      • Profile picture of the author bobmcalister
        thank you Debra for your help . I have done those steps as outlined in that thread to no avail, so there must be something I am missing.
        thanks again
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  • Profile picture of the author TheDebtEliminator
    Hello Terry,

    I have 2 new websites under construction one is a 5-page

    And the second one is just a landing page.

    Will I have any problems ranking the smaller landing page site for organic traffic with good linking?

    Or should the landing page one be used for only PPC traffic?

    How does G look at this situation?


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  • Profile picture of the author pewsingh
    Hi, can you tell me what the best tool is to check backlinks to my website(s). I mean the most accurate and reliable, as I seem to try a few different ones and they all tell me different things. Thanks. pewsingh
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    alyonafrendo - I've responded to your PM.

    TheDebtEliminator - Use a 301 redirect, you'll lose between 1-10% of your incoming link strength but, should be just fine.

    Dillinger - I don't personally use many tools, however I've got some in the works that will be released shortly. Also, a simple method for keyword research I laid out earlier in this thread a few pages back.

    glide21 - I don't use any of those, however I do see great value in videos for viral marketing and overall branding.

    bobmcalister - To get videos to rank, throw a ton of backlinks at them with something like SENUKE and go to MTURK.com and hire 100-500 people to watch, review, rate the video.
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    TheDebtEliminator - You should be just fine, just do SEO as you normally would. However, you can't expect that one page site to rank for a bunch of terms.

    pewsingh - MajesticSEO.com is my favorite backlink analysis tool.

    ronb107 - Currently I haven't found one. However, I've got some tools in development that are really going to change things up... they're basically the same tools I had developed for my business and have been using them for clients for years.
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    • Profile picture of the author ronb107
      Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

      TheDebtEliminator - You should be just fine, just do SEO as you normally would. However, you can't expect that one page site to rank for a bunch of terms.

      pewsingh - MajesticSEO.com is my favorite backlink analysis tool.

      ronb107 - Currently I haven't found one. However, I've got some tools in development that are really going to change things up... they're basically the same tools I had developed for my business and have been using them for clients for years.
      Let me know if you need a beta tester. I've been in the industry for years, and am pretty thorough as a beta tester.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rapidgrowth
    Terry G
    I would really appreciate if you could answer my 2 questions please...

    Question 1. Is this true? to rank highly for your chosen keywords.

    1. Google ranks websites by those that are deemed to have the most authority on the given topic/keyword.
    2. Google pays much less attention to what is actually on your web page itself than what most people think. Yes, you heard me right. You don't actually even need to mention your keyword anywhere on your website to rank highly for the keyword!

    Google looks at who's "voting" for a website, to determine how highly it ranks. If important sites are "voting" for your website, you will rank highly.

    3. You must know EXACTLY why the top 10 ranked sites in Google are currently ranked where they are. You can't guess by simply looking at their web page itself.
    As I said above, what is on the web page itself has VERY little to do with the reason they're ranked where they are. It has as little as 2% to do with their ranking...

    I have no defined keywords in my url or website
    Question 2 is it really necessary to have keyword density/relevant keywords added to my website pages to help obtain Google 1# or not?

    Thank you for your time

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  • Profile picture of the author TheDebtEliminator
    Hello Terry,

    I have a choice Plan-A of using a 301 transfer of a PR4 to my 6-page money site or
    Plan-B setting up a WordPress blog and linking it to my money site.

    If the method of using the WordPress blog is selected, I might place links directed to each page with using 50% to 60% of the new links for only for the Home-page.
    Question-1 ... Is this a recommended procedure and if this the best method of percentage used to spread around the linking?


    I plan to do this procedure only once and to continue to do linking with quality links to both the money site and the link juice feeder site.


    Question-2 ... Which way would Google be most OK with ( just do not want to spend any time in the Sandbox) or are both ways considered acceptable?


    Question-3 ... What about transferring the link juice, which way would be the most efficient and transfer the higher amount of percentage of juice to my money site?


    Question-4 ... When adding more links, should I distribute them to my money site at a 75% basis and spread it around the different page and then use 25% of my new linking on my 301 or WordPress blog?


    Question-5 ... Have you used these 2 different approaches and which is best from your experience?


    You are very informative and a real asset to the Warrior Forum!


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    • Profile picture of the author seobeginner
      TerryG - Thank you so much for all your great advice. Much appreciated.

      You may beat me over the head with this, but I paid for hundreds of pr4 - pr8 backlinks to point to various pages of my sites. All in all, 750 non-related backlinks (150 per keyword per page.)

      This was done in a very short time-frame.

      My concern is that it may have been done too quickly, i.e. it is not natural. The links were put into the ''profile'' section of websites/forums of a fictitious user. Is this what people mean by profile backlinks?

      With that said, I have been getting interesting results from that. The homepage for one site now shows up no. one out of 17,700,000 results for a keyword I have not even optimized for. None of those links are pointing to the homepage.

      However, the five ''sub-sites'' I have optimized and had the links point to are not getting ANY results. They aren't even indexed yet (I guess they've been sandboxed because they are new.)

      The other site (I should say subsite) that I optimized for is no. one also out of 1,300,000 for one keyword.

      The other subsites are not producing results. Onpage SEO has been done for every page.

      I am concerned that this unnatural backlinking strategy will be penalized by G in the future. What are your thoughts on this?

      I appreciate your help.

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  • Profile picture of the author waqyum
    Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

    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!
    Long time ago i unknowingly made 2 adsense accounts.That time i was not working on blogs but now i have started a blog on one of my accounts.Now i wish to close one of them as it is against Google TOS.Is there a way to do this?
    Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Guilfoyle
    Hi LookItsMeTerryG

    Thanks for a fantastic thread.Wonder if you can help on this one.

    I've been using a full trial version of Brad Callen's Keyword Elite 2.0 which despite the high price tag I am almost certain to buy.

    I found a LTKW phrase "word1 word 2 word 3 word 4" which shows monthly searches of 6,330 per Elite.

    Having spent quite a few hours working on monetizing this phrase I took a quick look at Google keyword tool and to my shock and horror find it shows monthly searches of only 480 for this phrase. (480 is way below my requirement for my strategy to be worthwhile)

    Can you tell me please :

    Which stat is more reliable ?
    Why is there such a big difference?
    Does it ultimately come down to judgement ie does it make more sense that that term is searched for 480 or 6,330 times?

    SEO elite and its creator seem to be very well thought of so do they know more than Google here?

    Obviously like many others I'm looking for low competetion high demand key words. SEO Elite takes a lot of the pain out of this but can I rely on it to invest my time and effort or do I need to keep cross checking against Google keyword tool?


    Thanks for any help
    Kind regards,
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  • Profile picture of the author Gee S
    Hey Terry,

    With buying domains should I....

    1) buy a domain which has age to it, maybe 5-6 years for example OR

    2) buy a brand new domain with my keyword in it.

    The way I will be working with this is not to concentrate on ranking my TLD i.e dogs.com, but instead ranking my inner pages, which target a keyphrase i.e dogs.com/ how-to-train-german-shephards.

    Thanks,
    Gurpreet
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  • Profile picture of the author srhudson
    Hi Terry,

    I was wondering how I research my competitions backlinks..

    Isn't there something you type into google to find out where the backlinks are coming from for any given site and the amount of backlinks that any one site has to it?

    Thanks for your help!

    Seth
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  • Profile picture of the author Ron.
    TG,

    I am creating multiple sites and the are all in a similar niche. Do you suggest I select a main domain and than create sub-domains for the other sites?


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    • Profile picture of the author sportive
      Hi Terry,

      Great thread. One question:

      What do you think about the notion that Meta Keywords are dead, and that Google pays ZERO attention to them?

      Check image below for links.
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      • Profile picture of the author searchguru
        Wow - just wanted to say Thank you - this is an amazing post . .a wealth of information! Read the whole post . . .will have to reread to fully grasp it all as there are so many great questions that you have answered. cheers
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      • Profile picture of the author Tim45
        Sportive, I'm not Terry but I thought I'd give you my exp with meta tags. I built a website for an Amazon product that I would promote through ppc, google adwords to be specific. I thought to myself the meta tags did not matter because I was promoting through ppc. I set up the campaign, did my keyword research and launched the campaign. At first google ran it for about an hour or two and then nothing. I tweaked the campaign and the keywords to no avail. Then someone here suggested I look at my meta tags so I thought I'd try it. I added a description and keywords and it worked. They started running my ad right away and the next morning I had six sales, so I'd say they are very important where it ppc or natural results.
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        • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
          Hi Terry, this is a very informative thread and it's very generous of you to share your knowledge in this way

          My question is:-

          How does the Bing algorithm differ from that of Google? I have a site in a pretty competitive niche that is number 6 in Bing, but number 57 in Google, This site is a little over 2 months old. Also, if I can rank in the top 10 in Bing, is this a good indication that I can do the same in Google if I keep working at building backlinks and such?

          Many thanks
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      • Profile picture of the author Pixel
        hi,

        I would like to ask about negative effect of incoming links. Can links hurt the rankings of site?

        I have a site which ranks at the end of results for my main keywords and when I search for unique phrase from my homepage(putting the phrase in quotes) other site(tagfecher dot com) outranks mine and my site is in ommited results. I think that I have too many spammy links coming from footers of the sites. What is your opinion about this?

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    • Profile picture of the author smogharp
      How accurate do you consider google analytics data? Is it 100% accurate, or does google (for example) lie about traffic referred from Bing and Yahoo?
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim45
    I have a website I set up about 3 or 4 months ago and its not getting the traffic it should. I have good content added just about everyday but it doesn't seem to make a difference. The website is an article script that is a copy of the Article Dashboard and the files are encoded. There is a link in the footer that leads back to the Article Dashboard site. I was thinking maybe the traffic is going to the Article Dashboard through the link in the footer or maybe the search engines can't read the encoded files?

    What do you think and recommend?
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    • Profile picture of the author skatir
      Hi Terry,
      Hope you still on the thered, it's amazing thered i have ever read on Warrior Forum. I have few question.

      1. how do i find trust and authority websites ?

      2. do backlinks from englishe language websites to foreign websites are worthless ?

      3. what is linkbait ?

      Thanks for your great value information.
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    Rapidgrowth - For the most part, I'd agree with the top 3. However, I can't stress enough the importance of having keywords and good targeted content on your site. Link building is a major factor though, for sure.

    TheDebtEliminator
    - In regards to the Wordpress idea, remember, less is often more in terms of inbound links from the same domain. By setting up one blog and linking to your "money site" a bunch of times you're really not doing much. A better idea would be to setup several wordpress blogs hosted on separate servers with fresh ips and do a blog post on each with a link. IP diverse backlinks are the goal. In regards to spreading out links to internal pages, I like to do about 30% homepage, 70% internal.


    seobeginner - You're definitely sending a spam signal to Google with this one. I don't think you'll be penalized, but rather the links aren't going to do as much as you thought. Also, keep in mind that a pr7 site you setup a profile on isn't a PR7 link... your new profile is a PR0 off of a PR7 domain.

    waqyum - Why close one? Yeah, it's against TOS I know, but if you tell them, imho you'll be running the risk of them banning you... but again, if you don't tell them you're still running that risk. I personally like this approach of having more than 1 adsense account, it helps secure the income. If they don't share common personal info then you're probably fine. However, if you really do want to close it, just email them.

    Paul Guilfoyle - I don't know anything about Keyword Elite. I do everything by hand or with tools I've had developed for my business. A note here: I'm currently setting up a membership site to allow use to my internal tools

    MrEyeconic - Age is a good metric to use when evaluating a domain for purchase, however if the site hasn't been developed or is going to be changing radically... Google will reset it after the registration/hosting info changes. I like buying new domains with branding potential instead of keyword rich domains.
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  • Profile picture of the author ruch1v
    Hi Terry, i wanted to ask a bit about article marketing, what is the point of submitting tons of articles to ezinearticles.com if you are only really going to get 1 backlink from them? i know you can get others from people who decide to use your article etc but is there anything else? am i missing something here?


    thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author STKING
    How long does it take for google to index backlinks and alter your search results?
    Everytime I start building backlinks, I get the google dance...bumped backwards for a while...how can I avoid that?
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  • Profile picture of the author edpudol1973
    Hi Terry,

    Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us...

    My question is:

    If back link is the major factor in positioning from SERP , why that my site can't out rank sites that have lower back link than my site. For example the top 10 sites in the niche I am targeting only have 10 - 25 back links according to Yahoo explorer and google link: command, while my site have more than 500 back links according to yahoo and google also.

    Any Idea why this happened? That sites with lower backlinks is positioned higher than a site more links?
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  • Profile picture of the author tmtech
    Is it worthwhile to pay a company to create backlinks for your site? I know this can be done yourself, but it's very time consuming. I'm just wondering if this is a good idea.
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  • Profile picture of the author caroline42
    I have a problem with the rankings for a German client with .de sites. He ordered 3 one word ST for 3 different URLs. I managed to get him for all his desires #1 - 3 rankings within about 3 weeks on g.com, g.co.uk, g.es and g.de looking at the rankings from outside Germany. For all extensions we see the same rankings (fine so far) BUT on g.de searching from Germany (that is what really is wanted) the results are not the desired/same. What need I to do to acheive the same results on g.de searching IN Germany?
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  • Profile picture of the author actionplanbiz
    i dont know if your asked this yet but.

    does page rank really matter? if so how?
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  • Profile picture of the author debbie88
    Hi there SEO Guy. This is an education all in one classroom. I bet I couldn't find all of this in one ebook. Thanks muchly.

    All I hear is, ya, just build some back links and I'll be on page one in a jiffy. I'm sick of hearing it. Get 100's of them easily I'm told, and I'll rank well and beat out the other sites.

    Can you please tell me how to build back links, or maybe point me towards a post or article explaining how to build back links please so I can learn what it is all about?

    Thanks so much

    Debbie
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    • Profile picture of the author kumar
      Hi Terry,

      What do you feel about adding certain words with your keywords to find domain names when your choice of domain names are taken? Some of these words could be:

      -secrets
      -tips
      -hq
      -hub
      -elite
      -guy/girl
      -review

      What affect does adding any of these words at the start or end of your keyword rich domain name have, from an SEO perspective? As for me, the domain of my choice is taken but it is available with 'hq' and 'hub'. Should I go for one of them?
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  • Profile picture of the author John W.G.
    What an awesome thread Terry.

    Here's my question Terry: Will using .shtml file extensions over .html hurt my rankings?

    I've always had great success with just using .html but I'm building a new retail website
    that's going to have a ton of pages and I know there will be many times where I'll want to make changes to hundreds of pages so I need to take advantage of SSI.

    But I can't use SSI unless I use .shtml extensions.

    Thanks,
    John
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    • Profile picture of the author jazbo
      File extensions have absolutely no effect on SEO - why would they

      Originally Posted by John W.G. View Post

      What an awesome thread Terry.

      Here's my question Terry: Will using .shtml file extensions over .html hurt my rankings?

      I've always had great success with just using .html but I'm building a new retail website
      that's going to have a ton of pages and I know there will be many times where I'll want to make changes to hundreds of pages so I need to take advantage of SSI.

      But I can't use SSI unless I use .shtml extensions.

      Thanks,
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve23
    I have a 3-page mini CPA review blog that I setup just over a month ago. It it entirely focused around a product name. Conversions were good and the blog made about $500 this month. For link building, I outsourced 150 high PR links between 3 of the pages, built at around 20 total links on any given day. I also, last week, bought a WSO offered by a respected warrior duo that promised to bring many links. The site was in the top 5 for the product name for at least a few weeks, rising as high as #2 in the past week. Then, all of a sudden, this morning it was gone from Google's index. What are the chances it will come back and is there anything I can do to help it along?

    Thanks.

    S.
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    • Profile picture of the author ronb107
      Originally Posted by Steve23 View Post

      I have a 3-page mini CPA review blog that I setup just over a month ago. It it entirely focused around a product name. Conversions were good and the blog made about $500 this month. For link building, I outsourced 150 high PR links between 3 of the pages, built at around 20 total links on any given day. I also, last week, bought a WSO offered by a respected warrior duo that promised to bring many links. The site was in the top 5 for the product name for at least a few weeks, rising as high as #2 in the past week. Then, all of a sudden, this morning it was gone from Google's index. What are the chances it will come back and is there anything I can do to help it along?

      Thanks.

      S.
      Steve, only time will tell.

      There are a number of reasons for this to occur, but the two most likely are:

      1) Google looks for consistency in the link growth, and if your site has had very little link growth until this recent event, then it's likely Google considers this spamming and has punished you. If this is the case, you can either stop any further link building, or continue with the link building at this level (to convince Google this is normal). I would opt for the former, since you had been at a good position. Eventually you should return (could take weeks).

      2) Google has made a change to its algorithm and the initial impact is that everyone gets reordered. If so, you should return to your position if the change does not impact your ranking specifically.

      A rule of thumb for SEO is: do link building in moderation. Don't create sudden events that will cause Google to think your spamming. As long as everything continues as in the past (including high link growth), Google will consider everything normal.

      Also, if I'm on the first page of the SERP, I would only add content to the site, and the occasional article submission for the new content. Adding pages and content provide an opportunity to increase keywords, which will reduce fluctuations in traffic.

      Hope this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author zachary0611
    What would you recommend doing to get blogspot (blogger.com) blogs ranked on google trends search terms?
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    ruch1v - When I do article marketing I'm not looking for a ton of backlinks to my main site. I'm looking to actually rank the article I submitted for a query that I already rank my main site for.

    ruch1v - No, in most cases you're not getting PR7 "juice". Most CMS's that allow this profile link dropping nofollow the link to user profiles first, and second the profile itself is often so far into the site (home > forums > userlist > page 1 > page 2 > page 3 > my profile), etc.. you're not getting a ton of benefit here.

    STKING - You can often avoid the initial drop by varying your anchor text and making sure to maintain a steady link velocity.

    imvaltaylor - Google images doesn't help much for local search. Google maps is a must. Subdomains aren't the best idea.. you're going to have a hard time producing unique content for each surrounding city. I'd just engage in a well thought out campaign and really focus on site structure and content.

    edpudol1973 - You're assuming that the number of backlinks is the metric that is used.. not correct. It's more likely they're ranked according to quality of backlinks.. which is why I have said at least 50 times in this thread to focus on quality, trust and authority before raw numbers.

    tmtech - If SEO isn't your specialty or you don't have enough time then sure, I'd hire it out.

    caroline42 - I work with .de a lot. It sounds like you're not focusing on link popularity within .de sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author edpudol1973
      Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

      edpudol1973 - You're assuming that the number of backlinks is the metric that is used.. not correct. It's more likely they're ranked according to quality of backlinks.. which is why I have said at least 50 times in this thread to focus on quality, trust and authority before raw numbers.
      Terry thanks for the reply and I fully understand that, I check the 3 top sites in my niche and most of their back links are from social bookmarking, and blogspot blog, my sites back links are also from SB, authority sites (Angela Edwards list), and free blogs back link.
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        Originally Posted by edpudol1973 View Post

        Terry thanks for the reply and I fully understand that, I check the 3 top sites in my niche and most of their back links are from social bookmarking, and blogspot blog, my sites back links are also from SB, authority sites (Angela Edwards list), and free blogs back link.
        Those aren't high quality backlinks. The rule of thumb here is "if anyone get the link for free, it's not worth much". Links given on the basis of merit are worth much more. However, if your competitors are beating you, it's possible the antiquity of their backlinks are giving them an edge on you or their sites have superior onsite optimization.
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    actionplanbiz - Pagerank doesn't matter in terms of ranking, but it still has it's place in evaluation and site health analysis.

    debbie88 - I've got tons of info on this on my blog: http://www.terrygodier.com browse around a bit there and you'll find some resources.

    kumar - No effect in terms of SEO, and to answer the first question, as I've said - I buy domains based on branding potential, not SEO.

    John W.G. - Nope. I've got larger clients that are using .shtml without issue. You should be just fine here. Also, see my notes below on the comment from jazbo.

    Steve23 - Without looking further into your site I can't really say. However, I wouldn't worry for at least 7-10 days... big fluctuations like that are normal.

    zachary0611 - I'd head over to BHW and see what they're doing . For real though, treat it like a regular site.

    jazbo - Hmm, don't be so quick to draw. I dare you to go rank me a .flv or .swf. Also, it's widely known that its a terrible idea to use numerical file extensions, (google around about the web 2.0 fiasco with SEOmoz where they ended the url in .0 and it was removed).
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    • Profile picture of the author jazbo
      Hi Terry

      I was talking standard extensions, as was the person who asked ;-)


      jazbo - Hmm, don't be so quick to draw. I dare you to go rank me a .flv or .swf. Also, it's widely known that its a terrible idea to use numerical file extensions, (google around about the web 2.0 fiasco with SEOmoz where they ended the url in .0 and it was removed).[/QUOTE]
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  • Profile picture of the author TheDebtEliminator
    Hello Terry,

    I have a choice Plan-A of using a 301 transfer of my PR4 Domain direct to my 6-page money site

    Plan-B setting up a WordPress blog and linking it to my money site.


    Which way gets me the most link juice Plan-A of Plan-B?


    Plus ... Which way will keep in good graces with G?


    Or is Plan-A of Plan-B both acceptable?

    I just am not sure on the best course of action in this situation.


    Thank You for Your Very Valuable Advise given to this Forum


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  • Profile picture of the author caroline42
    Thanks Terry, I thought exacly the same but was not sure. Another question is how to achieve .de links.
    I have been looking around and it looks like even more time consuming and difficult to find good (reasonable would be enough) German sites to get links from them, than English or US domains. Most look just like "a piece of crap" concerning content, site optimization and PR. Directories are there but I fear they won't help much.

    Anyway, thanks again.
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  • Profile picture of the author xpyda91
    Getting to the top page of google, yahoo and msn is actually not a big thing, it is just that 95% of most internet marketers don't just follow simple rules...the search engines robot don't give preferential treatments, they go for the site that is well indexed, search engine ready and well organised with updating cotents.
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    • Profile picture of the author caroline42
      Originally Posted by xpyda91 View Post

      Getting to the top page of google, yahoo and msn is actually not a big thing, it is just that 95% of most internet marketers don't just follow simple rules...the search engines robot don't give preferential treatments, they go for the site that is well indexed, search engine ready and well organised with updating cotents.
      If it's that easy, I suppose you are able to rank first page on Yahoo for "web hosting" in no time? Can you help me with that please?
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  • Profile picture of the author edpudol1973
    Hi Terry,

    Sorry for being pain on your neck One more question, when you said "Links given on the basis of merit are worth much more", what does this mean? Does this mean that back link from those free sites like bookmarking sites, authority sites (angela edwards list), and article directory sites are less juicy.

    If this is true, what would be the best source of back link? Do we need to buy back link from those blog networks? Review sites?

    I really appreciate with all your answers and thanks in advance
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  • Profile picture of the author debbie88
    Thanks SEO Guy for the link building information. I appreciate it.

    Debbie
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  • Profile picture of the author Buhry
    1. Lets say i'm trying to take down the number 1 site for a specific keyword in a niche. The number one page does not look that impressive; according to market samurai it is 5 years old, has a PR of 2, and 160 incoming links to the domain, 132 to the main page. Ran it thorugh majestic seo, which says that the domain has 1300 backlinks and 19 indexed pages.

    Ran a PR analysis on the 160 backlinks in MS, most were pr 0 and I don't think anyone were higher than pr 3. They used the anchor text a few times but nothing too major.

    All in all I'm thinking this does not look too difficoult. What is your take based on these data?

    2. If you were to name 5 steps you would go through for building links to a new site, what would they be? Understand if you don't want to tell, but would be good to hear your say.

    3. What do you think of this strategy;
    - create 10-15 web 2.0 properties. Link them together with random interlinking, have each site point back to your main page with anchor text.
    -Target each property for some low competition keyword in your niche with a couple of 1000 searches per month(optimize title, blog name etc).
    - add a few posts of good content to each property, maybe a video etc
    - build many backlinks to the properties (bookmarking, automated stuff)

    Then I would replicate the process for deeper pages.

    The purpose of this would be to get good contextually relevant backlinks (by buildiing linkjuice and PR for the individual properties) and maybe funnel some traffic by ranking for long tails. Do you think this would be effective as part of a larger overall strategy?

    My overall plan would be to submit some articles to quality directories, try to create a bunch of web 2.0 hubs and make those sort of authoritive, video submissions, submission to some quality directories, high pr blog commenting, and some quality social bookmarking. I would point links to the deeper pages of my domain as well as the main page. Finally, I would spread this stuff out over time. Oh, and I would also try to find the competitors best backlinks and replicate those. =)

    I would try to create good, linkworthy content on the site itself, and I would try to create more pages than the current leader to get leverage from internal linking.

    Does my strategy sound decent? Do you have anything to add? Sorry about the long post, just not every day you get to ask someone who seems like they actually have a clue what they are doing
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  • Profile picture of the author imvaltaylor
    Thanks so much for your reply. The google map verification PIN issue and thier lack of customer support seems to be a Huge problem for small busineses trying to creat emaps. I've only found one person able to get around it and he works for a company that submit all thier business listing to google and they take care of the verification process for them. Are you aware of anyway to get around this verification issue.?I've search all throughout google and I just see a bunch of PO business owners. Thanks again.
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  • Profile picture of the author tonykoay2002
    Terry,

    I had heard my talk about auto blog, where we don't need to writing anything, and it will auto post what you think about this?

    can auto blog rank in the google.com?

    Thank for the advice.
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  • Profile picture of the author chini
    Thanks for offering your seo expertise. I have 1 question.

    Is it better from a speed perspective (getting ranked quicker for a keyword) to buy a older site, in a niche you want to rank in, which has age, existing back links, PR, etc.

    In comparison to creating a brand new site from scratch?

    If you have multiple of high quality links (PR1+) to link to them?

    Cheers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lorens
    Terry, what can you tell us about your time managment? Do you work on multiple projects at the same time? I have more than 30 websites and find it very difficult to control them all. Sometimes I work on 5 projects at the same time because i do not have time to work on each project separately. And what about you?
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  • Profile picture of the author edpudol1973
    Another question :

    Let's say I have 100 articles and submit them all to EZA, does the back link I get from these 100 articles provide 100 juicy and quality links or not that much because those links are from same IP address?

    Does back link from 100 different article directories with different IP address is better than the back link we can get from EZA only with our 100 articles?
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    • Profile picture of the author 2d0k
      Hi Terry,

      Thanks for you very informative answers here.. we really appreciate it here..

      I have a question: If you made any changes to indexed pages, like changing the title, meta tags or contents, do Google or any other search engines re-index these pages containing already the edited elements of the page or the search engines will just show the first indexed page and cached page when users make a search in the net for the specific pages?

      If so for how long do the SE re-index these pages (the average period of time)?

      Thank You.
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  • Profile picture of the author justinsane187
    can you plz help me with my site fedorfight.com. My visiters on webalizer is:

    Month Daily Avg Monthly Totals Hits Files Pages Visits Sites KBytes Visits Pages Files Hits
    Oct 2009 3861 2976 615 179 4021 1483843 5556 19095 92286 119693 Sep 2009 2393 2048 410 146 6168 1195278 4380 12303 61459 71798 Aug 2009 735 581 120 32 353 242304 1020 3736 18013 22812 Jul 2009 704 487 71 7 35 74076 82 784 5359 7747
    Totals 2995501 11038 35918 177117 222050
    and ive only made 3.50 on adsence!! I know my ads arnt placed right but is it really THAT important?
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  • Profile picture of the author writetale
    thanks, terry...so generous of you with your time and patience!!

    question 1: xsitepro produces static websites. i thought blogs were much better, no?

    question 2: linking is starting to drive me crazy. NOW i hear that you shouldn't do "agressive link building" to sub-pages because it brings rankings down across the entire site....is that true?

    seems to me link building is pretty formulaic....why can't someone just design a GOOD map in terms of site structure?




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    • Profile picture of the author Darrel Hawes
      Originally Posted by writetale View Post

      seems to me link building is pretty formulaic....why can't someone just design a GOOD map in terms of site structure?
      Because the landscape keeps changing.
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      • Profile picture of the author writetale
        Originally Posted by Darrel Hawes View Post

        Because the landscape keeps changing.
        without question, darrel. (and what follows is NOT aimed at you in particular but a general query)

        landing pages, affiliate money pages, review pages, and product pages etc., change slowly, relatively speaking. and their respective links should be able to be mapped out.

        it should be simple to map out, for example:
        backlink goes HERE with/without anchor text AND what kind of anchor text (yah, i've heard that's debatable)
        one-way link goes HERE, but NOT HERE.
        affiliate linking goes HERE, FROM HERE, TO HERE ONLY with THIS KIND of link (i've been told NOT to static link to an affiliate page that i didn't control using a dynamic link {javascript}, for example)

        number of links, where they are placed, what kind of link--ALL of that should be able to be programmed, mapped out....kind of like a flow chart. done a lot of research and all i've got is total confusion.

        DOES ANYONE GET WHAT I'M SAYING HERE??!
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  • Profile picture of the author js112
    yes, bing is easy to rank, but it is indexed by google slowly
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  • Profile picture of the author Mattkau
    there has been some discussion here on google local listings optimisation, if you are doing this for clients (and making a business out of it) i would suggest a tool i have made ..

    Map Ranks : SEO Maps, Google Business Listings you can use the large 'text area' to write a list of keywords (one on each line) so you may report on many more keywords, and surrounding suburbs
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Million
    Have you dabbled in links from Podcasting sites? There are quite a lot of PR 4 - PR 8 sites that link to both your homepage and RSS feed. I just went through 10 out of a top 100 list and they were all dofollow as well, and the pages were all indexed in Google for the podcast submissions I looked at.

    If you have, I'm wondering if there is a tool you can recommend, such as PromoSoft for software sites (which works great, by the way!)
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  • Profile picture of the author laurenceh
    Ok I know I shouldnt be getting too wrapped up with ranking but I have a site which has been targeting a keyword with only 170k competition (exact) for the term.

    I have onsite SEO and been doing articles, bookmarking, linking etc but can't be found in the top 1000 on google or yahoo.

    I know links take a while to seed but can there really be 1000 sites beating my seo work?

    It's not a IM, or weightloss niche at all so not oober competitive.

    Getting a little worried.
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    TheDebtEliminator - I've already answered this and you've asked like 3 times, did you not get the answer?

    caroline42 - Write .de targeted content.. I hate to say this but, if you're having this many problems with this tld, you might want to drop the client or refer them out to someone better suited.

    edpudol1973 - Yes, that's exactly what that means. IMHO, those mass links are good for continued efforts after you've exhausted the authority/trusted backlinks available.

    erikorganic - I consider it pretty accurate, but always install statcounter too (I like realtime stats, I'm impatient).

    imvaltaylor - I do a lot of local stuff and I've never had an issue here... and man, I make up PO boxes and buy new phone lines with skype and all kinds of shady stuff - I know this doesn't answer your question... I just don't have any experience here.

    tonykoay2002 - Can it rank? Yes. Would I do it? No. Too much info here for me to type a reply, but read on BHW (www.black hat world.com) and you'll see tons of people trying this to no avail.

    chini - Yes, old site 100% of the time if its in the same niche.

    Lorens - I'm still struggling with time management after all these years. I constantly take on too much work and my social life and sleep schedule suffer as a result. However, spreadsheets, daily lists of tasks, intelligent delegation and reliable employees/friends are essential.

    edpudol1973 - 100 backlinks from different IP's would be superior, yes.
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    • Profile picture of the author caroline42
      Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

      caroline42 - Write .de targeted content.. I hate to say this but, if you're having this many problems with this tld, you might want to drop the client or refer them out to someone better suited.
      Thanks Terry, appreciate your advice but I never drop a client before I got his problems solved (don't want to comment on the last part of your advice ). As far as I can see my latest tasks are slowly starting to show results.
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    2d0k - The SEs will reindex the content.. normally it takes 5-10 days, sometimes longer but normally less.

    justinsane187 - I can't really make sense of those stats, can you post a screenshot? Also, looked at the site, the ad placement isn't that bad.

    writetale - 1. It really depends on the goal of the site and the niche it's in. 2. It's not true that you shoulnd't focus on building internal links, but it is true you can hurt yourself if you're too aggressive.

    Scott Million - Yep, I've promoted some podcasts and am aware of the boons of the niche. I can't really recommend any software though, I'm just a simple marketing guy

    laurenceh - How old is the site? How long have you been at it?
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  • Profile picture of the author RockStarMarketing
    Hey There Terry G!

    I have been DOMINATING the local map listings for over a yeah in PHX for a few geo-modified key terms. Its been my biggest money maker. As of yesterday......NADA!!!!

    All but a few are nowhere to be found? They are stilllisted as active in my local business center backend - but now....PHOOEY!~

    Any ide whats happening here? I was pointing 10 - 12 at 2 phone numbers, but all the same URL.

    Do you reccomend i take them down, relist with a different account? Or new phone number - or subdomains???

    Thanks Bro!
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    • Profile picture of the author Ashley Gable
      Hi,

      I dont know if you will be able to answer this question, it actually has something to do with a site other than my own, but nonetheless I dont understand it!

      I was researching a forum, i went to yahoo site explorer and they had A LOT of links pointing to them. I clicked on a few but could not find their link anywhere on that page. Until I looked at the source view. And at the bottom of the page was this ...

      (I changed the names to avoid anything)
      Code:
      </table>
              <BR class='clear'>
              <CENTER>
                  
      <!-- href='/Resources.html'>Resources</a> |-->
      <a href="http://www.theforumilookedat.com/postt14608.html"></a><P>
      
      
              <B>&copy; companyname.com 2006</B>
          </CENTER></P>
              <BR>
          </div>
      </TD>
      </TR>
      </TABLE>
      But as I said, no link was on that area on the page, no where.


      I went back to site explorer and found that most of the links to him were the same, and they were from the same domain. This domain seems to have just a bunch of sales pages on it. And each one has this same peice of code at the bottom.

      The only reason I ask is because I wanted to know if these links carry any weight with the search engines? As I said he has a bunch of links pointing to him, but how many are legit in the eyes of google?

      Any thoughts?
      Thanks!
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      • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
        AshleyAA - There's no anchor text in that link.. which is why you're not seeing it. Perhaps its part of the template all those sites are using? Yeah, they'll carry some weight in Google.

        johnhoefer - Amount of links doesn't really tell me much. Are the links high quality? I've seen sites gather over 100,000 incoming links per month, but most were high quality. As for the question of worth it -- If the money's good and you don't mind doing the work, then sure!

        code888 - As of now, all caffeine stuff is guesswork. We'll know when it goes live on multiple data centers.

        ThomasMeyers - Leverage the authority of the root domain and build tons of mid-low quality links to your hub.

        skatir - I like DMOZ and google queries such as: keyword "resources".

        rockstarinlife - If you 301 redirect you'll lose between 1-10% of your incoming link strength. Not a big deal, unless you're dealing with a penalty or something on the domain you're redirecting to.

        emigre - At this point I wouldn't worry too much. Just for new sites, create them on a fresh hosting acct.


        imlogic - I actually haven't used the software since shortly after I posted that recommendation. I'll check and get back to you.

        Sylonious - What do you mean by strange?
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    • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
      Originally Posted by RockStarMarketing View Post

      Hey There Terry G!

      I have been DOMINATING the local map listings for over a yeah in PHX for a few geo-modified key terms. Its been my biggest money maker. As of yesterday......NADA!!!!

      All but a few are nowhere to be found? They are stilllisted as active in my local business center backend - but now....PHOOEY!~

      Any ide whats happening here? I was pointing 10 - 12 at 2 phone numbers, but all the same URL.

      Do you reccomend i take them down, relist with a different account? Or new phone number - or subdomains???

      Thanks Bro!
      I'd just reset everything up under new numbers I bought through skype. Seems to be the best option... and create subdomains for the url.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnhoefer
    Terry, great thread and WSO. I am looking forward to the Local SEO Bonus.

    I am trying to rank for an very competitive keyword in the insurance niche. When I look at my competitions links in Majestic SEO, I click to follow their links and they appear to be broken or not loading etc. The top site has 11k links and another site in the top 10 has 230k links in the past year! Will they get the google slap at some point? There are other sites in the top 10 with 1k links, so I can beat them.

    I will be starting with Trust and Authority links, then making my way into more spammier territory. Do you think its worth the chase?

    My keywords are home insurance california, california home insurance, homeowners insurance california, california homeowners insurance, home owners insurance california, california home owners insurance.

    Thanks for taking the time to answer!
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  • Profile picture of the author code888
    Hi Terry, Just stumbled upon this thread yesterday (http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...ml#post1372261) and wondered whether you have a clue about what could possibly make the difference between the current Google ranking mechanism and that of the Google Caffeine?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dr Dan
    Hey Terry,

    Here is the deal. I want to create a new video squeeze page site (example) http://stress-reducer.com

    But I would like to use my existing wordpress site http://rockstarsecretstolife.com/stress-reducer
    and have the http://stress-reducer just forward to the http://rockstarsecretstolife.com/stress-reducer

    I would be building backlinks to http://stress-reducer

    this way I wont have to create or upload a whole new theme and activate all the plugins etc.

    as far as backlinking, seo, google etc. does it have any negative affects?
    or should I just take the extra step and time to copy and past a new theme/site?

    Thanks Terry you rock!
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  • Profile picture of the author emigre
    Thanks for all the invaluable info you've given here. Hope you can help with my question:

    Is it worth separating sites to various hosts so that they have different IPs after they've already been linked together on the same host, or is it too late.
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    • Profile picture of the author imlogic
      Hello Terry,

      You said you use xsite pro... what type of site structures do you use? and how do you determine how many pages a site should be in order to compete effectively?

      Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Sylonious
    What is the best (cheapest) way to promote a strange link bait?
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  • How effective you think are social networking. I am not asking you some simple basics but simply telling you to compare it with email marketing. I mean one way to reach visitors is by social networking websites but the other way is emailing directly to those who are really interested to what you are offering.

    I know that contents on such websites will remain for long and haul but do not consider that thing and then reply back to me.

    Thanks in advance!!
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    • Profile picture of the author fir3d
      Exact match domains get a significant boost in the serps especially .com. I wanted to ask if you knew what would get more of a boost in the serps

      keyword.net
      or
      akeyword.com

      There are still some confusions about stop words in the domain
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      • Profile picture of the author hans1
        Hi everyone,

        does anyone here know what else apart from permalinks
        and canonical rel , I have to setup to get my WP Blog Post to show up and,
        look like that , in search results , when entering search term in google?

        "MYTITEL OF THE POST / WHATEVER"
        "MYDESCRIPTION OF THE POST...."
        "hxxp://blognameurl.com/mycustom-postnameurl"

        searching very long now but still couldn't get this right.

        Any Help Please warriors !

        Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author johnben1444
    Does article distribution service boost page ranking or does harm instead. I learn acquiring lost of links overnight is bad for SERP.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mitch Miller
    I have a site that I have been experimenting with. It has been hanging at positions 27 thru 33 for a couple weeks. This morning it jumped to #2. Of course I thought I had finally figured this SEO stuff out!

    I was searching in the FF browser. Just for kicks I fired up my IE browser and had the wind sucked right out of my sail as the site was still showing up in the 30th position.

    I cleared out search history etc and the results were still the same for both browsers. I was not logged into my Google account.

    My question is can the search engine results vary from one browser to the next?
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    • Profile picture of the author fir3d
      Originally Posted by Mitch Miller View Post

      I have a site that I have been experimenting with. It has been hanging at positions 27 thru 33 for a couple weeks. This morning it jumped to #2. Of course I thought I had finally figured this SEO stuff out!

      I was searching in the FF browser. Just for kicks I fired up my IE browser and had the wind sucked right out of my sail as the site was still showing up in the 30th position.

      I cleared out search history etc and the results were still the same for both browsers. I was not logged into my Google account.

      My question is can the search engine results vary from one browser to the next?
      this was probably google's personalized search since they are now using it even when you are not signed in. What it means is if you click/visit one of the results they will show it near the top of the result (saved in a cookie I think - which is why it varies between browsers).
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  • Profile picture of the author Mitch Miller
    Thanks. I do remember reading about that now. Just something else that makes ranking even a little bit harder I guess. Those sons-a-bitches...
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  • Profile picture of the author John W.G.
    This thread has been a huge blessing to me - thank you Terry

    Here's my question:

    Do I have to have a missing <!DOCTYPE> declaration at the top of each page on my site?

    I ran my site through siterportcard.com and the #1 problem with my html according to their test is that I do not have a missing <!DOCTYPE> declaration.

    So I went over to HTML doctype declaration and tried all of their suggestions but every one of them messed up my sites look when viewed in Firefox and IE.

    Any thoughts?
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  • Profile picture of the author naonline
    Hi Terry,

    Apologies in advance if this has been addressed before but this is a massive thread to search through....

    What are your thoughts on Google real time search and it's implications for traditional SEO?

    Cheers

    Nick
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  • Profile picture of the author butters
    Hey Terry, first of all, great thread .

    I do have 2 questions...

    First of all, what sites other then edu/gov are the best places to get backlinks from? Little example, are forums better then blogs etc..

    and

    What are your method to finding these blogs, do they have to be do follow?
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  • Profile picture of the author mlmguru
    I was just told by someone who may not know what they're talking about that having more than one domain on my godaddy shared hosting account will affect my SEO. I have 7 sites, some are related to each other some are not. Will having multiple domains on my hosting account really affect my SEO? If so, how badly, how big of a deal is this really?
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  • Profile picture of the author kachaloo
    Hi,
    I want to list my site in dmoz is there a service I can avail to get this done as its been two months and I don't have any updates from them and there is no way to get in touch with them.

    Cheers,
    Kachaloo
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    • Profile picture of the author fir3d
      Originally Posted by liz19 View Post

      how to promote my sites...???and got more traffic??
      you are selling seo services :rolleyes:
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      • Profile picture of the author butters
        Originally Posted by fir3d View Post

        you are selling seo services :rolleyes:
        That does amuse me
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  • Profile picture of the author patadeperro
    What is the fastest way to create back links to your sites?

    Regards.
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    • Profile picture of the author rbr451
      I was just told by someone who may not know what they're talking about that having more than one domain on my godaddy shared hosting account will affect my SEO. I have 7 sites, some are related to each other some are not. Will having multiple domains on my hosting account really affect my SEO? If so, how badly, how big of a deal is this really?
      I have the same question. I have a main domain on my hosting service with several (related and unrelated) in sub-directories. Right now, they look like this:

      maindomain.com
      maindomain.com/otherdomain1/
      maindomain.com/otherdomain2/
      maindomain.com/otherdomain3/
      etc.

      The domain names are pointed directly to the subdirectory the site is in.

      Wordpress will let me install multiple sites in the same directory, but I haven't done that, yet. Would it be better to do that and have:

      maindomain.com
      otherdomain1.com
      otherdomain2.com
      otherdomain3.com
      etc.

      Or would that even make a difference? In short, should I have a hosting plan for each site for seo purposes?

      Right now, when I do a linkdomain: search at Yahoo! for any of the otherdomains, I get at least one link with the maindomain in the url.

      Am I worried for nothing or will this effect my seo for all my sites?
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  • Profile picture of the author edpudol1973
    Another question, does blog comment back link are better than back link from social bookmarking sites, article directories, and Angela Edwards List?
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  • Profile picture of the author davison
    I'm new to this and don't really understand half of what's in these posts. Can you recommend an e-book or site that can help me get started with the basics of SEO? Thanks!
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    • Profile picture of the author naonline
      Originally Posted by davison View Post

      I'm new to this and don't really understand half of what's in these posts. Can you recommend an e-book or site that can help me get started with the basics of SEO? Thanks!
      Google - 'search engine optimization'

      Go to SEOmoz
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  • Profile picture of the author pewsingh
    Hi there, am trying to optimize for google maps (business directory), outside of USA. How to I get citations for non-US sites? How do I work out what google is using for this in other countries? Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    naonline - I think real time search is going to impact us in a variety of ways. First, we'll need to focus on fresh, frequently updated content (or update the site regularly). Then you'll need social media presence (the link graph of the web is being heavily skewed by twitter, facebook et al). Also, more terms are going to send less traffic in the future, what with Google trying to keep people on their site more -- look at the options being offered now (google barack obama and see what comes up).


    butters - I like blogs or bribing students with free product or cash I just search them on Google using inurl:.edu + keyword


    mlmguru - As long as you're not interlinking them heavily, not a big deal at all.

    kachaloo - Become an editor. I'm one -- it's easy.

    patadeperro - While the fastest way isn't the best way, it's definitely XRumer.

    edpudol1973 - I'd say blog comments are damn effective, still, after all these years. They're easier too.

    rbr451 - I wouldn't split them up unless they're on completely separate and unrelated topics. I'd rather spend my time building trust and authority for one domain than 50, ya know?

    pewsingh - Look at international business directories, organizations, yellowpages, yelp, yahoo local, gumtree, etc.
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      anyway of getting other people out of the LBC listings?
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  • Profile picture of the author Spark
    Hi SEO expert,

    I really need your advice.

    Let's say i wish to increase youtube video ranking on all search engine [Top page / 1st ranking]. Does building backlnks target to the video help? Just do the same as ranking a normal site will do?

    Targeting the anchor text that i wish to rank well for my videos?

    Appreciate your help on this. Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Seany D
    Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

    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!

    I recently purchased an Online Movie Blog, and I'm looking for someone
    to provide me with a detailed "SEO/Website Audit"
    I would like to know what needs to be done in terms of SEO for the site and would then like to get things in motion so I can start bringing in some quality traffic. I'm looking to get this done ASAP, so if you can help me please let me know.

    I can not PM at this point, so let me know how to proceed if you are interested. I will of course pay for the SEO work that is provided.

    Thanks in advance
    -Sean
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    • Profile picture of the author Meltea
      Hi Terry,

      Thank you for the wealth of information and the time you have devoted to this thread. You have really helped a lot of people.

      It was your thread that actually made me register with WF and I had a couple of questions.

      1. Are you taking any new clients for SEO service. If so, I wouldn't mind learning a bit more about your rates.

      2. There is a website in my niche that is an authority site. Many of his category pages on his blog rank number 1 for highly searched terms. I did a backlink check in Yahoo and one of his category pages has only about 300 backlinks pointing to it and most are from spam sites that have scraped his pages.

      Is it possible that the individual posts in this category have so much authority that they have floated the category page to number 1 out of 39 million sites (no quotes), 1 out of 10 millions sites (with quotes) which results in 245,000 exact searches in keyword tool.
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    Terry- do you recommend any blog networks to help with SEO???
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Bunata
    I have been working on the Internet now for the past 6 months as an affiliate. One of the challenges I am running into is finding "SOC", Strength of Competition. I use Market Samurai and I absolutely love it, but I wish it had that one element. Can you share with me how I can use Google to find the SOC or if you have a recommendation of the best software to use for keyword research? There are a lot of pros and cons out there in regards to a good software program.

    I really appreciate your help.
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    • Profile picture of the author alloo
      Originally Posted by Michael Bunata View Post

      I have been working on the Internet now for the past 6 months as an affiliate. One of the challenges I am running into is finding "SOC", Strength of Competition. I use Market Samurai and I absolutely love it, but I wish it had that one element. Can you share with me how I can use Google to find the SOC or if you have a recommendation of the best software to use for keyword research? There are a lot of pros and cons out there in regards to a good software program.

      I really appreciate your help.
      Michael, "the great warrior" who's name is Kurt has a module for his tuelz called Inz 2.0 that is the best competition evaluator for keywords and phrases. But if you abuse it Google will snap at you.
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      • Profile picture of the author Michael Bunata
        Originally Posted by alloo View Post

        Michael, "the great warrior" who's name is Kurt has a module for his tuelz called Inz 2.0 that is the best competition evaluator for keywords and phrases. But if you abuse it Google will snap at you.

        I just looked for it in google and the term Inz 2.0 doesn't come up. Do you have a link by chance?

        Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author alloo
    Tuelz internet marketing and web site design software
    make sure you can run the free version of tuelz before you buy anything.
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  • Profile picture of the author enigmanic
    This is a question for Terry or anyone else who's had experience: I have a blog for which I write unique content every day. Should I be creating tons of backlinks for EVERY post I make? Or should I be concentrating on backlinks to my top level domain and only my more popular posts? Creating backlinks to every post for every blog seems very time consuming, but I was curious if everyone else is doing the same.
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    • Profile picture of the author arttse
      You can build backlinks for every post but eventually you will get tired and bored and probably give the game away if you dont see results.

      If you continue writing new posts eventually you will gain a reputation as an expert in your field and you will improve traffic.

      Backlinks isnt everything.

      Just keep writing unique content and one day your site will become credible like ehow and wikipedia. That should be your goal. To build an authority site. Wikipedia and ehow didnt become authority sites by spamming every other website. They achieved it the natural way - and so should you. this plan could take years to see results but its the only way if you want to be in the game long term.

      If however you dont care about the long term, then go crazy building backlinks for every page you want to get ranked in.
      Originally Posted by enigmanic View Post

      This is a question for Terry or anyone else who's had experience: I have a blog for which I write unique content every day. Should I be creating tons of backlinks for EVERY post I make? Or should I be concentrating on backlinks to my top level domain and only my more popular posts? Creating backlinks to every post for every blog seems very time consuming, but I was curious if everyone else is doing the same.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnng
    I read an eBook about Press Release. I found out later it was probably 1 year old. In the example given there was a Press Release done sometimes ago and was on Google Page 1 when I checked it using the keywords given.
    I followed the example and did a Press Release of my own Blog, costed $19. My website did not not get anywhere, but the Press Release itself did get to the 4th position of page 1, searching for the key phrase in my Press Release headline.
    Even that would not be too bad, unfortunately it did not stay in that position for more than several days. In fact it faded completely not long after.
    My question: is Press Release effective?
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    • Profile picture of the author Jayson L
      Originally Posted by johnng View Post

      I read an eBook about Press Release. I found out later it was probably 1 year old. In the example given there was a Press Release done sometimes ago and was on Google Page 1 when I checked it using the keywords given.
      I followed the example and did a Press Release of my own Blog, costed $19. My website did not not get anywhere, but the Press Release itself did get to the 4th position of page 1, searching for the key phrase in my Press Release headline.
      Even that would not be too bad, unfortunately it did not stay in that position for more than several days. In fact it faded completely not long after.
      My question: is Press Release effective?

      My prediction is that press releases are already, or are going to be the next big juicy steak when it comes to backlinking. I am an insurance agent in the insurance niche and have looked at some of the top sites. Look at Carinsurance.com They are #1 for many reasons, but they also have a lot of press releases. They are harder to get in the hundreds like article marketing and take more of a professional to write. I am leaning toward using them big time in 2010.
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  • Profile picture of the author John W.G.
    I understand that links should be from a variety of types of sources. Here's my question:

    Would Google frown on my site if I got links to all of my internal pages from the same URL's that link to my index page?

    I know I need to deep link so my thought is why not link to several pages at once when I get a link if I can get multiple links, say from blog commenting for example.

    Thanks,
    John
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    • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
      Originally Posted by John W.G. View Post

      [...]

      I know I need to deep link so my thought is why not link to several pages at once when I get a link if I can get multiple links, say from blog commenting for example.
      John,

      I'm sorry I didn't notice your question before...hope it's not too late!

      >> Here's an answer <<

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  • Profile picture of the author jhess56
    When using an rss feed to either auto update a web 2.0 property or add content to a blog...how do i nofollow that rss feed? i know how to nofollow anchor text links of course. but when the rss feed content comes up it has outgoing links linking to the content source which seems to be leaking page rank that i want going towards my money site instead. thoughts?

    thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
      Originally Posted by jhess56 View Post

      When using an rss feed to either auto update a web 2.0 property or add content to a blog...how do i nofollow that rss feed? i know how to nofollow anchor text links of course. but when the rss feed content comes up it has outgoing links linking to the content source which seems to be leaking page rank that i want going towards my money site instead. thoughts?

      thanks
      There is a misconception about the outbound links 'loosing' rank of the originating page. That is simply untrue!

      Just imagine, IF it would be true, how would an informal page on a portal or web 2.o or even a blog post having maybe a PR3 or around... be keeping it with the comments or links people build on their properties? And I'm not talking about the 'nofollow' links here but I'm talking about pages allowing the do-follow tag.

      The misconception, though, comes from the smart idea of using the no follow attribute on some links and use the do-follow one on others, when you are designing the internal architecture of a website, and want the outbound links to drive more link-juice to some pages, while not driving any on others...

      BTW, to the best of my knowledge, recent changes in Google algorithms seems to make the no-follow tag obsolete, but don't take my word for it.

      Furthermore, outbound links to quality authority websites is a stealth weapon in SEO masters arsenals for a long time...:p

      Back to the point, then...

      If you control completely the outbound links on the targeted page/pages and want to have only one juice-worth link heading towards your money site or page, my advice would be to keep only one link as such. Making more than one would only dillute that link juice between the targets.

      However, if you don't control them, don't bother too much, build the link to the target from the highest PR page you have there and keep that one alone on that page and that'd do it...

      In any case, no matter your choice, keep in mind that outbound doesn't mean 'bleeding' but rather 'cloning' the authority...

      A good piece of advice would be to actively build outbound links to other authority websites in your niche, but avoid the dubious neighborhood: while SE's won't degrade your rank based on WHO (and their quality) is linking back TO you, it will surely do so if you outlink to XXX sites or such, etc...

      You are not responsible for who is linking to you, but you are fully in charge to edit and moderate what is leaving your pages and where are they headed!

      Hope I helped you?

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        Some really good info here, thanks to everyone!
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    • Profile picture of the author chestmary
      Hi,

      In Awstats I just saw an external link from a very explicit porn site on one of my sites. How does this affect my site? am I penalized for it? can or should I get rid of it or any that show up?

      Thanks
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      • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
        Originally Posted by chestmary View Post

        Hi,

        In Awstats I just saw an external link from a very explicit porn site on one of my sites. How does this affect my site? am I penalized for it? can or should I get rid of it or any that show up?

        Thanks
        Now you have almost answered your question yourself... how could you get rid of a link someone on the Internet pointed back to your site?

        Actually, unless you approach that person directly and ask kindly you can't!

        That's, after all, the main reason why the search engines would not penalize you for backlinks, no matter where they come from.
        Of course, on the other hand, that backlink will do no good to your site too...

        So, it is neutral.

        Don't worry about it, except if you start getting real human traffic through it (which might not be the quality you need)

        Imagine, if SE's would penalize YOU for the links someone else is building towards your site, how these things could degenerate in true WARS online: any competitor, instead of trying to rank higher themselves would be able to choose the easier route of burying your website under tons of spam links...

        Rest assured you have nothing to worry from such a backlink.

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  • Profile picture of the author csniper
    hi, I am a newbie (started march 2009 usual newbie story) and I have only made about $200.00 but that is beside's the point I would love some tips on seo (free)also do you have any tips for optimizing classified ads I know that google loves us free ads and if i type in an exact match keyword (how to lose weight fast us free ads) i come up number one out 993,000 search's but i would like to know how i can get my ad to show up on the pages with more competition thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author perryny
      Hi Terry,

      Great thread. Glad to see it's still going strong (I hope you are too, and don't wish that you've never gotten yourself into this!)

      2 questions:

      1. I want my keywords to point to deep links within my site, but I want ALL site visitors to be forced to go to my squeeze page (homepage). So I created several blank pages within my wordpress site that have a 301 redirect to the homepage. Will this cause any problems other than losing 1-10% of the link juice?

      2. I have ONE keyword that gets a lot of traffic, but low competition. I'm pretty sure I can rank pretty easily on page 1 for this keyword. Is there any problem with creating all of my backlinks around a single keyword? (for example, my bio in my backlink sites will have six links to my website pages plus my articles, but the keyword for every link will be the same). Problem?

      Thanks for starting and staying with this thread. It's a very valuable resource.

      -Robert
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      • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
        Originally Posted by perryny View Post

        [...]

        1. I want my keywords to point to deep links within my site, but I want ALL site visitors to be forced to go to my squeeze page (homepage). So I created several blank pages within my wordpress site that have a 301 redirect to the homepage. Will this cause any problems other than losing 1-10% of the link juice?

        2. I have ONE keyword that gets a lot of traffic, but low competition. I'm pretty sure I can rank pretty easily on page 1 for this keyword. Is there any problem with creating all of my backlinks around a single keyword? (for example, my bio in my backlink sites will have six links to my website pages plus my articles, but the keyword for every link will be the same). [...]
        -Robert
        Robert...

        For #1 here is a piece of advice... the 301 redirect will indeed drive traffic to your home page, but what is the use of deep linking if you have only blank pages (no content) there? Those will never rank well in SERP's - there is no reason for that.
        And again, if you're only targeting 1 single KW, why bother with so many pages w/o content?

        I think you should better expand your main KW with the long tail KW you can add as well as with synonyms, etc (remember LSI) and then build deep backlinks to separate pages written (built) around that particular long keyphrase.

        As for the forced optin... do you really think it is useful to take onboard on your list people who are not willing to, because they like your content? Even if you succeed, they will be worthless.

        Instead, use an optin form on each page you build, or use a delayed lightbox popup if you prefer... but do let them read something first, ok?

        For #2.. although they were somehow combined...

        Let us assume for the sake of demonstration, that your article sits on a PR10 page, alone by itself...

        If you put your backlink in your bio box, that backlink will carry back to your site a PR10 - 20% = PR8 linkjuice, ok?
        If you put 2 backlinks, heading no matter where, the PR10 will be first split in half, and then thinned a bit, so you will have like
        A link = PR10/2 -20% = PR5 -1 = PR4
        B link = PR10/2 -20% = PR5 -1 = PR4

        A link + B link = PR4 + PR4 BUT not equal to PR8 - due to some less simplistic G algorithms - together (on one hand) even if pointing to the same page.

        Now, one step forward, let's assume you discovered there is one more outbound link there already, built by someone else (the site owner for instance)

        Now, if you have 1 backlink, you will get a PR4 link juice and the other outbound link will 'leak' the rest of PR4...
        BUT
        if you build 2 backlinks to your site, now there will be like A, B, C outbound links on that page, right?

        Let's do the math together...

        A link = PR10/3 -20% = PR3.33 -1 = PR2.33
        B link = PR10/3 -20% = PR3.33 -1 = PR2.33
        C link = PR10/3 -20% = PR3.33 -1 = PR2.33

        Now, if A is someone else's and B+C yours, you will get a total link juice of about PR 4.66 (a trifle more than you could get before from only one backlink - B - on a page with other outbound link) but the added juice is not so significant, as in fact, the example I was giving for the ease of math is assuming an almost empty PR10 page...

        Back to real world, you may have a very small benefit from adding like 2 backlinks on a high PR page pointing both to the same domain (even same or different pages, not so important on small numbers)
        If you will add more, there is no more significant addition else than be seen as a link spammer.

        However, if a page is having high PR and you are allowed to put some links in there... and you don't want to let other people get half of your link juice by adding their own links on the page (when that is possible) it could be a sound idea to put a few links in there, but to different domains that you own, to discourage other backlinkers, while benefiting yourself at max.

        On a different line of thought, take care that backlinks are more than tools to boost your rankings.

        They will drive some traffic back to your site too, if they're placed on targeted pages (say blog comments, for instance)
        In such a case it may be smart to funnel that traffic to one offer, not too many, to be sure the potential visitor will be correctly pointed to the content they would be interested on mostly, thus increasing the readership of your content and your chances to achieve your goals...

        OH!

        Darn, I should have written a short report rather on this topic, lol

        I hope it helps you, though.

        Be well!

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  • Profile picture of the author rich2
    hi Terry

    Quick newbie question on keywords in domain name:

    During google kw search I tripped over a good search but it included an "&" ampersand in the search, "and" was completely different. Is there a way to use & in a domain name?
    Richieg
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  • Profile picture of the author uzomaeze
    hey terry why is this site not ranking well on the search engines and how best do i perform, what are my options for better ranking, also what do you suggest i should do to break even and how much is the site worth generally its not making much but then internetblogsecrets.com
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  • Profile picture of the author LookItsMeTerryG
    kaizen0909 - Yep, there's a shady little trick you can do, try to reclaim the listing and get the card sent to them, but with an "attn: name" on the front -- then call and say you forgot your wallet there you think and ask if they recognize your name.. "Yeah, I know the name -- no wallet but there's this card...". Kinda far fetched, but it could work if they haven't verified their own listing.

    Spark - Yes, precisely. A lot of people will run xrumer or similar, as Youtube has such great domain trust/authority it's hard to get them removed.

    Meltea - To answer your question, let me just give you some advice (and what i do with WP sites) -- Build links in a top down format -- First focus on the homepage, then build to category pages, then to post pages. Doing it this way makes sure Pagerank flows inward and benefits the post pages the most (the ones you'll want to rank, in the end).

    valdivz - No. None of the established ones I've seen are footprint-free.

    Pixel - It's possible.. but if you look at how the supplementals work, generally you're put in there for either not having enough strength (pagerank is the term Google uses internally) to break through the index cap set on your site, or your content is too similar to another site (which is more authoritative than yours). To answer the question about can you hurt a site with incoming links -- too many footer links could send a spam signal to Google, yes, just about any type of location based anomaly would, I'd think. Also, with something like Xrumer you can really bork the relevancy of someone's backlink profile.

    Michael Bunata - I've laid this out in this thread before. Just search the thread.

    enigmanic - Take a look at the reply I gave to Meltea a few lines up.

    johnng - Yes, but really only if you're releasing to a specific distribution service (AP, Marketwire) etc.

    John W.G. - It'd help them get indexed, but wouldn't contribute to high rankings.

    jhess56 - That's a question for the plugin/program author.

    csniper - I answered some classifieds "seo" questions in this thread earlier, search around and you should see them.
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    • Profile picture of the author ElMundodelExito
      Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

      kayze - yes

      Spark - Yes, precisely. A lot of people will run xrumer or similar, as Youtube has such great domain trust/authority it's hard to get them removed.

      Meltea - To answer your question, let me just give you some advice (and what i do with WP sites) -- Build links in a top down format -- First focus on the homepage, then build to category pages, then to post pages. Doing it this way makes sure Pagerank flows inward and benefits the post pages the most (the ones you'll want to rank, in the end).

      valdivz - No. None of the established ones I've seen are footprint-free.

      Pixel - It's possible.. but if you look at how the supplementals work, generally you're put in there for either not having enough strength (pagerank is the term Google uses internally) to break through the index cap set on your site, or your content is too similar to another site (which is more authoritative than yours). To answer the question about can you hurt a site with incoming links -- too many footer links could send a spam signal to Google, yes, just about any type of location based anomaly would, I'd think. Also, with something like Xrumer you can really bork the relevancy of someone's backlink profile.

      Michael Bunata - I've laid this out in this thread before. Just search the thread.

      enigmanic - Take a look at the reply I gave to Meltea a few lines up.

      johnng - Yes, but really only if you're releasing to a specific distribution service (AP, Marketwire) etc.

      John W.G. - It'd help them get indexed, but wouldn't contribute to high rankings.

      jhess56 - That's a question for the plugin/program author.

      csniper - I answered some classifieds "seo" questions in this thread earlier, search around and you should see them.
      Terry thanks for your contribution.
      I want to ask you a favor can you quote the question instead of putting just the name of the person that asked. It is very inconvenient to go back to find the question. Really appreciated. Thanks again...
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris-
        I submitted an article to UAW and it was sent to more than 500 sites, 2 months ago, yet both Yahoo and Google show only about 10 backlinks to that page. The article was just over 300 words, relevant, with 1 link to the site 1 to the page as suggested, and I gave a good range of keywords. These results seem typical for my use of UAW so far . . . is that normal (about 10 backlinks per 500 articles sent out), or if not, how could I improve that ratio?

        Don't know if it's relevant, but the main Keyword for the page was chosen according to an AdSense method from this forum, with more than 2000 monthly searches, less than 40,000 Google results.

        thanks in advance for any advice on how to work with UAW more effectively.

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  • Profile picture of the author paulside
    Hi Terry,

    We all hear you need to get links to your site along the same theme as your site.

    Is this really critical to successful SEO? Obviously it has benefits being the links are more targeted to your site.

    I'm not talking about getting links from porn, gambling or drug or any site that is known to be shady.

    If your getting links from sites that are reputable but may not be the same theme as your site, will this hurt SEO efforts?

    -Paul
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    • Profile picture of the author perryny
      Originally Posted by paulside View Post

      Hi Terry,

      We all hear you need to get links to your site along the same theme as your site.

      Is this really critical to successful SEO? Obviously it has benefits being the links are more targeted to your site.

      I'm not talking about getting links from porn, gambling or drug or any site that is known to be shady.

      If your getting links from sites that are reputable but may not be the same theme as your site, will this hurt SEO efforts?

      -Paul
      Hey Paul,

      Check out the thread in this forum by Terry Kyle - http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...xperiment.html

      He's pretty much proven with his experiment that the relevancy of the links holds no bearing on their effectiveness.

      -Rob
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      • Profile picture of the author paulside
        Originally Posted by perryny View Post

        Hey Paul,

        Check out the thread in this forum by Terry Kyle - http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...xperiment.html

        He's pretty much proven with his experiment that the relevancy of the links holds no bearing on their effectiveness.

        -Rob
        Hi Rob,

        Just the information I was looking for. Thanks a lot!

        It's a long thread for sure but a lot of golden nuggets of wisdom!

        I think we all tend to over complicate SEO. As long as your getting good links from quality sources then it will help you. I even read in that thread you mentioned that varying anchor text doesn't make a whole lot of difference.

        SEO experts all have their theories that work for them but the truth is no one except the search engines themselves know what exactly works.

        Obviously we all know this but it is good to remind yourself of this fact when you get overloaded with SEO information.

        What seems to work most of the time for most sites is the optimization of certain on page factors like title tag and sprinkling targeted keywords in a natural way throughout your ad copy and getting lots of links from legit sites, posting in forums and blogs, etc.

        -Paul
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        • Profile picture of the author Tim_A
          Hi Terry,

          amazing thread, can't believe i've just noticed it...

          I'm trying to promote my website for what is proving to be a very competitive term, and am looking for some ideas to focus on.

          Without wanting to say 'can you tell me what to do?' I was wondering if you could spare 30 seconds to have a look at let me know if there's anything glaring obvious I should focus on first....

          Kind Regards

          Tim

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          • Profile picture of the author Minbani
            Originally Posted by Tim_A View Post

            Hi Terry,

            amazing thread, can't believe i've just noticed it...

            I'm trying to promote my website for what is proving to be a very competitive term, and am looking for some ideas to focus on.

            Without wanting to say 'can you tell me what to do?' I was wondering if you could spare 30 seconds to have a look at let me know if there's anything glaring obvious I should focus on first....

            Kind Regards

            Tim

            p.s. have PM'd you the details
            Hi Tim,

            I'm no expert but I would like to offer a couple of comments if that might help? My first impression was "WoW!" it's sorta far too busy and in your face to really notice exactly what I'm looking for if I'm after a horse on loan for 3 months or whatever. I would have done a separate link wheel with horses for sale or loan as a stand alone website. I would have had all the directory items as separate websites so that they could be better covered and so become an authoritative site. I would have had horses and ponies separated, tack gear, gymkhanas, shows, etc all as stand alone web sites. Also Dogs and dog products don't belong to anything to do with horses but they would be good as a LSI'd site to back up all the horses, ponies, gear, shows etc....

            You have obviously put a great deal of effort into an otherwise nice looking site but my feeling is that you've killed off your visitors interest by not making what they were looking for glaringly obvious.

            But hey, like I said...I'm no expert but I have hopes of one day getting better by reading through the WF on a more regular basis in 2010.
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    • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
      Originally Posted by angelarichard View Post

      I've problem to increase my PR. Now what can I do for this?
      Angela...

      Having a high PR is a consequence of good SEO and a lot of content and age, not a goal to run after...

      A high PR is useful when you find it on other webpages, where to get backlinks from. The higher the PR & less outbound links on that page except yours - means more link juice back to your website, hence better rankings.

      You want to rank as high as possible for your chosen keywords - that is something to seek for. Look at SERPs with a tool like SEOQuake for FireFox, for instance (or any other way to get the PR of the ranking results) and you will notice, many times, even PR0 pages outranking PR3 or PR4, etc...

      You should be looking for high PR pages from blogs or forums to comment on, for SN's to build a profile on, etc... hoping to get higher value backlinks to your website. Spice those up with your keywords in the anchortext. In time, you will not only get better SERPs, but you will get higher PR too.

      Hope I helped you focus on what matters rather than chase ghosts...

      Be well!

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      Originally Posted by angelarichard View Post

      I've problem to increase my PR. Now what can I do for this?
      Find HIGH PR site, send one way link back to your site...

      I can help you submit your site to Top 60 sites, for 4 selected
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      My blog Join BeachBody Team With Me - Be a BeachBody Coach | P90X Reviews | BeachBody Coaching experiences | P90X Workouts is PR 3

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  • Profile picture of the author actionplanbiz
    I found 2 keywords in a market niche that i want to rank in and i registered the domains for them.

    is there anything wrong with Backlinking to 2 seperate domains per each Written article?

    example i will write an article about martial arts and in the resourse box i will anchor text for each of the domains below

    Martialartsfitness.com
    martialartsselfdefense.com

    also whats the maximum backlinks a day would you suggest

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author jig
    I looked briefly, but I apologize if this has been asked already and I missed it.

    What kind of reporting do you give your SEO clients? How do you work Analytics into it?

    I came from doing in-house SEO, and I handled a lot of the analytics. I had a ton of goals setup for conversion tracking and etc. But when you have 20+ clients, it's impossible to do this for all of them. It may be risky to introduce them to conversion tracking at all - because to optimize a site for a higher conversion rate may very well venture outside of the realm of SEO.

    What kind of analytics metrics do you provide when reporting to clients, and how do you work it into your reporting?
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      Done with this thread?
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  • Profile picture of the author JustMint
    Thanks Terry G, and thanks all for good questions and sharing - a wealth on great stuff here.
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  • Profile picture of the author sarahberra
    Linking is essential and article marketing can help a lot too.
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  • Profile picture of the author mllnsgrl
    Hi Terry...

    Thanks for an amazing thread

    I'm creating several ecommerce style blogs with wordpress (affiliate sites for now), and I'm having problems ranking for my keywords. Occassionally people find my site for a very long tail keyword - not one I planned on, anyway.

    I've written some articles, set up many backlinks and squidoo pages, and have changed some of the content on the amazon feeds - so it's unique. Can you tell me what I need to do to rank and get found? How much content (vs. datafeed products & description) is needed?

    Also, I'm having this problem where a searcher will find my site via a detailed item search (item model number color, etc.) and that description shows up in the serps for my site, but it points to a general category page where the actual product they're searching for in on the bottom. Anyway to fix this?

    Best,

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  • Profile picture of the author FirehawkCash
    1. How do I create quality backlinks?
    2. How do I increase my pagerank?
    3. What to do if Google makes your pagerank 0, and how to avoid this?
    4. Should I add Google Analytics to all the pages on my website?
    5. How often should i submit my website to search engines?
    6. Should I submit articles to directories and how often?
    7. Does Google follow classified ads?
    8. How often should you submit your website to Social Bookmarks?
    9. Are traffic exchange websites a waste of time?
    10. When you create a new website what is the order in which you should do things?

    I know, I know I have a lot of questions.... haha
    Your answers would be greatly appreciated!
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    • Originally Posted by FirehawkCash View Post

      1. How do I create quality backlinks?
      2. How do I increase my pagerank?
      3. What to do if Google makes your pagerank 0, and how to avoid this?
      4. Should I add Google Analytics to all the pages on my website?
      5. How often should i submit my website to search engines?
      6. Should I submit articles to directories and how often?
      7. Does Google follow classified ads?
      8. How often should you submit your website to Social Bookmarks?
      9. Are traffic exchange websites a waste of time?
      10. When you create a new website what is the order in which you should do things?

      I know, I know I have a lot of questions.... haha
      Your answers would be greatly appreciated!
      I suggest that you unplug the umbilical cord and read all eleven pages of this thread with a copy of your list of questions handy. I'm sure you'll find the answer to the majority, if not all, of them.
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      • Profile picture of the author FirehawkCash
        Originally Posted by Georgann McCrosson View Post

        I suggest that you unplug the umbilical cord and read all eleven pages of this thread with a copy of your list of questions handy. I'm sure you'll find the answer to the majority, if not all, of them.
        Could you give me instructions on that please? lol I've already read all the pages, and didn't really find answers to these questions. SEO is new to me so he might have explained something in terms that I do not understand.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jodiec
    Hi Terry,

    I'm looking to insert anchor text throughout my site with hyper links to other pages within my site. Am I right in thinking that you can get an app that will do this automatically? If so - can you recommend one?

    Jodie C
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    • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
      Originally Posted by Jodiec View Post

      Hi Terry,

      I'm looking to insert anchor text throughout my site with hyper links to other pages within my site. Am I right in thinking that you can get an app that will do this automatically? If so - can you recommend one?

      Jodie C
      Hi Jodie...

      I'd say you should put up your content on a WordPress blog and then add plugins to it (there are several free ones that will do the job you need)

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  • Profile picture of the author Steller
    Hey TerryG thanks for taking the time to answer some questions! I'm a newbie yet and I was wondering how to optimize for misspelled keywords. I don't want to put them in my content and look like an idiot. Is it enough to just put them in meta tags.

    Kind Regards,

    Steller
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Guilfoyle
    Hi Terry
    I have recently set up a new domain,wordpress blog targetting a fairly competetive (but not overly) keyword phrase.I wrote an initial post, followed immediately with a second post . I was indexed by google very quickly (with 2 days). My first post was ranked on page 3 almost immediately. It now fluctates between 3 and 5 (google dance?). I thought at this rate I'm easily going to get to page 1 even without backlinks

    My latest post was nearly 2 weeks ago and this is my question.This post is not indexed at all.

    I used a plug in editor instead of the standard wp editor to create this last post (not the first two). I created a few tables within the post.I also made it a "sticky". Are any of these the reason the post is being ignored by google? Could it be I've got over eager and spammed my keywords. If so should I just delete the post and start again or what else can I do to rescue the situation?

    Thanks for your help.
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  • Profile picture of the author webber1
    Hi Terry I am just starting out in building my first website. EVeryone says the number of backlinks is key. however their are some sites out there which promotes pr 6 links on their main page of £x and say they only have 20 or so backlinks which I have checked out. Why does that matter?
    Also for a new site indexed in google a month, how many roughly does google start flag up as too many? surely as a new siteyou will be promoting it so naturally you shall have a sudden increase in backlinks? And if they decide you do have too many what do they do? I only have 16 or so backlinks but I am looking into buying a 5000 backlinks and im unsure of the timing which i should get them done in phase wise?

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
      Hi, webber1...

      Not attempting to spoil Terry the pleasure to answer, but I thought I should add a word or two here to help you while he's looking elsewhere, lol

      I think you should act as natural as possible. Google will detect if you buy 5k backlinks (not to mention how hard would be to check them to see if it is worth your money?) all of a sudden.

      I am not sure what you mean by buying them... it may be outsourcing the creation... a good thing if you have the money... or pay webmasters to add to their sites (I think it is not this one, as contacting 5k people would be harder than building yourself... lol)

      Anyway, back to outsourcing. Beware, the quality of that process largely depends on the price you pay. For 5k quality backlinks you would have to pay quite a lot.

      I suggest you take it easy, one step after the other, slowly increasing your exposure and number of backlinks in time.

      Let the SE 'get to know you better' so to speak before banging their doors with the biggest hammer you can get.

      My 2 cents...

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  • Profile picture of the author james0225
    Thanks for the oppurtunity. I do have a quick question relating to google punishing a site, for bad SEO. I do not practice this, but you hear so many stories of people getting delisted for unknown reasons. My question is: Does the site (domain) with the bad SEO campaigne get delisted or does EVERY site or domian from my ISP get delisted. In other words do they punish the site or the webmaster and all his or her domains. Any help on this would be much appreciated, I am so scared to venture out for fear of being delisted, because I am uncertain of what constitutes bad SEO.

    I do play by the rules.

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author emigre
    OMFG...is blatant spam like the above post tolerated here?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dexter007
    Hey Terry,

    Just a simple question to be asked related to SEO..

    Does .info domain count less in Google rankings? If I dont have a DOT com domain of my choice, I am left with an info domain of exact keyword and a hyphenated domain of DOT com, what should I choose?
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  • Profile picture of the author weblogix01
    hi.. can i know how offen should i do seo to my web site??
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    • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
      Originally Posted by weblogix01 View Post

      hi.. can i know how offen should i do seo to my web site??
      He, he...

      I am just writing a new report on this matter, lol...

      Treat it like it would be good s..x - I mean... as often as you CAN, ok?

      Be well,
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  • Profile picture of the author azanshah
    My question is, what should I do on priority basis? Link building or writing more contents?
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    • Profile picture of the author perryny
      I think Terry has left the building...

      Thanks VaultBoss for your valuable post above. That's excellent info up there!

      -Robert
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      • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
        Robert...

        Thanks!
        You're most welcome!

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    • Profile picture of the author johnsamuels
      Originally Posted by azanshah View Post

      My question is, what should I do on priority basis? Link building or writing more contents?
      Both are vitally important and you should divide your time between the two.

      It really depends on your competition though. If your site is of a comparable size to the sites you are competing against, then you can afford to spend more time on creating links than creating content.
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  • Profile picture of the author careeradviser
    Hi Terry & VaultBoss and to all Search Marketing experts on Warrior Forum,

    I would like to thank you first for having this thread and providing your expert advice for free especially for us novices in the industry of search marketing.

    I would like your advice on one of our pages on our website (teleportmyjob [dot] com/dubai.aspx). We've been trying to rank for huge keywords like "dubai jobs" "jobs in dubai". After 6 months of intensive link building we've only manage to come as far as page 4 and now page 8.

    We are now on our 2nd phase of re evaluating on-page optimization.

    Can you share some strategies and tips on how we can further push for our rankings whether it be on-page or off-page optimization? In terms of conversion optimization, can you also suggest any usability/structure changes we should take a look at?

    Looking forward on your feedback.

    Thank you!
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    • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
      Originally Posted by careeradviser View Post

      Hi Terry & VaultBoss and to all Search Marketing experts on Warrior Forum,

      I would like to thank you first for having this thread and providing your expert advice for free especially for us novices in the industry of search marketing.

      I would like your advice on one of our pages on our website (teleportmyjob [dot] com/dubai.aspx). We've been trying to rank for huge keywords like "dubai jobs" "jobs in dubai". After 6 months of intensive link building we've only manage to come as far as page 4 and now page 8.

      We are now on our 2nd phase of re evaluating on-page optimization.

      Can you share some strategies and tips on how we can further push for our rankings whether it be on-page or off-page optimization? In terms of conversion optimization, can you also suggest any usability/structure changes we should take a look at?

      Looking forward on your feedback.

      Thank you!
      I took a look briefly at your pages there.

      First thing you spotted well yourself: you tried to rank for short length KW's with probably high traffic but also fierce competition (I didn't check them, I'm writing this blindly, based upon experience only NOT data - so it may not be exactly so, but the principles still apply) instead of looking for rather a bit lengthier keyphrases, far easier to rank for...

      I believe anything related to Dubai should have generous budgets for promotions, therefore, if you didn't manage to outrank your competitors yet, it is obvious you did something wrong (I'm sorry to have to put it so bluntly!)

      The pages look nice but SEO-wise they may not value too much.

      As for the strategies to follow... there are many things that I wouldn't detail on a free evaluation, but here are only a few tips:
      1) you don't have enough pages on the website (there are a few easy to implement tricks that would multiply your efforts 5-10 times w/o too much effort)
      2) you don't target the right keywords
      3) you don't target enough keywords
      4) you have much too less content on the pages
      5) you don't have any traffic recycling tactics
      etc...

      Those are basics for on-page SEO and main strategy but there would be also other things related to your off-page SEO campaign that I do not know about...

      Hope I pointed you in the right direction!

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  • Profile picture of the author ingoodcause
    Hi....I have to submit PAD files using PADBot. How do I create a PAD file which I can distribute using the Bot software? Would be gald if you can help me out on this.
    thanks.
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      Originally Posted by ingoodcause View Post

      Hi....I have to submit PAD files using PADBot. How do I create a PAD file which I can distribute using the Bot software? Would be gald if you can help me out on this.
      thanks.
      I am NOT affiliated to any of the resources on the following page, but you will see there software, both paid AND free licensing.

      So pick up what you like.

      PAD Creation Software Alternatives

      Hope it helps...

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  • Profile picture of the author keivn2
    As for SEO, does the amount of pages for your site actually important? What I mean, do you really need to have more than 20 or 30 pages for your site to be successful?
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  • Profile picture of the author Yurkez
    Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG View Post

    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!
    Hi, I need to optimize my website, squidoo page, articles, and videos for first page of google. Don't want a single search not go through me. Market is not competitive but current websites are well established, over 15 years. NO IM guys working in that niche yet.
    I am looking for a professional who would do all my SEO and maybe even write converting articles for my company.

    Please reply if you can help
    mysocialmediaprofiles(at)gmail(dot)com

    Thanks, Yuriy
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  • Profile picture of the author Sylonious
    Could anybody tell me why my client's site is not getting indexed? I've sent a few links to it but it's been there for about a month without getting indexed. I have a boat load of other sites that got indexed within a few days, but there seems to be something wrong with this one.

    I did a spider test on the domain and they said that my my javascript and style sheet should be in an external file.

    Would that cause my site to not be indexed by Google?
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    • Profile picture of the author Midas3 Consulting
      I have an old site, 7 year old aged domain.
      100% white hat.
      100% hand written content.
      Professional business site, not some 5 page niche wonder.
      Keyword in domain.
      Non Private Domain.

      Ranks between no 1 and 3 on Yahoo and Bing for the primary keyphrase.

      Ranks like number 700+ on Google!!!!

      Anybody seen something similar, where the rankings are so wildly disproportianate.

      I have sites ranking ahead of me on Google that have almost no relation to the keywords at all and Market Samurai shows them as being utterly no SEO'd no backlinks nada.

      Anybody experienced something similar?
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      • Profile picture of the author Sylonious
        Originally Posted by SimonHarrison View Post

        I have an old site, 7 year old aged domain.
        100% white hat.
        100% hand written content.
        Professional business site, not some 5 page niche wonder.
        Keyword in domain.
        Non Private Domain.

        Ranks between no 1 and 3 on Yahoo and Bing for the primary key phrase.

        Ranks like number 700+ on Google!!!!

        Anybody seen something similar, where the rankings are so wildly disproportionate.

        I have sites ranking ahead of me on Google that have almost no relation to the keywords at all and Market Samurai shows them as being utterly no SEO'd no backlinks nada.

        Anybody experienced something similar?
        Just a heads up you might want to PM Godier your domain name. This will give him a chance to check your link velocity, quantity and quality of links.
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      • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
        Simon...

        You said it is an aged domain.
        As such, especially if you're not the initial owner of it but bought it 'aged' already for SEO worthiness... maybe...
        Then there is a good chance that sometimes in the past, the domain was banned because of strange activities.
        If it is so, go to your Google Webmaster Tools and
        "Request reconsideration" of your site...
        https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...deration?pli=1

        Hope it helps you get properly indexed and positioned in SERP's

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        • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
          Sylonius,

          although your client's site is on a new domain, you may still try to do the same I advised Simon above...

          After all said and done, where to cry better if not to Momma's busom? :p(read: Big G)

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          • Profile picture of the author Sylonious
            Originally Posted by VaultBoss View Post

            Sylonius,

            although your client's site is on a new domain, you may still try to do the same I advised Simon above...

            After all said and done, where to cry better if not to Momma's busom? :p(read: Big G)

            Steve Lorenzo SEOVirtuoso
            I'm starting to think that Google might be foot-printing me. I have an account with Godaddy and each time I put up a new domain they automatically submit it to the Google Webmaster Tools site. So I finally looked at what they had submitted and they had almost 200 domains in that one Google Webmaster Tools account (my domains, client domains, mirror domains, redirects and domains I created strictly for adwords).

            Then again it might be something in the script code that Google has a problem with. I put up another domain after that so I will see if this one works.
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            • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
              Sylonious,

              But you said you had only this one not indexed... Were there others too?

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              • Profile picture of the author Sylonious
                Originally Posted by VaultBoss View Post

                Sylonious,

                But you said you had only this one not indexed... Were there others too?

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                The other ones I had before this one were indexed just fine. I'm waiting for another one that I did just after that last one.

                It may or may not be because of the Google Web Tools indexing. It could be a problem with the polling code or something. I'm really just trying to figure out what the problem is.
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        • Profile picture of the author Midas3 Consulting
          Originally Posted by VaultBoss View Post

          Simon...

          You said it is an aged domain.
          As such, especially if you're not the initial owner of it but bought it 'aged' already for SEO worthiness... maybe...
          Then there is a good chance that sometimes in the past, the domain was banned because of strange activities.
          I purchased it , was a fresh domain, few years old now.

          If it is so, go to your Google Webmaster Tools and
          "Request reconsideration" of your site...
          https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...deration?pli=1

          Hope it helps you get properly indexed and positioned in SERP's

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          I'll try that anyway , cheers.
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        • Profile picture of the author Sylonious
          Originally Posted by VaultBoss View Post

          If it is so, go to your Google Webmaster Tools and
          "Request reconsideration" of your site...
          Thanks, my domain was indexed a few weeks ago.
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          • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
            You're welcome!

            Glad I could help you...

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          • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author echealth
    Your knowledge is pretty amazing on SEO, more so then any other "expert" I have ever chatted with.
    I would be interested in having you do an evaluation of my site and possibly some work, if you have time.
    Health Insurance | Florida Health Insurance | Health Insurance Quotes is the domain and it is about 8 mos. old. I don't have 50 posts yet so I cannot pm you.
    thanks for taking a peek.
    jeremy
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    • Profile picture of the author arttse
      Hey Terry

      Hope you can answer these questions:

      1. Does it matter whether a search engine indexes a page or a site without the "www." infront of a domain.
      eg. mydomainname[dot]com vs www[dot]mydomainname[dot]com?

      2. I have a site whereby the homepage is indexed without the www but all the inner pages are indexed with the www. I have about 400 backlinks for the home page however, only 50 show up when I type in mydomainname[dot]com. The other 350 show up when I type in www[dot]mydomainname[dot]com.

      Given that my homepage is indexed without the "www" do the 350 backlinks have any value/count for anything?
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      • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
        Originally Posted by arttse View Post

        Hey Terry

        Hope you can answer these questions:

        1. Does it matter whether a search engine indexes a page or a site without the "www." infront of a domain.
        eg. mydomainname[dot]com vs www[dot]mydomainname[dot]com?
        I heard somewhere recently that it will make no difference from now on (or very soon) BUT I can't even remember where that happened and when exactly, so being just hearsay :p, maybe you should not count on it yet...
        BUT
        until now, indeed it was different.
        Both with AND w/o www were considered different from one each other, although you may not have thought so...

        Therefore, keeping the consistency of your backlink building campaigns was a MUST. Until further notice from someone more knowledgeable than myself
        (Matt Cutts, maybe? - read about him here:
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Cutts or his blog here:
        Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO)
        maybe you should still stick to this safeway.

        2. I have a site whereby the homepage is indexed without the www but all the inner pages are indexed with the www. I have about 400 backlinks for the home page however, only 50 show up when I type in mydomainname[dot]com. The other 350 show up when I type in www[dot]mydomainname[dot]com.

        Given that my homepage is indexed without the "www" do the 350 backlinks have any value/count for anything?
        Both versions are obviously indexed, or otherwise you wouldn't be able to find them with the two different searches you tried.

        However, they are still considered to be two different websites.

        Try to permanently redirect one of them - inside your hosting account - to the other.
        Then check to see if when you type both versions you will get only the target one.

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    • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
      Originally Posted by echealth View Post

      Your knowledge is pretty amazing on SEO, more so then any other "expert" I have ever chatted with.
      I would be interested in having you do an evaluation of my site and possibly some work, if you have time.
      [...]the domain and it is about 8 mos. old. I don't have 50 posts yet so I cannot pm you.
      thanks for taking a peek.
      jeremy
      I will not interfere with Terry's help or your request to his aid, but just as a tip:

      I would change that 'blinders' style content background there asap.

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    I try for my best SEO..but it's still not working...
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  • Profile picture of the author malcsimm
    Hi Terry or others - perhaps you can help me here - or point me to a relevant thread if I've missed it in my search.

    I am in the UK. Google.co.uk has two radio buttons under the search box, marked:

    "Search (radio button) The Web", followed by "(radio button) The UK".

    "UK World" is the default. To get UK results only, you have to actively click the "UK" radio button - which I guess most people won't.

    I use WebCEO to keep track of my SE positions for keywords - I usually include G.co.uk (UK), G.co.uk (World), and G.com in my tracking.

    It seems to me that as G.co.uk defaults to "UK World" for me, it will do so for others in the UK. Therefore, I am thinking, for UK exposure I should be more concerned about ranking for "UK World" than "UK UK".

    Am I correct?

    (Or is it - as usual - "It depends....." lol ! )

    Thanks for any pointers.

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  • Profile picture of the author AnnieSh
    I want to know that does semi-automated directory submissions are harmful or not?
    Secondly, how important are meta keywords?
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    • Profile picture of the author arttse
      VaultBoss

      Thanks for answering my question.

      You are actually correct in that google now recognises both domains as the same as long as we notify google. I found the following explanation in Google's Webmaster.

      Preferred domain (www or non-www) - Webmaster Tools Help
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      • Profile picture of the author M.Bruso
        Hey,

        You're doing a nice job here for all of us.
        I'd like to ask your opinion about reciprocal links and 'useful links' directory on site. I'll get penalized for linking to spammy and other harmful sites - you don't have to tell me that. So, is it ok to have a reciprocal links directory (friends directory) on my site? If yes, do you have any notices or suggestions about it?

        Thanks in advance,
        Bruce
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      • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
        Originally Posted by arttse View Post

        VaultBoss

        Thanks for answering my question.

        You are actually correct in that google now recognises both domains as the same as long as we notify google. I found the following explanation in Google's Webmaster.

        Preferred domain (www or non-www) - Webmaster Tools Help
        Excellent research!

        ..and you're welcome! I'm only trying to be helpful, giving back some of the knowledge I accumulated just like you're doing now - asking, research, testing, etc...

        To quote from the above resource, for people in a hasted hurry ():
        "If you don't specify a preferred domain, we may treat the www and non-www versions of the domain as separate references to separate pages. It may take some time before you see this change fully reflected in our index. All pages that currently display the non-preferred version of the URL in the index will remain in the index that way until we refresh our indexing of those pages"
        Be well,

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  • Profile picture of the author Midas3 Consulting
    Steve, what's your thoughts on backlinked content from the supplemental index ?

    Let's say for example we send out the same article to 50 sites with a backlink to our prefered domain.

    When I look at this kind of work, I can see that yes Google has indexed the pages the articles sit on but 90% of them all sit in the supplemental, this is essentially no different to syndication so I don't see any penality arising from it in terms of your SERPS position but I do question whether Google attributes the same degree of link juice from results in the supplemental.

    Do you think the strength of those backlinks is less than the strength would be if the content on all 50 sites were unique ?
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    • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
      Originally Posted by SimonHarrison View Post

      Steve, what's your thoughts on backlinked content from the supplemental index ?

      Let's say for example we send out the same article to 50 sites with a backlink to our prefered domain.

      When I look at this kind of work, I can see that yes Google has indexed the pages the articles sit on but 90% of them all sit in the supplemental, this is essentially no different to syndication so I don't see any penality arising from it in terms of your SERPS position [...]
      There is no such thing as a penalty for getting links back from any other site, be it even a hard core porn one... BUT for sure, if the originating pages have no PR then there is no value from them passed back to yours.
      [...] but I do question whether Google attributes the same degree of link juice from results in the supplemental.

      Do you think the strength of those backlinks is less than the strength would be if the content on all 50 sites were unique ?
      I still have to see a page in the supplemental index with any PR (or potential link juice to be 'extracted' from a backlink.)
      PLUS, being in the supplemental index, there is hardly any chance for getting any kind of even trickle human traffic from it... so I'd say you waste your time.

      BUT I do not work for Google, so I may be wrong...yet my experience says no.

      However, the best option would be to take the article and spin it at least, before submitting, trying to make it unique.

      TIP: Add a paragraph in front and one at the end, unique for each spun article to easily make them even 'more unique' so to speak...

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      • Profile picture of the author Midas3 Consulting
        Originally Posted by VaultBoss View Post

        PLUS, being in the supplemental index, there is hardly any chance for getting any kind of even trickle human traffic from it... so I'd say you waste your time.
        Hi Steve,

        It's purely for backling benefit, I don't expect them to ever see human traffic.

        BUT I do not work for Google, so I may be wrong...yet my experience says no.
        Tend to agree.

        However, the best option would be to take the article and spin it at least, before submitting, trying to make it unique.

        TIP: Add a paragraph in front and one at the end, unique for each spun article to easily make them even 'more unique' so to speak...

        !
        Agree on all - appreciate your time.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adino
    I have been a manual website submitter for a while now, though I use only the submission directory on info.vilesilencer.com for fear of using link farms and other fake directories, I would be glad if you can give me more url's of at least 3 SEO friendly directories I can use.
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    • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
      Originally Posted by Daniel16 View Post

      any way to get free automated backlinks?
      If it would be so easy, all SEO professionals would have to starve or find a new job, don't you think?

      However, if you write good content in a smart manner (serving as link bait) you would get links from other webmasters naturally.

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  • Profile picture of the author Ash67
    Hi All
    Brand new here, my site is on page one of yahoo for the keyword: affiliate marketing advice, but I can't find it any where on google, I do have a keyword on page one of googgle, and thats: the fortune39 gallery.
    I'm new to SEO and willing to learn, but I really dont understand how I can rank so differently for the same keyword on different search engines.
    A friend of mine has recommended link-assistant.com, does anyone here use it, if so is it worth the money.
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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    I dont think TerryG is bothering with this thread now.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tyrome
      Hello,
      I own a translation agency. We do professional translations for businesses and work in many different languages. Does anyone have an idea how I could promote my agency online and get new clients?
      Regards,
      tyrome
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      • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
        Originally Posted by Tyrome View Post

        Hello,
        I own a translation agency. We do professional translations for businesses and work in many different languages. Does anyone have an idea how I could promote my agency online and get new clients?
        Regards,
        tyrome
        Send me a PM if you're still interested and if TerryG is not either...

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    • Profile picture of the author Paul Guilfoyle
      Originally Posted by jazbo View Post

      I dont think TerryG is bothering with this thread now.
      Can't really blame him I suppose. He's put a huge amount in and unless I've missed the point (wouldn't be the first time ) I don't see what he's getting out of it other than hassle. I thought there must be a product launch coming or something similar.

      Hey Terry come back soon- we miss you.

      Ah well.... good while it lasted.Thanks anyway.

      All the best,
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      • Profile picture of the author VaultBoss
        Originally Posted by Paul Guilfoyle View Post

        Can't really blame him I suppose. He's put a huge amount in and unless I've missed the point (wouldn't be the first time ) I don't see what he's getting out of it other than hassle. I thought there must be a product launch coming or something similar.

        Hey Terry come back soon- we miss you.

        Ah well.... good while it lasted.Thanks anyway.

        All the best,
        Paul
        Hey Paul..

        I am not and no TerryG, but I am trying to help when I have some spare time...

        If other warriors with good SEO knowledge would help too, the thread could become an evergreen, with multiple contributions.

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  • Profile picture of the author Adino
    To the SEO guru'sout here, I am a pro manual submitter, I would appreciate it if someone could help out with the following:-
    1. At least 5 SEO friendly directory with a minimum of 500 directory sites
    2. An excel spread sheet with a minimum of 500 directory sites

    thanks for your anticipated help.
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  • Profile picture of the author CANIMBILL
    Hi Terry,

    I wasn't sure where to ask this and I liked your open invitation to ask questions.

    I am starting a campaign that will be mostly affiliate programs around a multi-faceted retail niche. I watched a video recently on making use of Google business registration so that when someone from a particular area searches for what you have you come up first because you are local, along with the google map.

    Now I am wondering if it would be worth breaking down my niche by state and possible even city in some cases (e.g., state-keywordphrase.com), and including some local information on the home page so that Google senses that is part of its relevance.

    Every state and city combination I tried is open in .com, and summer is the busy season for this niche. There are lots of great affiliate programs available and lots of advertising as well. I would run a PPC campaign as well.

    I won't be able to, you know, take over the entire US this spring or anything, but I could get started and see how it works. On the other hand, it wouldn't be THAT much work to create area-specific sites and otherwise copy most or all of the content over. Seems to me backlinking could really shine with this system as well.

    I would be very interested in knowing if this sort of approach makes sense.

    thanks in advance!

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  • Profile picture of the author butterfink
    Hi terry, I Cant quite PM yet, but I am gnawing at the bit to ask you a question about something you mentioned earlier. Is there any chance I could get you to contact me by email to give me your msn ?? My email is butterfink at hotmail dot com. Thanks Terry
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  • Profile picture of the author jimkirk1943
    What the quickest and least time comsuming way of indexing all the profile links i build each week ?

    Thanks Terry... Jim
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  • Profile picture of the author Bajsich
    I am wondering how much power does the keyword being in the domain name have ? IS it better to have mykeyword.com and 3 relevant backlink articles on it or mydomain.com/mykeyword.html and 5 ? 10 ? 20 ? relevant articles ....

    How much more must you put in if you do not have your own domain?

    Thanks

    Sincerely, Base
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    • Profile picture of the author mjbmedia
      Hi,
      Looking to pick your brains quickly please
      This is what I am looking to achieve, how best to do it.

      Main site has 20 or so pages and is for a web designer friend of mine.
      The main site is semi optimised (needs improving) for some short keywords and he wants to also attract longer tail keywords .
      Thinking of setting up satellite sites to optimise them individually for each long tail keyword then have opt in form on each one too and then link these sites to the main one.
      Also thinking along the lines of getting the back links going well, would it be better if these satellite sites were all a part of the main site (same URL) or different keyword related URLs (eg Webdesignmytown.com etc ) as the backlinks would be from good page ranked related pages/websites and so would add a lot to the off page SEO , but if they were aimed at the different URL satellite sites, I premume that wouldnt help the overall SEO of the main site?

      Thinking mainly along the SEO off page improvements which is the better option (white hat only) or is there a better one I have not mentioned (keeping things relatively simple )

      Thank you for your time
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  • Profile picture of the author alaron1
    Hi Terry,
    I was on the 1st page of Google for two keywords for several months, but suddenly got knocked to smithereens in Nov. Don't know why. Last month I started a re-optimization process and started moving up again from 6oo's to 64. Now the trend is going south again... down to 135 and falling. The site is a health insurance alternative site. I do a Word Press blogpost daily linking to 3 pages on a random healthcare provider's website site somewhere in the US. I show the selected healthcare provider's in the category list on my home page and update my state directory with same. This worked GREAT for a good while, so well that I felt I was the bomb...Not feeling that way a n y m o r e . Any idea what's wrong?
    I can PM the url if you would like.

    Thanks,
    Norm
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  • Profile picture of the author 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!
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    • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
      Originally Posted by aprilm View Post

      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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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]
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexander CPA
      Originally Posted by Piscola View Post

      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.
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      • Profile picture of the author Piscola
        Originally Posted by Alex Brooks View Post

        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.
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    by the way;/ great information.. i got answers of my questions.. thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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    • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author Brankas
    nice tread from new member like me.. posts that need to be in the bookmarks
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  • Profile picture of the author stern112
    Terry has not posted since January. No need to keep asking questions.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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?
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    • Profile picture of the author clicknow4cash
      Originally Posted by jjcali View Post

      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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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    • Profile picture of the author ElMundodelExito
      Originally Posted by jazbo View Post

      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. :confused:
      I think this is a good opportunity to another SEO guy come here answer all those questions and build up a good reputation.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulinegean
    Are you still active on here? I had a quick question. Thanks
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      Originally Posted by syedsbar View Post

      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.
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  • Profile picture of the author senojetan
    What's your thought on link magnets? and is a unique article going to make that much of a difference?
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  • Profile picture of the author Global Citizen
    so i assume this thread is dead since terry is not longer around?
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    • Profile picture of the author 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!
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  • Profile picture of the author relyonhim7
    Thanks for the SEO tips, will be putting these to use.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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    • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
      Originally Posted by stevenjotello View Post

      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. :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author 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?
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  • Profile picture of the author tennisconnexion
    Is signature links are helpful in getting higher position in SERP?
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    • Profile picture of the author 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 View Post

      Is signature links are helpful in getting higher position in SERP?
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  • Profile picture of the author 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).
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    Hold IT! Spambot! Do NOT start replying to this thread (from 2009!!)
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.

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    • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author CaptainNewgate
    Hey ..

    for SEO, links are important .. so I was wondering where I could drop my links ..

    Tell me a list of forums (or point me to already existing links) ...

    So that I can check out and benefit ...
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