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.

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.

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.

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?)

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

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

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?

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?

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?

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?

I have a question: What is the best way to get FAST SERP?

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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@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?

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?

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

If you do the same search in other search engines it comes up with zero results - this only seems to be happening in google.

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?

@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.

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

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.

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!

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.

hi , u are cool
and i just want to know under what situation , the google cross index thing happen ?

@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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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)

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

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

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?

I'd just vary it as you go.

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

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.

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 ?

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.

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

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.

I need to know, how many links we need to create to uplift our page rank pr0 to pr1 ?

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?

disappointed
my question has not been answered
down!!!!!!

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 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??

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 for local organic, especially when combined with LBC.

A must for any small business.

Mac

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

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.

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

thanks

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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)

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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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

Hi,
Quick question, in your opinion what is the best keyword software?
Many thanks.

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

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!!

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

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.

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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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

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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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

Wow, quite an amazing thread you've stared here Terry!

Thanks for sharing.

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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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.

This is a great thread, is there a methodolology to targeting Bing and Google simultaneously?

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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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

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

Hi there, thought I'd help out with something regarding building your own network of sites and gaining backlinks between them - in reference to:

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.

Terry,

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

Sheila

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.

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?

Thanks rimam1. Really appreciate being appreciated, ya know?

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!

Great info and thanks so much for sharing. I have got so many of my questions answered in this one thread alone.

Terry thanks for looking at my site and for your recommendations. I sent you an email with some further questions.

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

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!!!

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.

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?

Can you please take a look at my question below?

http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...clean-ips.html

@ 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.

@ 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.

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

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.

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

@ 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.

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

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?

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

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

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!

stern112 - I replied to the PM.

amerigo - Added you to MSN.

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

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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.

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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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.

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

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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@ 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:

@ 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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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!!!

thanks !

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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!

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.

OK Terry - here is one for ya.

What is a 'silo structure' and how does it affect your page rank?

Yes and what about using automated bookmarking like onlywire..hurt or help?

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.

Man you know alot I thought I knew alot.

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?

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!

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?

I have a question, how to in cress ranking?

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

hi terry,

thanks for your contribution

i've learn't quick well some

basic skills from this questions and responses

thanks

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.

Terry if you change or add a new page in your site will it affect your rankings?

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.

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

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

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.

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 .

I'm just a newbie in SEO...

Thanks and appreciate that i can learn much from you all..

how can you tell which keywords are worth building SEO on?

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.

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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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!

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,

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?

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"?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 ?

how do i SEO a Opt in Page? can i just have offpage seo? or do i need onpage aswell?

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.

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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what should i do onpage before i start working offpage SEO?

how to get more external link?

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?

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.

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.

Sir,
Can you give your expert on the following from Brad Callen's seoelite site.

1. Google ranks websites by those that are deemed to have the most authority on the given topic/keyword.
2.

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.

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

Whats your view on these new Video submission sites like trafficgeyeser? Is video really a good SEO leader?

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

Hello Terry,












Best Regards

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

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.

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.

Terry G
I would really appreciate if you could answer my 2 questions please...

Question 1. Is this true?
1. Google ranks websites by those that are deemed to have the most authority on the given topic/keyword.
2.

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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.

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,
Paul

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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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

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?


Thanks

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?

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.

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

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?

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?

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.

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?

i dont know if your asked this yet but.

does page rank really matter? if so how?

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

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

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.

What would you recommend doing to get blogspot (blogger.com) blogs ranked on google trends search terms?

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

Thanks SEO Guy for the link building information. I appreciate it.

Debbie

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

can you plz help me with my site fedorfight.com. My visiters on webalizer is:




and ive only made 3.50 on adsence!! I know my ads arnt placed right but is it really THAT important?

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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yes, bing is easy to rank, but it is indexed by google slowly

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

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!)

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.

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.

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?

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!

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!

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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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!

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.

What is the best (cheapest) way to promote a strange link bait?

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!!

Does article distribution service boost page ranking or does harm instead. I learn acquiring lost of links overnight is bad for SERP.

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?

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...

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?

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

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?

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?

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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What is the fastest way to create back links to your sites?

Regards.

Another question, does blog comment back link are better than back link from social bookmarking sites, article directories, and Angela Edwards List?

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!

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

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.

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

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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Terry- do you recommend any blog networks to help with SEO???

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.

Tuelz internet marketing and web site design software
make sure you can run the free version of tuelz before you buy anything.

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.

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?

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

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

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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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

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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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.

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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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

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?

Thanks Terry G, and thanks all for good questions and sharing - a wealth on great stuff here.

Linking is essential and article marketing can help a lot too.

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,

Liz

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!