SEO Forum - SEO - Frequently Asked Questions
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Please note: It's incomplete. I'd never intentionally leave anything out but I'm bound to have missed stuff. Please ask away in the thread and as well as posting to answer your questions I'll update the main FAQ sections as we go.
So without further ado ...
Contents -
Introduction (SEO 101)
- What is SEO?
- What's the difference between SEO and SEM?
- What's the difference between paid and organic search listings?
- What's on-page SEO?
- What's off-page SEO?
- How quickly will I see results?
- Should I rank my own content or articles on other sites?
Other factors ("Advanced" SEO)
- What other factors affect rankings besides backlinks?
- Does domain age help?
- Why would I want to 301 redirect an aged domain?
- What is rel="canonical"?
- What's the truth about duplicate content?
- What is a doorway page/cloaking?
- What are meta tags?
- What is the "freshness" factor?
- What is a C-class IP and why should I care?
- What is LSI?
- Should I build links for human beings or the search engines?
- What is an XML Sitemap?
- What's the sandbox?
- What is robots.txt for?
- What's a spamblog?
- What's an autoblog?
- What's an "authority" site?
- What are "supplemental" results?
Google and Page Rank
- What is Page Rank?
- How often does Google update Page Rank?
- Does PR matter?
- What is the "Google Dance"?
- How does Google personalize my results?
Link Building Basics
- What is a backlink?
- What is anchor text?
- What is a do-follow/no-follow link?
- Types of backlinks?
- Can paid links harm my ranking?
- Are reciprocal links bad?
- What is a one-way link?
- What is three-way linking?
- What is a site wide link?
- What is pinging?
Advanced Link Building
- What is link velocity?
- Can I build links too fast?
- What is page rank sculpting?
- What is a link wheel?
- What is a mininet?
- What makes a good site for a link wheel?
- What is link bait?
- What is a link farm?
- What is a footprint?
- How do I search for footprints?
- What is a proxy?
Indexation
- How do I get my site indexed?
- How do I get my backlinks indexed?
- How can I tell if my site has been visited by a spider/bot?
Statistics and monitoring
- What percentage of people click on the first listing in Google?
- How do I use Google alerts to monitor the SERPs?
- How can I track the number of backlinks I have?
Keyword Research
- What makes a good keyword?
- How many people are searching for my keyword?
- What is the "true" competition for a keyword?
- What are long tail keywords?
Official Stuff
- What is the official Google/Yahoo/Bing policy on SEO?
- Why doesn't Google tell me how many links I have?
- Who is Matt Cutts?
- Google webmaster tools
Automation, outsourcing and 3rd party stuff
- Can anyone guarantee a 1st place ranking?
- What is a backlink packet?
- I bought a packet of "high pr links" but all my links are PR0, what happened?
- What automation tools are there?
- What SEO service should I use?
- What does an SEO host give me that a regular one doesn't?
Glossary
- SEO
- SERP
- Spider/Crawler
- Backlink
- Anchor Text
- LSI
Major Contributors
- bgmacaw
Required Reading
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