Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th September 2017, 07:36 PM
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Views: 392 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th September 2017, 10:29 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 392 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th September 2017, 06:51 AM
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Views: 392 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
6th September 2017, 11:00 PM
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Views: 92 Where To Put My City?
I'm putting together a website for my brick-and-mortar business, and I'm trying to get a sense of where I should put my city, so the search engines know to direct local searchers to me. The city's...
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Forum: Website Design
10th November 2015, 10:12 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 545 Free Privacy Policy Generator?
Is there a site or even a template that provides a genuinely free privacy policy generator? I've found a few, but I get to page three, and then they want me to pay.
I'm using Adwords to drive...
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Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display)
5th August 2015, 01:55 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 597 Canadian CPA Network?
I'm looking to find a CPA advertising network. However, we are only offering our service in Canada (excluding Quebec and Nova Scotia).
Which CPA networks that are targeted like this? The...
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Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display)
4th June 2015, 08:35 PM
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Replies: 8
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Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display)
3rd June 2015, 11:56 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 823 Getting Started with CPA?
I'm looking into finding a CPA network for referrals to an online counselling agency.
Any ideas on where should I get started? I'd like to set up something where I pay per paying client, for...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st September 2014, 07:12 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 947 Re: Getting Link Bombed - What To Do?
How about a 301 redirect for just that page somewhere into the ether (like to www.sadfhajdhauwehurasfuhaweufafauk.com (http://www.sadfhajdhauwehurasfuhaweufafauk.com))? How does Penguin (and SERPs)...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st September 2014, 06:30 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 947 Re: Getting Link Bombed - What To Do?
Yep, you're right. Just by doing that, I found over a hundred of them.
Okay, so what do I do? Link disavowal won't work because there are so many of these spam links out there that I can't...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st September 2014, 05:59 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 947 Re: Getting Link Bombed - What To Do?
The sites are clearly autogenerated. Someone's set up pages that are based on keywords, then they've created largely incoherent pages that include, among other things, two-sentence excerpts from...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st September 2014, 08:34 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 947 Getting Link Bombed - What To Do?
I'm having trouble with a few spammy sites that are autogenerating pages that include links. Unfortunately, one of the links they're using is to my website. So far, through trackbacks, I've been...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st September 2014, 06:46 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 231 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
30th September 2013, 08:42 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 530 Re: Large Traffic Drop Sep 13th/14th - Any Ideas?
Very interesting. This is just my personal blog, not a commercial one, but I was wondering what explained the drop.
Fortunately, it sounds like this isn't a penalty, like Panda or Penguin. It's...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
29th September 2013, 09:43 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 530 Large Traffic Drop Sep 13th/14th - Any Ideas?
Hi everyone,
I have a blog that got hit with a large traffic drop on Sept 13th-14th. I've never done any backlinking or anything for it.
Was there some sort of update at that point? I'd like...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th May 2013, 07:32 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 434 Re: Starting a New Site in the Same Niche?
Yes, this site just runs off of Adsense, and even its Bing-Yahoo shadow is doing fairly well.
I don't want to pull anything over on Google here. I just wondered if they disapproved of this sort...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th May 2013, 06:23 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 839 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th May 2013, 05:38 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 839 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th May 2013, 05:26 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 434 Starting a New Site in the Same Niche?
I had a smallish site (~50 pages) get hit with panda and then penguin, and it was destroyed in Google. However, it's still making enough money with Yahoo and Bing to keep running.
It's got a very...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
5th May 2013, 07:13 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 701 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
4th May 2013, 08:42 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 701 How Aggressive Does Panda Allow Us To Be Now?
I'm working on Adsense placement for my new site, and I'm wondering how aggressive Panda now allows us to be before penalizing us. My current plan is to put one 250x250 ad in the top left of my...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
22nd April 2013, 07:32 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 323 Panda and Ad Placement
Hi everyone,
I started a new site, and I put my ads on my sidebar. After getting a horrible ctr, I thought I should move them.
However, I'm worried about Panda, and how it affects ads. My...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
26th March 2013, 08:43 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 419 What Happens If I Nuke and Restart My Site?
I'm planning to restart my site on a new domain, since it's not recovering from Penguin.
Here's my plan:
1. Use robots.txt to block search engines.
2. Use the url remover tool to wipe the...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th March 2013, 12:09 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 577 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th March 2013, 10:56 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 577 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
6th June 2012, 01:11 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 503 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th May 2012, 12:41 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 530 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th May 2012, 10:49 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 852 Adsense on Noindex Pages?
I'd like to noindex a couple of my pages that have backlink issues to hopefully stem some of the Penguin infection that hit my site.
However, I have ads on those pages. Is this allowed according...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
5th May 2012, 04:23 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 530 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
5th May 2012, 03:44 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 530 Has Anyone Had a Site Partially Hit by Penguin?
I have a large blog with about 200 posts that has been hit by penguin. What's weird is that only half the site seems to have been hit. Some pages rank exactly as they used to, while others rank...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd May 2012, 10:15 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 496 Re: penguin - how will it handle BLs as they age
That's quite interesting. I've noticed, too, that the penalty does not seem to be site-wide. Only some of my pages were hit. I had four press releases, which seem to have been the problem, so I've...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
1st May 2012, 09:17 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 649 Re: Idea for Penguin Recovery
Okay, I've disabled my internal linking and related post plugins, as well as deleted the pages and any links to them. Hopefully, this will stem the infection. In a month or so, I'll put my related...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
1st May 2012, 08:47 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 649 Re: Idea for Penguin Recovery
Yes, they are. Actually, that's one of the things that makes me doubt this will work. I inherited the url from someone else a year ago, and that person's links still appear on webmaster tools, even...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
1st May 2012, 08:05 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 638 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
1st May 2012, 07:59 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 649 Re: Idea for Penguin Recovery
Thanks for the suggestion. I went back and purged all of the articles of any of the terms mentioned in the anchor links. This, of course, meant rewriting the titles.
The problem is the urls,...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
30th April 2012, 06:42 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 649 Re: Idea for Penguin Recovery
That's a great idea :). Thank you.
About 75% of my links come from those press releases, so I think they're the problem, even though I only did four of them.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
30th April 2012, 06:20 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 649 Idea for Penguin Recovery
I'm pretty sure what's hurt me with penguin is the four press releases that I put out. They're pretty typical in that they have a few keywords as anchor text in the middle of the release, which may...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
30th April 2012, 06:14 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,785 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
30th April 2012, 01:56 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,785 Best Place To Sell Domain Names?
I'm doing a bit of a housecleaning on domains I never really built out. What is the best site available for selling my old domain names? I'm not interested in selling the sites, just the domains.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
28th April 2012, 05:48 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 854 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
28th April 2012, 05:21 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 611 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
28th April 2012, 08:39 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,440 Re: Guest posting sites.
I don't use guest posting sites. I'd rather just find the sites that are very popular in my area and contact the webmasters directly. I just enter the following into Google:
"keyword" guest
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
28th April 2012, 08:22 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 699 Re: What to do to restore lost rankings ?
If you have access to your bad backlinks, go and delete them, or at least as many as possible. Also check your page for excessive internal linking. I disabled my internal linking plugin.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
27th April 2012, 09:40 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 425 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
27th April 2012, 08:00 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 425 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
27th April 2012, 02:44 PM
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Replies: 64
Views: 3,365 Re: Penguin Is Fully Live - Confirmed By Google
Well, fully rolled out doesn't necessarily mean that the dancing is over, just that the changes are live on every one of their servers. I've had one page of my site nuked by a single scoop.it link...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
27th April 2012, 09:32 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 616 Re: Hypothesis About the Latest Google Update
I'm not sure how many websites have the anchor text of my title. I'd assume anyone who carried my press release.
Sorry, I don't want to comment about who is was, just that it was a paid and...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
27th April 2012, 08:48 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 616 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
27th April 2012, 08:02 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 616 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
27th April 2012, 07:53 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 616 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
27th April 2012, 07:48 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 616 Hypothesis About the Latest Google Update
I was checking out my website today in the search engines, and I noticed something very interesting. I've done very little backlinking on this website, but I did put out four press releases.
...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th April 2012, 05:09 PM
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Replies: 526
Views: 28,376 Re: Google algo change today?
There seems to be some weirdness with this update.
For instance, I have a page, where I have a subpage on rentals. So, my main page is "keywords" and my subpage is "keywords rentals". What...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
11th April 2012, 09:19 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 317 Image Pages on Wordpress?
On my Wordpress blog, every image that I have has its own page, so that when you click on the image, it takes you to that page, not simply to the image.
I have two questions about this:
1) Is...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th October 2011, 08:19 AM
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Replies: 675
Views: 42,639 Re: Anybody noticed Changes in Google SERP
Steve,
I had the exact same experience. My four biggest earning sites were all hit hard, and three of them had very little in common (two of them were fairly similar). One was a squeaky-white...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th October 2011, 10:44 PM
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Replies: 675
Views: 42,639 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th October 2011, 04:43 PM
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Replies: 675
Views: 42,639 Re: Anybody noticed Changes in Google SERP
I've noticed a large change as well, and so far today, I have about 1/3 the visits I normally have for a Friday (it's 6:42).
I googled my sites for their main keywords, and found they went from...
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