Forum: Search Engine Optimization
4th September 2010, 12:00 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,176 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd September 2010, 10:04 AM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
2nd September 2010, 09:21 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 6,094 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
2nd September 2010, 08:05 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,176 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
2nd September 2010, 06:24 PM
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Views: 1,176 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
26th August 2010, 01:27 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,269 How Do PageRank Updates Work? Matt Cutts Answers!
A lot of questions pop up here concerning PageRank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagerank). Today, Matt Cutts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Cutts) posted a video on Google Webmaster Central's...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th August 2010, 02:30 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 491 Re: Googlebot unaffected by * in robots.txt?
That's a good question, and you're not bugging me. :) Everyone's entitled to a rant once in a while, right? :p
If User-agent: * disallows /foot/
but then User-agent: Googlebot allows /foot/, that...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th August 2010, 02:18 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 491 Re: Googlebot unaffected by * in robots.txt?
Yes. Robots.txt is powerful in that you can give generic (*) directions but also apply directions specific to given spiders. This is great when maybe you don't want Google's regular bot to crawl...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th August 2010, 02:07 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 491 Re: Googlebot unaffected by * in robots.txt?
No worries, Miller. =) Thanks for understanding. My rant is in part that I have seen and/or answered this exact or very similar question... many times in the last week. It can get a little... me want...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th August 2010, 01:09 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 491 Re: Googlebot unaffected by * in robots.txt?
No offense to you, MillerB7, for I am sure you're a good, decent person, but I've a small rant. Thanks in advance for your understanding.
<rant>
Wow... WTF... Are there only like 10 of us on...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th August 2010, 10:33 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 703 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
23rd August 2010, 09:46 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,221 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st August 2010, 09:20 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,180 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
19th August 2010, 01:22 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 839 Re: To Cloak, Or Not To Cloak
Good boy. Cloaking is a severe offense. Avoiding violating the Google Webmaster Guidelines is very important... but ESPECIALLY do not break the rules listed here:
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
19th August 2010, 01:06 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 839 Re: To Cloak, Or Not To Cloak
Yes, you're penalized in the harshest ways possible. No, do not cloak if you care about your web site's Google listing.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
19th August 2010, 12:57 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 546 Re: Question about nofollow link??
Not to be rude, but please use the search feature... Or just look a few pages back. This issue has been beaten and discussed to death. There are many threads that go deep into this issue.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th August 2010, 07:38 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 1,240 Re: What SEO Tool Would You Pay For?
Everyone's approach is different, and I wasn't trying to take away from your business at all. =) I do hope you have a lot of success!
That being said, I am one of those people who have, for...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th August 2010, 06:30 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 1,240 Re: What SEO Tool Would You Pay For?
None. Not to take away from your money making idea, but I am under the mindset that SEO is basically Free as it's pretty much just a matter of learning and then utilizing the knowledge learned. I...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th August 2010, 01:37 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 617 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
17th August 2010, 12:19 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 898 Re: NoFollow Tags
Yea, I just linked two which I participated in. It's funny how this is the SEO category of Warrior Forums and people don't know how to use search engines properly. :P
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
17th August 2010, 12:10 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 898 Re: NoFollow Tags
That's why I just linked two previous threads which this whole NoFollow vs. DoFollow thing was beaten to death. There is a lot of bad information circulating the Internet concerning both... If only...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
17th August 2010, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 898 Re: NoFollow Tags
NoFollow Vs. DoFollow is a frequent topic of discussion and debate here. I think that I should reference two previous threads which I was involved in. They may prove useful.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
17th August 2010, 11:51 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 1,244 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
17th August 2010, 11:08 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 1,244 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
17th August 2010, 11:01 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,483 Re: SEO Benefit in Robots.txt?
Having a Robots.txt is good I think, even if it's just...
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://www.site.com/sitemap.xml
But I don't think that you get a huge, if any benefit, from it if...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
16th August 2010, 06:17 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 1,244 Re: It's Here, People Are Doing Anti-SEO
I am going to guess that this is a smoking gun but in the event that it is legitimate, nobody here should worry.
This has been posted officially on the Google forums. If it's real, this would be a...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
16th August 2010, 04:21 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 859 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
16th August 2010, 11:09 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 815 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
16th August 2010, 10:29 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 536 Re: I want to learn seo
Sadly, most of it is wrong or way out of date... Finding good sources to learn from is very important.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th August 2010, 03:22 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 717 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th August 2010, 12:53 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 536 Re: I want to learn seo
Yes. They're both very up to date and relevant.
Also, I'd watch all of the videos posted under Uploads here:
YouTube - GoogleWebmasterHelp's Channel (http://gwcy.hovercoupon.com/)
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th August 2010, 12:37 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 536 Re: I want to learn seo
If you truly want to learn SEO, obtain Marketing in the Age of Google (http://mag.hovercoupon.com/) and The Art of SEO (http://aseo.hovercoupon.com/). These are two great books from which to start....
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th August 2010, 11:32 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 815 Re: SEO Is Learned by Knowing How Google Works
Great video...
This is a good place to start. The Art of SEO (http://aseo.hovercoupon.com/) and Marketing in the Age of Google (http://mag.hovercoupon.com/) are two great books to follow up with...
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Forum: Website Design
15th August 2010, 11:11 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 778 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th August 2010, 11:01 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 683 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th August 2010, 09:15 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 711 Re: Best Ways to Backlink Articles?
Your link doesn't work, and it also reminds me of someone who got banned from here less than a month ago for linking viruses and scams to people... Be careful or it will happen again.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th August 2010, 04:29 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 717 Re: Need help in customizing robots.txt File
Here's an example of a proper robots.txt
http://www.hovercoupon.com/robots.txt
Hope that helps. You only Disallow stuff you want disallowed... IF you Disallow / - Google ignores the whole site.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th August 2010, 11:46 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 683 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th August 2010, 10:18 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 813 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th August 2010, 08:02 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 675 Re: Yahoo Merging With Bing... Your Thoughts?
Before, to conquer the search market of the United States, it was necessary to take four engines; Google, Bing, Yahoo!, and Ask.com. This makes it easier since there will be one less to worry about....
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th August 2010, 07:33 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 512 Re: Aged Domain Question
YouTube - How much does a domain's age affect its ranking?
YouTube - Is PageRank calculated differently for domains registered before 2004?
YouTube - Can a purchased domain's history affect its...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th August 2010, 05:05 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 678 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th August 2010, 02:25 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 888 Re: Does Blog Commenting Still work?
It helps, but very little and not as much as having keyword rich anchor text pointing to your web site existing within a body of text that is relevant to the content of your web site. Also, Google...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th August 2010, 12:36 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 784 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th August 2010, 02:17 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 763 Re: 1 page sites and SEO
Google likes lots and lots and lots of unique, quality content. Google also loves sites that change regularly or consistently grow.
However, a one page site can outrank other sites if the Internet...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd August 2010, 11:55 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 629 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
2nd August 2010, 01:48 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 996 Re: Crawl errors = goodbye SERPS?
There's no universal answer for this... there are a lot of factors involved...
That being said, when one takes down or moves content, it's generally recommended that they setup a 301 redirect so...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
31st July 2010, 11:16 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 814 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
30th July 2010, 11:44 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,312 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
27th July 2010, 05:53 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 599 Re: Other Ways for (Good) Backlinks?
Participate in social media. For example, I setup a Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/hovercoupon) account for one of my experiments and it's already resulted in a few conversions - really.
A lot of...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
26th July 2010, 11:43 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 520 Re: Building links for your DMOZ category?
Don't worry about PageRank. This is a very common SEO mistake... being overly obsessed about PageRank. Google keeps trying to get people to quit caring about this so much but everyone still obsesses,...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
26th July 2010, 10:36 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 595 Re: my host banned google from my site
@Groovystar
Please hit me up on AIM/ICQ and I'll be more than glad to help you configure a few things to prevent this from ever happening again. It's a common problem, easy to fix with a few...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
26th July 2010, 09:54 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 520 Re: Building links for your DMOZ category?
Congratulations! =)
In regards to building links to the category, don't waste your time. DMOZ has been around plenty long. Do ping the category, however, to expedite an update in search engines so...
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Forum: Programming
26th July 2010, 05:28 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,058 Re: What kind of hosting panel does Godaddy have?
In my humble opinion, GoDaddy is a horrible domain name registrar and web host. They've gotten a huge market share and are now following in the self-destructive footsteps of Network Solutions.
I...
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Forum: Programming
26th July 2010, 05:24 PM
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Replies: 142
Views: 9,127 Re: Bluehost or Hostgator?
If I could only choose between big Blue and the Gator, I'd choose HostGator. However, I use Site5 exclusively and recommend them. =)
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
25th July 2010, 05:40 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 1,333 Re: Keyword Density = SEO MYTH!!!
It's not a "myth" as people continue to do it, recommend it, and Google continues to penalize people for doing it. More correctly, the idea that it helps is a myth, as the exact opposite is true;...
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