Forum: Search Engine Optimization
20th March 2012, 04:56 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 971 Re: How to get backlinks for inner pages
It depends on what service you are using.
Many backlink services only allow links to the homepage. However, the better services that are designed for serious SEO should allow deep linking.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
20th March 2012, 04:44 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 790 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
20th March 2012, 04:38 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 823 Re: how to know that links built are index?
Searching the URL in Google will let you know if it's indexed or not. If you don't have the URL, you can search for portions of the content you're expecting a link from in Google with quotes around...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th March 2012, 05:18 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 686 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th March 2012, 05:11 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,438 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th March 2012, 05:08 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,107 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th March 2012, 05:05 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 426 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th March 2012, 04:57 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 511 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th March 2012, 11:40 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 842 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th March 2012, 11:37 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 458 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th March 2012, 11:32 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 379 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th March 2012, 07:57 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 961 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th March 2012, 07:53 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 533 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th March 2012, 07:51 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 571 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th March 2012, 01:40 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 422 Re: Pages of Semi-Related content on site
Since your post has drifted onto the second page and no one's answered yet I'll help ya out :)
To answer your question, yes this content will help you out. In fact, it will help you out more than...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th March 2012, 01:29 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 351 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th March 2012, 01:23 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 482 Re: Rank Tracker - How to Hide AdWords Results?
Unless their latest updates have some issues with scraping the Google results, Rank Tracker shouldn't be taking into consideration AdWords. It's not a setting with the program so there is nothing you...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th March 2012, 01:18 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,607 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th March 2012, 09:13 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 799 Re: with or without www hurting SEO
CPANEL 301 redirects will work as well, but I'm not sure if you can do a catchall redirect.
For example, a catchall redirect would redirect shoe.com/blue-shoes to www.shoe.com/blue-shoes.
I'm...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th March 2012, 09:08 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 799 Re: with or without www hurting SEO
Any hosting plan should be able to do the redirects. The type of redirects you want are 301 redirects.
I believe HostGator is Apache hosting. This is the code you'd need for Apache:
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th March 2012, 08:59 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 478 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th March 2012, 08:50 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 351 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th March 2012, 07:09 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 895 Re: Anchor text effectiveness
Technically the first one would be more effective, but really you should be using many variations in your anchor texts when building links. Choosing just 1 or 2 is setting yourself up for failure.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th March 2012, 07:03 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 961 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th March 2012, 08:38 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 624 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th March 2012, 08:36 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 534 Re: SEO Question - Content spread out on page.
I also agree that the product should have been called the Alligrater.
Just kidding :)
You should be fine having the content separated like that. Google doesn't require that all content be...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th March 2012, 08:31 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 724 Re: This is how to rank #1 with minimum content
Your #1 result, RoseIndia.net has over 1.8 million indexed results in Google.
Google loves large authority sites, so it's perfectly normal for this site to rank above a small personal blog like #3.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
12th March 2012, 08:29 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 458 Re: Hi to all. Newbie here seeking advice.
Beware of using the Google keyword tool to determine competition for keywords. The Google keyword tool reports competition for AdWords AKA paid traffic. If you are trying to build a site to rank for...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th March 2012, 07:18 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,732 Re: Page views have dropped dramatically
If you have Analytics then your first order of business needs to be analyzing where all that traffic was coming from and figuring out if there's a reason that source dropped.
Check the sources tab...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th March 2012, 07:14 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 351 Re: Keyword or SEO Tools You Need
The 3 big things people need in the SEO World:
Keyword Research
Backlinks
Rank Tracking
There are obviously competitors in each of these niches, but that doesn't mean you can't improve on...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th March 2012, 11:36 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 5,681 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th March 2012, 11:33 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 343 Re: Google Competition Question
Google Keyword Tool only represents the difficulty for adwords competitors. Since you're trying to rank for these keywords organically you don't have to worry about that.
Now, looking at the...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th March 2012, 11:21 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 646 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th March 2012, 11:17 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 460 Re: Finally ranking,now what?
I'd say just keep building diverse backlinks as you have been.
Showing up on page 9 or 12 means your site is beginning to gain exposure, but it still has a long ways to go.
Keep your link...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th March 2012, 11:11 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 927 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th March 2012, 11:07 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 415 Re: Tld
Generally the .com tld is preferred, with .net and .org being tied for second place.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th March 2012, 11:16 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,316 Re: How to Spy Competitor keyword list
SEMRush is the best tool to see which keywords a website is actually ranking for. If you enter in a website in SEMRush, it will actually show you which rankings are sending the most traffic to a...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th March 2012, 11:11 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 857 Re: SEO Question - Keyword in URL
I have to back up my recommendation again from earlier that the homepage should rank for blue widgets and then create inner pages based on related keywords. Very similar to the SILO approach...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th March 2012, 01:58 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 638 Re: How to detect Uniqueness of articles?
Copyscape will do what you need.
The pro version lets you do 100 searches for $5 and is well worth the money. It will compare your article with any other content on the web and show you any...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th March 2012, 01:50 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 857 Re: SEO Question - Keyword in URL
Since your domain name is "blue-widgets" and you want to target "blue widgets" it will be much better that you use the home page.
Google expects you to get many links to your homepage with your...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th March 2012, 01:45 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 533 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th March 2012, 01:39 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 411 Re: Messed up CMS harms my rankings?
The deindexing itself isn't what caused the problem, it's what the deindexing communicates to Google.
If your site went from 20,000 pages to 6,000 pages than Google probably thinks your site is...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th March 2012, 01:32 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 960 Re: Cannot rank my site. Please help
At first I was quite perplexed as to why you were not ranking. I looked at your site and everything looked good...
But upon some further digging I think I've found the problem.
Your entire site...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
7th March 2012, 06:42 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 939 Re: Niche Ideas?
As mentioned above, anything can be a good niche. It all comes down to keyword research.
Market Samurai has some good keyword research tutorials here: Noble Samurai - Dojo - Golden Rule #1: How...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th March 2012, 06:29 PM
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Replies: 44
Views: 960 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th March 2012, 06:20 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 770 Re: Military niche?
I don't have any personal experience in military niches, but I do have a lot of experience in SEO and the fundamentals apply to all niches.
Based on what you've described, it sounds like some...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th March 2012, 01:40 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 713 Re: Beat PR6+ competition
PR has little to know influence on how well your site ranks. It only indicates how strong the backlinks are(to some extent).
Instead of looking at the PR of your competitors, you need to look at...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th March 2012, 01:37 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 410 Re: Have I missed something? | SEO for a new site
Your backlinking method is okay for a low competition niche but it lacks any real "meat" so to speak.
You need stronger backlinks if you hope to beat out sites in a highly competitive niche. 30...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th March 2012, 01:28 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 577 Re: Anchor Text Code For Backlink Question
Not a dumb question at all.
To make a backlink from your comment, you have to leave both a name and a website.
Sometimes the website will automatically take your name and turn it into a link...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
7th March 2012, 01:24 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 451 Re: A little help and direction!!
There are lot's of different strategies to gain traffic. You need to examine your business and decide which is the best for you.
There are two main ways to do this.
Buying traffic through...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th March 2012, 01:17 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 437 Re: Tips for optimising an art site?
Since you're in the SEO section I'm assuming you mean optimizing for SEO.
First off, you need to see if there are any keywords he could potentially rank for. Big keywords like "buy oil paintings"...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
6th March 2012, 09:27 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 663 Re: Backlinks from WordPress comments
It depends on the Wordpress site. Some sites will not show your name simply as plain text, and others will make it a link.
The best way to check is to look at other comments on the blog and see if...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
6th March 2012, 01:59 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 852 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
6th March 2012, 01:41 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 598 Re: How to make the push from page 2 to page 1?
Did your site appear on page 2 completely on it's own with no SEO? Then chances are you are in a very low competition niche, so a few high quality one way links should be all it takes to get ranked...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
6th March 2012, 01:39 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 617 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
6th March 2012, 01:33 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 397 Re: Site PR backlinking
Commenting on the PR4 site will have much more impact, even if the page you comment on is PR0. The domain authority of the site gets transferred to the inner pages and some of that will be passed on...
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