Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th November 2012, 11:27 AM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th November 2012, 09:15 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th November 2012, 08:52 PM
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Views: 666 Re: Full Time PPC Manager Position
You probably don't need someone full-time. I'm sure I could run your campaign perfectly fine, part-time, for a $1,000 a month. I live in San Diego and can drive up to LA to talk more.
-Nick
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th November 2012, 01:11 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 581 Re: Estimated CPC for Region in Adwords
You can setup the campaign in Google. Set your Geo-Target and enter the keywords you want to bid on. Set your bid to some absurdly low CPC that won't get you any volume. If keyword tool estimates the...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th November 2012, 12:59 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 581 Re: Estimated CPC for Region in Adwords
It will be different than bidding on a non geo-targeted term. It can be cheaper or more expensive depending on the competition and the quality of traffic. If no one else is geo-targeting, then you...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th November 2012, 12:25 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th November 2012, 01:32 AM
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Views: 367 Re: Google ppc cost
What is your Revenue Per Sale/Lead? Divide that by 20. You should usually expect your CPC to fall around that number.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
6th November 2012, 02:17 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
2nd November 2012, 01:14 PM
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Views: 370 Re: Conversion Rate am I too optimistic
You should very easily get a >1.4% conversion rate. I have a 3% conversion rate for a very big finance company and a 10% conversion rate for a small business doing leadgen. Those are just two...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th October 2012, 01:40 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 473 Re: How would you market a photoshop product?
Hey Shannon,
I'm sure you can get a successful campaign going in Adwords, it all boils down to thorough keyword research and proper campaign structure, so that you get high Quality Scores. You...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th October 2012, 12:22 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 665 Re: I suck at AdWords. Please Help!
The #1 metric to look at is your Quality Score. Google hides it by default. Navigate to the Keywords tab and then click "Columns> Customize". Under Attributes, you should find Quality Score.
If...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th October 2012, 12:20 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 373 Re: Adwords to a Youtube Video
My only suggestion is that you look into Adwords For Video. When you log in to your Adwords account, the link to Adwords For Video should be in the bottom left hand corner.
At the very least,...
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Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display)
15th October 2012, 11:56 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 855 Re: PPC campaign conversion rate
Hey,
First off, great job on the research. Most people jump in blind, you are taking the smarter approach.
Have you ran an Adwords campaign before? If not, there's a good chance you are going...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
1st September 2012, 09:53 AM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
1st September 2012, 12:40 AM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
31st August 2012, 03:37 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
31st August 2012, 03:12 PM
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Views: 509 Re: No of OBLs and sites ranking?
It depends on the PageRank you get from those 10 backlinks pointing to your site. It also depends on the amount of internal links you have.
If you have 20 separate guest posts, and they all only...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
31st August 2012, 01:49 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 509 Re: No of OBLs and sites ranking?
Yes, 2 backlinks will reduce your PR more than 1 backlink. However, if you have a healthy amount of internal links (which you should), then you won't lose too much pagerank.
For example, If you...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
31st August 2012, 01:40 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
31st August 2012, 01:34 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 2,824 Re: Outbound links can they lower your page rank?
An outbound backlink will indirectly lower the pagerank of the specific page you have the outbound backlinks on. This is because it will reduce the PageRank of every other page on your site, which...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
31st August 2012, 01:16 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
31st August 2012, 12:57 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
31st August 2012, 12:00 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
31st August 2012, 11:03 AM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
31st August 2012, 10:25 AM
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Views: 1,409 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
30th August 2012, 12:25 PM
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Views: 1,409 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
29th August 2012, 07:12 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
16th August 2012, 02:13 PM
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Views: 613 Re: PageRank Sculpting Post Penguin - Bad?
Hey man,
There's no benefit to no-following internal links. It can only hurt your website. I wrote a blog post explaining why you shouldn't no-follow internal links...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
30th July 2012, 01:19 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
23rd July 2012, 05:44 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
23rd July 2012, 04:03 PM
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Views: 369 Re: .htaccess files
Google can normally recognize which is the most important page to rank, but it won't count all 4 pages linkjuice for the top page.
Yes, you need to 301 redirect the other 3 pages to your main...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
23rd July 2012, 03:47 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 637 Re: 301 redirect to subpage
Google has a dampening factor of 15% in it's PageRank algorithm. Many SEO's notice a slight dropoff in traffic after a 301, so I assume that there's some dropoff in PageRank... which may impact your...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
23rd July 2012, 03:20 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 449 Re: Does PageRank affects DERP ?
Sure, PageRank affects your ability to rank. There are other factors that come into play, such as relevancy.
Let's say you are trying to rank for "SiteFlow".
Right now your website,...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
20th July 2012, 02:02 AM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
19th July 2012, 05:10 PM
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Replies: 98
Views: 8,227 Re: which is the best keyword research tool?
Check out SerpIQ. They have a free version for keyword research.
As others have said in this thread, I use Google Adwords to research keywords and I run them through SerpIQ to get SEO competition...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
19th July 2012, 04:58 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th July 2012, 03:52 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th July 2012, 03:45 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,323 Re: Competitor finder
Here's how to do this with Ahrefs:
1. Get a list of keywords you are ranking or trying to rank for. If you don't have a way to do this, you can do it with Ahrefs. Go to Ahrefs Site Explorer...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th July 2012, 02:52 PM
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Replies: 49
Views: 3,800 Re: Are High PR Private Blog Networks the Secret?
They definitely are working and are much safer than public blog networks. I do suggest the following though to avoid obvious footprints:
1. Don't only link to your websites, this is unnatural and...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th July 2012, 02:41 PM
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Views: 533 Re: ahrefs.com suddenly updated my profile?
Yeah, I factor in two things when looking at Ahrefs data:
1. It's only a piece of the pie, it probably only has 75% of my backlinks.
and
2. It's going to be a few weeks behind on my backlink...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th July 2012, 02:40 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
17th July 2012, 01:47 AM
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Views: 357 Re: alexa rank
It doesn't affect the quality of a website. High Quality websites are almost always in the top 100k of Alexa.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
16th July 2012, 06:34 PM
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Replies: 170
Views: 7,154 Re: Private networks still work
Sure, private networks work because they are much harder to detect... especially if you don't abuse them. Just be careful that you don't ONLY link to your money sites... mix authority sites in there...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
16th July 2012, 06:33 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 606 Re: AMR users - Did Penguin hit your site(s)?
Most of my clients were hit by Penguin and they used BMR/ALN. Although correlation does not equal causation, I think it's safe to assume these links ended up having some impact on the Penguin penalty.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
16th July 2012, 06:13 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 490 Re: Backlinks not showing
It takes a while for backlinks to show up in google, much less the backlink analytic software out there. Focus on building quality backlinks and don't worry about them getting indexed.
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