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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd September 2023, 02:36 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 57
Posted By Sriram Prasad
RE: Can google crawl a password protected pdf linked to from your site?

No, Google cannot crawl a password-protected PDF linked to your site. Password-protected PDFs are not accessible to the public, and therefore, Google's web crawlers will not be able to access them...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd September 2023, 01:22 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 57
Posted By freeabs
Re: Can google crawl a password protected pdf linked to from your site?

From my experiences, No, Google's web crawlers cannot crawl the content of password-protected PDFs or any other password-protected files linked from your website. Google's web crawlers can only...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 6th September 2023, 10:34 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 210
Posted By DWolfe
Re: How long does it take to finish setting up on-page SEO?

Why would it take someone 3 weeks to do SEO? If you hired someone and they were that slow, they should be fired!
Forum: Beginners Area 4th September 2023, 07:34 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 138
Posted By Monetize
Re: caught in the tech layoffs

Hello!

Now is not the time to start trying to learn a bunch of
things you don't know anything about. Now is the time
to get busy doing something to generate income.

Start doing more of any...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st August 2023, 06:21 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 126
Posted By Kay King
Re: Hire someone to do keyword research

OK - now I understand what happened 20 years ago.

Good luck - you'll need it. I don't wish have a conversation with a dolt, either....
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st August 2023, 10:39 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 202
Posted By Kay King
Re: Domain Names - Necessary?

Either one will work. I used to use subdomains quite a bit....so a domain might be gardenlady.com and I might have subdomains of gardentools, roses, indoor plants, perrenials, etc. I would pay for...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th August 2023, 01:09 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 610
Posted By Kay King
Re: Is 40% commission too risky for a young brand to stark off an affiliate program

Advice is so much more helpful if you stay on the forum long enough to read it....just saying....
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 6th August 2023, 09:44 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 148
Posted By Kay King
Re: Google might find out your websites via the Google services (G Analytics etc) you use?

This may be one of the most unusual posts I've seen here for a long time.

The 'black hat' that google is concerned with is any 'cheats' or 'hacks' that abuse the google ranking system or try to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th August 2023, 06:50 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 610
Posted By Kay King
Re: Is 40% commission too risky for a young brand to stark off an affiliate program

I'm not sure anyone here can tell you what is 'too risky' for your brand. Can you afford to pay 40% - does that keep you in a popular price range or within the price range you are aiming for? More...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st August 2023, 11:21 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 52
Posted By DABK
Re: remove a page from google listing for particular keyword

make it noindex: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/block-indexing
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th July 2023, 03:01 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 313
Posted By cbpayne
Re: Backlink Indexation Problems

If you need to do anything to get a backlink indexed, then it probably a useless backlink that is not worth having.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th July 2023, 02:54 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 325
Posted By Monetize
Re: Timeshare lead generation business - Any tips or suggestions ?

People need to be careful when dealing with timeshares, depending on
the state they are doing business in, they will probably need a real estate
or broker's license, or be operating under someone...
Forum: Beginners Area 24th July 2023, 07:36 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 185
Posted By Monetize
Re: How long should an email list building free e-book be?

Your giveaway does not need to be any particular
length, you should focus more on providing great
content, so however long it takes to convey your
information, that's how long it should be.
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th July 2023, 10:55 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 170
Posted By DWolfe
Re: Looking for guidance. One brand two very different businesses.

At this point it probably does not matter. The Original Poster never came back after posting this thread.


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Forum: Beginners Area 19th July 2023, 04:47 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 111
Posted By Kay King
Re: Backlinks Indexing Issue - Need Help

You don't seem to have done much to learn about the quality of banklinks. One long time member here often recommends new marketers learn about linking on backlinko.com .



If you can easily...
Forum: Beginners Area 3rd July 2023, 06:15 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 688
Posted By Monetize
Re: Making money from get go methods.

Gordon Jay cracks me up.

Click your heels and make a wish.

To the OP, there are probably 250 ways
to make money online, some of them are
passive after the initial set up, some of
them...
Forum: Beginners Area 2nd July 2023, 01:02 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 688
Posted By GordonJ
Sure, it is easy.

Just follow the yellow brick road. Click your heels together 3 times and there you go.

That will be as useful as any other advice given to you. You have given us nothing to work with, except some...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th June 2023, 10:24 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 330
Posted By MikeFriedman
Re: Question Related to keyword research

KGR is complete bullshit and always has been. It's the dumbest concept in digital marketing I have ever seen.

It's stupid because it considers how many search results show up in Google's search...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 23rd May 2023, 02:16 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 702
Posted By cbpayne
Re: Should I create Profile Backlinks in 2023?

Waste of time. At best they are ignored by Google. At worst you get your client penalized for an unnatural link profile.




What a load of ChatGPT generated nonsense. Stop making a fool of...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th May 2023, 06:44 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 155
Posted By NetMan
Re: Many prints and few clicks in google ads

If no-one clicks your ad it's because there's nothing to make them click. And, no-one will click more even if you increase the cost per click. Cost per click is to getting the click against the...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 12th May 2023, 12:21 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 204
Posted By DABK
Re: What to do with old news?

Use it to link to pages you want to rank. Look up Clay Bruce's silos for seo. (https://www.bruceclay.com/seo/silo/)
Forum: Beginners Area 20th April 2023, 02:51 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 152
Posted By DABK
Re: No luck selling domains, any suggestions?

Who says it's valuable?


Have you Googled domain brokers?


Listed on godaddy.com or some such site's auction section?
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 20th April 2023, 12:43 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 567
Posted By DABK
Re: Do subdomains affect SEO?

The other negative? If you wanted to sell them separately,
Forum: Beginners Area 20th April 2023, 08:24 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 152
Posted By Kay King
Re: No luck selling domains, any suggestions?

What you think is valuable may not be what someone else thinks is 'valuable'. The best you can do is offer the domain on a domain selling site. It will sell or it won't. At some point it will...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd April 2023, 02:10 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 284
Posted By Kay King
Re: Is it okay to tag my clients' business names on LinkedIn?

You seem to be asking the same question in different ways. In my opinion, you should never use a client you worked for in any way...without their permission.

It is not unusual for a client who...
Forum: Beginners Area 28th March 2023, 02:24 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 94
Posted By Kay King
Re: need ideas

If you want to be paid for 'content creation' - and that's how you write, you might want to consider doing something else.

No punctuation, no sentence structure, grammatical issues.

Create an...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 28th March 2023, 07:15 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 708
Posted By Kay King
Re: More ecomm shoppers are using buy-now-pay-later

Talk about a 'positive spin'. There is a trend right now that economists are warning about. In the US at least, personal debt is reaching an all time high. Credit card use has been way up for...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th March 2023, 03:04 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 241
Posted By Kay King
Re: Registering my affiliate marketing business?

Not good to take legal or financial advice from a forum like this - advice may well be from someone in another country with laws that don't apply to you.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th March 2023, 10:58 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 121
Posted By expmrb
Re: High DA83 Domain 301 to new domain .. will it work?

Build your site in the old one. You know people will kill for this kind of domain.;):D
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th March 2023, 12:15 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 121
Posted By agmccall
Re: High DA83 Domain 301 to new domain .. will it work?

With those links I might think about making that my money site. Find the content they are linking to and recreate it. That way the links will stay live. I am not an SEO guy myself but that is...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th February 2023, 10:43 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 215
Posted By DABK
Re: SEO implications of sub folders vs root domains

Like Dave, I do not think you need to make the change you're contemplating.



Would dabk-walkingshoes.com/running-shoes stop you from buying running shoes from dabk-walkingshoes.com?


Do...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th February 2023, 02:31 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 231
Posted By DABK
Re: Why Not Ditch GA4 and Build My Own Analytics?

Yours will not be better than theirs but it will use up resources to create.
Forum: Beginners Area 17th January 2023, 10:12 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 439
Posted By Kay King
Re: Anyone aware of free traffic methods for affiliate marketing that isnt fb,ig or youtube

If you only want to use FREE traffic methods - you limit your reach and avoiding all social media limits it further.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th January 2023, 11:09 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 787
Posted By Frank Donovan
Re: Why are people unmotivated?

...and that when you can't be motivated to write your own post, you can always use an AI program. :smilies_rolleyes:
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th December 2022, 08:33 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 78
Posted By Kay King
Re: Yext / Yahoo! Free Listing - Big Screw Up - What next?

I've only seen Yext mentioned here a couple times - you need to check with THEM - it's doubtful anyone here could tell you what they will or will not do.


Good luck.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 17th November 2022, 09:02 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 328
Posted By DABK
Re: Question about my Backlinks

I don't see the depends part or the 'don't go for it if your site is new' part,

It does not depend.

HARO links are links you get for helping a reporter with an article. When they publish the...
Forum: Beginners Area 12th November 2022, 07:06 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 188
Posted By Kay King
Re: Anybody know any High Paying Sites to watch videos , play games & do surveys

If you have checked Google - you know there are sites advertising payment for the very things you describe.


High paying? Not so much.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 20th October 2022, 08:09 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 378
Posted By DABK
Re: Keyword Search Volume

All of them are good. Google has all the info directly. If you open an AdWords account, it will tell you exactly what search volume exists (as oppesed to 10-100, 0-10).


You are falling in the...
Forum: Beginners Area 6th September 2022, 06:53 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 228
Posted By Kay King
Re: Affiliate Marketing and Traffic...Etc.... New to all

Help with what? What specific things have you done after you 'joined' programs?


Do you have a site, a blog, landing pages? Paid ads, free ads? What are you using to drawing people to your...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 2nd September 2022, 12:45 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 490
Posted By Kay King
Re: Business model advice please!

Dave - my point was that you HAVE a clear, concise, descriptive signature...;)
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th August 2022, 05:35 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 449
Posted By MikeFriedman
Re: Questions on web 2.0 link building

Web 2.0 links are weak AF. You would need thousands of them to move the needle for anything that is at least mildly competitive. Unless you are doing it in an automated way, which increases the risk,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd July 2022, 05:27 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 719
Posted By chuckholmes
RE: Starting over

Pick a good niche with a hungry audience that has money and doesn't mind spending it. Build your email list and social media following. Create a decent amount of unique, outstanding content.
...
Forum: Beginners Area 14th July 2022, 08:36 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 639
Posted By Kay King
Re: I just lost my job and I need to make money ASAP!

You need to get another job. A new job will start paying in 1-2 weeks and it can take months to make your FIRST money online.
What you 'need' or how desperate you might be - has no effect on what...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 10th June 2022, 08:17 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 446
Posted By MikeFriedman
Re: SEO: How do I get 1 million pages indexed?

A couple of things.

First, you can only have 50,000 URLs in a single sitemap.

I would create multiple sitemaps based on some sort of category structure and then a sitemap or multiple sitemaps...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th May 2022, 11:04 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 125
Posted By WF- Enzo
Re: Hyphen in a keyword?

No one's ever written "mechanical-engineering" that way ;)
Forum: Beginners Area 16th May 2022, 08:12 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 319
Posted By Kay King
Re: What are the details plan of SEO?

There is an entire SEO section - suggest you start there. A bit odd for the 'best' seo guru to ask how to do SEO.... You may need to ask more specific questions.
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 10th May 2022, 10:15 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 1,030
Posted By savidge4
Re: Need help dropshipping pleeze!!!

How long have you been a Amazon Seller?

2020 and 2021 where by far my best years reselling online. To compare THIS year 2022 to either of those years is... well... depressing LOL. But going...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st May 2022, 03:26 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 132
Posted By DABK
Re: Help me with forum & facebook title/tag seo

What is the difference between buying something cheap and buying something cheap?


Take the urls of your website and run them through Google's keyword tool.
Google will bring up the keywords...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 29th April 2022, 10:18 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 158
Posted By MikeFriedman
Re: Business on domain for almost a decade.... but have a better domain name for seo?

Names play almost zero role in rankings inside of Google. They have a little bit of an impact in Bing and DDG, but nobody uses those.

I would never change a domain unless it was for branding...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 29th April 2022, 09:07 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 158
Posted By Kay King
Re: Business on domain for almost a decade.... but have a better domain name for seo?

I would not change the domain name of a successful site ....you could use the new domain for an info/etc site to attract leads to feed INTO the main (old) domain. Or start a new site with the new...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 29th April 2022, 06:12 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 158
Posted By Frank Donovan
Re: Business on domain for almost a decade.... but have a better domain name for seo?

If you've been running under a name for nearly ten years and ranking well, I'd leave it at that.

You might as well hang on to the new name - and redirect it if you want - but otherwise, just...
Forum: Beginners Area 28th April 2022, 03:44 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 178
Posted By laurencewins
Re: Why do think people prefer to be on the internet using their smartphones than using their comput

You are speaking as though everyone uses their phone more than a laptop or desktop. I have a desktop, laptop and phone.
However, my phone is mainly used for calls, sms, notepad for appts, and an...
Forum: Beginners Area 21st April 2022, 08:51 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 61
Posted By DABK
Re: Spike in Traffic... All Rankings Dropped!

Go to your analytics and you will see that you got bots visiting.

Block the sites they came from.
Forum: Beginners Area 7th April 2022, 07:03 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 351
Posted By Kay King
Re: I want to set up an e-commerce store

When you start a thread asking for advice - and don't come back to read the replies or respond to suggestions....it is doubtful anything will 'work'.
Forum: Beginners Area 29th March 2022, 11:40 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 170
Posted By Frank Donovan
Re: Domain name

You can check the ownership of a domain name using an online service such as: https://who.is/

A domain name can be used for a website and/or an email address. If the email address is still in...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 21st March 2022, 03:35 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 1,030
Posted By savidge4
Re: Need help dropshipping pleeze!!!

And again... you cant use this in particular with an online purchase and send as a "gift" read this: ( https://www.homedepot.com/c/Pro_TaxExempt ) the item will be sent to the address on file... ...
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