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Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st December 2013, 12:34 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,335
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Guest Blogging in Mexico - How to find sites

Mexican bloggers will be less SEO savvy and less attuned to your needs, but this should not be a problem so long as you are paying and providing quality and relevant content. Do not go looking for...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 17th November 2013, 11:36 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 557
Posted By PhilipSEO
Google called a site STUPID

Nowadays Google often replaces your preferred title tag in the search results with one of its own choosing. And here is what can happen!
http://screencast.com/t/0156eW45P
Forum: Off Topic Forum 15th November 2013, 05:40 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,322
Posted By PhilipSEO
any one need an SEO laugh?

I have just found this one, wanted to share:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-r9FyKXMqbyU/TsrcK4F4I7I/AAAAAAAAAzk/fRGBOFnvOws/w506-h357/an%2Bseo%2Bexpert%2Bwalks%2Binto%2Ba%2Bbar.png
If you guys...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 31st October 2013, 03:51 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 341
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Opinion On Sitemaps?

It doesn't help your SEO rankings, but it generally helps Google find and crawl and hopefully index your pages. Submitting a sitemap brings Googlebot to your pages, and many have noticed it helps...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 31st October 2013, 04:53 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 363
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: the 5000 character question

Privet, Donald Draper, kak zhizn? :) [Russian]

It's not "essential," there is no such SEO rule. Look at examples of successful sites -- almost none of them have a lot of text on the home page....
Forum: Copywriting 20th October 2013, 02:41 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 550
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Writing Copy For My New Web Site (Fitness)

Ne za chto, Ruslan, you are welcome. I want to add that the real trick is to write not one landing page but several, each for its audience. Your keywords and ad copy allow you to segment the...
Forum: Copywriting 20th October 2013, 01:22 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 550
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Writing Copy For My New Web Site (Fitness)

Privet, Ruslan!

I think this is fine as a draft but (1) I think your opening hook is weak (the biggest flaw) and (2) you are approaching the whole matter the wrong way.

I'll start with (1):
...
Forum: Copywriting 20th October 2013, 09:27 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 656
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Good resource for white papers?

Agree on Stelzner, but it's old (2006) and has some limitations because of that. For a beginner, I recommend this one, just out. There is also
White Papers for Dummies: Gordon Graham:...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th January 2012, 10:35 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 627
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Sales page question for Google Adwords

I have never heard this either, and it seems doubtful. You could:
1. As your expert to provide a reference.
2. Ask in the Adwords support forum: AdWords Help...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 30th August 2010, 07:24 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 462
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Local pages and posts...or, separate local website??

Well, since you are not trying to creat a network, the matter is a bit different.

One respect in which microsites can help is capturing certain keyowrds. If you do fine keyword research and...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 30th August 2010, 02:27 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,383
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: allinanchor no longer accurate? [seo]

I use intitle:"keyword phrase" for a rough assessment.



You are very welcome, but that's what the Thanks button underneath the post is for. OSE will definitely tell you a few things about...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 29th August 2010, 04:57 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 462
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Local pages and posts...or, separate local website??

Sorry no one has replied sooner. Opinions about this differ, but in my own view you will get better and more permanent results with a single site. Yes, create pages with robust unique content. Link...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 29th August 2010, 03:14 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 507
Posted By PhilipSEO
Google give word on dealing with content duplication resulting from a paginated version

This came up on the Google Webmasters support blog, I thought it's useful reading. Google's John Mu replies to a question about dealing with content duplication between a print version and a...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st August 2010, 11:21 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 665
Posted By PhilipSEO
Google algo change: a website can hold more search results

A must-read for SEOs and all those interested! A website can now hold more Google results for searches that include a particular domain, brand or company name. Here's the official scoop:
Official...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 20th August 2010, 10:36 AM
Replies: 88
Views: 4,934
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Angel's Backlinks - explain something, please

Ad hominem
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An ad hominem, also known as argumentum ad hominem (Latin: "to the man"), is an attempt to link the validity of a premise to a characteristic or...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 20th August 2010, 09:55 AM
Replies: 88
Views: 4,934
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Angel's Backlinks - explain something, please

Bubba Jacks used to have claims like this coming out his nether regions three times a day.



I won't question your metrics of credibility. Believe what you will, but if one followed your logic...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th August 2010, 07:44 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,682
Posted By PhilipSEO
Is Whitehat SEO Still Working

The official Google ideology of "create great content and people will naturally want to link to it" would be great if it actually worked. Does it? Somewhat, but not really, not as well as it is...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th August 2010, 07:33 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 493
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Too many backlinks from WF.

The WF links are not a bad thing (not a good one either -- they make no SEO difference), but the lack of great links is, well, not so great :)

Market Samurai has no independent link data (so far...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th August 2010, 04:11 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 406
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Was anyone ever hit with such a "penalty" ?

This could easily be because of the scraped content. Are the scraped pages now coming up in searches for the same keywords? If this is the case, content scraping is can be a tough matter to deal...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th August 2010, 03:48 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 559
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Site went off Google Cache...Need Advise!

First of all, don't worry about the cache thing: it has been acting buddy since the Caffeine update, but there is no harm.

The one thing that your mistake may have cause is to reset the link age...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th August 2010, 12:37 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 520
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Indexing issue

Well, Google has not indexed this page:
Fat Burning Diets (http://www.renaissancefitness.net/FatBurningDiets)
because it has indexed this page instead:
Fat Burning Diets | Ftiness Blog...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th August 2010, 11:07 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,560
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: makebacklinks.com

As you can see, this depends on who you ask. To me, things are a bit more subtle than Tom here suggests. The way I see it, such links in such quantities skew the nature of your link profile: they are...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th August 2010, 08:56 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 644
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Relevant links are overrated, or not?

Please don't take offense at my saying so, your logic is mistaken. It's not about "computers" detecting relevancy, it's about Google constructing relevancy. It's not that Google will penalize you if...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th August 2010, 04:25 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 550
Posted By PhilipSEO
Google Blog Directory

Sorry if this is coals to Newcastle, but I have just found this:
http://www.google.com/press/blogs/directory.html (http://www.thepankajgupta.com/2010/08/complete-lists-of-official-google-blogs/)
...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th August 2010, 05:40 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 700
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Big Keywords list split into smaller kw groups

Download Google's free AdWords Editor (http://www.google.com/intl/en/adwordseditor/). You can use various filters in it to narrow down groups of keywords.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th August 2010, 05:37 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 482
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Need some help checking a longtail keyword ranking

It's jointventures.jvnotifypro.com. You are seeing your own site at #1 because of personalized search. It's tricky to turn off permanently/reliably. One way (which I prefer) is to have a Google...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th August 2010, 04:47 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 495
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: How Deep of a Link is too Deep?

First of all, please don't create URLs like this:
coolwidgets.com/climbing-widgets/steep-climbing-widgets/product
This looks slightly spammy, and moreover the number of subfolders here basically...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th August 2010, 03:17 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 475
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: USING LONG TAIL IN LIEU OF ROOT KEYWORD

You achieve rankings for keywords with the right links by using the right anchor text. "Wedding speeches" is a moderately competitive term and you could rank for it with the right links. However,...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th August 2010, 02:11 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 626
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Multiple Domain SEO Redirection Question

It's simple enough: build some links to the redirected domain URLs. By the way, domain names are powerful only if there's an exact match with a search term/phrase (some even say that hyphens in the...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th August 2010, 01:34 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 682
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Backlinking Formulas?

This depends on the nature of your project (and on who you ask). The following methods link building strategies exist.

Whitehat: works for all kinds of sites and projects. Want to rank for...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 12th August 2010, 05:32 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,656
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: All URL shorteners created equal? Not!

Thanks, Paul, for asking this: I wasn't sure of the answer myself, but I have now tested it. And here are the results:

1. 301-based URL shortener without preview: the original site (not the URL...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 11th August 2010, 05:53 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,656
Posted By PhilipSEO
All URL shorteners created equal? Not!

We all use URL shorteners these days, but what are their implications for SEO? Do they pass link juice? What extra capabilities do they offer?

The best URL shorteners, like tinyurl.com and bit.ly,...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 10th August 2010, 08:39 AM
Replies: 88
Views: 4,934
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Angel's Backlinks - explain something, please

You have a point, I see now that I misread the text "From the day i am working on it, nobody ever outranked wikipedia. I am the only who outranked Wikipedia and got # 1 spot for the keywords ...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 7th August 2010, 08:18 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 796
Posted By PhilipSEO
recent reduction of link power via 301 redirects

Right after Google rolled out Caffeine, it caught my eye that Google rankings propped by 301 redirects had dropped. (I made a post about this...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 5th August 2010, 03:02 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 537
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: SEO expert considers their SEO Best Practices for optimal ranking in the search engines.

Mr. Expert, you have no clue about SEO. Consider taking an introductory course if you can afford one.


BS. W3C Standards have zero impact on SEO.


BS. Keyword density makes no difference.

...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th August 2010, 01:26 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 662
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Google Adwords - where to start!

Start at the horse's mouth: the Google AdWords Learning Center:
AdWords Help (http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=examstudy.cs)

Also helpful and free:
AdWords FAQ...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th August 2010, 01:14 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 1,630
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: How to Increase PAGE RANK?

You are getting some good advice in this thread. Buying a PR5 site (preferably 2!) is a good idea. If you are lucky you can get them below $1,000 each.

Regarding the PR you need for ranking,...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th August 2010, 12:14 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 518
Posted By PhilipSEO
2 new Google-based keyword tools

Hey, as a keyword junkie I wanted to share this info about two new free Google-based tools:
2 New Cool Keyword Research Tools Which Are Based on*Google...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th August 2010, 09:02 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 987
Posted By PhilipSEO
important Google admission: extenal links CAN hurt you

John Mu, a well known Google employee, has come out and admitted, as against earlier denials by Google, that it is "probably possible" that third-party external links can hurt your site. Source:...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th August 2010, 08:11 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 719
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Link Structure - www.domain.com/dog-stuff/dog-stuff OR www.domain.com/dog-stuff/article-title/ ?

Siloing is nonsense, an obsolete idea. It has no value and can actually hurt you if you mess up your URLs. Use a flat URL structure, avoid unnecessary subfolders/slashes in them (SEOmoz.org tested...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th August 2010, 06:36 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 740
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: baffled by Backlinks

SEO Link Building (http://forums.seochat.com/link-popularity-43/seo-link-building-302665.html) are the trickiest, most difficult and most important part of SEO, and there is a lot to know about it....
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 3rd August 2010, 01:13 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 782
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Silo-ing vs. Being as close to the TLD as Possible?

Forget all about siloing, it's a completely obsolete theory and has lost its uses. Use a flat site structure and simple navigation, and interlink your pages in a way that makes sense to your users....
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 3rd August 2010, 09:45 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 1,399
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Is Google Dancing With Me?

You are very welcome (but that's what the Thanks button is for!). ;)



No, it's not only connected with links. It has to do with user behavior (such as clickthrough) and with the updating of...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 2nd August 2010, 11:40 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 801
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Best Advance Adwords WSO or Course

Here is what you need:
Amazon.com: Advanced Google AdWords (9780470500231): Brad Geddes: Books

Excellent stuff. I hope this helps!
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 2nd August 2010, 10:49 AM
Replies: 88
Views: 4,934
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Angel's Backlinks - explain something, please

One of them. And why not? I am not ashamed of the quality my services.

BS. What is extremely short sited is the idea that every little bit helps. This causes people to waste a lot of time on...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st August 2010, 01:38 PM
Replies: 88
Views: 4,934
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Angel's Backlinks - explain something, please

I assume you mean "Angela links." These have extremely low value and only help you slightly for keywords that are not competitive. Basically they are a waste of time and of "a little" money when it...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st August 2010, 01:35 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 514
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: PR of page vs relevance

Links pass 4 kinds of values:
-- topical relevance
-- trust
-- Google Page Rank
-- geographical relevance

All 4 have value and can be had via links.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 31st July 2010, 07:20 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 745
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: How to get the best results link building?

You've got solid advice above about building links to your internal pages as well as the home page. Deep linking is hugely important. Please ignore the advice that says build links only to your home...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 30th July 2010, 05:44 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,368
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: SEO Permalinks - what to use? Category or postname or both?

My vote is for using the post name alone, because
1. Keywords in URL make only a slight difference for SEO purposes
2. What little power they do have is best used undiluted
3. Extra...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 29th July 2010, 07:07 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 530
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Seo help needed

Sorry no one has replied to your post. Perhaps that is because your question is not easy to understand. What do you mean by " how do i promote more than one long tail keyword?" It sounds like you...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th July 2010, 09:40 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 597
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: SEO Experts - What do you think I should next??

Ryan, reciprocal linking is one of those things that is better than nothing for SEO purposes, though it's not the ultimate link building technique. It works best when the links are contextual and...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th July 2010, 06:49 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 757
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Press release news site for Google news?

OK, thanks for clarifying. If I may comment, without sounding too much like a snob, it seems that you have a plan and are already "in the process" of implementing it, yet the fact that you do not...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th July 2010, 06:16 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 425
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: A couple of questions about pdfs on a website

No, that would be a waste of text content.



Regular text content is by far the best option. While Google can parse textual PDFs, simple HTML is the best choice.



This cannot be answered...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th July 2010, 04:16 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 890
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Does Bounce Rate really affects Keyword Position?

CTR is a different matter. I don't believe you about the bounce rate; please give your evidence.



Not to be mean, but exactly what value do you attribute to "just guessing" (especially when...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th July 2010, 11:32 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,007
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: Is there a correct way to "allintitle"??

Don't leave a space after the colon if you want the operator to work.

allintitle:kwd1 kwd2 kwd3 returns pages that have kwd1, kwd2 and kwd3 in the title tag

allintitle:"kwd1 kwd2 kwd3" returns...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 26th June 2010, 08:11 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 561
Posted By PhilipSEO
Re: PPC - Urgent Question - Please Respond Soon.

Forgive me for saying so, but you do not sound like a PPC professional, so I wonder whether you are ready to be offering paid PPC services.

That said, you should not make any decisions without...
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