Search Engine Strategies Forum

I am receiving huge difference in the traffic report from the GA & the traffic report from the webstats software. The stats from the software shows traffic almost 10 times the traffic shown in GA Can anyone explain the reason for such a huge difference?

Hi, What is Anchor text, how does it help me in search engine optimization? [URL="http://www.iwiinfotech.com/"]Professional seo services[/URL]

[B]We are developing a travel site. There will be cities and towns. Each city will have as content: -google map -photos from flickr -article about the city from free article site -user generated content (not in all places). Before any user publish anything about the city, only first things will …

Hi Everyone I’m a noob to SEO and have been following various advice articles from the net to get a ranking on google with mixed success, but my main question is why google seems to only index my links page and not the pages behind it. e.g. if I search …

How would frequent content updation in website helps in searching crawling and indexing rate? Should we update once in a day or week or monthly? Would be looking for some valuable suggestions.....

I have a lawyer website that supposedly has a link from lawyers.com. How do I find out if the link on lawyers.com exists? Is there a way to check the source code and figure this out?

[B]I want to update a site by changing the WP theme. This, of course, may mean changing the names of categories to seam well with the theme. Will this screw up my rankings?[/B]

My forum is: [url]http://webmasterseoblog.com/webmaster-forum/[/url] When i search in google.com: [url]http://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwebmasterseoblog.com%2Fwebmaster-forum%2F&btnG=Search&hl=en&sa=2[/url] Google show [url]http://webmasterseoblog.com[/url] only, not show my forum...Do you know why? But i can search: [url]http://webmasterseoblog.com/free-directory-submit/[/url] and [url]http://webmasterseoblog.com/alexa-backlink-pagerank-checker/[/url] Please help me..... Thanks

[B]Hi, Please let me know The most effective strategy is link building .[/B]

I just finished reading an article that gave me some food for thought regarding my own site traffic and website traffic in general. Is it possible that American Idol is affecting internet traffic while the show is on? Here is the article [URL="http://blogs.findanyfloor.com/corporate/Corporate/TheAmericanIdolWe.xhtml"]blogs.findanyfloor.com/corporate/Corporate/TheAmericanIdolWe.xhtml[/URL] I am going to start going back …

Hi Friends, Can you pls tell me. What is web 2.0 technology. Does it help in SEO. Thanks in Advance.. :)

Hello, I think major search engines like Google.com, Yahoo.com, MSN.com are not fair to my websites. I have some keywords ranked on my Google sitemap on the 14th position. I do not see it nowhere when doing a search on google for that keyword. For the same keyword, I also …

Tel me any good explanation about [icode]"if-modified-since http header" [/icode]. and how to use it in our web sites?????

Before starting search engine optimization process for the website, it is very important to make website Search Engine Optimization friendly. Making web site user friendly as well as Search engine friendly includes a few simple steps. • Make it simple • Organize website • Avoid Javascript and images • Avoid …

I am one among a number of web profesionals who prefers their (X)HTML, CSS, and other code to meet current web standards. One current incentive for webmasters and designers to use clean code could be Google's [url=http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769]Webmaster Help Center - Webmaster Guidelines[/url]. In this document, Google presents information which they …

I have my own website but have never been able to place top 10 in the search engines. I have read about SEO and even tried to optimize to achieve better positioning without any results. Can anyone point me to the right direction? I really don't know what I am …

Hi everyone, Could anyone tell me what is the SEO and and other things related to it iam sorry but iam little new to such things..If I have a website so how I can promote it to Top Rank?? Thanks in Advance.!!

Hello Dear Friends, I have noticed that many new members create threads just to ask about the terms of SEO. Rather than creating new threads why not to create one thread that includes all the SEO terms and would be easier to new members. Please add your terms if you …

hi everyone, Please tell me how long should a title be? Does it really matter? If it is too long, will it not be indexed? Thanks

At least a few times a month I get asked various questions about myself why a search engine ranking looks the way it does. For example, someone might ask me how they can influence the description and/or title that Google gave their website in their search engine ranking. But easily …

I just did a link exchange with a theme related business. When I hover over my link on his page, it doesn't show my URL address in the botton left hand corner of my screen. Instead it say [url]http://www.imperial-asllc.com/cms/Web_Links/General/Atlanta_Accounting_Firms.html[/url] My site address is www dot Atlanta Accounting Firms dot . …

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Hey Guys, Google has recently released a new type of <link> attribute. It's the rel="canonical" attribute. This attribute is used to specify a preferred domain, so that Google bots don't penalize you for duplicate content. This is very useful for dynamic sites and forums. Read more here: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

[B]I got a new blog, which I'm using quite random domain with. It doesn't have any keywords or anything. Just like a random brandable domain kind of thing. I was wondering how important is having keywords in your domain in terms of SEO. Like in realistically is it really that …

Hi, Does anyone know if linking to the same page as the link is on would harm serps? For example, if the page [url]www.whateversite.com/blue.html[/url] had a link as follows: <a href="http://www.whateversite/blue.html">Blue Products</a> would this help or harm my serps? If a user clicked on the link it would just reload …

As everybody knows my space is a big tool for sharing information and getting leads. Can anybody explain how to sale product or service through my space Thanks Webmaster of ewaycorp.com

I just recently contracted a new SEO company to do my SEO for me. Apparently the owner is an SEO consultant that left an SEO firm after many years to begin freelancing - he was unable to take his reputation with him and is starting from scratch - his packages …

Hi, I currently own a few UK sites, and over the last year I’ve noticed a general trend that my income has been growing, even over the ‘credit crunch period’ Often in a time of recession, the first thing people do is lower the amount they spend on advertising. But …

Would anyone out there know what it takes to go from PR6 to PR7? I have heard you need 5 times the number of backlinks? Daniweb used to be PR7 and now we're 5/6 so I'm just wondering.

Hi, I need a list of online directories related to Saudia arabia, UAE, QATAR. and other middle eats countries. Any body have information on that. How can i get the list. Regards, Kaleem

Hello, I have a health website with male enhancement products as niche. I like to promote male enhancement products as my site. However, after placing some affiliate links on the top of my site, its page rank become PR0. How do I get my page rank back (used to be …

Hi, I have done these for SEO of my site. What else do you suggest to me because, it doesn't work? I have done all these 4 week ago though! Thanks 1. [code] <meta name="description" content="This is the best Car" /> <meta name="keywords" content="BMW, bmw" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" …

[B]Hi, I have seen some sites which are on higher pr without any of google PR i dont understand what method are they using can any one explain me is it possible or its fake or blackhat method are they using? Thanks[/B]

Is there any difference between ror site map a google sitemap Ror Sitemap is better than Google Sitemap or Google Sitemap is better than Ror Sitemap? What do you think?

Hi..........., There was once adding a site in major search engine was free..... now you have to pay. Agak-agak......... where can I find a company in KL that can add a site for my sites? Anyone can help me?

From the following Submissions which gives highest weightage?Which is best method for getting backlinks? Forum posting / Directory submission / Article submission /Blog Posting. Just wanted an opinion.

Hi, Any body which wants to link exchanges with my site to increases Page ranking and Keywords searches can link with me. I am happy to exchange links with other sites. I have a good page rank site. Details are given below: URL : [URL="http://www.infomist.com/"]http://www.infomist.com/[/URL] Title: Web development & Web …

I posted 2 days ago about connections problems to Google.com and more major websites. The reason was broken pipes from my country to the USA. While this connection problem occurred I noticed that when I accessed other websites, that were easily accessible, the Google toolbar slowed down the connection speed. …

I have few sites listed in DMOZ doing great in Yahoo..... I have more sites not listed in DMOZ , Google PR6 which Yahoo refuses to index.. EX. A search for "Alfaintercom" 194 pages in Yahoo refers to that site but the site itself is not listed some of them …

Perception System is a web development, software development and web promotion company. Looking for SEO developers with experience of 6 to 12 months in SEO (search engine optimization). Job Description / Responsibilities: • SEO developers shall be responsible for website analysis, content writing, article writing, press release writing etc. • …

MSN Live search has deindexed some of my pages. Many of them are property pages like [url]http://www.zagat.com/Verticals/PropertyDetails.aspx?VID=8&R=87971&AJX=Ntk%253DGeoChildID%2526Ntt%253D1971%2526N%253D120%2526VID%253D8[/url] which used to be indexed. I went through the Live Search Guidelines and did not find the answer I was looking for. Do anyone know what would cause MSN Live Search to drop …

Does anyone consistently use the Trackback feature that most blogs have now? Just wanna know if its worth my time.

Im wanting to try out google adwords (get my feet wet) and see what its all about. Is there anyway i can try it out for free? Like with a "promotional code" if anybody would be willing to send me a code (worth as little as 5 dollars) I would …

What is basic knowledge of PPC. Can any body explain

Hello all, Is the SEO work will useful for marketing the website? If yes means, How to do this SEO work better? Otherwise which one is helpful for marketing one website? Send me your suggestions as posts. Thank you for your replies… <URL snipped>

I had a web site , and it is a web site for community of my state.. Please advice me some good and effective search engine optimization methods... Regards Rajeesh

SEO (Search engine optimization) means ensuring that your Web pages are accessible to search engines and are focused in ways that help improve the chances they will be found. In other words, it is the process of improving the amount of traffic and the quality of traffic to a website …

hello, I have seen some sites with different Sub domains for different services.what is the use of it?

Search engine optimization is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” ,”organic” or “algorithmic” search results for targeted keywords. Earlier a site is presented in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS) or the higher it ranks, the more …

I want to get your professional views regarding Adwords Campaign Issue. I have been running different adwords campaigns on search as well as on content sites. Getting good clicks from content sites at low CPC. What are your views regarding running campaign on google adwords content sites? Recommend or not?