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Hi everyone, anyone could explain for me this issue that my site get top in Yahoo all the time but every Saterday and Sunday my competitor takes my position ( Mine down to second and sometimes to the 5th or 6th position in the first page ). other days in …

Hello there! I am a web developer and recently my boss asked me the following: Since we submit an optimized site what is going on with spiders, and that is how often do they spiders pass from my site, do we have to resubmit the site to engines and directories, …

I have been reading an article writes by Matt Cutts about buy and sell links. What do you think? Here is the post [B]How to report paid links[/B] [URL]http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/[/URL]

Everyone knows that other sites that link to your site helps in the SEO process. Everyone should also know that reputable sites will help you while some other sites will actually hurt you. How do know differentiate between these two types of site though???

Has anyone every had experience in optimzing dating websites? I have had minimal success in generating traffic at this point though its only been about 2 months since the site has been live. Things done so far: 1. Optimized all pages according to topic 2. Have posted in many blogs …

Hello, I have a query : Is sub-domain is considered as different or new domain by search engines or not. Like my websites [url]www.daniweb.com[/url] so [url]www.domain.daniweb.com[/url] will be considered as new domain or different domain by search engine on not. Also if i place links from subdomain to other websites, …

If I have 10 ip's on one server and one website per IP. Each design is unique and all run off the same DB plus none of the sites are linked together, would the major search engines penalize this type of set up? All the sites are basically the same …

Hello, I am looking for webmasters who are interested in helping each other. We all know that it take lots of time to contact webmasters and then sending them link request and all the process. I already have few webmaster contact details with me and we all help each other …

Somebody knows some listing quality directories to add webs?

If I encrypt my web page to prevent "visitors" from viewing and reusing my web page source code , will affect my site in search engine?

Hello, Need comments from SEO guys. We provide three way link building service or say one way link building. Usually i use one domain per theme related links. Eg: 1. Links for finance website I will take a pr domain and will install word press, write two-three articles and then …

I'm writing some copy and the premise is a story about a small business owner. "small business owner" is NOT the keyword phrase I want to optimize the page for, but I find myself using "small business owner" overa and over again. The product is for small business owners, but …

What is the keyword importance in the domain name?

following statements are true: google makes money off of ad revenues and services google is a business google is one of the most powerful search engines googles competition is slim to none propose question: If someone doesn't buy or use any of google services, beside submitting their domain name, can …

Hello, I had links at my site in 9 pages uncategorized. I have read that having categories is more effective so I would like to do so. Anyone dealt with such procedure? How to make it more effectively without loosing PR of the pages? when it is better to do? …

hi, what am i best doing to get my sites listed in directories..............? am i best doing it myself manual or getting a program which does it all and keep a track on it? cos they is alot of directories to find.. also does listing on directories help with google …

What is the best way to get ranking in yahoo? I am #1 on google and msn using many different keywords, but not rank at all in yahoo. Can someone help me?

Do you suggest using rel=nofollow on forum posts since the content is user-submitted? What about just for users with less than X posts? Or just in forum signatures?

Hi All, Someone just told me that if you name your pages .php, it hinders your rankings. Is that true? Thanks Michelle

Hi there, I've always had someone managing my AdWords account, but I haven't found anyone & I need to do this task quickly. I'm finally going to do split testing, & I have the URL to insert for this, so where do I put it? Thanks Michelle

I have mortgage website that I ran a pr future update and it show my website with a pr 7 it now a pr 5, how close are these tools of being correct?

Hello friends, if i change my site hosting server linux to windows. i face any PR changes in future? help me Ravi

hey ppl Currently i m using Google adsense to put up Advertises on my site. Now i wanted to knw whether it is fine to use more than one Avdertisers to put up Ads on my site. That is can i approach another Ad provider. is it allowed or legal …

How much does having 1 or 2 adsense ads on your site negatively affect the seo? It is just skipped by the spiders or are the links counted as external links?

[B]Hello,[/B] [B]How much we can earn with PPC ? Any idea Pl.let me know...[/B] [B]Regards![/B]

Hi all, 1st time poster... I opened an Adwords account, with all my payment ect... it tells me that it's active, but after a couple of hours, I'm still not finding my ad in Google when entering the keywords, and according to the figures upon signing up, they should appear …

I am writting a site map for Google with the notepad with this format: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <[URL="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/es/protocol.html#urlsetdef"] urlset[/URL] xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"> <[URL="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/es/protocol.html#urldef"] url[/URL]> <[URL="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/es/protocol.html#locdef"] loc[/URL]>http://www.example.com/</loc> </url> </urlset> I would to know if is there any place online, where I can create the sitemap?

My content is good, internal linking is good, overall my site ranks well on msn, okay on yahoo, but I noticed once I put a few links from some ads I posted it went from not found in the top 1000 on google to #3 for some key phrases. Anyways …

If I want to show my stats to the public, the counter ins't invisible, where can see visits came from , recent Keyword Activity, search engine Wars, visitor paths, entry pages, returning visits... can help index better the Web in Google, Yahoo and Msn?

Hi everyone, this website stuff is all new to me. So I have set up my web site, read through all tutorials and how to's. Created my keywords, meta tags , description & etc.. Created my sitemap.xml (using Google's Python tool) along with urllist.txt & config.xml and created my robots.txt …

I thought you were supposed to put a link to your sitemap in your robots.txt (isn't that what you said, stymiee?) My robots.txt now looks like the following: [code]Sitemap: http://www.daniweb.com/sitemap.xml User-agent: * Disallow:[/code] Google Webmaster Tools robots.txt says "Syntax not understood" for the sitemap line.

Does anyone know how to get my website in the top 10 spot for free? Thank you!

Hi, i have a client's site Last month, our site has a very good ranking in google, but in this month , ranking is suddently fallys on our keywords. But the keywords ranking in Yahoo is very much increased. I can not understand why this is done by google. Can …

Hi Can anybody tell me how to start search engine optimization for a website with zero page rank step by step. mail me at << email snipped >> Thanks

Is it possible to submit a sitemap to Yahoo much the same way one uses Google Webmaster Tools?

[quote=EWSitesCom;339563]this can be true. ive always had luck even with out a link back.[/quote] If you have time, you can visit my website <snip url> I have submitted it to google, yahoo, but the effect is not good. Can you give me some advice? Thank you! :sad:

Hi everyone, I am curious to know whether google travels dynamic query string e.g [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=45[/url] i.e a string containing ? mark in the url. Also, i wanted to know that if i am using comment section in my source code (View source code), does google spider crawl that particular comment …

Hi, Can somebody tell me ways to use AJAX on my site without any side effects? Or should I avoid it completely? Thanks in advance

I have already submited my site " [URL="http://www.mysite.com"]www.mysite.com[/URL] " in DMOZ. then i changed the URL as " [URL="http://www.mysite1.com"]www.mysite1.com[/URL] " for my site. I am in thought of redirecting. Now am using [URL="http://www.mysite1.com/"][COLOR=#0000ff]www.mysite1.com[/COLOR][/URL] for my official. Now i want change the URL in DMOZ. Is it possible?? or i have …

Hai, I have a question. Which will be more good for SE's? Sub domain or Sub directory? Can we have a sub domain starting with with "www" eg: [URL="http://www.hh.domain.com"]www.hh.domain.com[/URL]? Please help me in this regard.

Dear All, I have made strong link building and also done SEO in my site.. I want my site on rank 1 to 10 in Google using "transcription services" keyword. You can find my site using "transcription solutions" on Rank #24 in google. but I want my site using "transcription …

Hello, I have a new web site and I don't want to have the Google Sand Box efecct. How many backlinks a month could I have, for dont' have the google sand box efecct. Thanks

Hello every one I have e-commerce site with PR5 From 18 November we are not any more in google results. The PR is allways 5 color green. I ame in Dmoz, Yahoo, AOL, and i have many back links. The test site:domainname.com says non results The test link:domainname.com give the …

Im having some issues with the Yahoo keyword selector tool. I have been trying to use it for the past day and it either times out or i get a message saying that there are no suggestions for what i typed. I do not get a list of the # …

what directories have you submitted to?

If a site seems to 'work' - the visitors (mostly new) appear happy with the content/structure etc, and the search engines are happy to rank it - is there any value in making small, regular changes to the content to make it appear 'fresher' to the engines, even if this …

Hello I noticed the following behaviour in google. After a url structure change about 2-3 months ago my whole testsite went supplemental. I used 404 on the old pages, no room for 301. I thought o heck :p. Anyway about a week ago i decided to use the google automated …

Hi, I have a quick question! I have implemeted robots.txt to disallow some of my pages! How long it will take to do this? whether i can get all my pages OUT OF INDEX all at a time or it will happen pages by pages. I'm confused Ideas are welcome

Every one must be aware by now about Matt Cutts's blog getting [B]Hacked.[/B] Since i get usually thought provoking replies here, what does Dani's web say about it? [URL]http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/[/URL] Yes or No? I have come across people who are branding it as an "April Fool" and some say yes the …

From your experiences, which pay-per-click search engines is the best from the following 10? Overture Google Adwords Miva ( formerly Findwhat ) GoClick Enhance Interactive 7Search Kanoodle ePilot Search123 SearchFeed