Search Engine Strategies Forum

PR has returned. Some pages are still grey for me - but then I'll hit refresh and suddenly my green bar. No PR change, which is very disappointing.

Can I get some advice on Doorway pages. I have heard that they maybe a good idea, however I hnave a feeling that the search engines may have clamped down on them. Any ideas? Thanks

I was wondering....everyone mentions that we should get other popular sites to link our website, which will help in promotion and PR rankings. What if that popular site had a forum and I posted in the forum a message and referred to my www website. My link would now be …

Hi, What would be a reason for hosting web sites on different IP blocks? I work for a web hosting company & do some SEO work for our company website. A client has asked for their web sites to be hosted on different IP blocks, and our tech guys are …

Searching for "adsense" on google gives [url]www.all-in-one-business.com/adsense[/url] as the first organic rank on SERP......Clicking on the link leads to the google adsense page. Whats going on...anyone????

hey i am using clicksor, because google hates me so i have a question what does ctr stand for, and how can i raise it, i am already at 26% and want to see how high i can get it before i lock it.

I would like to promote certain key word. This key word is in my site meta tag. What's better strategy: -text link to my site will contain only this keyword. For example: <A HREF="http://www.mysite.com/" >Keyword</A> -text link to my site will contain this keyword as part of some sentence. For …

We all know (or should know) the value of internal link building. And each link should have your keywords anchored within. I am working on a site that is linked together using Javascript dropdowns. The site is visually attractive, clean, and user friendly. The question is: How can I keep …

Please help me! I seem to have fallen into a google slump. In April, the site was redone with a new navigation scheme. Soon after, the latest version of my mod_rewrite hack was applied, which changed around a bunch of the links. (More stuff was mod_rewritten than ever before). At …

Anyone have any clue what's been going on with DaniWeb lately. They're reporting I have a million backlinks ... and I don't have near a million pages? ;) In addition, I've been hearing of a PR update going on. With a million backlinks, don't you think I should be at …

Wow, I just checked out the newly launched "My Google". Google is now offering customized personal pages to display your local weather, news, word of the day, quote of the day, stock quotes, and your Gmail. It's official, Google has made the transition into a portal site. Brings back memories …

Okay, I need some other SEO Specialists to advise me on this because there are so many schools of thought, so I need opinions and articles. The articles I have read speak very highly of Mirrored marketing Sites and I've created them for clients with success, but here is my …

Hi People, I know this is probably a huge topic, but im going to ask it anyway!! Basically i want my web page top of google!! (as does everyone i guess!!). I know that google doesnt refer to sites meta tags, and that its generally about links within you site, …

Why is the pr ranking of you site important in your google ranking? can't you be on page 1 of google with a bad pr ranking?

Hi DaniWeb community, Google unveiled a new piece of software for beta testing. Unfortunately, both Dani and I missed the boat :cry: . If anyone had a chance to download it, please share your opinions. Thanks!

Hello fellow DaniWeb members. With all the buzz on gaining link popularity and improving PR, let me share a thought on the subject. The ultimate nirvana is to have high PR sites linking to you, one way (no recip), with your most coveted keywords as anchor text. Now pull out …

I have been checking the backlinks of one of my competitors and I can see that some of the directories they're linked to required reciprocal links to be able to submit to them which is fine. HOWEVER - the site in question doesn't even have a links page much less …

Is anyone out there familiar with Findwhat verses Overture? In overture, the keywords are pretty expensive in my industry, though I was obtaining a decent conversion rates. I've been testing out findwhat, which is more cost effective, without much conversion success. Any feedback would be appreciated. Hugh

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hi i know that there are a lot of topics about these two things ( Alexa and the pr ) but im sure also that there alot of noobs want to know exactly what are these things. and im the first one i will always try to understand the PR …

Let's generate some conversation here. When you start a backlinking campaign, how many keywords/phrases do you use at once?

I have been teaching myself SEO lately and need a little guidance. I am learning CSS, but how does it effect the sites position on Google? Also does someone have some tutorials for site construction that make it optimized for search engines, specifically Google? What is the best size for …

Can anyone help me with this , instead of posting at their i thought more smart people will be here :P , I need this mod rewrite thing for SEO in IPB. 2.0.0 that is the url`s changed to html format , Searched google but most of are for 1.3 …

Just starting out and I have no idea how to price any kind of internet marketing. I am researching keywords, creating a adwords campain with about 3 different campains to target 3 specific products. Also I am maintaining the campain and occasionally giving reports. In addition I wrote up a …

Dani's last thread (in the advertising sales / affiliate section) triggered something in my brain. [B]Using PPC to promote ebay auction listings!!! [/B] What do you get when you combine Google, Yahoo, and eBay together? A MASSIVE reach when it comes to promoting your goods or services on eBay. I …

I have some concerns I’m hoping someone can help me with. This time last year according to my servers web stats Google used about 5.86GB of bandwidth spidering my site, however now Google has only used about 8.8MB spidering my site. Just a few months ago - going to Google …

Thats right! Once again, big G ended the war. Free unlimited storage space for all! They call it "Infiniti + 1". They have a counter that shows your storage space increasing by the second! Way cool. Those folks are so creative.

[color=navy]Type[/color] [color=navy][QUOTE][/color][color=navy][b][color=darkgreen]HOME[/color][/b][/QUOTE] into any search engine and they will reveal their PRIORITIZATION regarding [/color] [color=navy][b][color=darkgreen]Link Popularity[/color] and [color=darkgreen]Popularity of Links[/color][/b] and the importance they place on [b][color=darkgreen]Keywords[/color][/b] in the [/color][color=darkgreen][b]Hyperlink text[/b][/color] [color=navy]It also points out the flaws in this type of emphasis[/color] [color=navy]compare Google Yahoo ASK Jeeves and MSN SERPs[/color] …

Hi: I just built my first website for <<url snipped>> and have received my first usage stats report. I've been told to focus on page views. Any other ideas on interpretation? Here are the stats... Hits 4604 Files 1728 Sites 91 KBytes 12909 Visits 125 Page views 822 Thanks! Wayne

If you have the best titletag, best metatags, best Description and again you site is not ranking for expected keywords. So what we have to do. what is the best strategy to get listed with out going for PPC??

So, Google has come up with new Payment Methods - [quote]What forms of payment are available to me? [B]Local currency checks[/B]: Google will convert your earnings from US dollars into your local currency if this option is selected. Available to publishers in 43 countries, local currency checks are generally less …

Ask Jeeves, a small player in the search marketplace, has been sold today to an online media giant - InterActiveCorp - for $1.86 Billion USD. InterActiveCorp's properties include Expedia, Ticketmaster, Match.com, and CitySearch. For more information, refer to the article below: [url="http://news.com.com/Ask+Jeeves+to+be+bought+for+2+billion/2100-1030_3-5627679.html?tag=nefd.top"]http://news.com.com/Ask+Jeeves+to+be+bought+for+2+billion/2100-1030_3-5627679.html?tag=nefd.top[/url]

[font=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]MSN announed during an annual gathering of its most important advertisers that it will enter the paid search arena with a full-blown self-service paid listing program similar to those run by Yahoo and Google. It will be tested in France and Singapore some time in the next six …

Hello All, I have one blogsite, nothing great about it just my personal journal.I put a post there almost daily occasionally putting up few pics as well.The problem is that my blog never comes in google search.Even if I put one whole sentence of my post in google it will …

I was checking the cpanel for my website and saw this as a referer: [CODE]http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=western+dance&first=11&count=10&FORM=PORE[/CODE] Does this mean that someone performed this search and then actually came to my site? Or will this type of thing show up whenever someone enters a search that my site is listed under? Please …

Hi all, What is a Google API Key? Thanks Michelle

Does PR transfer with a 301 redirect?

We << url snipped >> were on the 1st page on Google for terms email marketing and bulk email. ( and have been there for 5 years ) Now we are gone! - Not sure why this would have happened. Does anyone know how we can contact them to get …

So what is your Page rank both of main pages and internal pages? All my internal pages have a PR of 2 and the main index has a PR of 4 not bad for a site which is only 5 months old.

[b]Google Inc. today announced the availability of Google Video, a new service that enables users to search the content of television programs from leading TV content providers including PBS, the NBA, Fox News, and C-SPAN, among others.[/b] [img]http://img200.exs.cx/img200/5493/gvideo1da.png[/img] The engine dubbed "Google Video" allows users to search across text from …

I just noticed that Google has gone back and readjusted all of their reports and figures for the month of February. A few dollars and cents were added to each day of my AdWords account. Along the same lines, I earned a few more dollars and cents via my AdSense …

Google has a new program going ... [url="http://www.google.com/referral/"]http://www.google.com/referral/[/url] It's an affiliate program in which they pay $20 CPA for anyone you refer to AdSense / AdWords. Unfortunately, it's currently - of course! - in beta, which means it's by invitation only. Has anyone been one of the privileged few to …

I'm already in the ODP and I get a good amount of traffic from Google. I'm also in Yahoo! search. However, I'm not currently listed in the Yahoo! directory. Is it worth it to pay the annual $300 fee to be listed? How much traffic will it get me? Is …

This is a question to those who have AdSense and use the Google search on there site: why do you have the google search box leave your website when you click submit (aka it goes to [url]http://www.google.com/custom?q=[/url]....)? Google has some APIs which allows you to query there servers and display …

Is it worth paying to SEO? Do they really make changes or really bring difference? I am thinking whether to pay or not! give me your suggestion! I am Sandra.

I apologize if there is a forum topic on here that explains how to get more hits through the search engines on google. But what i'm wondering is how do i get my website to pop up when someone searches for a few keywords? Am i understanding correctly that i …

I own << url snipped to comply with forum policy >> and was wondering, for a spider to go deep inside my forum other then just the homepage, is their something I need to do to my settings. I have a pr2 for homepage already but that's it. My other …

Let me keep this short and sweet. Upload alot of high quality content to your site, and other sites will link to you automatically. If you offer information that is useful to a particular audience or a subject area, other related sites have interest in letting their visitors know about …

lets say i have a site about horse racing. i wouldnt want to use the word horse as a keyword as there are tons of horse related issues that have nothing to do with horse racing. same applies to the word racing. how do i address this matter?

I've been looking at the google directory and it appears to be drawn directly from the DMOZ one. I have managed to get one of my sites listed in dmoz, but how frequently is google's version updated? the category I got listed in has 7 items in dmoz, but 4 …