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A strange thing happened after the page rank updation. Most of the sites only had the page ranks of internal pages updated, the homepages did not show any alteration in their ranks. Any others who experienced similar things? and any idea why?

I am the webmaster of [url]www.nibbleguru.com[/url], since last 3 days my traffic is 25-30% of my original traffic. a sudden decline of 70% is what is worrying me. what could be the reasons for it? my PR seems same as before. i am not doing any SEO etc on my …

Google updated backlinks finally! Here are the current data centers that have been updated thus far. Here are the current updated data centers so far: 216.239.39.99 216.239.37.104 216.239.37.147 216.239.37.99 66.102.11.99 64.233.161.99 64.233.161.104 64.233.161.105 64.233.161.147 Our site only jumped up by about 100 links. Not as well as I was hoping! …

There is so much hype about PR and google SEO - but how does one go about getting up those SERPS for the other engines such as Overture and MSN? Google might be the biggest alone, but I'm sure that it can't defeat by far all of the others put …

Hi, Do search engines have preference for domain name extensions. For example using a .com, .biz or a country extension such as .co.za. Any comments or views about the relevance or lack of it on domain name extensions and the success of search engine indexing would be appreciated. Thank you.

My cane search results for my best phrase were on page 2 for many months, then I added the band links with the name of the band: Seventh Victim (also the name of a movie) About two days later the results went to 5th page, and then back to 2nd …

My goal is a first/second google page listing under the competitive keyword phrase 'cell phones'. I've developed a little over 300 backlinks over the last two months (not high pr sites, but about 150 unique ip blocks and websites that I have traded services for links with). I have the …

Search engines sometimes penalize or ban sites for manipulative SEO techniques. What are the most common techniques that SE's hate? How far will a SE go when penalizing a site? If the tactic is stopped, can sites get back in?

I was creating an AdWords ad for our SEO forum and I tried using: SEO Forum Google News and Techniques Free Webmaster Community and it came back with an error message saying: [i]You may not use the word "Google" in the text of your ad.[/i] Heh :)

Hi all, How you doing? Okay I want to put the Google's AdWords conversion tracking JS on my site pages, but I'm confused about a few things... 1. On one board someone said that Google is just doing this to get our information. What do you think? 2. Am I …

I know SEO companies can bring up searches performed by yahoo.com, etc. and see how many people are searching a particular term or phrase. How is this done? It would really help me sell websites. Thanks.

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I have pretty good rankings in google for my keywords. I have a lot of pages spidered by google and a good number of backlinks using my keywords of choice as anchor text. However, I'm still having a problem getting good rankings in Yahoo!, MSN, and Overture. I was always …

Hi all, My programmer & I need to get rid of the .phtml pages another programmer had me create & make new .php pages. He wants to: "use the 404 SCRIPT (PHP file) that will do following.. based on REQUEST to non existing PHTML file it should get corresponding PHP …

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It looks like at last there is a Google PR update ... the first in I don't know how many months. DaniWeb went from a 5 to a 6 ... a decent change. I was still hoping for a PR7 though, but oh well :( I'll take what I can …

Hi all, I was just told by a SEO that if I want to partner up with another company where they recommend my product/services & I refer them & they aren't my competition (clearly LOL) & their biz is opposite to what I do, yet they complement my company, (let's …

Hi Everyone! I just want a little bit more info about Yahoo's new spider Slurp. Thank you!

Hi, A few questions. Answers on some will be great too.:p 1. How can one reach a higher CTR using Google AdWords? (I would love to read comments on AdWords from experienced users) 2. What can cause a steep drop of link popularity in Google in only one month? 3. …

Welp since they undid the past recent update - the moment has come! Google has updated their backlinks. Our site jumped up by about 110 links:) Data centers that are showing the changes so far include the following: 216.239.57.105 216.239.57.104 216.239.57.99 216.239.57.98 Hope everyone made out ok :)

Have we all just gotten to a point where we are abandoning the idea of google PR? Isn't that what google wants of us? They knew they were in hot water when they went public and the foundation of their company - PR - was owned by Standford U. and …

Hi all, I hope this is the right forum for this question. What are the rules again on registering? What are the max amount of characters one should have in a domain name, should it be one long string of words or is it better for the SEs to use …

Please help me. I'm completely stumped. As of yesterday, AdWords just completely stopped working for me. Ads just completely stopped showing up. It is as if my campaign is paused, but it isn't. The campaign shows up as active. I have a pretty large budget. The ads are set to …

Hi all, I own a vbulletin forum, from what i hear the archive that comes withvbulletin isn't great when it comes to SEO. What i have done is created a second archive for my forum that follows SEO procedures. I could have created the whole thing dynamically but i decided …

Hi anyone, Can you please explain to me what PR5 means. Thanks Michelle

read in the forum a Q about link swapper url: [url]www.linkswapper.com[/url]. my view is that it is a very cool tool for anyone who wants to echange links. saves a lot of time and effort and is completly Free, what more would you want. have been using it for a …

Hi everybody, im new to this forum, and to web design in general. i recently built a website and it has been online for about a month now. my site has a terrible rank in google and thats probably because i didnt have a clue about SEO until a few …

In an earlier post I stated that I did not wish to recieve PM's regarding questions of what company I work for. Here is a snippet of what I recieved for sticking to my guns and NOT giving out my company name. *shrug* Take it for what you will but …

i was told by my teacher, there is no such thing as a stupid question, only a stupid person. lol dun know why i said that, but i just did. what is the deal with all this link stuff. this PR7 and things the link. what does it all mean, …

Is there a need to enable the forum archive on vBulletin forums? I am using mod_rewrite to rewrite all of the threads to have .html extensions anyways, so I am worried about duplicate content.

i have started validating the pages on my site (i know i should have done this first, but give me a break, its my first website.. :lol: ) im using [url]http://validator.w3.org/[/url] to do the validating and i have 2 issues i need help with. ok, this is what the begining …

I have been hearing talk that we've finally been seeing a google PR update. Some sites have actually seen their PR go up. Unfortunately not DaniWeb :( In addition, some pages that I deleted off of here ages and ages ago, and removed all references to, still have a PR5. …

The backlink update has begun. I don't yet see any PR update happening, but that may coming soon.

There's been another G backlink update. Still weirdness with the sites showing. Some people are showing PR changes but I've seen nothing on my sites. Something has definitely changed at Googleville.

If Page A has multiple links to Page B, does that show any more weight than a single link? Is Page A's PR spread thinner to every page it links to? Does Page B receive any more PR than it would have with only one link? Thanks!

Does anyone know what's going on with this July PR update? In the past, backlinks and PR were updated together. That doesn't seem to be the case this time. Not only that, I've heard some mention of a few sites fluctuating in PR lately in addition to some previously PR0 …

I just noticed that forums.devshed.com name their forums as keyword phrases. For example, instead of forums such as C++, PHP, or Java they will use C Programming, PHP Development, and Java Help. All three of these phrases are really hot keywords on the search engines. Is it beneficial to do …

There has been word around the neighborhood that G is trying to prevent the selling of PR - but what exactly are they doing about the matter, or are they going to do in the future? Currently, some high PR pages which sell text links have their PR transferring power …

We all know that mac developers have always been left high and dry when it comes to having to live without the Google toolbar, and therefore without the convenience of a PR bar while web browsing. However, I stumbled upon this tool: [url="http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/pagerank-mac/"]http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/pagerank-mac/[/url] I'm a windows and mac user and …

Hello, Some time ago I bought space at Homestead to build a business website, and located my business domain name there. I've ended up creating my business elsewhere on the Web. I've established a redirect link from an empty index page at Homestead to my new website. I have nothing …

I know that spiders are incapable of filling out forms and the like. But if I have links that have been dynamically generated client-side by some simple javascript, are they capable of following these links?

Interestingly enough, the need for mod_rewrite, html extentions, and PR are all becoming devalued in all the newer SE algorythms. 6 months ago a PR 7 would get you super high rankings because PR was so heavily factord into rankings. Up until a few months ago having clean URLs was …

Is anyone here having a go at the Google "nigritude ultramarine" search competition? Would be interested to know how people are doing. I'm giving it a go - not sure how well I'll do. Howard

SEO-Guy is doing a great job getting links to DaniWeb out there. My question now is how long before Google acknowledges this? Usually my PR fluctuates near the 1st of the month. Do I have to wait until July before I receive any benefit?

Do you think it's better to link to your links/rsources somewhere on every page of your site? Or just off of the homepage?

Hi everyone, I hope everyone is doing well. Okay, here's my question... I have AWStats on my server, but it's not enough for me. I want a program that will do the following... 1. Tell me exactly what site/ad a person came from just b4 they purchased. 2. Will tell …

My google PR recently dropped from 6 to 4 on my index page. Is this something to worry about or just the monthly google dance?

This site, for example, is located at [url="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums"]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums[/url] - However, it can also be accessed via its domain name [url="http://www.techtalkforums.com"]www.techtalkforums.com[/url] If someone links to [url="http://www.techtalkforums.com"]www.techtalkforums.com[/url], and is forwarded server-side over to daniweb.com, which domain name would get the PR increase? I know that PR is on a page-by-page basis, and …

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