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Can anybody explain me how ppc works?:)

Google webmaster tools just showed a decrease in my site's backlinks from 1250 to 966. I am bummed...I have been working really hard on getting high quality links for the last couple of months. Has anyone else noticed something similar for their sites? Anyone have any ideas what could have …

I have a client who has asked me to purchase 8 domains for her to protect her company branding. Is there any disadvantage from an SEO point of view to having all of these pointing to the one website. Does Google see this as repetition. Is there a 'best' way …

Hi friends , There is a page in my website which contains links to all the travel destinations in India which is alphabetically arranged and it is a dynamic page. My doubt is about the naming of that page. I rewrited all the php pages to html page. In this …

Can anyone recommend a good SEO plug-in for WordPress? I have tried a couple but I have had marginal results. Any advice would be appreciated.

Hi, I would like to ask if anyone knows a good text book about SEO. Something that might even show some good examples. Thanks.

Hi to all, I just want your reviews on the question- Should blog comment be there or not? As many of the blogs are with "no follow" tag, Do you think posting in blogs help us in gaining rankings? Or its just a waste of time?

Good Day, Can someone recommend some good advance level books on SEO? I am looking for book with in depth knowledge of SEO. I have seen many on amazon but as i am living in Australia its good to have a opinion before drag the book all the way here …

Hi there, i've recently created a new website [url]www.horseboxhirehertfordshire.co.uk[/url] I have been following some of the very well written articles on this website and have been following them. The website as listed above you'll see that i have, made them in a way that is clean, has a unique title …

I work for a company that sells oil field equipment. We cover a fairly broad spectrum of brands and categories/applications. We'd like to increase our web presence and one of our ideas is to buy domain names that contain the keywords we want to promote. We have already purchased 40some …

Google announced about Google Instant Search and there has been some concern on the twittersphere that this will eliminate SEO. I am not one who believes that SEO will be eliminated, but it does sound like we may have to make some adaptions to our techniques. Feedback welcome!!!

How does it take to get a reply from google adsence for the aprovment and do u get a reply if the site is not aproved.

hi, i have a robots.txt file with this content: User-agent:* Allow: / Allow: /sitemap Disallow: /gerente is it written in right order?

I'm in need of opinions. I currently have several low-traffic Dutch websites, all equipped with an RSS feed built by me. Would it be better for my sites if I promote the feeds at FeedBurner instead of the current on-site ones ? Does it matter for SEO ? Any other …

what is robots.txt? please define robot.txt what is it and how does it works?

I have been doing some thinking and research on what helps vs hurts my site rank. All the buzz now is, of coarse, the social networking idea. From what have gathered, this alone is not enough. Google likes external links, but RELEVANT links, not link farms or just sticking an …

Hi Everyone, I have submitted SEO URLs in Google WebMasters. Google was indexing in the beginning. But after sometimes, the indexing is gone. Hence I request the forum members help in clarifying whether I need to submit the SEO URLs or the regular URLs to GOOGLE WEBMASTERS. Kindly help. Thanks …

Whether websites with '.com' are given more prominence by Google, from SEO perspective than the websites with suffixes, viz., '.info', '.net' and '.us'.

I am getting a weird error in Google Webmaster Tools when my site is accessed as [url]http://www.myurl.com/[/url] it shows duplicate meta tags for a [url]http://www.myurl.com/?ref=wierdurl.com[/url] I have no relation to this weird url, but obviously it is linked to my site this way and Google sees it as a separate …

Hi everyone This is my first thread so bear with me. I have recently launched a new website and would like some tips on how to get it well ranked with search engines. It is a life insurance site and I have already been busy exchanging links with many different …

Hi My self Giovanni from USA, I am working as manger of NewAge SMB, is a New Jersey based team of SEO / Internet marketing company , having professionals over 7 years of experience. We have been assisting our clients by promoting their business & services, using our advanced SEO …

OK I have a question regarding back links on your own site. I have a free business advertising forum which I have recently launched, and I am trying to get my PR up. However my signature on this forum has a link pointing back to this same forum. Obviously as …

I have a client with a .co.uk and a .com domain. Her business is mainly UK but she also receives work from overseas- mainly USA and Australia. At the moment she has the .com as her main domain with the .co.uk as a parked domain. I suspect that this isn't …

Hi, 1) I remember I've usually read to better choose the solution with fore- and last name in one word if you're going to use your name as a domain name. But I couldn't find any solid sounding reason. Is there any? 2) I also consider the solution with the …

Hi, My website is being crawled by a crawler by name yandex.ru almost 24 hours a day. How can I stop it from crawling my website. My website is USA based. Hence, I don't want this crawler to crawl my website all the time. Any advice please. Thanks in advance

Hi friends, I am having a blog with considerably good revenue.Now I am trying to make it a revenue sharing website. I have put Ads in my blog using my personal adsense account.Now I am going to add one of my friends as it's another user.The problem is that If …

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what is better: PPC or SEO? What do you think?

I am trying to maximize the SEO benefits to my clients corporate site that come from being linked to the blogs they have set up and I was wondering if there is anything I can do to squeeze some SEO benefits from the RSS feeds on the blogs? Is this …

Hi, When you talking about SEO then one thing that you have keep in mind is Keywords. Keywords are an important part of SEO. Unfortunately, many website owners overdo it. Keywords are one of the most important tools in ranking high on search engines. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is essential …

I want to ask what is the keyword to find backlink in this search engine : google yahoo bing altavista gigablast ask Please tell me. I'am waiting for your answer. Thank's

hi Please help me to find out how to install wordpress blog on my website

I am attending college at Colorado Technical University Online and I am in my Phase 3 of my assignment. I have been asked the following questions for this assignment: Part 1) As a store owner, what are some reason's that I would want to offer discounts? What would be the …

Hello, Please check my website : [url]http://tinyurl.com/q4m6ds[/url] and Tell me it is fine or not ? If it is not fine then what changes should i do to make perfect to it .. Please open and Tell me right solution.

Does anyone know if it's possible to exclude the search engine bots by using a robots.txt file on a Coldfusion website just like an HTML site? Thanks, Heidi

Hello all, I'm going to be starting a website up soon, how do i add google ads in??? What do i need to do, to add it onto my website. Thanks, Cohen

Good Day I have a web site that is ranked number one in most the search engines, my client wants me to put more activity on the start of the home page (index.htm) in the way of a flash intro that the browser person can control by closing before it …

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

when you search my webpage by name I can see more than 300 results due to back links but when you try to find out what search engines like google has as links to my web page it only shows a few pages. could you help me understand why? thanks!

I've noticed that the page rank for << url snipped >> varies considerably when using the search query 'direct democracy'. One of my users believes the number of times he visits the site may have an effect. Does anybody know if this is the case.

Hi, I've recently migrated my forum from YaBB to vBulletin and would like to implement a 301 redirect (if it's not too late), in order to preserve PR (it was PR4). Old URL: [url]http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl[/url] New URL: [url]http://www.mysite.com/forum/[/url] Can anyone help me with what exactly to put into the .htaccess file? …

What could be the more important in Statistics for a website? Unique Visitors OR Hits Waiting for some good replies..

what is niche directory ? whats the diffrence between niche directory and general directory ?

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

well i have develop website amnacorp.com please check below i have tried for seo <head> <title>Amna Corporation is an ISO 9001 : 2000 Certified Company .We are the Manufacturers and Expoters of Woven Garments.</title> <meta name="title" content="WOMEN GARMENTS, MEN GARMENTS, CHILDREN GARMENTS, GARMENTS MANUFACTURERS, GARMENTS EXPORTERS, JEANS MANUFACTURERS, JEANS EXPORTERS …

The index page of my site is redirected permanently to another page on my site using .htaccess, I'm messing about with IBP9's spider simulator to see how a search engine would see it; apperently this is what they'd see from the index page: <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=./YaBB.pl"> </head> I've …

Hi everyone When I start a new web site promotion project one of the first thing, of course, is an anlysis to determine the most searched for keyphrases that are relevant and industry specific to the web site. I do this using the traditional tools available from the search engines …

Is there any proof that graphical links don't weigh as much as text link ads do?

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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 …