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 | If you syndicate your rss feed on multiple websites it can create duplicate content issues. This is because the same headline and snippet will be repeated on all of those sites. Search engines value uniqueness and therefore these links will be somewhat devalued. I am not saying the rss link … |
| | E-commerce is the ability to conduct sales transactions online. This includes selling items on your website. The benefits of e-commerce is that you are opening new revenue streams. Instead of having a website that only provides information you can have a website that provides information and also offers consumers a … |
| | You may have heard that search engines allow you to submit your website to them. That might sound like a great idea but it is actually a bad idea. Why? Because submitting to search engines means that eventually the search engines will visit your website and their is no promise … |
 | [B]1. # of results per search engine in English[/B] personally i dont care about # of results. if you search for "red" you will see there are millions of results. i dont think anyone is trying to optimize for the word "red". the only time that the number of results … |
| | "microsites" pass link juice and page rank the same way that regular sites do. if you build these sites, dont do any link development and link them to the corporate site you will get no benefit. for link juice/pagerank to pass into a website, the linking site needs to have … |
| | search engines can process css dropdown links, they are starting to process javscript dropdown links and flash dropdowns are great if you want to hide links from search engines. it is best to make it as easy as possible for the search engines so stick with css and avoid javascript. … |
 | Re: Bing vs MSN Google Analytics took a little time to recognize Bing as a search engine. The first few days Bing was launched, Google had it listed under the referral section. You may see an increase of traffic from Bing since Microsoft is spending $100s of millions on advertising. I would expect that … |
| | Welcome to DaniWeb chomkler! When people are talking about site maps they might be referring to two slightly different things. In the early days of the internet people tried to make it easier for users to find items on their website. To do that they created a webpage that linked … |
| | Congratulations on creating a large database driven site! It is beautiful and very useful, now if only you could figure out how to get people to find your site. Time for search engine optimization! SEO is how to make your website easy for the search engines to crawl and convince … |
| | every e-commerce project is unique. here are some steps that i would follow in setting up a new e-commerce website 1-registering domain name 2-finding good, secure hosting 3-installing e-commerce software package 4-populating database with model #, prices, descriptions 5-creating site template 6-set up payment processor 7-installing analytical reporting solution 8-advertise … |
| | Off page optimization refers to anything that is not directly hosted on your site. The most important and largest aspect of "off page optimization" is link development. This is because in general the site with the highest quantity and quality of inbound links from other websites will rank the highest … |
| | Ahhhh yes meta tags. I remember you so well. Just a few years ago (ok many years ago) all you had to do was stuff meta tags with keywords and you would rank #1. But no longer are they that powerful. Still some meta tags are good and others are … |
| | Hi 2bu, It is not really controversial. It comes down to intent. Matt, Adam and the other members of the Google team have talked about this alot. Situation 1 - Website about widgets decides to add a link to a local charity. That link is to a non widget related …  |
| | Search engines do not like paid links. They do not want webmasters paying for inbound links from other websites. Why? Because when done properly it enables webmasters to quickly and easily rank very high. Since there is a potential high reward, many webmasters are understandably attracted to paid links. Before … |
 | Re: SEO Here is a good resource to get started with SEO : [url]http://www.seomoz.org/articles[/url] As for your specific questions, PageRank was designed by Larry Page of Google. It is only used by Google. It determines the value of a web file. In general files that have high PageRank have an easier time … |
| | #1 - Duplicate content is more about multiple websites repeating paragraphs. It seems you are talking about the anchor text (that is the clickable text of a link) being the same. Google likes to see the anchor text be focused but not identical across hundreds of sites. If you are … |
| | It is no secret that links are one of the most significant factor search engines use when ranking websites. Google even states that [quote]In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages.[/quote] [url]http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34432&query=improve+rankings&topic=&type=[/url] In other words if … |
| | It can be hard to choose a good SEO. I think it is important to educate yourself first so you know what questions to ask and more importantly what answers from potential vendors are warning signs. If you want to save money you can use elance, rent a coder and … |
| | Google will ban you for arbitrage. That is the practice of buying cheap ppc traffic and sending it to a page filled with expensive adsense ads. |
| | According to the industry numbers Google has about 65% market share, Yahoo has about 15% market share and MSN has about 8%. (these numbers differ depending which report you look at) Since Google has the largest chunk of traffic that is what I use. I don't necessarily think Google does … |
 | jonathon is right. google frequently shuffles things around because they are constantly testing new items. if things dont bounce back here are some things to look at -robots.txt is not blocking google -the sites that are linking to you did not suffer a penalty (if they lose their link popularity, … |