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 | Pure white hat SEO deals exclusively with working the optimizable webpage components, the on-site factors. General white hat SEO can influence off-site factors, not by the trendy link building schemes but by either developing external web sources (such as a corporate blog) or by having content that is so superior … |
| | Your suggestion is elementary. Repeating keyphrases in each of these webpage components is over-optimizing and essentially of little value to the Internet visitor. I strongly suggest the ethical SEO practice of [URL="http://canadian-web-site-promotion.blogspot.com/2009/06/seo-technique-keyphrase-dynamicability.html"]Keyphrase Dynamicability[/URL] whereas keyphrases are substantially variated; a much more rewarding practice then using the same keyphrases over and …  |
 | Your question I think was mainly about examining the Title and Description. The Title is way too long. Keywords repeated way too often. Is boring as heck, doesn't capture the imagination of the web searcher and indian should be Indian. Write a short interesting Title and use keyphrases once, maybe, … |
| | I would say that you are probably going to run into search engine ranking issues because of the php. It's not that php is a bad thing per say, it's the way these paint-by-number software solutions slap the code altogether and call it a webpage. Often you'll find significant coding … |
 | Go Bill! I knew you could pull it off. This ten year search merger is a good thing for all humans, except the Adsense swindlers of course. |
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| | In today's world, the search engine still counts and values the link in spite of the link condoms and robot exclusions. |
| | I thought you were writing about how to search then you throw in something about meta tags at the end of it. I have a question: What is your article about? |
| | Re: Hello [QUOTE=ashley spencer;917239]Also is there a possibility of an orphan page penalty?[/QUOTE] Sure, things like that are possible but I doubt that would be much of an issue for you. I think I speak on behalf of most around here when I suggest that you need to provide us with a … |
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| | [QUOTE=manomanjudotcom;918631]Submit again after few hours.[/QUOTE] ... and maybe try another generator, I briefly glanced at your XML and something just didn't look right although it looks OK. I'm not much of a scripter so I can't say for sure but why don't you just try another like this one [url]http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/[/url] … |
| | I think the best software on the market today is Notepad. Learn how to use Notepad and you'll be well on your way to becoming a decent search engine optimizer.  |
| | Vent? Why vent? The guy's completely right. |
| | [QUOTE=loftiplamar;917792]... I have basic knowledge of making websites "friendly" for search engines...[/QUOTE] You do? In English? |
| | [QUOTE=MktgRob;913585]Could this be considered grey or black hat SEO? Canada Fred, any thoughts?[/QUOTE] It's perfectly OK. It's your webpage and you can do whatever you want with it. Maybe the web page will need to do something like this ten times or more. It is often a completely natural occurence. … |
| | [QUOTE=lyardson;878129]...pls advise me how to get high pagerank...[/QUOTE] Either you`ll have to create something that naturally is worthy of acquiring inbound links or you`ll need to learn the distinguished art of begging, borrowing, dropping, swapping, buying, spamming, blackmailing and hustling for incoming links. |
| | Well, you can try some of the already popular methods including: buying, borrowing, stealing, begging, convincing, blackmailing, swindling, swapping, um ... um ... |
| | Holy cow Douglas. I've been coming here to Daniweb for some time now and I've seen a few pink clouding webmaesters [that's a correct spelling variation, I think] puke out some pretty strange definitions for SEO and using some of the most outright infantile spelling inventions one could possibly conceive …  |
| | Re: image link Oh, the search engine knows all about the linked image and it's subsequent linked webpage but you may not necessarily be able to verify it. For SEO, how it scores image links is obviously a bit lower than it would a textual link but the image link can still be … |
| | When discussing link building strategies in SEO, Google has started using language like: "These are typically useless exercises that don't affect your ranking in the results of the major search engines -- at least, not in a way you would likely consider to be positive.". In this same way, I … |
| | Spam is spam whether the search engine can follow a link to it or not. If you haven't anything worth writing about on someone else's blog comments section then don't write it. If you want to write a comment on someone's else's blog for the purpose of getting a couple … |
| | Re: Best technique? I guess the SEO basics could be: - learn how to write optimized content - learn how to employ the optimizable web page components - learn how to logically name stuff like graphics and webpages - learn how to develop a powerful internal linking structure That'd be about it to … |
| | [QUOTE=DansMuayThaiMMA;901596]... New Goal = PR 3 by the end of the summer ...[/QUOTE] Are you expecting some sort of prize when you accomplish this? Just so that you are aware, you have achieved nothing and are heading for never-ending nothingland. |
| | Instead of preaching about the negative effects that buying links can have on a webpage's ranking, here's what is written by the search engine ... "However, some SEOs and webmasters engage in the practice of buying and selling links that pass PageRank, disregarding the quality of the links, the sources, … |
| | Any of the above mentioned link hiding techniques (including the cloaking suggestion) are an easy ticket to having the web pages in question demerited. I'm not saying that the search engines won't find out about it, I'm implying that it is likely that the search engines will most likely determine … |
| | [QUOTE=ArvindSharma;899603]... So i think that if you are using proper drop down menu than there should be no issue related to the search engine point of view ...[/QUOTE] I tend to agree with this assessment. As long as the search engine can find the anchors all should be well but … |
| | It's not uncommon for a new web site to start off with a PR4 landing page immediately after coming out of the sandbox effect (PR0). Chances are that you have acquired two or three decent incoming links and that you have deployed an effective internal linking structure. It also seem … |
| | It doesn't really matter too much how many characters the Description uses as long as the most important parts of it are at the beginning of the tag's content; within the first and second sentences. Anything after a certain character limit may not get used in the SERP description but … |
| | Ideally, in order for any incoming link building strategies to be sustainably effective, two things need to occur simultaneously: 1. The web page needs to attract the best kind of inbound links; the ones that naturally derive from a webmaster somewhere who has visited your web page and wants to … |
| | Re: Bing for SEO Precisely. Decent rankings in meaningful keyphrase environments for any of the Microsoft search products (MSN, Bing and Live) are generally attained as a result of two factors: 1. The web pages have unique, important, evolving and credible content. 2. Basic, ethical SEO. The optimizable web page/site components need to be … |
 | First and foremost, the Meta Keywords tag is a search engine tag. It's importance as an indicator varies. In some cases, it is very important as the search engine may have trouble picking out the important keyphrases within the content, in other cases it is of no value whatsoever as … |
| | [QUOTE=imrozz;878017]Hi, Its better to put your keywords in the title and descriptions. The description can be longer than the title tags. The title tags has a limit of 65 characters, this will show up in google. Try to write a convincing title and description so when people see your listing … |
| | [QUOTE=MktgRob;892768]I am now looking for SEO at the next level.[/QUOTE] Well, I would think that the next level would include such things as: rewriting Titles and Descriptions to enforce your "keyphrase rich" content, playing around with you alt and title attributes, renaming webpages and graphics logically, developing you internal navigational … |
| | Capitalizing the first letter of an important word in essential in capturing the attention of the qualified visitor who rapidly sifts through the search engine results page hoping to spot what it is he/she seeks. Capitalizing the first letter of important words indicates that the words must be more valuable … |
 | There are no short-cuts in crafting webpages to be both visitor and search engine friendly. Inbound link building stragtegies (other than naturally generating inbbound links as a result of the exceptional on-site work) are means to artificially inflate the importance and popularity web pages by manipulating the volume, relevancy and … |
| | For clarity purposes, Google ranks web pages not web sites. About the last paragraph, in my experience, SEO companies are either extremely reluctant [understandably so] to provide their clients with the truth about exactly what it is they will do to or around the web pages in order to rank …  |
| | I once coined the term "keyphrase dynamicability" to describe exactly what you are suggesting. Cast the widest net within your means to capture as much targeted traffic as possible to your web pages. It is important not to constrict your keyphrase targets to just a couple of specific terms. Start … |
| | Just so that everyone is clear, using social networking webpages, and most of the other suggestions described in this thread, as an avenue to enhance a link building strategy is tantamount to manipulating your link popularity and thus considered a Greyhat SEO scheme, in spite of it being both trendy … |
| | I don't see how SEO is remotely related to cloud computing applications. Can you possibly take the time to describe what going on in your head a little more deeply. Enlighten me.  |
| | I'd suggest you recreate the old one into a "branding" web site and use the new one as more of a search engine friendly web site with heavy cross linking between the two. In this way, should it be deployed effectively, you won't need to concern yourself with the accumalation … |
| | Bottom line, SEO will exist as long as search engines offer organic results. |
| | Indeed name your web pages as "vaughan-computer-repair.htm" etc. (use the hyphen as a separator) but the webpage intended to attract searchers for Vaughan cannot be offred a slightly varied replication of what you intented for Toronto searchers to find. The content between the two needs to be uniquely developed in … |
| | A DMOZ listing is handed out by a DMOZ editor, who is a volunteer, working for free (I said:working for free, ziltch, nada, no money, could be starving to death but still works for free ...) On another note, never have I ever seen a DMOZ editor accept, word for …  |
| | I'd keep your money and spend more time developing better quality web content and then develop more of it. In essence, this is doing your own SEO. |
 | Essentially a DMOZ listing is just a link found within a directory and it sits in a pool of hundreds of thousands of other directories that generally do just about the same thing. As Google is the owner of DMOZ it stands to reason that the search engine will trust … |
 | [QUOTE=cscgal]... We're very unique in that we give you free, prominent links THROUGHOUT DaniWeb.[/QUOTE] The links I get from being in your directory have been very authentic relevant links and appreciated. As a matter of fact, the link page often performs better than my own web site for niche keyphrase … |
| | Re: SEO Help Here's a run-on sentence. No time to clean up today. Gotta' paint! Personally, I'd go with the City1.CountrySite.com sub-directory version as it would cause for the entire domain to have deeper, richer depth making it easier to naturally empower it all in the SERPs (with the help of a well-structured … |
| | [QUOTE=Spiderweb]How about other opinions about this? I think there are plenty of newbie ( like me ) here find it useful?[/QUOTE] Just so that it is clear, PR value of a web page is but one factor that determines positioning in SERPs for a keyphrase search. A PR2 web page … |
| | Age often influences web site credibilty. Credibility is everything in a keyphrase competiton if you are interested in deploying long term successful and ethical SEO. Get something up and running as soon as possible, like a cover page and not an "Under Construction" page. Don't mention under construction at all … |
| | [QUOTE=cscgal;843078]... However, to rank really good for a particular keyword, you should have incoming links whose anchor text reflects that keyword as well as that keyword represented (although not too artificially) on the actual page itself.[/QUOTE] ... and it should be noted that it is always most rewarding not to … |
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