Posts by canadafred

Personally I do not spend any time whatsoever on off-site ranking factors. I work on business web sites, normal stuff not meant to get anybody rich quick but intended to get a market share of the qualified traffic available from keywords and keyword phrase searches specific to the products or services that ther normal business web site offers.

From years of experience in "white hat SEO", in order to highly position web pages, a business Internet marketing strategy usually needs a combination of three components:

1. a general web site that is easy to navigate and well-optimized (highly crafted content, good internal linking structure, optimized tags and attributes, logically named images and web pages ...)
2. a somewhat separate evolving corporate blog
3. an ongoing social media campaign

These three components are integrated, cross referencing each using anchor links (textual links), they share the same look and feel, have the same logos etc. This is itself is sufficient in appeasing the search engine and the best part is thatr it is all fully in my control. It is difficult to base on SEO strategy on things that are beyond my control. The key to good SEO is to build from scratch and then keep it updated with fresh content. If other web site designers chose to link to my stuff that's great but unlikely. Often I read how "related" or "relevant" links are the best type of backlinks to acquire. Sure, that makes sense but if I have a service most …

AssertNull makes a good point. The highest ranked web site isn't necessarily the best web site for a searcher to visit. Often the high rankers in general industries have the least competent service to offer but can appear to be significant players in the industry. That's the illusion a web site can project, it is, however, a marketing strategy for the web site owner. To rank a web site that deserves to have high ranking because of its impecable services is not enough on its own merit. Yet, these great service providers can rank well and their keyword positions can be long lasting provided the web site owner is regularly evolving well-crafted content. Ideally, a great service has an excellent Internet marketing strategy and also well-optimizes the web site components then it is completely natural that the search engine will sooner rather than later, deem their web pages important results for keyphrase searches. The web pages will not only rank well but the targeted visitor will arrive at a meaningful, obviously important web site. |This is what makes the best conversions of all. This is what makes the telephone ring with new clients. It's both a sound Internet marketing strategy and good SEO. Link manipulation is the SEO weenie's way to help cast the illusion that a web page is important. Linking startegists are barely search engine optimisers at all. The ones that can actually rank web pages in meaningful keyphrase competitions are merely link building specialists, many of which …

The type of linking strategist the OP is refering to doesn't really perform any search engine optimization on a web site. They figure out ways to build links to web pages in hopes of the process of building links will increase ranking in the results pages for a desired set of keywords and keyword phrases. For some magical reason or for the shear lack of keyphrase competitors, the web pages may in fact rank well in the SERPs. But none of that is the result of good SEO. Links are but one factor that the search engines will consider when picking the best web pages to display in their results. Link building from one web page to another is considered on off-site ranking factor in a way similar to social media triggers, those are thiongs occuring off-site that can affect a webpage's ranking. But, web pages that have well optimized on-site ranking factors can often enhance a "good" link building strategy to propelk pages upward or in itself be the best web page for the search engine to pick. Some on-site things that can be optimized include important stuff like: the web page's content, its paragrah, <HEAD> tags, other tags and attributes such as <H> headings and use of textual <a> anchors, images, logically naming stuff, the internal linking structure (site navigation), the page's architecture, there's all kindsa' innovative little ways to emphasize keyphrases in order to make keyphrases appear important, without over-doing it and making the spider puke etc …

I deleted all my video a few years back and now need examples of my music video creation skills. I've tried several ways to get the videos back but I cannot even find their Youtube locators. Thanks for your time.

no

I'm really at the bottom too man and want so very much to get higher. Fortunately I have both an emotional and ranking cure that works magic but I'll only offer you some suggestions for your webpage ranking woes.

I know that it will take a bit of creative effort on your part as it will require you to craft significant content, not necessarily a whole bunch of content but unique, well phrased, naturally appearing words and phrases in the form of headings and sentences in paragraphs. You'll have to make it interesting and a bit more robust using optimized images or videos. Remember to pay attention to spelling and grammar and avoid repeating the same sequence of words continually, a fault of novices often deployed in an effort to indicate importance words for keyword searches. Ya, the SEO beginner will have to flex their language muscles in order to convince the search engine that their content is important stuff. In that process the optimizer will likely establish a trust relationship between the search engine's ranking mecanisms and the site's evolving content creation. Simultaneously they'll be a need to bolster your main web pages' importance using a variety of social media triggers like Youtube videos and Facebook fan pages. Then ... well, that'll get you started I'm sure. Good luck.

Apologize for the terrible spelling the last post I made here.

I think I wanted to make the point that to think you can rank keyphrases using external linking factors is to want to manipulate the search engine into believing that the linked web page is of some importance; enough importance that it should highly rank for a particular keyword phrases. Most search engines are smarter than that and most search engines do not rank web pages in this way exclusively. They establish importance based on a variety of factors both externally orientated and internally driven by the web page.

Just as a side note. By far, the most important ranking factor considered would be the stablishment of trust between the web site and the search engine. Artificially inflated web pages may often appear in results pages but they do not usually stand very long as keyword competitors in any search criteria, regardless of its competitiveness.

Actually, there is SEO in social media marketing. Take Youtube for example. Videos get ranked and are subject to algorhythmic interpretation. That is why it is important to include a keyphrase rich Title and well optimized description for each video inasmuch the same way you would perform SEO on a web page. That's a pretty clear example of the need for SEO in a Social Media Marketing Strategy; as these two distinct online marketing approaches have continued assimilating over time.

What is more important for the web site? Consider that for a moment. You can control your own web site, its pages, its content etc but you cannot control what happens outside of that; who links to who or what. What do you think is more important? You can change things on-site, you can tweak paragraphs and image attributes. That sounds quite important. You can reword a web page Title. That's important shit in SEO. Johnny Twofacefingers in Brazil may or may not link to your web page. Is that important? Does that sound earth shattering to you? Who cares!

Link building is not in itself search engine optimization. Link building as the sole tactic in an SEO strategy is like having some cheap icing for a cake. You got to bake cake man!

And about the other part of your question, the "traffic" you may have received in the past is barely related to the traffic you may get in the future, barely. Traffic patterns are important when establishing trust with the search engine but unless things evolve on site the search engine will lose interest. It wants new stuff from a trusted site, fresh brand new stuff man. Take out the bong and contemplate that for a while then get creating content. Out.

The best ones are designed for sustaining a long lifespan at the top of the results in competitive search environments. There may be some short cuts to the top but generally the easy way out is the easy way out. Think about your actual content: the words in your paragraphs, the images, videos, Headings etc. How you optimize those things that within your control. That' is the best strategy in improving SEO skills. Rely on your own effort and innovativeness rather than to seek externally or repetitively internally in order to boost rankings. Along with those notions, consider expanding your keyword (key word phrases) reach by incorporating new terms into new pages that coincide (are relevant) to your main keyphrase targets. This is termed the "long tail" approach. It too is among the best, sound, controllable search engine optimisation strategies.

The best software I've found to date checks for correct grammar and spelling. Word is a good one. I've found over the years that the search engines prefer well written content rather than well ... most of the rest of the crap out there.

Oh wow man those sound like pretty tough questions to answer I would think. This HTML 5.0 microdata stuff looks somewhat suspiciously similar to HTML/CSS of the old days. Maybe it's the same sort of thing. Heck I'll give'er a stab at your questions sam, in spite of not even knowing what I'm talking about now nor in my first reply. My answer wil be at this point ... at this stage, here it is ... yes. yes. You could and you should add this markup on any page where you mention these type of specific names and addresses etc.; the microdatable data, I suppose. And ya' the concept of having two postal addresses microdataed on the same spread, why the heck not. Even put a dozen microdata phone numbers on the same page to boot. I don't think the search engine branding gods much care either way. May confuse the crap out of them trying to pinpoint you but the machine'll roll nevertheless I would think.

I just had a quick look at this and a real good reference to understanding what the heck this post is all about can be found here How To Mark Up Your Content Using Microdata https://schema.org/docs/gs.html#microdata_how

I could offer an uneducated answer to the question, from what I briefly read, my sense is that microdata can be extremely helpful from an SEO perspective but it doesn't seem able to be applied to <HEAD> tags (which makes logical sense as it would be mostly redundant information), it can only be used within the <BODY> of the web page.

Link density? What an odd term. How could it be determined by comparing no-follow from follow ... seems downright silly to me. My answer to the poser is to not wate your timr worrying about this type of junk and concentarte on not manipulating the search engine.I suppose that whatever happens naturally will therefore be the "density" in your case. Is that good or bad for ranking? Who cares really.

... but but but the question was in English. Stupid me thought it implied crafting content in that language, the one the search engines devote the most energy in understanding the natural patterns of language use and in developing its most ingenious ranking mechanisms, artificial intelligence technologies, mapping technologies ...

The OP asked for opinions and mine's as follows. Any effort in seeking backlinks is a waste of time. It's purpose is to artificially inflate links pointing to things normally unrankable thus not worthy of my visit. In some ways the search engine discourages link building schemes, but not many.

Learn how to write well, in English.

Email marketing is annoying and potential customers are not impressed with receiving solicitations in their inboxes (should your communication be able to pass their spam filters, which incidentally and perhaps ironically are in place to stop email marketers from reaching their inboxes). In other words, it isn't often an effective digital marketing strategy.

That was something we did back in 1926 I think. Worked well for a while.

Your web page web-development-services.html claims you already perform SEO and yet here you are begging for SEO 101 advice.

um ... ummm ... zero.

Ah, sure there's a META tag for that <"meta="title" content="blah blah blah"> but that tag's pretty much obsolete considering you can use the TITLE tag <title>blah blah blah</title> in the document's HEAD.

Focus on components that are within your control: your on-site ranking factors such as your content, your web site architecture, your code.

Write in a way deemed exceptionally interesting and informative by professional reviewers and that in itself'll naturally capture a big school of 'em.

You'll likely need to develop some content. That'll require you write paragraphs, headings ... You'll likely want to throw in a couple of optimized images. What I mean by optimized is that they are logically named and make good use of the "alt" or "title" attribute to the image tag. Then you'll likely want to slap in some social media triggers so build yourself a neat fan page and spread the news. Then maybe you'll want to consider creating some more valuable, unique and obviously important content and do that for a while. In the process of crafting caliber pages I'd consider linking the stuff together internally using keyphrase rich textual anchor. Another thing you may want to consider would be to master the English language so that you naturally write well. That'll help things out a bit more. G'luck!

From my observations, Google won't necessarily indicate every web page it is aware of exists within a domain regardless of how you bait it, particularly if the web page is extremely similar to others within the domain. The fact that it doesn't indicate it is aware of a 404 page is logical.

the site seems fairly well optimized, keep evolving it and it'll likely build more trust with the search engine over time. Steer clear from artificial link schemes, develop a more powerful internal linking structure instead. You're on the right track though. Make sure your textual content is original.

<meta name="rpbots" content="index, follow" />
useless tag, please spell robot correctly when using it otherwise it appears to be hastily prepared

<meta name="description" content="ccop is a major import and export company" />
it's always better to write two short keyphrase rich sentences rather than stuffing a keywords list in there

<meta name="keywords" content="coop, coop.com coop company, import export, import export france, " />
useless tag, let the search engine decide what is important

<meta name='REVISIT-AFTER' content='30 DAYS'>
useless tag, archaic tag, the search engine will revisit frequently if it expects to find intelligent, valuable, uniquely new content each time it shows up

Don't waste your time and worry with link building strategies, other than your own stuff interlinking with each other; your internal linking system I suppose. My suggestion is Instead of searching for effective ways to artificially boost your "link popularity" with a trendy trick, try creating stuff worth linking to and that the search engine will deem credible, unique and well crafted. The search engine nor the Internet visitor wants to get to p-ages that are useless other than the fact they rank well. Everybody wants something fresh and significant. Linking strategists are a sad bunch of SEOers, making meaningless crap- seem important.

hey, you really need to think out of the box on this one. The acronym idea is not a good one necessarily from a search engine optimization perspective unless you want to capitalize on the keywords in the acronym. Ideally you'd want two web sites that are completely differently constructed, one keyphrase rich and the other the easy to remember acronym. You can anchor text cross link them fairly extensively for an SEO boost particularly if one was a blog and the other a very user friendly static or flash site, likely the acronym.org . The other thing is about the .org extension, it is much more search engine friendly to have either a .com or a country specific extension, in my case a .ca .

There's a couple of things to consider while you develop a strategy to deal with the board :). I'll get back to this discussion to see where it has gone ... best of luck.

After a while, Google will realize that the old Title isn't coming back and will display your new Title. When this conclusion will be reached is anyone's guess but it will occur, eventually.

Disallowing the link in a robot file doesn't remove it from the face of the Internet nor does it stop the search engine from continually acknowledging it's existence.

It's all such a waste of time in 2015. Because of excessive manipulation over the years, the vast majority of links haven't much good or bad influence to begin with, if any. It surprises me to observe web developers still trying to link juice-up their web pages rather than building better, evolving content for their web pages. Deploying any artificial link building strategy is a worse thing to do today than ever before because it can only be done poorly, all the clever ways to manipulate links have already been exhausted.

In my opinion, the advice I've heard so far is absurd. The only advice I'd give you is to never listen to someone who tells you to write a zillion articles and yet cannot even spell that word correctly, let alone the awful grammar.

I would think however that if you have a Google account and they've verified your banking information then you can monetize practically whatever you want.

Depends. If it is just a handful you can try contacting the webmaster to physically remove them and that may work. If it is many "bad" links then you may be out of luck. The thing to remember is to NOT try to manipulate your backlinking strategy by artificially building links. Let backlinks generate themselves naturally, or not generate themselves altogether. I honestly don't think it matters much either way if your web site has already established trust with the search engine because of its history of offering evolving and valuable, uniquely important content.

From my experience, most videos that go viral are rudimentarily created, often using a simple cellphone and no editing software so depending on the quality or professionalism desired you'll have to weigh it out. One costs very little, the other ... well ... could cost you an arm and a leg.

Huge numbers of Likes can come naturally in almost any industry provided you are offering regular, intereresting and relevant new posts. It may take some time to develop a large enough audience to naturally generate Likes so one trick is to Like others, similarly themed Facebook Fan Pages. Often, that is enough to encourage those players to visit and in turn Like your page.

"...fireworks are called crackers..."

oh my is this awkward. hey how ya' been almostbob? ya. so for all you folk reading this thread and saw my earlier response, please negate it as I haven't a clue what I was thinking. crackers. wow man cracked myself up laughing at myself. major oops on that one Freddy boy. ok. time to go now ... pretend I'm working

You gotta' be joking. This web site has nothing to do with buying crackers. The pages appear to be for a fireworks store or some other odd intent. The keyphrase "Buy Crackers Online" is so uncompetitely searched that if you can impress someone by getting a silly page to rank for it then you'll be a pretty good salesman but it won't impress me much.

Google Adwords has a very powerful keyword suggestion tool. There's others similar to it out there but this one is free and works extremely well when trying to decide on keyphrases to target.

There isn't an easy answer but I would think that you'll likely first have to learn how to spell and write well in English otherwise it will be difficult to take you seriously.

You'll improve your click-through rate in only one way:

Get more traffic to your web pages by any means possible, especially though by increasing the volume of qualified human visitors to your web pages. What is meant by qualified are that the visitor perform an actual search for what your web page primarily offers and arrives on your web page as a result of finding it in the search engine results. (that's not easily attainable by tag spamming alone incidentally)

It does not seem likely to me that one new exclusive factor will effect web pages enough to cause an upheaval in the results pages. Google has a history of creating these type of illusions. You have to try to remember the crazy notions and bizarre linking frenzy that Google PageRank caused.

I cannot imagine how a web page could have difficulty performing for such a non-competitive keyword phrase. I would suggest you consider other forms of advertising beyond the search engines as the pages you are creating obviously add little value to the Internet.

Essentially what it appears that you have done was to create a bunch of useless doorway pages. Each would likely have little new, unique, naturally generated content so it doesn't matter how you try to redirect things as none of these efforts will have any significant positive effect on ranking web pages for any of your keyphrases.

simply learn how to write well

A web page's rankings vary continuously dependant on many factors, mostly a reflection of the actual content of the page but also significantly because of localization and personalization.

Outside of the obvious advice to craft evolving intelligent content, consider focusing outside the search engines altogether and more towards optimizing your social media campaigns. A good Google business listing will help too.

"cronical"? probably meant to write "canonical". Nevertheless, as the question appears to me, you only have content on one site with two other domains forwarding to the main site. Should this be the case then rest assured it is not penalizable because it is almost a standard nowadays to do such things.

You could likely get any web page ranked on the first page of results within a day or two. Depends mostly on the competitiveness of the keyphrase search, but also affected by localisation of origin of the search and search personalization variations deriving from the searcher's IP address.