Posts by jay 11

Hmm.. can you not make it mandatory within PayPal? I could have sworn there was/is a way to automatically redirect users back to your site upon final sale.

The ranking factors are much of the same. Caffeine was NOT and algorithmic change. Instead it was an infrastructural change that enables Google to index new content more efficiently. In other words, it brings you new content faster than before. That's all.

You can start marketing locally. Tailor some of your file pages to return for local search queries like "logo design in [YourCity/Region]." You should be able to get some quality leads that way. Should you convert any to business, try to remember that word of mouth goes a long way.

Hold on to your links. They count as votes of confidence. Don't link to someone just because they link to you. This won't help anyone. Unless you are bartering for high quality traffic, I wouldn't bother with link exchanges.

There's no way Facebook will start charging for basic use. Everyone will go somewhere else if they do.

you don't get arrested? :)

So, not to be disrespectful since you can do what you want with your own website, if there is no difference between nofollow and dofollow then why not make your forum dofollow again like it used to be?

Because otherwise DaniWeb would be linking to a ton of spam. Unfortunately, such is the way with social networks. Same reason why respectable bloggers nofollow their comments. It's the most effective way to combat spam while staying in the good graces of the search engines.

If your still having trouble getting indexed by Bing, you can try submitting your site directly to them.
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx

I disagree... submitting your articles to third party websites in hopes that they will bring you more traffic (or links) is rather short sighted. It is much more effective to host your content on your own website, retain the value and rights of your content, and promote the articles within or through social media.

Why give away your content and make other websites better when you can keep the content and make your website a better resource. A resource worth citing with links and visiting with users. :)

Wow - I hadn't heard about this until now. I personally think "Google News" results could benefit big time from some sort of human interaction.

How about ebay or craigslist?

I agree with myhfelix. Keywords in your domain or a cleverly named file page will help, but there are about 200 other factors google uses to rank your website on it's SERPs. Content being the most important.

Hi flyblackbox - welcome to DaniWeb. I am not sure if Analytics can track a sale all the way through PayPal (my guess is that it doesn't). However, when the user finalizes Payment through paypal, you can redirect them to a unique "thank you" page that is hosted on your site - which will connect and finalize the sales process. Just be sure to add the analytics code to your thank you page.

The best way to get quality traffic is to optimize each one of your web pages for targeted keyword phrases (aka SEO). Properly optimized pages that contain good information will rank well in the search engines and drive the most qualified traffic.

Look into Chitika. They are an ad network that syndicates Yahoo! Content Match ads.

Sounds like you found your solution Serj. Good stuff :)

Avinash Kaushik has a newer/more current book on analytics called "Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity." As a rather experienced user, I found it easy to get through and even gained some valuable insights.

Correction - a 404 doesn't help the user if it just displays an error. You *can actually customize your 404 pages to give the end user some options on where to go from there. For example, "we're sorry but this page no longer exists. Please visit our homepage to search for the information you are seeking."

You basically want to make sure you either 301 the page OR customize the 404 message to give the user (and robots) options to move on.

A 404 isn't helping the user. If it were me, I would 301 it to a relevant file page or back to the index. 301's are safe as long as you don't change them around all the time. Remember... 301 means "permanent redirect." If you plan on changing it in the future, consider using a 302 redirect.

Sounds like they are just able to index and display both old and new content at a faster rate.

Search engines have progressed to the point where they don't need (or necessarily) use META Keywords to rank and understand your website. Still, it probably wouldn't heart to assign a handful to each page - depending on the size and type of content of each.

My doubt is
1. How to increase visitor count in my web site ( describing about tourism ). What are the different ways.
2. What is back links ?
3. I heard about directory submissions. Any one explain what is it ?

Hi Rajeesh - welcome to DaniWeb... here's my best shot at answering your questions.

1. There are many different ways to drive qualified traffic to your site.. You'll probably want to start with optimizing your on-site content so it jives with the keyword search phrases you are targeting - which in your case has to do with tourism and travel. You'll also want to make sure you have compelling and comprehensive information with proper spelling and grammar to help make sure your site is viewed by users and search engines as a viable resource. Without this solid foundation, you will have an extremely difficult time driving qualified traffic and establishing your brand. Once you have this, you can start spreading the word via social media, press release(s), and good "old fashion" online and/or offline advertising.

2. So called "backlinks" are essentially link citations from other web resources. You want other websites to link to you because a) it usually means that others think your site is a worthy resource which is good for branding (note: stay away from bad neighborhoods and "link exchanges"); b) they can send you direct traffic and c) link citations from other quality and relevant resources will help your …

Again, the amount of traffic you get from Social networks depends mostly on the quality of content. It has very little to do with frequency. If you are submitting crappy articles or information, you can expect a crappy response.

You probably shouldn't be submitting your "new page" every day. You should really only submit something you think is a very good resource or has the ability to go viral. The traffic you get from social bookmarking sites is generally unqualified and unsustainable. Meaning that a) most of the traffic is irrelevant and will not convert into a sale or click-through to one of your ads and b) due to the nature of social networks, the traffic will spike at first and then steadily decline.

I have created new web site and also I have submit my url to directories and search engines. But google not identify my site yet? Please tell me how can i submit my site to web? How can i take traffic to my web ?

Are you sure Google and other search engines have not indexed your site yet? If you query on the domain name of your website, do you get any results?

Work on your content and getting links, especially deep links.

I agree - improving overall content and maybe updating the internal link structure of a site, could force the spiders to re-visit and index.

it's tough to refer you to some direct advertising solutions without knowing what your website is about. My advice would be to search the web for related sites - some place where your target audience can be found and approach the webmaster with an offer or inquire about advertising opportunities.

Alternatively, there are ad networks out there that can help get your ads onto relevant websites.

You should look into Google AdSense. It is very simple to publish their relevant ads and get paid on a CPC (cost per click) basis. You can also choose to display text or image ads, measure performance, and decide which performs best.

In regards to CPM (cost per one thousand impressions), I don't think Google sells ads in this fashion. However, there are many other ad networks that do and i *think you can use them alongside AdSense if you wanted.

There's a lot of buzz about Google undergoing some major ranking and indexing changes - or a major "recrawl" of the web. Some webmasters have dubbed a recent change as the "Mayday" update.

I have personally seen a large dip in the number of pages Google has indexed for my site (which has millions of pages). Google maintains that the recent updates were purely algorithmic. However, I am seeing some low numbers of pages indexed from some pretty big sites. Either way, there definitely appears to be some shifting going on.

In the case of facebook.. they sell by CPM (cost per one thousand impressions).

Wait... you are asking about selling advertising, correct?

We pretty much had this discussion already - http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread284563.html

What about 3 way link exchanges and are these easily recognised by the search engines?

Any sort of "link exchange" really goes against the very fabric of search algorithms. They very rarely result in natural linking patterns.

When you finish writing your blog post, select where you would like the excerpt to end - then click the "More" button.

What are these exactly?

And thank you for your response!

Sorry for the delay Levsha but better late than never i guess...
Relevant citations are links or mentions from webpages that are similar or relevant to your website.

Trusted resources are websites that are established and often provide useful information or tools.

Unfortunately, marketing a website and driving qualified traffic does not come packaged neatly with a $2k price tag. My best advice is to either hire someone you trust to optimize your onsite components or if you have the time, buy some books on SEO, SEM/PPC, and maybe attend a couple of conferences like Webmaster World (PubCon) or SES and learn.

yes - this was refreshing to hear. Now we don't have to take the competitions word that they pay higher than Google. :)

Is there an easy way to set a different AdWords CPC for an individual ad group or campaign based on geolocation?

For example, I have a campaign with ten ad groups. I want to keep everything the same (keywords, ad copy, etc) but I want put in a higher bid for US-based traffic than international traffic. This is different than search vs contextual placement. Is there a way of achieving this without duplicating the entire campaign?

Unfortunately not. The only way geotarget ads is at the campaign level.

And is it possible to duplicate a campaign without using the AdWords downloadable software?

You can duplicate campaign settings (ie. locations, languages, networks, budget) but you cannot duplicate the ad groups.

The best way to get targeted traffic on a low budget is through the search engines. You'll want to optimize your website for the keyword phrases that are most relevant to the content on your site. Once optimized and you earn some relevant citations from trusted resources, you will be in a position to receive qualified traffic that converts to sales, clicks, or whatever it is that you are making money on.

What benefit do you get by knowing your pagerank ahead of time?

If you are looking to drive targeted traffic organically (through the network, not through their respective advertising platforms), you really have to commit to updating your status regularly with engaging information and topics. You will also want to engage some of your followers/fans directly as this will help establish sense of community and loyalty amongst members.

It also doesn't hurt to announce special promotions or giveaways. It seems that a lot of social networking users are obsessed with promotions and contests.

Hey Guys... Let's forget about PageRank for a second (actually you can forget about it altogether - but for now let's just forget about it for a second). After you post on blogs and forums and get all these "do follow" links, do you really see a significant increase in search engine rankings?? For instance, does your site go from #37 to #17 in the search engine results pages for your target keywords?? Have any of you actually tested this practice? Or more importantly, have any of you had success with this as a long term strategy? And by success, I mean significant improvement in search engine rankings - which in turn generated qualified traffic - which then translated into revenue. Eh?

There is only one purpose of that socialbookmarking website - to help others gain a traffic.

Well you are half right. There is one purpose for "Social Bookmarking," but it is not to "help others gain traffic." It is for bookmarking websites that you find interesting so that you can then access this catalog at anytime from any internet connection. Yea.. you can submit your web pages and pray that the content is good enough to go viral, but a vast majority of the traffic generated from these sites is irrelevant or unqualified - meaning that they will not buy your products or click on your adsense. It's a bad idea and ultimately a big waste of time to try to game "social bookmarking" sites. Juice ain't worth the squeeze.

If you do not know what robots.txt are, chances are you are better off not specifying them in your code. As you could get into trouble by not having your site pages crawled... and I mean EVERY page

SE's don't need to crawl every page. For example, do they need to crawl your website's terms of service or privacy policy? Or how about a co-branded promo page that you know is only going to be 'live' for an extended period of time?

Not every page needs to be indexed and crawled by the Search Engines. In fact, it would be great for the WWW if webmasters were more selective of the pages they allowed the SE's to access. There would be a lot less glut out there. Think of all the rack space Google and Bing could save! Everyone... Go Green.. Use Robots.txt! ;)

am not sure that's true. How does SEO improve the "quality" of traffic to your site???

SEO by definition means that your site is optimized for relevant keyword search phrases. Therefore, ranking well for those keywords, in the search engines, will definitely improve the quality of traffic to your site. In fact, it doesn't get much more quality.

This is like comparing apples and oranges. Each have their own flavor and appeal.

yea.. weird.. maybe you can check your log files (assuming you don't have analytics installed)?

You should submit your articles as often as possible, the more you get your message out there the more likely you are to drive traffic to your site and get noticed and ranked higher by the search engines.

I disagree.. the likelihood of articles getting picked up and shared is very low (unless they are really, really good). I don't think Social Bookmarking can be considered as a legitimate way of driving qualified traffic. The best most people will get is a small spike of unqualified traffic and a few links. Not exactly ideal for generating sales or whatever you are after.

The biggest factor in being able to generate a high volume of traffic through social bookmarking is Quality of content. But even with that, you'll only get a small percent of qualified leads. In conclusion, social bookmarking for traffic (and links) is a waste of time. Sorry folks :)

Thanks for sharing! That certainly makes sense. I can understand how publishers would be able to drive volumes of traffic if they published something viral or very compelling but that's not easy to do. I'm sure it takes a lot of hard work.

That's interesting.. I thought WordPress was used exclusively to author blogs?