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 | Generally there is a reason that Google bans adsense accounts. Even if the content is 100% where it should be, with perfect semantic mark up and no spam - there is a chance those sites can still have their adsense accounts banned or temporarily suspended. Generally its from my past …  |
 | One comment I want to throw in..... I assume that your main website xyz.com is an ecommerce site; although your strategy can be done well, I think it is important that you remember the original reason why you have xyz.com and thats to make sales - convert visitors to customers. …  |
 | Don't fret about PR; I highly doubt you'll see an increase in it anytime soon unless Google suddenly wants the public seeing this information again public PageRank is pretty much dead. Google constantly updates PR internally, it just isnt something that is viewable by anyone except google themselves. The last … |
 | **Pinterest just like any other social media platform will be important depending on the demographic you are trying to reach.** You need to know your product and your demographic (who you are trying to sell the product too). If you are trying to market a food product and your target … |
| | Just to weigh in quick, the only real paid traffic is through ppc campaigns. Other promises for x amount of traffic for y amount of money is a scam. There are several applications available through black hat websites which will spoof traffic to any site, the more sophisticated applications can … |
| | @Lax - one popular metrics that larger search engines (especially google) loves is the popularity of a website and its bounce rates. If a video is effective enough to draw people to a website; you gain the popularity aspect of that algorithm (see Alexa top 100 - none of those …  |
| | Lets get this out of the way first, if you are trying to grow customer base you are fighting an uphill base with facebook without use of their PPC program. Organic reach is about as close to dead as possible for Facebook - so while you have little or no …  |
| | Don't forget to write content!! Search engines love continuous fresh new content. 1 - 1500 word relevant blog post a week will definitely help; 3 - 1500 word relevant blog posts will help you rock the SERPs.  |
| | Focus on optimizing your channel(s), build inbound links to your content, promote on relevant social media and blogs (one of the few times guest blogging can be done in a non-spammy way), and make sure the content can go viral. |
 | @MasterChat Penguin, Panda, and Hummingbird are seperate algorithims with seperate purposes. Penguin for eliminating or penalizing black hat seo tactics, Panda for making sure high quality sites rank higher then low quality websites, and is a whole new way of how Google views websites. Moz has done a good job …  |
 | Re: Free Shipping ? To add to what Scott said, one thing we have encountered in the past is a Company will work out a contract flat rate agreement with a shipping company (UPS/Fedex/etc) and if they offer their products in say 3 countries they will average the shipping cost across all three countries … |
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 | Directories still have their places. But you should be verifying that: 1) its a follow link that they give you (nofollow links wont really help you) 2) its relevant to your website in a category thats relevant 3) that the website has high google PR and DA And @Dani; Yahoo, …  |
| | Shouldn't it be him charging you for publishing links and reviews on his website? |
| | For all the internet marketers out there; you may want to begin formulating a new Adwords strategy for your Clients. Google Adwords is pushing a change which will spell out the end of exact match keywords. This change comes into effect sometime in September. Previously when you setup a campaign … |
 | This off topic however are many many many solutions out there, most of which you can find through a quick google search. However depending on the age of your business, your business goals, etc. you may want to consider a custom solution that can provide something tailor fitted to your …  |
| | So who is your target audience? I know you said its narrow but who are they? How does you friend intend to monetize this (monthly subscription, outright sale)? I hope you dont think any of this is negative because its meant to be real and not build you a fairy … |
 | 2-3 years ago yes it would have mattered. A big push back then was basically keyword stuffing which would include repeating keywords in meta tags, header tags, content, image tags, links, etc. Back then using www.mysite.com (assuming mysite was a keyword you were trying to rank for) would have been … |
| | Re: Travel Forum Google is your best friend. I see that you are connected with a Car Rental service in Van City. I would highly recommend you begin doing research on your competitor's inbound links and figure out which are high PR/high mR websites. You may want to focus more on the latter … |
| | @ Husky3700 http://www.google.com/ads/ |
| | Create a quality website, with quality content that can go viral; share it on social media and win OR you could spend thousands and rent your traffic through PPC. But if your website has been live for any amount of time you should ask yourself; why aren't people coming to … |
 | We have not done alot with Adobe Business Catalyst as a Company and we don't generally recommend it to our Clients not because it isn't a good product but because it lacks versatility. Now it isn't all that bad because for someone who just wants to easily launch their Company … |
| | Great post Geek; now lots are aware of the security flaws in snapchat which relies on things caching on your device's storage. The one hope are new items such as crypto-phone and Mark Cuban's cyber dust may actually provide users a bit more safety to their privacy (due to relying … |
 | Hello and welcome; First I'd like to say that pay per download is pretty much CPA (Cost Per Action); an advertiser or yourself is paying for each successful action - in this case a download. This is such a broad question because its so situational. I guess to begin the … |
 | Re: Dublin core The idea behind dublin core is pure standardization for cataloging multiple types of resources (including but not limited to webpages and online media such as videos, pictures, etc.). It's debateable how much weight search engines give to websites that utilize dublin core meta tags however the general consensus seems to … |
 | freelancer.com is usually pretty effective for somebody looking for a freelance professional and prices are usually relatively low - no garauntees on the work though. |
| | A great man once said; if it can be built....it can also be taken apart. I think between iCloud being breached, this happening, the target attacks, etc. This is all just about par for the course. I think it'll be a long time before we see the end of breaches … |
| | Honestly looking after the update it was a slight increase in traffic but nothing considerable on any of the websites we own, have built for others or maintain. |
| | No matter what context you are talking in; pre is always before, post is always after. As mentioned in a few posts above all it refers to is when the ad gets paid for, do you pay for it before (pre) or do you pay for it after (post)? Unless … |
 | I've never heard of any sort of SEO game to learn about SEO beyond what happygeek mentioned. However if your thought is to try to train people through gamification on SEO you'd find yourself having a very inefficient business model. This is only due to the fact that internet marketing … |
| | Optimizing single pages take alot of time and are honestly getting to become next to impossible. You will still probably need to set up a blog (making it not a single page) so that you can provide ongoing fresh content (either through blog format or resource documents). This will be … |
 | Re: Alexa rank Alexa is just another way to measure your website. It can be found at alexa.com. Some say its pointless but others swear by it. Personnally I like Alexa only because it goes to show how effective the content on your website is. Alexa takes into account five main metrics of … |
| | I saw this on Search Engine Land this morning. I agree with the study that the average website will see far more traffic from organic search. The problem is, that looks at the average website (and who knows what their test sampling is). I have seen some websites which have … |
| | Maybe blue hat SEO is when you use 5+ year old SEO tactics and make little or no effect on search engine ranks hahaha. Read Google Best Practices, learn each aspect of SEO indepth and as Happy Geek has said you will be doing SEO the right way. |
 | Re: How to learn SEO Well in his defence if he launched his website after December 2013 - he wouldn't have publicly visible Page Rank.  |
 | @Kelly Burby to be quite honest the meta keywords tag is pretty much useless nowadays. All it really does is give your competitors your keywords on a silver platter so they know what to compete with you on. @driazi. Here are some easy steps: 1)First thing you should do is …  |
| | If you are not visible on google after alot of SEO effort; make sure that the page is not/has not been penalized by Google (you can see this by logging onto your google webmaster account). Make sure your robots.txt aren't hiding your website from crawlers. Make sure there aren't major … |
| | First and foremost, many of the major social media companies are present around the globe and available nearly everywhere where an internet connection exists and geo-political relationships aren't blocking access to their service. So you should inititally be focusing your social media activities on the major staple social media services …  |
 | Going to SSL is a good thing in principle. As stated before as much as I appreciate where the web is heading this does spell the demise for alot of smaller hobby websites (ones which don't necessarily generate the revenue to afford the extra $100 a year for an SSL …  |
| | When you are talking about the website not ranking well I assume that you are referring to SERPs. However if its an Alexa or mozRank issue then you will need to let me know. A single blog post shouldn't negatively effect your entire website. Google likes new content 750+ words … |
| | Re: .edu site I cant add much to what the above posters have said; however don't stress about edu links. Sure they have weight, but if the rest of your website isn't 100% or as close to perfect as possible then you'd be better off fixing your website so it passes every SEO … |
| | Great resource WebOutGateway; acouple others you may want to consider include: [SEO Site Checkup](http://www.seositecheckup.com) [Link Assistant](http://www.link-assistant.com) Although link assistant's powersuite is a bit advanced and you need to install it, it's free version does give you access to about 4 different tools which can really help to identify issues on … |
| | @savedlema; go into your Google Webmasters Account and click on the left where it says "Crawl", then select the subcategory "Crawl Errors"; it should tell you exactly the pages that Google is having problems crawling. As for the DNS problems, I can't add much more value to solving your problem … |
 | Adwords is the easiest, fastest, safest, and in my opinion best route to go. The advantages is because Google is so great at tracking users the advertising will be more geared towards that individual's browsing habits thus increating the chance of ad conversions = more money for you. I have … |
| | Looking at your website I think it has to do with the Google cache and the way you've done your redirects. I assume this is the description you want: **"Take 30 years of innovation in catamaran design, 40 years of the finest, most advanced research and development in American yacht … |
 | Well put Dani, I hadn't even thought about the disadvantage of losing referral information. This will definitely be interesting to watch! |
| | Not to re-hash and add confusion because you have some pretty good answers already Siberian. However one weighting factor the search engines take into account is the age of domains. Your website may actually be at an advantage over that other domain for the simple fact that your domain is … |
| | Ahhh Davey you beat me to it! I think this is really great news overall for the internet, its users, and most importantly user privacy. Unfortunately I do fear that this will be the beginning of the end of websites built "just because" - ie. fan sites, hobby sites, etc. … |
 | Everything you need to know about Alexa has already been posted about recently in this topic: [http://www.daniweb.com/internet-marketing/search-engine-optimization/threads/482514/alexa-rank](http://www.daniweb.com/internet-marketing/search-engine-optimization/threads/482514/alexa-rank) |
| | Google didn't ban relevant directory submissions (dmoz, yahoo directory, etc. are just acouple that come to mind). What they did ban were the directory submissions where people were submitting to spammy sites or in irrelevant portions of the directory itself (ie. posting your website about dogs under the directory's computer … |
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