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"There seem to be a lot of questions around WW that suggest some people aren't familiar with PR and how it works. I've put this thread together in an attempt to answer questions that would save new members posting basic PR questions." Bloggers' influence grows
News is circulating that another media head has gone, following bloggers pressure, it's claimed. Every time something like this happens it's looking like blogging is having much greater influence. Pfizer and Microsoft Sue Viagra Spam Rings
"The lawsuits specifically target what Microsoft and Pfizer characterize as "international spam rings." Pfizer took legal action alleging trademark violations against companies or individuals operating 10 Web sites..." Automatic Geo Language-Delivery
Webmastery 2005 "I want my internet back dammit"
"I hear from people that think webmastering is ROI and I hear from people that think webmastering is a reserved spot in the serps. But what I don't hear is people breaking the changes apart for the pure joy of understanding." Consolidation Comes to Euro SEO as Notabene.net Is Acquired
"... becoming Scandinavia’s biggest player on the rapidly growing market. Notabene.net taken over by the successful Danish media house, Danmark Online A/S, with a view to carrying on Notabene.net as the common name and framework of its European objectives." Yahoo Develops Toolbar for Firefox
Status Check : Buying Text Links
With the recent changes in text link usage by search engines, a gut check is in order: "What are everyone’s thoughts on buying links as part of a link building strategy. They are non-reciprocal, so that’s good. But can things go wrong?" We're Out of the Google Sandbox!
Allegra releases tens of thouands of sites to run free again. Google, NYT, Yahoo to bid on About.com
"... reporting that Google, Yahoo, AskJeeves, AOL, and The New York Times Company are bidding today for the purchase of About.com from Primedia. Asking price is said to be $350 to $500 million." Update Allegra - Couple of Observations
"Back in September, the site tanked. Traffic fell off by over 600%. As of yesterday, all of that traffic and then some has been restored."
SEO Chat ForumsPenalty?
Forum: Google Optimization
Posted By: mjseaden
Post Time: February 16th, 2005 at 01:48 AM No tags = a new SEO trick?
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
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Post Time: February 16th, 2005 at 12:17 AM New MSN Sucess
Forum: MSN Search Optimization
Posted By: wyrickj
Post Time: February 15th, 2005 at 11:34 PM Need Some Opinions on Dynamic to Static Page Software
Forum: SEO Help (General Chat)
Posted By: nevets140
Post Time: February 15th, 2005 at 11:28 PM New Free Directory
Forum: Other Directories
Posted By: Noodles
Post Time: February 15th, 2005 at 11:26 PM Would a new subdomain be sandboxed?
Forum: Google Optimization
Posted By: Olaf the Stout
Post Time: February 15th, 2005 at 11:11 PM Relevant or not?
Forum: Google Page Rank
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Post Time: February 15th, 2005 at 10:38 PM Google Search Forbidden
Forum: Google News
Posted By: Jasontnyc
Post Time: February 15th, 2005 at 10:01 PM Cloaking
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
Posted By: Daavros
Post Time: February 15th, 2005 at 09:54 PM Microsoft To Relase New Browser IE 7.0
Forum: SEO Help (General Chat)
Posted By: bbott
Post Time: February 15th, 2005 at 09:43 PM Have a blog, lose your job?
Forum: Google News
Posted By: bbott
Post Time: February 15th, 2005 at 09:14 PM
Search Engine Watch ForumsDid Looksmart or their Affiliates Scam Me?
I am currently doing a low budget Google Adword campaign. In two weeks I have spent about 27 dollars and 11 cents a click on average....aprox 250 or s Any Search Engine Director's Job Available?
Hello Members, Can anyone suggest any other company's looking for help? I am an innovative and seasoned bi-lingual marketing executive with spec SEO - SEM Work
Hello Members, I'm looking to relocate to NYC does anyone know of any companies hiring or temp agencies that I should look up when I get there? Affiliate Marketing Help? Anyone?
As many of you probably know, Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) has cut all ties with Expedia. This hurts because I am responsible with many of the Cultural Differences by Country
I would really like to get some insights into the differences of each country as far as what cultural differences should be worked into the design, ma SES Toronto 2005
I am strongly considering going to (url=http://www.jupiterevents.com/sew/toronto05/index.html)SES Toronto 2005(/url). But the catch is, I want to dri Create Account All Credit Cards denied
Hello, I setup an Adwords account about 1 month ago. I did everything accept setup the billing. Over the weekend, I added a couple of new campaigns a Mod Rewrite Query
Hi, I've been reading this excellent thread on mod rewrite (url)http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=3925(/url) and am trying How soon should results appear after a redesign?
I've just finished redesigning a client's site (real estate). Their previous site was design and developed by an "expert" real estate SEO design servi don't want to be penalized for a meta refresh redirect - a bit of advice please
Hi everyone, I need some major advice so i don't incur the wrath of penalization by google (or yahoo). I did a major update of my site which is hos Customizing search / Result personalization
Hi all, I want to put forward to you the question of what happens to SEO next, and how it will adapt to the possible future of search. I only
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Search Guild Recent Threadsi knew i couldnt trust these guys...
http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/02140004aaa027d2.upi&Sys;=rmmiller&Fid;=NATIONAL&Type;=News&Filter;=National%20News
Search engine is cash engine for Democrats
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Employees of U.S.-based search engine Google gave $207,650 to federal candidates for the 2004 elections -- virtually all of it to Democrats.
A USA Today analysis published Monday indicated 98 percent of the money went to Democrats, the most-lopsided giving of any of the top tech company donors.
Microsoft was the biggest tech donor, with its political action committee contributing $3.1 million last year, 60 percent to Democrats. Inktomi visiting, but no indexes
Hello,
Inktomi is visiting me (1000 pages in a week), but only my main page is indexed in Yahoo!, AV, etc.
My page is:
http://www.scuba-necessities.com
Is anything but the flash inhibiting getting indexed? Or is it the main problem?
Thanks,
Tyler Summer of LOVE - No- Winter of SERPs
are you going to New York City - be sure to wear a flower in your hair
Will you be at SEARCH ENGINES STRATEGIES - next week?
Will there be any earthshattering anouncements? :shock: Google Backlash - Beta MSN new Algorithms Different Emphasis
The way search engines USED to be - before Google
(minus some to the SPAM)
Remember Bodykeyword frequency and Title keywords prioritization
MSN stategy is to NOT OutGoogle- Google - but to be an alternative for SERPs not relevant on Google
instead of trying a New Keyworded Search - just go to MSN
So - the opposite of backwards-links-keyword based Algorithms is to:
1- EXCLUDE link popularity alltogether
2- Filter out Porno and other Spam as best as possible
3- And have a Viable Alternative to Google - showing completely different SERPs and Site Preferences
:shock: Google = Idiots
I think I freaking found out what is wrong.
I have a "printer friendly" link on my forum for each post... Google might be counting this as double content! articleinsider.com?????
Hello
Is anyone familiar with a site called articleinsider.com?
When reviewing my Google keyword listings recently, I found this site had not 1 but 2 top 10 listings for over 2 dozen keywords I was targeting! When I checked out the site it purported to be a depository for a collection of experts on a wide variety of subjects posting their articles to the site. I reviewed the URLs that were ranking top 10 for the keywords only to find the so-called expert in the field was one of our competitor's salespeople and with each of several articles built around each keyword phrase was a link to the competitor's site!
When I reviewed the "so called expert's" credentials I found no professional memberships, advanced degrees, publications or any type of scientific or technical background at all. Rather there was a list of her favorite books , movies and her cat's name. What a scam this is!!!!
What I am wondering is can just anyone be an expert on this site? Or is a bribe necessary. And why on earth would Google not delist such an obviously shady site?
Has anyone else experience with this site? Moving +/- 999 positions every 20 minutes!
We have been in a constant struggle to get listed in Google since 2002. Yahoo has always had us at #1 & #2 position for our search term. Now, Friday, just for the heck of it I do a search on G for our term. We are #1 and #2! We are also very high up for our secondary terms. I almost fell out of my chair. 20 minutes later... we are completely gone again. Then an hour later, we are back. It has done this for the last 3 days. You can search, wait a few minutes and then refresh the browser for completely different results. Any ideas what is google doing? Are these new results going to stay or is there just bug floating around? Google doing a dance?
http://66.102.7.99
Check the results from this google owned IP and compare it to Google.Com WTF - google's results are broken ..
I have a few questions guys...
1) My forum has never done anything wrong, such as cloaking or anything of this nature. So it's not on my end in terms of anything wrong that is done... I have been doing SEO for a while... so I know what is right and what is wrong... but this one baffles me..
2) I have roughly 10,500 backlinks in Yahoo and MSN and just under 200 or so in Google (because google undercounts them).
Why is it not showing up under the keyword "sqlspace" the website is sqlspace.com ? It ranks well under certian posts and stuff.. but just not the main site? Some datacenters show it as #1 (where it belongs.. as it's the sites name) others don't show it at all... instead listing press releases to the site??
I know it's not banned... but why sandbox a legimate site and instead link to a press release issued by the website? Yahoo and MSN show the proper results... it's just that Google's are broken... as I have been saying for a while now... for the past few weeks I have had to go to Yahoo or MSN to find the website I was looking for... Google can't seem to find the proper results. Beginner looking for advice
Hello, this is my first post!
I'm looking for advice on SEO for my website:
www.scuba-necessities.com
I'm indexed on Google (visitors declining lately), and so I've been trying to get reciprocal links like crazy over the past few days. PR on my domain is 2, 3 on a bunch of my inner pages. 1s on the rest.
I believe I'm indexed ok on MSN--Where I get most of my hits, but I could always improve.
Inktomi (Yahoo, I believe), has visited me twice (about 40-50 times each) since I submitted all my main pages to it last month. Still no results except my opening page which has been there for a while. Can someone help me out here in getting indexed?
I'm trying to get indexed in DMOZ. Does anyone have some good suggestions?
I know there are some things to improve.
Anyways, please help me out. It would be much appreciated.
Tyler Grass roots submissions?
For reasons I don't fully understand, my unique, informative, useful, popular and well-liked site has yet to be accepted or rejected in DMOZ. I've got another month before I can mention it in the DMOZ forums (It's been 5 since my last query already.)
Two different fans of my site have asked why it's not in DMOZ - I explain "because they haven't gotten around to it yet.". They ask why I don't submit again. "Because I'm worried they'll take it as spamming." They then ask if they can submit it themselves, and I quickly say "No, please don't." fearing - once again - the spammer label.
Now that I think about it, should I stop them? Would support for the site from additional submitters help or hinder here? If I mentioned I was looking for support, I know of about 20 regular users who would probably submit me right away - is this good, bad, or irrelevant?
Sites that do not provide valuable information and are younger than mine have appeared in the same category - I don't understand why mine is simply passed over.
I just suspect that I'm going to ask my question next month, someone will say they are checking on it, and I'll have to wait 6 months before anything can be done again, because I'm not doing something that I should be, I'm not being aggressive enough, or even worse, because I haven't bribed an insider to grease the skids for me.
High Rankings Search Engine OptimizationScottie: Happy Birthday Dan (The Pub)
Happy Birthday, Dan!
:dance::band::dance:
:cake: richmoney: Ah! Help! Please! (Optimization Tips & Techniques)
Hi this happened to one of my site, this guy was pointing his domain to my site, & google was indexing my content to his domain, so my site www.site.com/page1.aspx was being seen by search engines as www.forwardingdomain.page1.aspx & also www.site/page1.aspx., i have heard that eventually Search engines will discard the pointing domain, but, i doubt there will be any damage to your domain or rankings.
I contacted the domain register ( verisign etc ) , they cant help
I contacted the the whois register of the domain & after a month of so the guy corrected it.
QUOTE(clubmilwaukee @ Feb 15 2005, 09:20 PM) So, a local business here in town has set some kind of redirect on their domain so that it gets forwarded to my site. This is less objectively wierd than it sounds, since my site is "guide" or "info-portal" for businesses of the type, and he has redirected to the specific page on my site which reviews (favorably) his business.
I am, however, very worried about some search engine following his domain name and associating it with MY content. I don't know how that works, exactly, but I'm pretty panicked right now, since I've spent almost a year climbing the SERPs to a point where I'm #1 or #2 for every phrase and keyword I've targeted.
I've already asked them to stop the redirect, but I need some input understanding how this could affect (or may have already AFFECTED) my domain in the SEs.
THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!
Edit:
Just to add a little more specifics, the redirect is currently working as such:
companydomain.com redirects to mywebsite.com/companyname.htm
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Scottie: Congrats To Me & Common Sense (The Pub)
:offtopic:
LOL- my dad was once that country music singer's attorney... projectphp: Do E-commerce Sites Rank Higer Than Other Sites (SEM/SEO Resources and Advice)
How would a seacrh engine know? How could they possibly work that out with any degree of accuracy?
So I defer to Ammon's answer :) projectphp: Interview With Usability Guru, Steve Krug (Search Engine Friendly Design & Usability)
LOL, looks like no one was joking, Steve!! Scottie: Interview With Usability Guru, Steve Krug (Search Engine Friendly Design & Usability)
Wow, thanks for stopping by, Steve! :hi:
To the problem at hand... maybe if people mailed you their book along with a pre-paid return envelope, it would make it easier (kind of like NetFlix!) David Mahler: Submitting To Paid Directories (Submitting to Directories)
QUOTE(OldWelshGuy @ Feb 15 2005, 12:51 PM) HI David,
this is really a piece of string question, in as much as there is no absolute answer.
How many is enough? How much business do you need? What exactly are you trying to achieve from these inclusions?
There are plenty of free directories that you can submit to if you are just looking for backlinks. However, a directory like kelly search (which is free) is likely to get you traffic to your site, and qualified traffic at that!
Most niche directories tend to be free, and I would exhaust that avenue before looking to pay for inclusion into a directory.
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Thanks I will take a look. Can anyone share a directory testimonial where they receive a lot of traffic from certain directories? Thanks. clubmilwaukee: Ah! Help! Please! (Optimization Tips & Techniques)
So, a local business here in town has set some kind of redirect on their domain so that it gets forwarded to my site. This is less objectively wierd than it sounds, since my site is "guide" or "info-portal" for businesses of the type, and he has redirected to the specific page on my site which reviews (favorably) his business.
I am, however, very worried about some search engine following his domain name and associating it with MY content. I don't know how that works, exactly, but I'm pretty panicked right now, since I've spent almost a year climbing the SERPs to a point where I'm #1 or #2 for every phrase and keyword I've targeted.
I've already asked them to stop the redirect, but I need some input understanding how this could affect (or may have already AFFECTED) my domain in the SEs.
THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!
Edit:
Just to add a little more specifics, the redirect is currently working as such:
companydomain.com redirects to mywebsite.com/companyname.htm sweepthelegnate: Why Not Call A Penalty A Penalty? (SEO No-no's)
QUOTE(greggb @ Feb 15 2005, 09:04 PM) Mods, have you considered adding a "semantics" sub-forum to this forum? I think it would be popular!
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:rofl: good one greggb greggb: Why Not Call A Penalty A Penalty? (SEO No-no's)
Mods, have you considered adding a "semantics" sub-forum to this forum? I think it would be popular! Jill: Ses New York (SEO Events)
QUOTE BTW - Where do you all usually eat dinner It depends on who's paying! ;) In Chicago we had a great moderator's dinner, but I'm not sure if I'm going to be in NY long enough to do that again this time. I'm not even sure how many mods will be there. I'll be there Mon. and Tuesday nights, but that's it. Usually though, Randfish, various people hook up and go out to various places. We've had some very large groups at times, but personally, I find that more trouble than it's worth unless it's all reserved in advance. I like to just go out with a few of my closest friends whenever I can. (Not a real crowd or loud noise person.)
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