SEO

Links from a page are very important to it’s rankings, if you want a SERP like Search Engine Rankings the best web pages you can link to from the page that targets this SERP should be about Search Engine Rankings and the anchor text should include the SERP or similar derivative. A derivative phrase might [...]

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This post is based on a thread (Re: My Google Page Rank is 4) in the NG alt.internet.search-engines and a request for help in the comments at SEO Expert page. Original poster asked about his 3-4 month old site www.cre8ivemind.com, with a PR4 home page, but no pages indexed in Google despite using Google site [...]

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There’s a discussion in the NG alt.internet.search-engines “comparing seo techniques [was: To hyphen or not to hyphen]” partially based on this web page How to get IE6 to apply image border styles on hover (mouseover)?. The owner of the Locus Optimus (Els) is a web designer who focuses on accessibility based web design, a growing [...]

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I don’t consider myself an affiliate marketer per se, but have drifted towards affiliate marketing as I’ve used my SEO skills to make money online. So I’m no affiliate marketing guru, just a guy who is very good at SEO and likes to make money online while sleeping :-) Currently Google hates almost anything that’s [...]

Continue Reading Affiliate Marketing, What Next?

Reading the newsgroup alt.internet.search-engines and a post subject: PR confusion? caught my eye. A poster to the NG has been having problems with an affiliate site http://www.review-a-gadget.com/ and he’s been given some poor quality advice. I’m confused about PR again. Not surprised you’ve got some really bad advice lately, been following your newsgroup threads, but [...]

Continue Reading Understanding PR, Affiliate Content, Clickbank and Poor Google SERPs

We had a toolbar PR update around Feb 18th and the next one is due around the end of May/beginning of June, so toolbar PR should be stable right now. Some pages are showing pre toolbar update PR values (so what we saw prior to the Feb 18th update) and others are showing the new [...]

Continue Reading Google Toolbar PR Fluctuations

I’m a paid SEO Consultant with SEO Gold where we don’t generally offer free search engine optimization advice since that wouldn’t be good business. However, to generate some interest in my new blog for a limited period of time I’m offering free SEO advice here from an SEO consultant. If you have a question regarding search engine [...]

Continue Reading Free SEO Advice from an SEO Consultant

Was reading a post on alt.internet.search-engines (newsgroup) called “SEO certification” which had gone a little off topic, had gone on to basically how to show you are a good SEO consultant by showing your rankings (SERPs). I started to respond, but thought it would be better on the SEO section of the blog (some new [...]

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A doorway page is basically a web page that doesn’t really offer any real content to a search engine visitor, but is a blackhat SEO technique for creating multiple keyword rich pages that are used as a gateway (doorway) to the real sites content (they also act as pages to add keyword rich links to [...]

Continue Reading Google planning to crack down on hosted doorway pages

MSN’s search market share dropped from 14 percent to 11 percent Google and Yahoo increased their market share in the online search arena as Microsoft’s MSN slipped, according to Web research firm Nielsen//NetRatings. Growth in use of Google and Yahoo is outpacing the overall growth in the search engine market during the past year, according [...]

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