| WebProWorld Newsletter Archives - October,
2009 |
Beware of Twitter Links: May Contain Malware According to Kaspersky
According to an article at news.cnet.com, Kaspersky has developed a tool that detects malware in Twitter links. According to Kaspersky out of the 500,000 links they scan a day on Twitter, anywhere from 100 to 1000 are links to malware sites - about 26% of the Twitter posts contain links in them...
Date: 2009-10-30
Long-tail Keyword Set Strategies
So basically, as the first part of my strategy to take advantage of long-tail keyword searches, I discovered the top searched keyword(s) in the industry I'm working with (a client site), then added those top searched keywords to Google's keyword tool and found a nice sized list of long-tail keyword clusters related to the main keyword I was using...
Date: 2009-10-29
Google Crawler
I asked a question last week about an issue I was having with Google returning the wrong SERP for what I have targeted. For the past two days, now, the page I want to show has popped up at the top of page 2 but only in the AM...
Date: 2009-10-28
Problems with IE Rendering
I am running into a problem on a site redesign I am doing with getting the page to render the same in both IE as well as FireFox. I was given the diced up version of a Photoshop file which had been converted to an html document. The html uses mainly css with div tags which I assume would the the better option over tables but once I started to pluging in dynamic content from a backend database, it "broke"...
Date: 2009-10-27
Reported Attack Message and Cannonical Issues
This is in continuation with my previous post at webproworld (Reported attack site message). I have observed something that's pretty strange. Sometimes my website doesn't displays reported attack message when I open the website without www. I am curious if malicious software attacks only www version only...
Date: 2009-10-26
Need Help!! Market Research & SEO
First of all, i think iam posting this thread in a wrong category. We are planning to enter a new market. Say an ecommerce website which sells niche products (preferably Home supplies), which contains each and every household products like carpets, kitchen utensils, gardening kits etc...
Date: 2009-10-23
Bing Search has Released Twitter Search
So now, if you're a Tweeter and if you want to search your tweets or your friends tweets apparently you can with Bing's new Twitter Search. I tried searching my username (yes I have a rarely used Twitter account) and didn't get any results. I also searched some of the keywords related to my site and there were no results...
Date: 2009-10-22
Trying to get Wordpress Analytics to work
I have loaded a couple of Analytic plugins for my wordpress. One - Ultimate Google analytics, Two - the plugin that adds blog stats under the dashboard. Neither are giving any data and I know I have people going to the pages...
Date: 2009-10-21
Google Rankings and Bad Link Neighbourhoods, No Need To Worry
So at Google's Official Webmaster Central Blog they posted information about dealing with low quality backlinks. The main points are if at all possible contact the owners of so called bad neighbourhoods and request them to remove your link but if you find you can't do this on some sites...
Date: 2009-10-20
Bookmarks/Favorites, and typed-in URLs
I've got a question for some of the more experienced out there. These days, a lot of us use our Favorites/Bookmarks to get to the sites that we visit often. I have hundreds of bookmarks, some of which I use once a week or so. I also have over a hundred set up on my FF speeddial, that I use almost daily. Obviously, using those links can't pass any juice, but do you think the SEs' algorithms give them any consideration whatsoever, in determining site popularity or authority? Does pure traffic enter into the equation...
Date: 2009-10-19
Did Yahoo Lie? Apparently Yahoo Still Supports the Meta Keyword Tag
So the writer at SearchEngineLand.com wrote a previous article telling us that Yahoo quietly dropped support for the meta keyword tag but he did a test: he placed the following text into the keyword meta tag of the home page for searchengineland.com - xcvteuflsowkldlslkslklsk - he did a search for that string on yahoo and found no results, but he searched the string again on yahoo, yesterday and his site came up #1...
Date: 2009-10-16
Geo Targeting Based on IP Delivery with ASP
Hello webproworld Members, I will like to have help with the process of implementing Geo Targeting based on IP delivery in an SEO Friendly way, so that the site doesn´t get taken out of SE index. I have read a few posts on that matter: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-google-defines-ip-delivery.html...
Date: 2009-10-15
Google Webmaster Tools Labs is Testing Function that lets you see what Googlebot Sees
So now in Google Webmaster Tools, on the left hand side, in the Labs menu, there is a function that let's you see what Googlebot sees on your site, for any URL you specify. I just added my homepage to crawl and will be getting the results back shortly - it's currently in pending status but I'm kind of exited to see the results...
Date: 2009-10-14
Press Releases Better on Separate Domain?
On our site, we are currently posting news articles and press releases on a subdirectory of the primary domain (i.e. The Latest Product News from Manufacturers Worldwide - Zycon). Is it actually beneficial to place these releases on a subdomain (like news.zycon.com) or a separate domain entirely...
Date: 2009-10-13
Putting valuable links in posts or at list archives
Putting your valuable links that you want followed and indexed in posts or at email list archives: if they use rel=nofollow for http, use the http prefix or no http prefix? I've been wondering how SE bots treat links that are from email lists that are archived online, and also any links that are at forums. Many places will use the rel=nofollow tag, but will not use it if the link does not have the http prefix.
Date: 2009-10-12
Google Shows Ad Conversions Without Clicks
I wanted to share an article i found on searchengineland.com regarding how google is showing conversions when someone sees your ad but does not click on your ad AND buys within 30 days. Adwords has also added a "View-through Conversions" column but the best thing to do is read the whole article here...
Date: 2009-10-02
Site rank dropped - please help
So here it goes. I have this site called Keyword1AnotherWord.com
. The title tag for the homepage was [keyword1 keyword2
mixed with action words].So about couple of months ago I decided that I should the title to be something like [keyword2 keyword1 mixed with action words] so that it might help my ranking for Keyword2 becuase I thought I could beat the competition for keyword 2 compared to keyword 1...
Date: 2009-10-01
Flash, Progressive Enhancement and Google
While this may be an ancient topic exhausted ages ago, I guess it wouldn't hurt to ask a couple of "what is right with google" questions. My interest is devoted to the issues to be associated with SEO for Flash. The most viable practice here as of now seems to be progressive enhancement, which is basically providing an HTML version of the SWF content for search engines and/or people with Flash disabled in their browsers...
Date: 2009-09-29
Do dashes in your domain hurt your SERP?
I have a 3 word domain with dashes between them as so: my-domain-name . com
will search engines consider this spammy? will it hurt my SERP? I don't intend to tell anyone this domain over phone, nore do I even intend for someone to type this domain in their address bar. I don't really care if anyone remembers this domain or not, it's not a name of company or brand or whatever, and I already own mydomainname . com...
Date: 2009-09-28
Cart Solution? All Ideas Welcome
I run the following website, Fishtail
Parka: Official Site For Vintage M51 Parka and Classic
M65 Parka, 6 years in the game now, no 1 worldwide.
thats the good side.
What i want is a cart/commerce solution that would enable me to display my entire catalogue on my website. I want something that can be coded into what is already there and display items, prices, options etc...
Date: 2009-09-25
Cheating Backlinks?
When looking for places to get links to our site, we are often advised to look at the incoming links on the competition's sites.
So this is what I was doing. Enter the keywords in Google (coloring book); Go to the first site listed; Click the Backward links button in the Google toolbar...
Date: 2009-09-24
An SEO Problem Without an Answer?
Now that I've got your attention, I was wondering if anyone can solve the wonderful mystery that is my site's failing SEO. I've been working on the same site for over a year and keep regressing despite best efforts. Google is crediting 0 backlinks despite the fact I know i have inbound links. Not even internal links are showing up as they do for some competitors...
Date: 2009-09-23
Will slight alterations significantly hurt your SEO?
We used to rank 4th and 5th on our most valuable keywords. One day we made a change to the content in our landing pages. These were little changes like changing half a dozen words from one to another. eg - we changed the word "village" to "community" and these words had no relationship to our targeted keywords. My point is, 2 weeks after these changes, we dropped in our ranking from 4th and 5th down to 9th and 10th...
Date: 2009-09-22
How does Google handle Cloud Hosting?
I've been looking into Cloud Hosting to see if its a viable alternative for us. The costs have come down and for us its now comparable to a virtual server. However, we are a UK based business and we currently host in the UK. With Cloud Hosting, the servers could be just about anywhere...
Date: 2009-09-21
Is GoogleBot a Hidden Spy?
I would like to share some unusual experience with you all.
Last month, I was searching for some new updates on Google and came across various forums/blogs. However, 4-5 forums required me to login before actually view the content of the site...
Date: 2009-09-18
Age hurdle
I believe that old domains which are constantly updated with either new products or new information have an advantage over new domains in terms of high ranking. Are we agreed? I think it is a good way of filtering through serious websites/companies so that every tom, dick and harry who has a good idea doesnt make a website today and its straight to the top of the list tomorrow...
Date: 2009-09-17
Any android developers around?
I have been planning to develop an application for Android platform. i can only use simulator. The ideas i have are: 1. Audio and Video player with editing support for both audio and video . (We will not be laying our hands on the android phone itself. We will be using the emulator only as android phones are not available in the market here in India)
Date: 2009-09-16
Google Webmaster Tools
I would like to ask if anyone else has noticed differences in the stated position of a website in Webmaster Tools and those in Google itself?I have one site in particular that generally ranks well for some quite competitive keyphrases. My google webmaster tools account shows the website as having a position of number 7.
Date: 2009-09-15
Still frustrated and not giving up...
I know this must be going against a code of ethics in the forum but I'm reposting anyway because of this CSS bug that I am having in IE7. I have been searching everywhere for the answer (and no, I am not going to give in to using tables for my layout). Here is where I am at: still can't center content in IE7 and I do have a doc type at the top of my html page...
Date: 2009-09-14
An SEOs Travel Plans - Thoughts please?
As many of you know I'm hitting the road and becoming a "travelling SEO". Just me, a laptop and the worlds WLANs! I've been very carefully considering all the factors that should ensure I dont fall behind with work, loose data, loose contact with clients etc. I just thought I'd update you all on how I'm progressing with my plans and I have a few questions...
Date: 2009-09-11
Regional SEO Techniques. How fast do you see the results of your SEO efforts?
Interesting. I knew the following example would be the result. A client asked us to get them found for "(car brand name) sales (city)". I was asked by my team mates to bring the guy up. I did a little this and that and told them to check the results in two weeks although I knew the effect would be obvious within a few days...
Date: 2009-09-09
Does this constitute duplicate content?
Hope you can help, I want to make sure that I am not getting penalised for duplicate content penalties and if so then perhaps someone could suggest a fix. I have a page where customers select their printer (php page) and this then takes them to their particular printer... the selection page is Compatible inkjet printer cartridges - Epson, Canon and HP ink - then I have a rewritre that converts the dynamic php results page to an html page - an example would be...
Date: 2009-09-08
Ethics of knocking-off a competitor
A company was founded which looked at a new market where there was alot of growth. A B2B software as a service (subscription based web-application) offering was identified. There are a few competitors in the field. The company essentially used the best competitor as a "model" and copied most of the features. BUT - specifically re-created the interface, all the text, images, etc. The application looks different and nowhere does the app attempt to mislead the user that they are using the competitors product...
Date: 2009-09-04
Moved from CF to HTML
I've just moved our company web site from CFM based pages to HTML - and to a new server. It's a much cleaner design with added functionality but I need some help optimizing at this point. The old site had been online for 6-7 years so I'm a little overwhelmed & would just like to get some feedback here so I can build a list of suggestions & prioritize...
Date: 2009-09-03
Well Optimized Website Can't Convert Traffic into Sales?
I am working for a client that has an ecommerce site (www.accessorygenie.com) and have been optimizing the site for the last 6 months. The site has jumped in organic rankings and traffic, yet still does not convert more than 5 sales a day. We have nearly 300 unique visitors daily, all of which are targeted and have landed on the pages they are looking for.
Date: 2009-09-02
Content optimisation - which english to use?
I wonder if any of you came across this issue with the english language sits.
We have a website that will be offering articles to U.S | UK | Canada and other english speaking countries. However we are not sure what sort of english to use which wont offend a certain group or hopefully wont impact our sales...
Date: 2009-09-01
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