Search:

It certainly helps to increase relevancy and click ability by the users. But its not the sole factor of preference by search engines.

Hello after a long vacation. I agree to an extent that #1 ranking gets almost 40% of the traffic and the rest gets divided amongst other listings. In short, the top 1-5 (above the fold) spots are the...

A. They are different due to request from an IP originating from India. They are served results depending upon the data center, server location, personalized approach etc.

B. You will have to host...

This website seems cycle of nonsense to me. Google crawling, indexing and ranking something which (to an extent) seems blank hat. Oh, that why this art has a black side as well. If Google was that...

Always plan your actions with adequate backup or recovery plans.

Its the links that make or break your competition or your success. On-Page and Off-Page both go hand in hand. To increase the relevancy you need to have employed good on-page and not aggressive one....

They do occur all the time but they wont push your site too deep, may be just 2-3 places.

I think you must be using Yahoo Search Explorer to check the ibls. Kindly modify the filter and it will show you lesser links or increased. Ranking comes when others link to you and not the opposite....

Simple yet correct answer. The best use for no=follow is "page rank sculpting" for internal or external links. Which is also debatable these days.

To check global rankings its better to hide your IP and proceed the search. Search engines track your IP provide you personalized as well local results. Thats the result of Data Centers. Better to...

Not necessarily!

I have projects with content optimized 2 years back and still ranking top. And also have projects with recently optimized content, but getting up/down all the time.

Depends on...

Depends upon your goals!

If you need Traffic then go for it (but won't help in search engine love)

Regards

First things first:

- Get registered with Google webmaster tools and sort out much of the things over there

- Get an HTML sitemap

- Get your site submitted to regularly crawled websites like...

"Eye level is the buy level"

People get attracted towards visible things, in this case the GREEN. It is outdated stuff most of the time. I agree with ctabuk on pagerank against SERP.

Better to...

Better to work on one domain than to waste your time on both. If you're currently focussing on one site, just work on that. Yes, redirect the old site, get robots.txt to restrict access to older one...

Clear cut "local SEO". Not a bad thing. Nor does it say that it wont get ranked better on Google.com.

Questions

- Are you trying to get links from sites "locally hosted" or with .za extensions...

Strategy 2 is mandatory!

Naturally you would like to rank for all of the 12 keywords, which naturally you can't target on one single page.

So naturally your home page should be targeting 1,2...

It simply means getting your website targeted to specific geographic area.

Important!

Instead of looking for your keyword rankings YOU WANT. Log in to your Google webmaster tools and dig out how OTHERS are finding you (for what keywords). Those are the real stats!
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Kindly explain!

Don't get what you're saying. Do you want to optimize your HOME page for the KEYWORD? or the entire site for that KEYWORD?

Rephrase your question please.

If I were you I...

You didn't implement a "301" redirect after converting from php to asp? that is big blunder!

If you have old pages with you or if you have the information of how many and which one of them were...

You need to implement a "301 redirect" on your older domain. You need to confirm if your site is hosted on a Windows or Apache server first. Since you will implement the "301 redirect" the rankings...

Abhorrently Super Duper Optimized!

The green toolbar is always old don't base your strategies on it. Read this post by Matt Cutts.

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Why is it a DEFINITE no no? can you explain or back your argument with credible proof please?

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If you don't wanna use no follow then SIMPLY don't use the KEYWORDS in the ANCHOR...