Your Questions About Website Seo Tools

Posted on November 27, 2011 by admin

Charles asks…

Seo Help! Link Building?

so ive had my website for a while and its doing fairly well.
it has 11 pages on google its also on yahoo and bing.
so far ive put a link in a youtube video description
ive put links on several forums
a link on yahoo answers
a link on face book my space twitter reddit delicious and digg. i had another website that number one on google for keyowrds printing services toronto. which is pretty competitive so i put a link on that site as well
however on google webmaster tools it doesnt show anyof these links it just sias the facebook link the twitter link and several othe directory links but not any of these ones.
Why doesnt it show and im pretty sure it crawled my website and these websites several times already and the links are legit and they work.
on twitter i posted 30 links sveral monthes ago and its only sais i have one link on twitter. why is this?

and also do you know any other usefull forums or websites i can put links on thanks

admin answers:

Do not get discouraged by Google’s incoming link report, use www.backlinkwatch.com you can have detailed back link report on this site.

Yahoo Site-explorer and Majestic SEO also offers similar service

You can do directory submission, you can get a list of directories and you can submit your site to them.

Get involved in forum discussions and you can leave a signature there with your web links.

Sandra asks…

How to remove my website from Google Blacklist?

My website is KlangProperty.com . Which is very new. I buy the domain 3 month ago. I didn’t play SEO trick or exchange link. I found out my domain was banned 2 week ago, because I can’t use Google Adwords.
I appeal in Webmaster Tool. they still mentioned I violated “quality guildline”.
I found out this domain has been register May 2010. Previous owner might have some trouble with this domain and dump it 1 year later. Any one can help and tell me where go wrong? how to fix it?
Thank you.

admin answers:

1.Review Google’s Webmaster Guidelines to see if your site might be violating any of them. This is especially true of their quality guidelines.

* Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
* Don’t use cloaking or sneaky redirects.
* Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.

2.If your site isn’t in Google’s Webmaster Tools, get it in there and verified. Google Webmaster Tools has a wealth of diagnostic information that can help you determine which problems Google might be seeing on your site. This will help when going through the Guidelines outlined above, as Google will give you the information you need to determine which of these your site may have violated in order to get banned.

3.once you have determined what’s causing your site to be blacklisted, you can send a message through Webmaster Tools requesting that engineers at Google perform a review of your site to make sure all of the offensive content/links/images/redirects/etc. Have been removed and dealt with. This can take several weeks to accomplish, but if you did it right, your site should be back in Google’s index before you know it.

Sharon asks…

I have a website and right now I can’t really afford to start an ppc campaign?

could I use Goggles ad word tool just for plain organic seo keyword research? One thing I don’t understand about adword is if you are bidding for keywords and for example I bid 0.50 for a keyword and someone else offers a $1.00 that means that person wins the word and I could not use it when I started a ppc adsword campaign? It may sound like a stupid question but I just don’t know?

admin answers:

There are many ways to market on a small budget. I have encountered the same problem and would like to help.

Contact my business at ilahmer@cincymarketing.com

I won’t charge and would love to help you out. Helping network people are a great way to get your name out.

Hope to hear from you and good luck!

David asks…

is it wise to generate a robots.txt file even if you don’t use it?

I am doing work on a website, there isn’t a page that I don’t want the Google Spider to crawl. Is it wise for me to generate a robots.txt file behind webmaster tools even though I don’t plan on using the Robots.txt file to block any pages at the moment?

Is it better SEO wise to just have on active on your site regardless?

Many Thanks

admin answers:

Are you 100% sure that you want all your pages to be crawlable? Then don’t create one. But as Mitchell says it’s pretty unusual.

Directly from Google webmaster tools help (see the source link for details):

“If you want search engines to index everything in your site, you don’t need a robots.txt file (not even an empty one).”

Daniel asks…

Please help me — Read this mail and ans me ( What is this mail )?

Google Webmaster Tools: Get $100 of free Google AdWords advertising for your site

Dear Webmaster,

Thank you for using Webmaster Tools! We hope you are enjoying our latest releases, which include richer search query data, improved malware notification, and an SEO Starter Guide.

While these tools are a great way to optimize visibility, many webmasters also use Google AdWords to drive traffic to their site. We want to give you the chance to experience the effective and measurable results that Google AdWords offers with a free $100 in advertising. Try it today!

To get started with AdWords, please follow these 3 steps:

1. Visit www.adwords.google.com and click “start now” to create your account.

2. Follow the instructions to choose your keywords and create your ads.

3. Enter your billing information and input your unique coupon code exactly as shown below.??

Your personal coupon code: FQ5T-5QZE-JV74-VEPD-QRG

Key Benefits of Google AdWords

Maximize the effectiveness of your search ads. You can more precisely analyze the performance of your search ads, giving you insights on how to increase conversions.

Target the whole world, or just your neighborhood. Google AdWords makes it easy to advertise to your town, country, region, or to everyone.

Pay only when people land on your site. Google AdWords is performance-based. You only pay when someone clicks on your ad and connects to your website.

*Terms and Conditions

Promotional credit must be applied to a new AdWords account within 15 days of creating the AdWords account and is valid only for new Google AdWords customers with self-managed signup accounts. Advertisers will be charged for all advertising that exceeds the promotional credit. Advertisers will need to suspend their ads at the time the promotional credit amount is exhausted if they do not wish to receive additional advertising charges. Offer subject to ad approval, valid registration, and acceptance of the Google AdWords Program standard terms and conditions. The promotional credit is non-transferable and may not be sold or bartered. Offer may be revoked at any time for any reason by Google Inc. One promotional credit per customer. Advertisers with self-managed signup accounts are subject to a $5 (CAD10) activation fee and Advertisers who choose prepay billing are subject to a $10 (CAD20) minimum prepayment fee before their account is activated. Any such prepay amount will be credited to Advertiser’s account once account is activated. However, these fees will be debited from the promotional credit if Advertiser’s account was created after July 15, 2010, that is, you will not be charged the activation fee. Offer valid only for sign ups through the URL provided for the promotion by customers with a billing address in the US or Canada. Your use of this voucher and/or the promotional credit constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions. Offer void where prohibited by law.

admin answers:

Get started with AdWords and get ready to spend loads of money – AdWords is Google’s money making machine – use with care or get bankrupt. Perhaps explore Google Express or cheaper options (see the source link for tips and PPC experts to follow)

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Your Questions About Website Seo Tools

Posted on November 27, 2011 by admin

Linda asks…

Seo Help! Link Building?

and also do you know any other usefull forums or websites i can put links on thanks

admin answers:

Do not get discouraged by Google’s incoming link report, use www.backlinkwatch.com you can have detailed back link report on this site.

Yahoo Site-explorer and Majestic SEO also offers similar service

You can do directory submission, you can get a list of directories and you can submit your site to them.

Get involved in forum discussions and you can leave a signature there with your web links.

William asks…

How to remove my website from Google Blacklist?

admin answers:

1.Review Google’s Webmaster Guidelines to see if your site might be violating any of them. This is especially true of their quality guidelines.

* Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
* Don’t use cloaking or sneaky redirects.
* Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.

Chris asks…

I have a website and right now I can’t really afford to start an ppc campaign?

admin answers:

There are many ways to market on a small budget. I have encountered the same problem and would like to help.

Contact my business at ilahmer@cincymarketing.com

I won’t charge and would love to help you out. Helping network people are a great way to get your name out.

Hope to hear from you and good luck!

Lizzie asks…

is it wise to generate a robots.txt file even if you don’t use it?

Is it better SEO wise to just have on active on your site regardless?

Many Thanks

admin answers:

Are you 100% sure that you want all your pages to be crawlable? Then don’t create one. But as Mitchell says it’s pretty unusual.

Directly from Google webmaster tools help (see the source link for details):

“If you want search engines to index everything in your site, you don’t need a robots.txt file (not even an empty one).”

Michael asks…

Please help me — Read this mail and ans me ( What is this mail )?

Google Webmaster Tools: Get $100 of free Google AdWords advertising for your site

Dear Webmaster,

Thank you for using Webmaster Tools! We hope you are enjoying our latest releases, which include richer search query data, improved malware notification, and an SEO Starter Guide.

To get started with AdWords, please follow these 3 steps:

1. Visit www.adwords.google.com and click “start now” to create your account.

2. Follow the instructions to choose your keywords and create your ads.

3. Enter your billing information and input your unique coupon code exactly as shown below.??

Your personal coupon code: FQ5T-5QZE-JV74-VEPD-QRG

Key Benefits of Google AdWords

Maximize the effectiveness of your search ads. You can more precisely analyze the performance of your search ads, giving you insights on how to increase conversions.

Target the whole world, or just your neighborhood. Google AdWords makes it easy to advertise to your town, country, region, or to everyone.

Pay only when people land on your site. Google AdWords is performance-based. You only pay when someone clicks on your ad and connects to your website.

*Terms and Conditions

admin answers:

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Your Questions About Website Seo Tools

Posted on November 27, 2011 by admin

Laura asks…

Seo Help! Link Building?

and also do you know any other usefull forums or websites i can put links on thanks

admin answers:

Do not get discouraged by Google’s incoming link report, use www.backlinkwatch.com you can have detailed back link report on this site.

Yahoo Site-explorer and Majestic SEO also offers similar service

You can do directory submission, you can get a list of directories and you can submit your site to them.

Get involved in forum discussions and you can leave a signature there with your web links.

Lizzie asks…

How to remove my website from Google Blacklist?

admin answers:

1.Review Google’s Webmaster Guidelines to see if your site might be violating any of them. This is especially true of their quality guidelines.

* Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
* Don’t use cloaking or sneaky redirects.
* Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.

Paul asks…

I have a website and right now I can’t really afford to start an ppc campaign?

admin answers:

There are many ways to market on a small budget. I have encountered the same problem and would like to help.

Contact my business at ilahmer@cincymarketing.com

I won’t charge and would love to help you out. Helping network people are a great way to get your name out.

Hope to hear from you and good luck!

James asks…

is it wise to generate a robots.txt file even if you don’t use it?

Is it better SEO wise to just have on active on your site regardless?

Many Thanks

admin answers:

Are you 100% sure that you want all your pages to be crawlable? Then don’t create one. But as Mitchell says it’s pretty unusual.

Directly from Google webmaster tools help (see the source link for details):

“If you want search engines to index everything in your site, you don’t need a robots.txt file (not even an empty one).”

Steven asks…

Please help me — Read this mail and ans me ( What is this mail )?

Google Webmaster Tools: Get $100 of free Google AdWords advertising for your site

Dear Webmaster,

Thank you for using Webmaster Tools! We hope you are enjoying our latest releases, which include richer search query data, improved malware notification, and an SEO Starter Guide.

To get started with AdWords, please follow these 3 steps:

1. Visit www.adwords.google.com and click “start now” to create your account.

2. Follow the instructions to choose your keywords and create your ads.

3. Enter your billing information and input your unique coupon code exactly as shown below.??

Your personal coupon code: FQ5T-5QZE-JV74-VEPD-QRG

Key Benefits of Google AdWords

Maximize the effectiveness of your search ads. You can more precisely analyze the performance of your search ads, giving you insights on how to increase conversions.

Target the whole world, or just your neighborhood. Google AdWords makes it easy to advertise to your town, country, region, or to everyone.

Pay only when people land on your site. Google AdWords is performance-based. You only pay when someone clicks on your ad and connects to your website.

*Terms and Conditions

admin answers:

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Your Questions About Website Seo Tools

Posted on November 26, 2011 by admin

Lisa asks…

should I prefer to create sub domain to with old website or develop new site to target market in USA..?

I need advise from seo guru with god experience on this issue.

I want to target market in USA and want to appear on first page on Google with Geo graphical location to USA. The keywrods are very high competitive to achieve. I am little confused with website selection to target market in USA..

Consider the two sites

1. www.example1.com

This site has PR 5 but the language is Germany and geo graphical market is set to Germany.The major audience is also from germany.

2. www.example2.us

the above site is new one and has 0 PR. this domain is new one.

I have two different view for this two sites.

first I thought that I will create sub domain on the first website something like this us.example1.com to target market in USA. I will set geo graphical location to USA with help of meta tags and webmaster tool.

secondly , I have second domain with country specific domain name( example2.us) . this domain is new one.

so which website I should select to target market in USA and to get appear on first page for the selected keywords which are high competitive.

should I create sub domain on the first site with native language of Germany Or should I focus on new site with 0 Pr and country specific domain name. the keywords are very high competitive.

Please advise me which one Should I prefer..?

admin answers:

It is hard to say depending on the actual name of the pr5 compared to a more targeted name..

It is really more of an opinion for this although a pr5 is always better than nothing.

I would just buy a new domain and pay a little money to optimize it. Pleasing visitors is more important than the search bots. If you need some low cost seo my site has resources for it, and a content feed.

Http://www.uberlinks.co.cc/

Mary asks…

Do xml sitemaps need to be installed in Yahoo Site Explorer and Bing as well as Google Webmaster Tools?

I always register and validate my website in Google webmaster tools and submit my sitemap however I never do it for Yahoo and Bing.

Does this only impact on my rankings and indexing for Yahoo and Bing? Or do Google pick up on it as well? I notice if I look my website in Yahoo and Bing I see different meta descriptions than I do in Google.

Obviously Google is the main search engine so I’m not as bothered about the rankings in Yahoo and Bing but If registering and submitting a sitemap with them help increase my rankings I will do…..especially if it affects my Google rankings.

So in a nutshell….does not having a sitemap submitted to Yahoo and Bing affect my overall SEO or just to those search engines?

Many Thanks

admin answers:

You are seeing different metas because the way SEs compile meta snippets may differ. Best way out is to write a custom meta description and kind of take control of what SEs display in SERPs this way you are in control and you can write a pitch type of description compelling users to click through and find out more about your site or whatever it is you offer on there.

Regarding Sitemaps, people will tell you that Sitemaps are great, and another group will tell you that they are worthless. Both are kind of untrue – they do help, in certain conditions.:

- Your site has dynamic content.
- Your site has pages that aren’t easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process—for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or images.
- Your site is new and has few links to it. (Googlebot crawls the web by following links from one page to another, so if your site isn’t well linked, it may be hard for us to discover it.)
- Your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.

So if you fit into those cases, then why not create a Sitemap for all the search engines that you are targeting.

If you aren’t to techie or if you have a big and dynamically changing site, you may want to take advantage of special tools that create sitemaps and automatically submit them to search engines – Google Yahoo Bing and Ask.com

George asks…

Does having .php or /index.html affect your SEO?

I have a couple of websites. They all have sitemaps and are registered with webmaster tools.
A couple of my website domains have .php at the end or .index.html

IE – www.domain.com/index.php

Does this affect my SEO ranking?? or does it not matter? I don’t know if it will affect the Google spider crawling my site.

If it does affect my SEO – how can I rectify this?

Many thanks

admin answers:

Google doesn’t seem to care about these but for users’ sake, for the sake of conformity and as a good practice, it is best to do a redirect

from

www.domain.com/index.php

and

www.domain.com/index.php

www.domain.com

In other words, select one URL and stick with it, redirect all others.

John asks…

Video Marketing SEO……………?

I keep hearing about Video marketing and how it is becoming increasingly important for SEO

Can anyone give me more info
How can I start this? What tools are recommended?
Any good website where I can get more info

admin answers:

Make sure users can comment, rate and provide feedback on your videos. Allowing users to provide feedback results in greater views for your video. Users who provide comments are also those who usually take action – these are good people to be engaging in conversations.
Create a video sitemap for all your video content. Search engines can read these well and will easily and quickly index all of your video content.When people use search engines to find videos on particular topics they commonly use the word ‘video’. Make sure you use the words ‘video’ and ‘videos’ in your meta data, description, text and title

Donald asks…

Recommendations for a great SEO program?

I’m trying to find a highly efficient and reputable SEO (Search Engine Optimizer) for my website. I’d like to improve traffic flow and customers. I’m tired of the marketing schemes that purposely mislead buyers. Are there any software programs that have proven results for increasing web traffic? If so, what are they?

I know the tools provided by Google are effective, but I need a program that goes in-depth and tells me which pages need fixing, which keywords are effective, etc. I’ve researched SEO Suite and IBP, but those also came with negative views.

Software with a consensus on its reliability would be greatly appreciated. If it works, then cost isn’t a factor.

admin answers:

Getting SEO Software? Get ready to learn SEO a-to-z!

If you have already made up your mind about doing SEO yourself with SEO tools, then get ready to learn SEO the way that you’d never have to if you hired an SEO consultant. Note that I am not pitching for consultants here – unless you have a solid referral for an SEO service provider – stay away from them as the risk of being misled (and ripped off) is so much greater than with any SEO tools, even most expensive ones.

Think of it this way: now I am an SEO consultant, now it’s ME who is in charge of my site’s SEO and I need some tools to help me with that. I also need to learn about SEO principles to take full advantage of these tools and make some sort of site promotion strategy (as SEO tools are merely tools, they don’t decide for me – I do).

Getting SEO software? – Make sure you set your expectations right!

Next, if you are already shopping around for SEO software, you will notice that nearly all providers tell you that it will be easy to do SEO with their products and that you will have top rankings very soon.

When you read such stuff, please understand that it is no more than marketing speak. Of course software providers won’t go out and tell you “pal, our tools take time to get used to and you have to spend quite some time learning about SEO”. But that’s the reality – any SEO program that has lots of features demands lots of mental effort on the user’s part – otherwise you end up spending money on a program, miss out on more than half of its features simply because you don’t know how to put them to use. Soon enough you become disillusioned with the program because you aren’t seeing your site ranking #1 for your target search term as the marketing copy promised.

Getting SEO software? – Get ready to invest!

And my last word of advice: good SEO tools are not cheap – get ready to spend if you want results. The key thing to understand is that SEO software is tied to search engine algo’s. And search engines are one of the most complex mechanisms ever created.

The more search engines the tools support, the harder it is to maintain them. Why? Because it’s been tested and documented that search engines change their algorithms approximately 400 times per year. On average, that’s more than one search algo change per day. Multiply by all the search engines that the software supports – and software providers have quite a bit of work to do to keep the software working, and working accurately at that.

So yes, accuracy is the key when it comes to SEO tools, and accurate tools that support various search engines cost quite a bit. Now, they are cheaper than consultant fees but they are far from free.

Also, as you will learn, there are online and desktop SEO programs. There are pros and cons to using either of these but while all online tools have monthly online subscription fees, many desktop tools have them too. Why? Because both cloud and desktop based tools still have to interact with search engines and the upkeep costs to keep this interaction (and accuracy) going are still high hence the monthly fees.

Which brings me to your point on “negative views” – quite a few customers fail to understand that no matter if the tools are online or desktop based, search engine updates are vital for the tools’ accuracy and you have to PAY for this accuracy, each and every month. Owners of of desktop tools seem to get especially irate about such monthly costs and “rebel” when learning they have to pay for them.

So if you are saying that cost is not really a factor, and if you understand the reasoning behind monthly fees, now you are ready to shop. I am almost evangelical when I recommend SEO PowerSuite tools (all desktop based). I honestly think they are great at what they do (keyword research, rank checks, onpage seo and link building): free version to try for as long as you want, paid versions with extensive features and clockwork accuracy (and paid monthly updates), and other bells and whistles. They go above and beyond IBP in many respects: interface/usability, performance speed, features, accuracy, search engine support. Download both and see what I mean.

Also, the “Whats in your SEO toolbox” article listed in the sources has some great software recommendations and brief reviews of each program.

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Your Questions About Website Seo Tools

Posted on November 25, 2011 by admin

Laura asks…

Under what circumstances would you use Flash over an HTML editor?

Flash® is a popular tool to enhance site interactivity. Examine Flash SEO. Provide recommendations for how to integrate Flash into a website effectively. Under what circumstances would you use Flash over an HTML editor?

admin answers:

Use flash when you want to entertain people. It’s also a good way to use a lot more bandwidth in order to answer simple questions. Be aware that flash uses lots more resources on the PC visiting you website. Anyway my first statement should give you an idea of the best answer. Flash can make things pretty and dazzling. It attracts mouse clicks.

Ken asks…

SEO Backlink question?

I have a web design website that is indexed by google, if I do a search for swakconcepts.com it returns 7 pages or so, each website I design I put links to my site but in google webmaster tools when I seach for incoming links it only shows 1. Does anyone know why it doesnt show all the incoming links even though they show up if I just do a general seach for swakconcepts.com? any help is greatly appreciated.

admin answers:

Google spider should crawl to ur all web pages then it will happen.

Helen asks…

domain names with similar names but different extension?

I have two domain names the same name under the same company, however one is .ca and the other .com
Can i upload my website using ftp to each site. Is it ok to have duplicate content on both. Would Google mind this for SEO? I can then use Google webmaster tools to designate the .com to united states and .ca to Canada. Does this make sense? Thanks.

admin answers:

I am also no expert when it comes to Google’s methods, but many very serious people believe that Google does check the whois database to see who has registered each domain.

Even if they don’t, there is no questions that Google will link ownership of your two sites, perhaps if only because they are hosted at the same IP, and were registered at the same time.

So far as duplicate content, Google will give priority in listings to the content it spiders first. However, if you have Canada specific info on the .ca site, they may give that a boost when the search inquiry is coming from Canada.

Many companies do exactly what you are talking about here, and I have no trouble finding their various websites.

Sandy asks…

Search engine optimization for small business?

I have an offer of some website designer for search engine optimization work on our small corporate website. Thing is i have not too much knowledge of seo websites. And he wants $950 for a site analysis i think that is too expensive Is there a inexpensive tool or seo software for small businesses you recommend, advice thanks heaps, any Tip much appreciated.
Garrett
@ Jenny

looks promising, thanks for your help

admin answers:

Http://www.business.yezeo.com/ is what my boss uses, this does analyze like everything of websites from keywords google or yahoo plus it tells me what we need to do it even lets you spy on your competitors website. Grab any URL click a button and Bang, crush your competition lol This has cut down our search engine seo costs to 30 percent or so and we have several top three rankings in google. I think it is still free

Good Luck!

Mark asks…

Writing a SEO Report – Advice pls?

Two quick questions please

1.) Is there a tool or a search engine query that I could enter to see where my website appears in the search results for a certain search phrase?

2.) I have to author a monthly SEO performance report to my boss – highlighting how SEO has improved the visibility of the site, site visitors etc?

What is the best way of doing this ? i.e.

Take a screenshot of google analytics data before SEO work commences and then show the increase in visitors?
Take a screenshot of search position for a particular phrase before SEO and after?

Any other recommendations

Lauren

admin answers:

1) Google “ranking tracking tools” and there are a tone of them….also Google Webmaster Tools gives you rankings based on where your site is ranking (which is free)

2) There are also plenty of programs that will do this for you…but the best way to think about an SEO report is to think about what business question are you trying to ask. Then continue to run the report on a regular bases (I prefer monthly). I usually use Google Analytics and a third part ranking software to populate an excel spreadsheet that answers these basic questions:

- How much traffic am I receiving from natural search on a monthly basis
- How much revenue/leads am I receiving from Natural search on a monthly basis
- How am I ranking on my top 10-20 most import keywords
- What type of traffic & revenue/leads are those keywords generating

Create that report on a monthly bases and track your SEO tasks and you should be able to see a correlation for each. Just remember SEO doesn’t happen overnight….give your efforts a couple of months to take shape.

I plan on laying out the full process on my blog in the upcoming month – http://www.digitalbrandingstrategy.com – which is about things like tracking success for your digital campaigns (SEO as well as other mediums).