Thursday, February 28, 2013

Search Marketing Seminar Minneapolis Minnesota

Source: http://toprank.blogspot.com/2007/02/search-marketing-seminar-minneapolis.html

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DON?T BUY Keyword Elite V2 till you read this review

There has been much expectation around the launch of Keyword Elite V2. And as is my custom I bought it as soon as it was released and began testing it and comparing it to Keyword Elite V1. In this article I will explain my opinions of the new version and whether or not you should [...]

Source: http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/dont-buy-keyword-elite-v2-till-you-read-this-review.html

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SEO - HTML TAGS - TITLE

Source: http://engine-optimization-search.blogspot.com/2005/03/seo-html-tags-title.html

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5 Tips for Better B2B Search Engine Marketing

Source: http://toprank.blogspot.com/2010/06/5-tips-for-better-b2b-search-engine.html

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Digg Un-bans Online Marketing Blog

Source: http://toprank.blogspot.com/2007/02/digg-un-bans-online-marketing-blog.html

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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Links for 2007-11-21 [del.icio.us]

Source: http://del.icio.us/diddy1#2007-11-21

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Notice "Top Channels" Missing From Your Google Adense Report?

Source: http://allaboutadsense.blogspot.com/2007/12/notice-top-channels-missing-from-your.php

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AWeber - Why AWeber is the Number One Pick for Internet Marketers Posted By : Ted Hunsaker

I have written a review about the AWeber autoresponder in this article. Read this article to find out why you should use an AWeber autoresponder and how it can help you to become a top producer in the online marketing industry.

Source: http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/AWeber---Why-AWeber-is-the-Number-One-Pick-for-Internet-Marketers/194467

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SEO Forum Watch - 2005 - 2006

Well it?s coming to that time of the year again, where we say good bye to the old and welcome the new. Lots of us will be looking at what was achieved in 2005 and looking at what can be achieved in 2006. The New Year is always exciting in the search industry, with people rounding up the year and predicting what?s going to be hot, where things are heading etc.

Anyone who visits SEO Forum Watch regularly would of noticed it has been put on the back burner but I refuse to end the blog there and know it will come into its own come 2006. When I get time and the opportunity is right, the SEO Forum Watch will be moving to a WordPress blog and most probably be changing its focus slightly.

2005 was an interesting year for the SEO community, with the new MSN search probably being one of the biggest stories. And then towards the end of the year Google?s Jagger update hit us in three parts but rumours of Google engineers not being happy with the update is probably the bigger story there.

It looks like the Jagger update has tried to rebalance the importance of natural linking by devaluing reciprocal links and adding more emphasis to TrustRank (authority sites). However looking at Google?s results does leave one feeling like they have taken a bit of nose dive, even if the sites I?m conducting SEO on have benefited from the update!

As I said above the new MSN search in my opinion is the biggest story of 2005. MSN was previously using Yahoo as their search provider and is still using Yahoo Search Marketing (formerly Overture) to provide their sponsored results. MSN will be launching their own pay per click advertising service in 2006, replacing Yahoo?s and giving them an all important foothold on the SEM market. No doubt an advertising network will quickly follow for web publishers to be paid for displaying their ads (think Google adsense but with a MSN logo).

Well this has been my first round up post but no doubt I will post at least one more (time permitting). If you do for some reason forget not to come back, have a great Christmas and all the best for the New Year. Have a drink for me and raise your glass to getting even more traffic in 2006.

James Anderson

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Google reveals their search volume data? FINALLY!

Seemingly out of thin air Google has decided to reveal their search volume data to the public. I don’t know about you but I am very excited about this. No more guessing or using highly inaccurate tools such as overture yahoo keyword tool. Over and over I hear common, everyday people say “Google it!” and [...]

Source: http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/google-reveals-their-search-volume-data-finally.html

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

SEO Forum Watch - 2005 - 2006

Well it?s coming to that time of the year again, where we say good bye to the old and welcome the new. Lots of us will be looking at what was achieved in 2005 and looking at what can be achieved in 2006. The New Year is always exciting in the search industry, with people rounding up the year and predicting what?s going to be hot, where things are heading etc.

Anyone who visits SEO Forum Watch regularly would of noticed it has been put on the back burner but I refuse to end the blog there and know it will come into its own come 2006. When I get time and the opportunity is right, the SEO Forum Watch will be moving to a WordPress blog and most probably be changing its focus slightly.

2005 was an interesting year for the SEO community, with the new MSN search probably being one of the biggest stories. And then towards the end of the year Google?s Jagger update hit us in three parts but rumours of Google engineers not being happy with the update is probably the bigger story there.

It looks like the Jagger update has tried to rebalance the importance of natural linking by devaluing reciprocal links and adding more emphasis to TrustRank (authority sites). However looking at Google?s results does leave one feeling like they have taken a bit of nose dive, even if the sites I?m conducting SEO on have benefited from the update!

As I said above the new MSN search in my opinion is the biggest story of 2005. MSN was previously using Yahoo as their search provider and is still using Yahoo Search Marketing (formerly Overture) to provide their sponsored results. MSN will be launching their own pay per click advertising service in 2006, replacing Yahoo?s and giving them an all important foothold on the SEM market. No doubt an advertising network will quickly follow for web publishers to be paid for displaying their ads (think Google adsense but with a MSN logo).

Well this has been my first round up post but no doubt I will post at least one more (time permitting). If you do for some reason forget not to come back, have a great Christmas and all the best for the New Year. Have a drink for me and raise your glass to getting even more traffic in 2006.

James Anderson

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/vfQF/~3/750H4zHHloU/seo-forum-watch-2005-2006.html

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SEO - The Coveted DMOZ.ORG LINK

Source: http://engine-optimization-search.blogspot.com/2006/02/seo-coveted-dmozorg-link.html

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SEO Minneapolis

Source: http://toprank.blogspot.com/2008/03/seo-minneapolis.html

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Five Things an Autoresponder Series Can Do For Your Business Posted By : Jennifer Williamson

What's the advantage of using an autoresponder program to deliver regular messages to your customers? Here are five things an autoresponder series can do for you.

Source: http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Five-Things-an-Autoresponder-Series-Can-Do-For-Your-Business/139853

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TopRank Featured in Star Tribune

Source: http://toprank.blogspot.com/2007/04/toprank-featured-in-star-tribune.html

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OMB Search Marketing Roundup 123006

Source: http://toprank.blogspot.com/2006/12/omb-search-marketing-roundup-123006.html

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Monday, February 25, 2013

What's the Word on Page Rank?

Source: http://toprank.blogspot.com/2007/01/whats-word-on-page-rank.html

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SEO Forum Watch - 2005 - 2006

Well it?s coming to that time of the year again, where we say good bye to the old and welcome the new. Lots of us will be looking at what was achieved in 2005 and looking at what can be achieved in 2006. The New Year is always exciting in the search industry, with people rounding up the year and predicting what?s going to be hot, where things are heading etc.

Anyone who visits SEO Forum Watch regularly would of noticed it has been put on the back burner but I refuse to end the blog there and know it will come into its own come 2006. When I get time and the opportunity is right, the SEO Forum Watch will be moving to a WordPress blog and most probably be changing its focus slightly.

2005 was an interesting year for the SEO community, with the new MSN search probably being one of the biggest stories. And then towards the end of the year Google?s Jagger update hit us in three parts but rumours of Google engineers not being happy with the update is probably the bigger story there.

It looks like the Jagger update has tried to rebalance the importance of natural linking by devaluing reciprocal links and adding more emphasis to TrustRank (authority sites). However looking at Google?s results does leave one feeling like they have taken a bit of nose dive, even if the sites I?m conducting SEO on have benefited from the update!

As I said above the new MSN search in my opinion is the biggest story of 2005. MSN was previously using Yahoo as their search provider and is still using Yahoo Search Marketing (formerly Overture) to provide their sponsored results. MSN will be launching their own pay per click advertising service in 2006, replacing Yahoo?s and giving them an all important foothold on the SEM market. No doubt an advertising network will quickly follow for web publishers to be paid for displaying their ads (think Google adsense but with a MSN logo).

Well this has been my first round up post but no doubt I will post at least one more (time permitting). If you do for some reason forget not to come back, have a great Christmas and all the best for the New Year. Have a drink for me and raise your glass to getting even more traffic in 2006.

James Anderson

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/vfQF/~3/750H4zHHloU/seo-forum-watch-2005-2006.html

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Saw this on tumblr, lols were had

Source: http://www.bspcn.com/2012/12/21/saw-this-on-tumblr-lols-were-had/

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Domain Registration & SEO

It?s been a long time since my last post, too much work and not enough time. Anyway, a short while ago the SEO forums were a blaze with the latest patent release from Google. The patent included loads of different techniques a search engine could use to determine relevancy and I say could because it would be very difficult to use all of the items covered in the patent. My own thoughts on the patent are many items have been included to dilute the true gems.

One part that really caught my eye was using domain registration information as part of a search engines algorithm. I remember several months ago reading a news story that Google had become a domain registrar and many were presuming domain registration would be one of Google?s many new adventures. This gossip was stopped as quickly as it started with Google announcing no domain registration service was on the cards. So why become a domain registrar?

Length of Domain Registration, logical ranking criteria

Well as mentioned above part of the patent focused on using domain information to determine the reliability of a website. In short, if a domain has only been registered for one year it may be more volatile than a domain that?s been registered for ten years. If you?re serious about your online venture, it makes sense to register your domain for a longer period of time. Google could use this fact as part of their ranking criteria and I suspect they have been doing so for some time.

So if you haven?t already done so, I would recommend contacting your domain registration Company to register your domain for at least five years. It may not affect your rankings at all, but on the other hand it may give you just enough of a boost to push some of those keywords onto the front pages. With domain registration costing as less as it does nowadays, it may turn out to be the most cost effective ranking boost you?ve ever paid out for.

If it doesn?t produce any results, no harm done and you may have just saved yourself a couple bucks on next year?s budget :)

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/vfQF/~3/HiKKiuvfByw/domain-registration-seo.html

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Content Marketing Curation Tips

Source: http://toprank.blogspot.com/2010/06/content-marketing-curation-tips.html

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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Notice "Top Channels" Missing From Your Google Adense Report?

Source: http://allaboutadsense.blogspot.com/2007/12/notice-top-channels-missing-from-your.php

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A friend of mine has an annoying habit of sending me inane text messages

A friend of mine has an annoying habit of sending me inane text messages. Here’s what I’ve largely ignored from him over 2012.

Source: http://www.bspcn.com/2012/12/18/a-friend-of-mine-has-an-annoying-habit-of-sending-me-inane-text-messages/

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Google Adsense's Newbie Central Explored

Source: http://allaboutadsense.blogspot.com/2008/01/google-adsenses-newbie-central-explored.php

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Social Bookmarking Strategies at SES New York

Source: http://toprank.blogspot.com/2007/04/social-bookmarking-strategies-at-ses.html

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Backlinks

Source: http://engine-optimization-search.blogspot.com/2006/02/backlinks.html

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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Domain Names & Website Hosting

Purchasing a domain name and finding good hosting is a must for anyone going online. Choosing where to purchase your domain and hosting is critical. I thought I would help by suggesting a great place to purchase cheap domain names and website hosting. The Lycos shop is very cheap and provides a great service, there is nothing worse than speaking to new clients who have requested me to conduct SEO only to find out the Company who they purchased their domain name from has registered it to themselves will not hand it over. It still amazes me how often this happens and lets face they have got you by the short and curlys, after already investing in advertising, business cards, brochures etc. most people can't afford to start their website all over again with a new domain.

Owning your domain name is very important and using a credible service that gives you full control is a must. This why I thought I would make this post and let you know where I personaly think is the best place to go to register your domain name and purchase hosting. The Company I work for can provide the same service but selling a .co.uk domain at �1.99 for 12 months is something we cannot beat. So unless you don't mind paying a couple of quid more to support a UK Domain Registry Company, visit the Lycos shop

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/vfQF/~3/btPVpt14nbw/domain-names-website-hosting.html

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Does Article Distribution Help SEO?

I thought it would be nice to make this post and more to point, share my joy with all three of you that may be reading it. Over the last few weeks I?ve started experimenting with writing articles and distributing them to see if it would help with SEO.

What is Article Distribution for SEO?

In short, article distribution is writing articles that are focused on your market sectors target audience. The articles could be news worthy stories or anything else you feel people would like to read about. You then submit the article to websites that display them. There are even services dedicated to distributing articles. I would recommend Articlesender which is one of the best distributors I?ve used and completely free.

When submitting your article you can normally add what?s known as a bio box. The bio box is displayed at the end of the article and is your chance to inform people who wrote the article. You can add a link to your site in the bio box.

If your article is accepted and posted on the site, it should be indexed by the search engines. So you will now have a new one way link pointing to your site. People who are looking for content to publish on their site or ezine may find your article and choose to use it. The rules are if they do use your article they have to include your bio box with the links.

Does it work for SEO?

I don?t know? Not yet anyway. I?m still tracking the results of the few articles I?ve wrote and distributed so far (some of which I?ve posted on SEO Forum Watch). There is a good thread over at WebWorkShop discussing the same question and I came across an interesting discussion on Matt Cutt?s blog. Matt didn?t directly say article distribution doesn?t help Google SEO but did say he felt sites that simply reproduced articles where not adding any value to the web. Whether that means Google discredits links from article distribution sites or sites reusing the content I don?t know. But as mentioned before I?m tracking the articles to find out if any SEO benefit is happening on what search engines.

Other Benefits of Article Distribution

The last article I published did however produce significant traffic. The article titled ?The SEO Snowball Effect? was picked up and used by both WebProNews.com and WebProNews.co.uk. This had the effect of referring traffic from their site through the bio box link on the article to the company I work for. Looking at our stats I could see in two days WebProNews had referred just over 180 visitors to our site. We even had someone requesting a SEO campaign because they read the article.

In my opinion this is where article writing is going perform. If you can write articles of such quality, that the authority sites in your sector use them. Then your going to get both targeted traffic and recognition of being an expert because of your association with them.

I will be posting more on this when I get evidence of whether article distribution has any SEO benefit. I?ve got a feeling it will work on Yahoo and MSN but not the big G. If I fail to make another post before Christmas or you fail to make it back, have a great Xmas and a good new year.

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SEO - HTML TAGS - BODY TEXT

Source: http://engine-optimization-search.blogspot.com/2005/03/seo-html-tags-body-text.html

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SEO - HTML TAGS - BODY TEXT

Source: http://engine-optimization-search.blogspot.com/2005/03/seo-html-tags-body-text.html

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eCommerce Solution ready for launch

Today is a great day as we're ready to launch the ecommerce solution everyone has been busy building. Trolleytech eCommerce is a powerful solution that enables retailers to sell their goods online. You can see a site using the trolleytech ecommerce solution by clicking on the link below.

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Auto Responders - An Internet Marketing Necessity Posted By : Glen Speckmann

How would you like to be able to afford your own personal secretary?
Someone to respond to all of your email requests, in seconds.
Someone to contact your entire list immediately when you have an exciting offer.
Well, You Can! This is only a few of the many functions that your auto responder can do for you.

Source: http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Auto-Responders---An-Internet-Marketing-Necessity/110739

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Friday, February 22, 2013

Best Cristmas Sales

Best Online Christmas Sales Ever, Good News For Web Design & Internet Marketing Companies

Last week it was announced that Christmas sales had dropped on the high street but online sales had risen by a massive 63% compared to last years figures.

The increase has been due to the higher levels of comfort online shoppers experience compared to battling with traffic jams, busy shops and higher prices. With the Internet gaining in popularity daily we should eventually see online sales overtake that of the high street. If you do not a website at present you have already missed out on a large share of this market, surely it is time to contact a web design and Internet Marketing Company.

With this in mind the year 2005 has already been ear marked to see a dramatic increase in companies going online. This will be good news to some Companies (Internet Marketing & Web Design) and bad news for others (more competition).
From an Internet Marketing & Web Design perspective

At present the Internet is already a crowded place with Google containing an index of over eight billion web pages; any websites joining the battle for the top spot are going to be up against it. Unfortunately for a lot of companies new to this medium they will expect to have a successful website just by having one created, whereas anyone familiar with the Internet will now how difficult it is to turn a baron stats report into a thriving list of unique IP?s. Obtaining a high level of how Internet Marketing works and the best practices involved will be an up hill struggle with many lessons to be learned. One thing for sure is the year 2005 will be a great one web design and Internet Marketing companies.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/vfQF/~3/zI-bgMHw_zI/best-cristmas-sales.html

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Around The Search Engines Jan 09 2008

Source: http://allaboutadsense.blogspot.com/2008/01/around-search-engines-jan-09-2008.php

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Around The Search Engines Jan 16 2008

Source: http://allaboutadsense.blogspot.com/2008/01/around-search-engines-jan-16-2008.php

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The Cross Roads Phenomena

By James Anderson

Well it?s been a while since my last post. Its been incredibly busy at the office in the last week now that we have come to the end of the post Christmas slow down in sales and have started to pick up new business again. If you don?t already know I work for Podium Solutions IT Consultancy in Manchester, UK and Podium Network Solutions, a complimentary site that concentrates on the Network side of things and has also just secured distribution rights with one the biggest VoIP Business telephone systems manufacturers in the world. I?m really looking forward to this year, with new clients and market sectors to work with, IP telephone systems being just one them. I?m sure this year is going to be one of the most exciting ever in the realm of search with new innovations drastically changing the very fabric of the internet it self. I will be posting and commenting on this as and when anything happens.

Already this year we have had some pretty juicy news and probably one of the biggest events of the year has already happened, yep the new MSN search engine launch. The launch of MSN?s new search engine has already caused frantic searching, tracking and some head scratching which has lead to some quite nasty calluses in the office. I have to say that so far I am very impressed with their new search engine and it has been an absolute dream optimising pages for it, its just so nice to be concentrating on content rather then exploiting links. So it?s a big thank you to MSN for bringing on-page optimisation back to the forefront of SEO. How long this will last is another question as we have already seen several tweaks to the algo so more emphasis on link analysis could on the cards, I only hope that MSN stays away from that road and the other search engines follow suit. PLease let links return to the good old days, when links were used purely to link to sites that the webmaster thought were usefull and benifited their users and not just a tool that has to be exploited in order to acheive an online presence.


For the last month I have been searching for the UK search engine market share statistics but have been unable to find any I would consider reliable, please read this as a cry for help and answer by leaving a comment on this post (PLEASE). As per usual locating the US market share is no problem what so ever but that?s not really relevant for us UK subjects. This quest comes from seeing reports suggesting Google has finally started to lose its total domination and a very worrying news report on the ITV news, reporting on the MSN search release stating that the UK market share for search was currently Google around 50% followed by Ask Jeeves at 20% with Yahoo coming in at the third spot with only 7% of market share. Where ITV are getting their figures from I don?t know but it does not sound right to me, what are your thoughts? Also in the news report they stated that the MSN search was not producing relevant results and had a lot of ground to make up when comparing it with Google for the search term ?How big is the Internet? and then went on to say although MSN?s relevance was an issue many websites had already started to advertise with them. Obviously ITV doesn?t have anyone working for them that actually understands how advertising works on the internet thinking that MSN?s adverts are independently driven like Google?s Adwords, Well if they need someone who knows the ins and outs of the web I would just like to say I?m available for hire and you can contact me by leaving your details using the comment button below. In all honesty the report sounded like it was sponsored by Google.


OK enough ranting and back to the actual theme of this blog. So what?s been happening on the SEO forums recently, well in a nutshell ?nothing?, a very big NOTHING. So here is a thread I came across today. Using Plurals Or Singular Versions Of Keywords on the Highrankings SEO forum. Just one of usual threads on whether to use plural keywords or not.


So this brings me on to the actual point of this post, is the SEO Forum Watch working and to put it simply (in nutshell), the answer is a very big NO. I started the SEO Forum Watch in the hope that I could attract some users who would actively help to build the SEO Forum Watch by making their own posts and commenting on others. Well I know that your reading this and I know the SEO Forum Watch gets a fair amount of traffic, so what am I doing wrong? What do I have to do in order to get you all posting and contributing? Or was the SEO Forum Watch just another one of my really dumb ideas like the time I thought it would be a laugh to wear my armbands on my ankles in the middle of a swimming lesson back in primary school. Or the time I tried to get into a beach festival without paying by trying to climb down the 90 foot cliff that surrounded it after drinking a crate of super strength lager only to discover my climbing skills are lacking to say the least, although I eventually landed in the festival after bouncing, pirouetting and somersaulting, discovered it is quite difficult dance at a dance festival when you?ve nearly broken both legs.
Well I think I have demonstrated some of my better ideas but is the SEO Forum Watch worth perusing in its current format. Several months after starting the SEO Forum Watch I discovered well established blog based on the very same theme of SEO Forum Watch, providing one place to keep up with the best threads from the best SEO forums, the only difference being Threadwatch.org seems to be successful rather than just a one man attempt at providing a blog that feels like a ghost town. I only heard of Threadwatch.org after a comment was made on one of my posts about a cloaking thread, saying that I should not be promoting the use cloaking to persons new to SEO. A fair and just comment if the SEO Forum Watch was specifically targeting webmasters new SEO, a little comment tennis was played where I was accused of being someone new to SEO who had no idea about cloaking and to tried and prove this by hiding the entire Threadwatch.org content with cloaking the site when I tried to visit (the things that people will do to try and win a debate lol). I?m not a confrontational person so I decided to let them have the last comment so they could revile over their little victory and in all honesty is was the first of only a couple comments made on SEO Forum Watch so I was just happy that someone had made a comment and hoped it was the start of a snowball. I guess I didn?t make any friends out of that which was a shame as Threadwatch.org is a big blog with loads of good content and has the same user base as I was trying to target. Threadwatch.org, you would have been a good friend but I guess you just couldn?t handle the competition from one of the best ghost towns the blogging community has ever seen. I came, I saw, I just couldn't conker.


For all of you who are still reading this post, please accept my apologies for my constant tangent bound rambling.
Back to the point (yes I?m going to finally spit it out), what I?m trying to say is that I do not think that continuing the SEO Forum Watch in its current format is worthy of my time and will be looking at changing the format completely. Please let me know your thoughts on this, you?re the people I?m writing for so its only fair if the SEO Forum Watch is going change and head in another direction that you should have your say on the destination.
I think I may start concentrating less on SEO forums and rather the topic of SEO in general. This would make it easier to start new posts as I would not be restricted by having to wait for a juicy new thread to be started on a forum and I would also personally enjoy posting a lot more.
Please let me know your thoughts? I?m at a crossroads, theirs a definite fork in the road and at present I can only see the road signs facing my way. Along time ago one of the signs said your entering a town called Ghost and I have still not seen the sign that says ?you?re now leaving Ghost Town?. Please if you have map or just a good sense of direction, help someone out who is feeling slightly lost.

I must stop making posts when I have had a few drinks. Sorry for the spelling!

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What is REALLY going on with Google PageRank

Seems the question of the hour. It never ceases to amaze me how upset some people will get over a loss of PR even if they are not selling links. And even if they can see no loss in traffic a hit to their PR will send them spinning as if they had been cursed. [...]

Source: http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/what-is-really-going-on-with-google-pagerank.html

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

SE's Indexing Race

When MSN first launched its brand spanking new search engine many couldn?t believe how fast it was a crawling the web, indexing new pages far faster than any other search engine. I was seeing new pages being added to sites and 12 hours later; there they were in the MSN index. Pretty phenomenal most would say.

Not long after this many people started noticing a slow down in MSN Bot activity. So I thought it may be nice to conduct a quick little test to see who is winning the indexing race. A couple of days ago the Company who I work for started adding links to a site that is nearly completed in order to get the new site indexed. The site is a double glazing website and was not known to search engines before. So even though its not highly scientific as you can get lucky with these things and could add a link to the Double Glazing Company just as a Bot is making a visit but I thought it would fun anyway.

The Double Glazing Company search engine indexing race

So it goes like this, the race is to see what search engine out of Google, Yahoo and MSN manage to find and index the entire Double Glazing Company website. Which ever search engine fully indexes the site is deemed as the winner (sorry no prizes).

The results so far

Well so far after two days of having various links pointed at the Double Glazing Company, Google has managed to find and index one page and MSN has managed to find and index two pages. Google has only indexed the Double Glazing Company?s index page while MSN has indexed both the index page and the DIY Conservatory page. Unfortunately Yahoo! has not indexed anything(no surprise there), but this blog is quite popular with Yahoo and may well give the push it looks like its needs.
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We Have a Winner


Since the last post, Google has dropped the Double Glazing Company from it's index. Then today it indexed every single page of the site. So we clearly have a winner and it's not MSN who has still only indexed the same two pages as above. When MSN first launched it was indexing the web at an incedible rate. It would seem that MSN Bot has eaten a hell of a lot of pages which has caused it to become an overweight Bot resulting in slow movement.


Yahoo! has still not even indexed one page so is clearly in last place but second place is still open. Will Yahoo! manage to out pace MSN to the post or will MSN complete the job it started last week.



More results coming as when and when they happen.

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Affiliate Seo 101

How many of you make a living off Affiliate commissions? Now, how many of you are trying to make a living off Affiliates but have been unsuccessful? If this were a public seminar I would imagine the latter question would bring the hands of nearly the entire room high into the air. You likely have [...]

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Five Things an Autoresponder Series Can Do For Your Business Posted By : Jennifer Williamson

What's the advantage of using an autoresponder program to deliver regular messages to your customers? Here are five things an autoresponder series can do for you.

Source: http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Five-Things-an-Autoresponder-Series-Can-Do-For-Your-Business/139853

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Relevant Link Exchange Forum

Conducting Search Engine Optimisation for Web Design

Search engine optimisation is something we all want to perform on our web sites and as many will know link exchanges can help a site gain link popularity. At Webmaster-Talk.com - Relevant Link Exchange Forum you can post your requests for other users to exchange links with you. Exchanging links in this way is much simpler and quicker than the standard way of sending out hundreds of emails to would be link partners.

Webmaster-Talk is a fast growing forum with a large user base with a large number of web design focused sites using the forum, so if your in the web design market sector looking for links I can think of no better place to start.

Web design is a very competitive industry and reaching a high position in the SERP's will be an up hill struggle for any new sites starting a search engine optimisation campaign. My personal view on how best to conduct search engine optimisation for a new web design site is to target local phrases first and then to move on to bigger and harder phrases after a good position has been reached. Conducting search engine optimisation for the term "Manchester web design" will be much easier than the term "web design". By optimising "Manchester web design" you will also be optimising the phrase "web design" because it is included, but your stand a much better chance of generating targeted traffic early in the search engine optimisation campaign.

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Auto Responders - An Internet Marketing Necessity Posted By : Glen Speckmann

How would you like to be able to afford your own personal secretary?
Someone to respond to all of your email requests, in seconds.
Someone to contact your entire list immediately when you have an exciting offer.
Well, You Can! This is only a few of the many functions that your auto responder can do for you.

Source: http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Auto-Responders---An-Internet-Marketing-Necessity/110739

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Aweber Review, Is Aweber The Best Email Autoresponder Service Posted By : Dwayne Pyle

One thing that I realized since becoming an entrepreneur,that there is one marketing tool that is vital to having any success online.That marketing tool is an auto responder.I get prospects and team members all the time asking how do you make money while you sleep? A big part of that is having an email autoresponder.

Source: http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Aweber-Review--Is-Aweber-The-Best-Email-Autoresponder-Service/209119

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Is the sandbox no more?

Something big happened to Google's SERp's

Just as I was complaining that little has happened in the SEO forum world, a massive change has happened in the Google SERP?s.

A big debate is still continuing on the Webworkshop SEO Forum - Is the sandbox no more?

What?s actually happened no one can really say for sure just yet but a few days ago a huge chunk of results have been updated with the end result of many webmasters sites seeing drastic changes in their rankings, some good and some bad. What at first sight seems to be a mass sandbox drop e.g. Google removed the sandbox filter from a huge quantity of websites all in one go. But is that really what happened, what are your thoughts?

Some have said it may be the start of a semantic ranking algorithm, while others are saying it may be Google trying to play us with a bit of good old fashioned confusion. A few more people have even said that the only sites that have dropped into the rankings are all either SEO websites or related to SEO in some shape or form e.g. an SEO clients website.

Personally I have seen a few sites that I have been working on affected, all dropping straight onto the first pages for the search phrases optimised. Quite a relief as some of them I have been working on for the last eight months (You can imagine how the clients felt after eight months of SEO with few results). I do not know what happened but I have a strong gut feeling that what we have just witnessed is something to do with the sandbox. If I?m right and it was Google experimenting with the sandbox it begs a few questions.

Is this the end of the sandbox?

Hopefully yes but it may be the start of an even greater type of sandbox. My own thoughts on the sandbox are quite well known and I fail to see how it benefits the webmaster and more importantly the end user. The internet is the fastest moving form of communication we have ever seen and search engines need to reflect that. What use is it if a new trend becomes popular and by the time a webmasters site has come out of the sandbox, the trend has ended. If Google continues using a sandbox type filter, the likes of MSN and Yahoo will defeat them by showing fresh content. The new MSN search already has a search builder that enables you display sites with recently updated content.

Is this the start of something new, a new way the sandbox works?

This could be the one and I just hope it isn?t. Google has made it clear that they do not want people to be able to interfere with their ranking algorithm. What we have seen may be a taste of things to come, a ?mass sandbox? type effect where sites are held for a longer period of time and then all released in one go. This could enable Google to test the new SERP?s to spot trouble areas and address them before the new SERP is public.

The above is pure speculation and the truth of what actually happened is probably something completely different. One thing for sure though is something has happened and it is likely to be something big!

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What's the Word on Page Rank?

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Real Estate Website Structure

Source: http://engine-optimization-search.blogspot.com/2005/03/real-estate-website-structure.html

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Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas

Source: http://allaboutadsense.blogspot.com/2007/12/happy-holidays-and-merry-christmas.php

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Google Pagerank - Passing PR

Source: http://engine-optimization-search.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-pagerank-passing-pr.html

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Search engines unite

It's World War Spam
Come across this on PC Pro News this morning, Search engines unite to fight spam, Google, Yahoo & MSN have joined forces to "attempt" to fight spam.

The type of spam we are talking about is the type you find on most forums, blogs and guestbooks. The search engines as well as a few big blogger sites such as Blogger.com are showing a united front (there is always a first time) and will now recognise the following code in the HTML of a link.
< href="http://www.spam.co.uk" rel="nofollow"> My Great Website < /a>

Note the rel="nofollow", this will instruct the search bots to ignore the link without ignoring the rest of the links/content on the page (unlike the META tag nofollow). Meaning no PR will be passed and the anchor text will not be parsed creating a link of no value to the person spamming.

This has got to be good news for any forum/blog owners out there that have a spam problem and may help to stop the pesky spammers. This is all well and good but you have got to ask if this alone will prevent what seems to be the unpreventable. How will any would be spammer know that many of the links they are generating are of no value and lets face it "most" spammers are using spam techniques because of their ignorance/arrogance to the web community and a small number of the remainder are quite simply some of the most savvy webmasters online who don't mind breaking a few eggs!

If the last statement is true which I believe it is, most spammers won't even no that such tactics are being used while the less ignorant others will simply look at the source code to determine if the target site is worth spamming and if not move on to the next. The real clever spammers will not be affected, it?s the old catch up game that the search engines are playing and unfortunately the seasoned spammers are not one or two but several steps ahead the game. With spammers creating large networks of sites that are built purely to be used for harvesting large quantities of links that point to the spammer?s main site.

The World War Spam Front Line

Surely this is where the front line of the World War Spam should be focused, fighting the spammers who are clogging up the search engines main arteries with spam blood cells which block the good types of blood cells trying to reach their rightful destination. You see for nearly every genuine website you visit there is several spam sites with the sole intention of making a certain site more visible by pointing tons of relevant links at it. The worst part is that it?s not difficult to create your own network of spam sites for link harvesting and the only personal cost involved is your time. With more and more networks being created everyday and the complex cross linking structures some of the stealthier ones use, its hard to see how the problem can be combated affectively without the chance of harming genuine sites.

Stealth Networks

I wrote an article some time ago about creating website networks for link harvesting and tactics people are using to protect the network from being discovered and penalised by search engines. The basic element being used is to include not only links to the network in a strategic fashion to eliminate the chances of the entire network being discovered but to include links to other sites outside of the network that are considered to be quality sites and other relevant sites. So as these types of networks get harder to discover, how are the search engines going to eliminate them.

It?s Linking All Gone Wrong

When Google introduced link analysis for first time it worked and the theory was sound, basing their algorithm on a type of voting system where each web page has a vote and the strength of the vote is determined by the number and strength of votes cast to that page. The system worked and a highly relevant search engine was the result but unfortunately as people worked out how the system worked they also discovered it was easy to influence. As Google became the number one provider of search results holding the largest share of internet traffic, webmasters needed to rank well on Google or lie at the bottom of the SERP?s with little to no traffic. In affect, Google became a victim of its own success, creating the most relevant search engine to date but one that was probably easier to influence it results than the rest. The situation we are in now was simply inevitable.

The idea would have been great and worked well to this day if wasn?t for the fact that people will always try to out wit search engines to their own advantage. The whole ethos of link analysis was based on the concept that if a webmaster reads something they like or believe is relevant to their site on another site they will link to it, which fundamentally is how linking should be conducted but due to link analysis, links have now become a commodity. You have probably seen sites that sell links for ranking purposes and some of these services (not all) are in control of these types of large networks and will simply add your links in exchange for cash. Put simply, if you want your site to succeed and bring new customers from search engines you need links and it?s only the competitiveness of the market sector you compete in that determines the amount of unnatural links required (and �) to be placed high on the results pages.

Summary

My personal view is link analysis is killing the internet and needs to be changed; we need another way of determining the relevance of a site for the search query made. The search engines need to tackle the problem at its source rather than focusing on the symptom. Until a new type of algorithm is created that doesn?t rely on links, links will be exploited creating link spam instead of being something that benefits the internet as a whole.
There is Still Some Hope

The fact that some of the search engines have opened channels of communication and have begun to look at tackling the massive problem of spam is good but its going to be a hard job and I believe that the solution to the problem is located a lot closer to home than they imagine. As the relevance of search results largly determine a search engines market share and spam is lowering that relevance, I think it is safe to say that an all mighty war has begun.
Welcome to 2005 and welcome to World War Spam.

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Best SEO Blog of 2006 Award

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Around The Search Engines Slowdown

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Around The Search Engines Jan 14 2008

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Email Autoresponders - Boost Your Business With A Free Autoresponder Posted By : Percy Norris

These days, almost everyone is familiar with an autoresponder, but finding a good free autoresponder is not so easy at all. In fact, the benefits of an autoresponder to a businesse are not so well known and choosing with lack of knowledge is always difficult. In this article I will show you how an autoresponder, even a free autoresponder, can boost your business.

Source: http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Email-Autoresponders---Boost-Your-Business-With-A-Free-Autoresponder/200565

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Monday, February 18, 2013

Domain Registration & SEO

It?s been a long time since my last post, too much work and not enough time. Anyway, a short while ago the SEO forums were a blaze with the latest patent release from Google. The patent included loads of different techniques a search engine could use to determine relevancy and I say could because it would be very difficult to use all of the items covered in the patent. My own thoughts on the patent are many items have been included to dilute the true gems.

One part that really caught my eye was using domain registration information as part of a search engines algorithm. I remember several months ago reading a news story that Google had become a domain registrar and many were presuming domain registration would be one of Google?s many new adventures. This gossip was stopped as quickly as it started with Google announcing no domain registration service was on the cards. So why become a domain registrar?

Length of Domain Registration, logical ranking criteria

Well as mentioned above part of the patent focused on using domain information to determine the reliability of a website. In short, if a domain has only been registered for one year it may be more volatile than a domain that?s been registered for ten years. If you?re serious about your online venture, it makes sense to register your domain for a longer period of time. Google could use this fact as part of their ranking criteria and I suspect they have been doing so for some time.

So if you haven?t already done so, I would recommend contacting your domain registration Company to register your domain for at least five years. It may not affect your rankings at all, but on the other hand it may give you just enough of a boost to push some of those keywords onto the front pages. With domain registration costing as less as it does nowadays, it may turn out to be the most cost effective ranking boost you?ve ever paid out for.

If it doesn?t produce any results, no harm done and you may have just saved yourself a couple bucks on next year?s budget :)

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OMB Search Marketing Roundup 123006

Source: http://toprank.blogspot.com/2006/12/omb-search-marketing-roundup-123006.html

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Jagger update - No Comment

Jagger Update

If you have'nt noticed already, Google has been very busy with its latest update. Named Jagger, the update has caused many webmasters to feel the wrong side of Algo blade with the result of their sites falling from grace.

What the update has changed no one can say just yet, but one thing for sure is its not over yet. Anyone who has been affected by this update is well advised to sit back and let it finish before making any alterations. The three stage update has been going on for the last week and is predicted to continue for another couple.

No Comment

Just a quick one. Because of the overwhelming spam problem the SEO Forum Watch has had recently, I've had to switch off the comment facility. Until I get around to finding a solution that allows genuine people to leave comments and stops automated spam, I have no other choice but switching it off.

Linking out to sites is something that needs to be overseen very carefully and a large number of this comment spam was linking to sites you would never allow. So for now, the feature is off. Sorry for inconveneance (or however you spell it).

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SE's Indexing Race

When MSN first launched its brand spanking new search engine many couldn?t believe how fast it was a crawling the web, indexing new pages far faster than any other search engine. I was seeing new pages being added to sites and 12 hours later; there they were in the MSN index. Pretty phenomenal most would say.

Not long after this many people started noticing a slow down in MSN Bot activity. So I thought it may be nice to conduct a quick little test to see who is winning the indexing race. A couple of days ago the Company who I work for started adding links to a site that is nearly completed in order to get the new site indexed. The site is a double glazing website and was not known to search engines before. So even though its not highly scientific as you can get lucky with these things and could add a link to the Double Glazing Company just as a Bot is making a visit but I thought it would fun anyway.

The Double Glazing Company search engine indexing race

So it goes like this, the race is to see what search engine out of Google, Yahoo and MSN manage to find and index the entire Double Glazing Company website. Which ever search engine fully indexes the site is deemed as the winner (sorry no prizes).

The results so far

Well so far after two days of having various links pointed at the Double Glazing Company, Google has managed to find and index one page and MSN has managed to find and index two pages. Google has only indexed the Double Glazing Company?s index page while MSN has indexed both the index page and the DIY Conservatory page. Unfortunately Yahoo! has not indexed anything(no surprise there), but this blog is quite popular with Yahoo and may well give the push it looks like its needs.
<21-03-2005> Latest Results
We Have a Winner


Since the last post, Google has dropped the Double Glazing Company from it's index. Then today it indexed every single page of the site. So we clearly have a winner and it's not MSN who has still only indexed the same two pages as above. When MSN first launched it was indexing the web at an incedible rate. It would seem that MSN Bot has eaten a hell of a lot of pages which has caused it to become an overweight Bot resulting in slow movement.


Yahoo! has still not even indexed one page so is clearly in last place but second place is still open. Will Yahoo! manage to out pace MSN to the post or will MSN complete the job it started last week.



More results coming as when and when they happen.

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How to Use Free Autoresponders Posted By : James Smi

If you've looked at the prices of autoresponders that are available online, you may have decided to search for and use a free autoresponder for your marketing needs. Using free autoresponders is acceptable in certain situations, and in the world of Internet marketing, any autoresponder is better than not using an autoresponder at all!

Source: http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/How-to-Use-Free-Autoresponders/198300

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Email Autoresponders - Boost Your Business With A Free Autoresponder Posted By : Percy Norris

These days, almost everyone is familiar with an autoresponder, but finding a good free autoresponder is not so easy at all. In fact, the benefits of an autoresponder to a businesse are not so well known and choosing with lack of knowledge is always difficult. In this article I will show you how an autoresponder, even a free autoresponder, can boost your business.

Source: http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Email-Autoresponders---Boost-Your-Business-With-A-Free-Autoresponder/200565

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Best Cristmas Sales

Best Online Christmas Sales Ever, Good News For Web Design & Internet Marketing Companies

Last week it was announced that Christmas sales had dropped on the high street but online sales had risen by a massive 63% compared to last years figures.

The increase has been due to the higher levels of comfort online shoppers experience compared to battling with traffic jams, busy shops and higher prices. With the Internet gaining in popularity daily we should eventually see online sales overtake that of the high street. If you do not a website at present you have already missed out on a large share of this market, surely it is time to contact a web design and Internet Marketing Company.

With this in mind the year 2005 has already been ear marked to see a dramatic increase in companies going online. This will be good news to some Companies (Internet Marketing & Web Design) and bad news for others (more competition).
From an Internet Marketing & Web Design perspective

At present the Internet is already a crowded place with Google containing an index of over eight billion web pages; any websites joining the battle for the top spot are going to be up against it. Unfortunately for a lot of companies new to this medium they will expect to have a successful website just by having one created, whereas anyone familiar with the Internet will now how difficult it is to turn a baron stats report into a thriving list of unique IP?s. Obtaining a high level of how Internet Marketing works and the best practices involved will be an up hill struggle with many lessons to be learned. One thing for sure is the year 2005 will be a great one web design and Internet Marketing companies.

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Using an Autoresponder as Your Persistent Salesperson Posted By : Jason Swanson

Most people in sales will tell you that most sales occur after the prospect has said no a number of times. Setup your autoresponder to be that persistent salesperson. There is a number of different types of buyers from the hyper-excited. They want to buy it even before opening the email through to the most sceptical and most difficult to convince buyers.

Source: http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Using-an-Autoresponder-as-Your-Persistent-Salesperson/198396

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Online Marketing Blog Gets Hit with DOS

Source: http://toprank.blogspot.com/2007/02/online-marketing-blog-gets-hit-with.html

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Google Ignores my Forum Blog

Come across this thread today and just had to include it. The Forum Zone - Google Ignores my Forum Blog is a thread by ForumJunkie who runs a blog called A Forum Blog, was having problems with the indexing of the blog. I don't want to say any more than that because it will spoil the outcome of the thread but it is worth a read to see how even some of the more experienced Webmaster out there can over complicate SEO.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/vfQF/~3/4ptze4ATVTI/google-ignores-my-forum-blog.html

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Content Marketing Curation Tips

Source: http://toprank.blogspot.com/2010/06/content-marketing-curation-tips.html

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Saturday, February 16, 2013

5 Tips for Better B2B Search Engine Marketing

Source: http://toprank.blogspot.com/2010/06/5-tips-for-better-b2b-search-engine.html

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Around The Search Engines Jan 09 2008

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Open Directory Project (DMOZ)

Open Directory Project (DMOZ) is considered to offer a website very strong listings in terms of the value added to your SERP?s. In more recent times the directory has come under some strong criticism from webmasters who cannot or have not got listed after a few years waiting for a review. Another aspect that has seen a heavily negative attention is the public forum where amongst other things you can query an editor about your submission status (if you?re up for a belittling experience with undertones of condemnation).

ODP Bad Press

The problems that webmasters have been reporting with getting sites listed are as diverse as the directory it self. The general consensus is that no matter how good your site is or how long you wait for a review/listing, you receive nothing. Looking through the directory it is clear that some categories could do with some much needed updating. I can fully understand why some webmasters find this so annoying, knowing that their site would be a worthy addition to a category that is mainly comprised of outdated websites that didn?t survive the dot com boom or worse still contain no websites at all. Some people have even gone further to say that the catorgory they submitted too has not been updated since they submitted two years ago yet when they do some digging they found out the editor is one of their competitors that has added several sites owned by themselves purely to create a network of highly graded backlinks pointing to their main site that just so happens to be number one in Google. Of course I could not say how true the later is but one thing for sure is if you?re going to have something policed by humans, some humans can be and will be corrupt.

The second part that has really got webmasters backs up is the submission status forum where you can ask for a status update after waiting a month and then again after waiting six months. The replies webmasters are receiving from some editors are causing offence. Personally I would not use the public forum and think it was a mistake that the ODP are regretting as well; taking time to reply to threads that could have been better spent reviewing more sites and updating old cats.

The Value of Being Listed

Being listed in the ODP gives you a very strong link from the directory it self and because of the way it relies on human editors search engines consider a link from ODP very highly and are less likely to scrutinise it. The ODP also has its data used by a high umber of other directories the most famous being the Google Directory, so being included in the ODP will get you in loads of directories. Also the way that link analysis works is not only does Google look at the link going to your site but looks at the links going to the links that go to the link pointing at your site. Often the link you have in ODP will have quite a good link chain that adds even more relevance. Simply put being listed can dramatically effect your rankings.

Getting Your Website Listed

Even though a lot of webmasters are reporting difficulty getting into ODP there are ways to increase your chances.

1. Website Content

First of all make sure your site is full of unique content, one of the most common ways of being rejected is having duplicate content or content of little value. Don?t submit a website if it is full of affiliate adverts.

2. Submit To The Right Category

Make sure you submit to the right category. If you submit your website to the wrong category an editor will move it to what they think is the best place where it will join the back of the queue. The editor may not take the time required to find the best cat and therefore your site could end up in a never ending cycle of being resubmitted (in theory).

3. Submit To The Regional Category as well as the main

You can submit your site into the main and regional categories. Often it is much easier to get listed in a regional section and I have personally seen websites listed in as little as two weeks. Once you?re listed in the regional section you can use the status request forum to check your submission status mentioning that you have excepted into the regional section. Make sure you submit to the right regional section that your offices are physically based in.

4. Do not submit your website more than once

I don?t know whether this is just scare mongering but I have heard on several occasions that by submitting your site again can cause your website to be placed to the back of the queue.

5. Follow the guidelines

When writing your title always opt for the name of your site, in other words don?t add your keywords. When writing your description never use promotional language and superlatives, describe your website from a third perspective view. Read all the guidelines.

Conclusion

It is well worth getting listed in the ODP but it is not worth dedicating your entire existence on being listed. Submit your site in the best fashion possible and if it gets in great but if it does not don?t worry. There are hundreds if not thousands of other directories out there that will benefit your website so after submitting to the ODP find and submit to as many as possible.

The amount of time it will take to get your website listed will vary depending on each category. The site I work for (Podium Solutions) was listed in the Salford Web Design section just three weeks after it was submitted and has taken over a year to get listed into the main category for search engine optimisation. One of our website is still waiting to get listed but while waiting it has reached a PR 4 just by submitting to other directories.

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