Dude – where’s my Pagerank? – SEO Blackhat

Posted on 05 February 2009 by Jeremy Hermanns

I have no idea why, but my user friendly sitemap (that links all posts by title) and my about page on this blog have lost all page rank even though they are linked from every page on the blog.

Some of the category pages suffered the same fate
- Google
- Doorway Pages

While most others did not:
- Myspace Friends
- Black Hat Site Reviews
- Poker

I know, I know – who cares about page rank? But still – this does mean something – I just have no idea what.

Any thoughts?
Dude – where’s my Pagerank?

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 30, 2008

Posted on 30 June 2008 by Jeremy Hermanns

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 30, 2008

- Is Google Crawling Absolute Paths?

We’ve repeatedly recommended Google Webmaster Tools to help you assess problems with your website. It can help you figure out if you’re having some problems somewhere and then you can get to the bottom of them. In a specific example, a Cre8asite Forums member is finding that Google is crawling absolute paths, such as http://domain.com/var/www/html/page.php and /home/public_html/admin.html, which shouldn’t ever happen. Is it a problem with Google, or is there a structural issue with the

- Is there a Minimum Number of Pages Required for Decent Organic Rankings?

While SEO becomes more and more important, people try to find angles that they can exploit or take advantage of so that they can achieve good rankings. In one specific instance, High Rankings forum post asks if there’s a minimum number of pages that need to be targeted to achieve decent rankings. It’s important to note that in general, a site as a whole is collectively not ranked. Each page ranks individually. Therefore, you need

- Search Engine Optimizers Should Back Up Their Statements!

At SEO Refugee, Skitzzo talks about how the SEO blogosphere is starting to shift drastically and people are giving their opinions as fact. Instead of using jargon like “in my experience” or “as far as I can tell,” they think that their specific experiences mean that these statements hold true in all circumstances when in fact most of these experiences are circumstantial and they may not entirely hold true in all instances. The discussion moves

- Plurk Brings Micro Forums, Like Twitter Brought Micro Blogging

A few weeks ago, I joined Plurk to mess around with the newest social media buzz. After playing around with it for a few weeks, I have really grown to enjoy many of its addictive features. The main thing I want to explain is that Plurk feels to me like a micro-forums format. Just like Twitter is a micro-blogging system, Plurk is really a micro-discussion forums platform. Plurk works where you can post a 140

- Use Google Ad Manager To Set Minimum AdSense eCPM

Stuart McDonald posted a thread at WebmasterWorld explaining how you can use Google Ad Manager with Google AdSense to specify a minimum eCPM. You must keep in mind that you need to have other ads in your Ad Manager inventory to compete with your AdSense ads, in order for this to work properly. Google Ad Manager allows you to set a minimum CPM for most ad runs. By specifying the minimum CPM with house or

- Some Webmasters Are Banning Yahoo Slurp

It seems like some webmasters are becoming fed up with the activity of Yahoo’s crawl, Yahoo Slurp, relative to the amount of traffic Yahoo Search is sending the web site. In fact, some webmasters have taken the plunge and banned Yahoo from crawling their sites. It is funny, because some webmasters were or are afraid to ban Yahoo because they think it might have some sort of impact on their Google results. One such webmaster

- Moving to a U.S Hosted Server: Will it Impact Country Specific SEO?

A WebmasterWorld thread asks how much of an impact will a site see if it is moved from a Dubai host to a USA based host? The answer is not really all that known. This webmaster’s main concern is that he receives “80% of traffic from UAE and have lots of content and back links related to UAE.” He wants to continue to receive higher rankings in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) regions. He is

- Why Did Google Tells Us They May Use Cookies To Prevent Spam?

Matt Cutts, of Google, posted a blog post at the official Google Blog named Using data to fight webspam. In that post, he describes how the web spam team uses log data, IP addresses, and cookie information to help prevent search spam. The question in the forums is why? Why is Google handing over this information? Let me quote a snippet from Matt’s post: The IP and cookie information is important for helping us apply

- Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 29, 2008

You love basketball? I do. This video recap, I play some basketball and you can score some great schwag by watching me play. Learn how by watching. So what did I chat about? Google proves to everyone out there that they know who you are, what you are doing and how much you can spend with Google Ad Manager and Google Trends for Websites.

Optimize Your Blog to Improve Search Engine Rankings

Posted on 18 December 2007 by Neha

Though a major portion of your web traffic comes from other web sites, but search engines too can boost your site traffic, if your web content is of standard quality. Your web page ranking in any search engine depends upon the style and management of content. Hence, to improve your web page ranking, it is must to optimize your web page content. Following are some tips, which will help you to optimize your web content.

Your web content should be relevant to the keywords used in the title or in links. The content of your blog should be able to attract readers as well as search engines. Keywords should be used at the standard keywords density that is 2% of total words volume. Most of the search engines remain in regular search of relevant and fresh material according to the index. So, if your web content is relevant and updated then more search engine crawlers will click your blog and your web ranking will go up.

Your blog post titles should be unique and compelling. Compelling blog post titles attract the readers at first instance when they see title index on the search engine results. Many search engines determine the rank of your blog according to the post title. So, be careful about the post title. You can make post titles more attractive by using relevant and popular phrases. Effective use of keywords in the titles makes the web content more productive.

You should use only search engine friendly URLs. Now a days, there are many blogging softwares and content management systems that provide search engine friendly URLs. For this specific job, you should avoid using conventional publishing software because theses softwares don’t generate search engine friendly URLs. It is better to use important keywords or titles in URLs. Always provide some links to your other posts in new posts. By adapting this practice you enhance the importance of your older posts as well as your professional value. Use the main keywords in hyperlinks provided in your web content.

Structure of the content is also important. You should divide your content under headings and subheadings. Use headings and subheadings after every one or two paragraphs to highlight your views. This specific feature helps the readers as well as search engines to determine the quality of your content. Try to put main keywords in headings and subheadings but don’t enforce them.

Manage the Articles for SEO in Professional way

Posted on 14 December 2007 by Neha

One of the best way to enhance your website’s such engine optimisation is writing high quality targeted, updated and relevant articles. Your website should provide complete information on all of the related topics or keywords. A volume of 300 – 400 articles on your site significantly improves your SEO but if your website comes across tough competition of ranking, then you will have to adapt some SEO techniques to manage the content of articles. Following are some suggestion that will help you to manage the content of your articles in a professional way.

Each and every article on your website is important. The title of the web page tells about the content of your articles. Hence you should select the title of your web page with utmost care. The title of your web page should be easy and meaningful. It should clearly define the motto of your articles. It is better if you use main keywords in your web page title. Your web page title contributes a lot in determining the ranking of page.

On search engine results, your web page title appears as hyperlink. People click on your page link if it seems interesting to them. These clicks determine the rank of your web page. Search engine crawlers find it easy to surf different pages through the interlinks provided in your articles. By this measure, they can still go to the missed pages. Use attractive phrases consisting keywords for the text of hyperlinks.

Always try to create search engine friendly URLs containing main keywords because such URLs are preferable over dynamically generated or oblique-sounding URLs. You should place your resource box at the end of the articles because this will help to attract web traffic to, your personal website.

It is also a good practice to organise your article content under main headings and subheadings containing keywords. Headings and subheadings of your article make the readers more interested in your article because they find the relevant information easily. By going through the headings and subheadings, readers can decide whether they should go through the entire article or not. Search engine crawlers too judge your page ranking through the headings and subheadings of the articles. It is better to use a main heading or subheading after one or two paragraphs.

To make your articles more attractive, prefer to use bullets to highlight your thoughts. This practice facilitates readers to go through the key features of your articles in one go.

How to Improve SEO copywriting?

Posted on 12 December 2007 by Neha

SEO copywriting needs appropriate use of keywords according to competitive environment. Standard SEO copywriting should be easy-to-read and informative. It should not be prepared just for the probable users of a particular segments and area. It should be prepared keeping in mind the requirements of users and the search engine technology. If SEO copywriting is search engine friendly, the content will be indexed in SERP (Search Engine Return Page) with high page rank. A productive SEO writing can’t be prepared just by combining several thesaurus-sounding and disjointed keywords in a copy. Search engine copywriting needs extra care and has become a specific field. Here are some tips that will make SEO copywriting easy.

The planning for SEO copywriting needs the consideration of accurate keywords density in the whole content. SEO writing overstuffed with provided keywords also doesn’t help in this regard, but it needs proper planning. If it is done, net searching will categorize this as a deliberate fitting of related keywords in the content. This type of copywriting doesn’t deliver healthy message among the readers. Such SEO writings may also be banned by some search engines.

You should know the exact meaning and using mode of provided keywords. Please remember to insert the keywords in your content maintaining proper keyword density, which should be around 2% or 3%. Try to insert primary keywords in first two to three paragraphs because sometimes search engine spider doesn’t go deep in your content. But it is not compulsory to attain this keyword density, so never enforce your keywords if they don’t fit properly.

You should also have complete info about the concerned website. The basic information about the concerned helps to target the selected audience. You should focus your content only on two or three primary keywords or phrases. SEO copywriting should be self-promoted by writing flair. Your article body should be of about 250-500 words. The search engines read the content of this size easily.

While doing SEO copywriting try to avoid images if possible. Most of the search engines don’t track images of the contents. If, it becomes necessary, use Alt texts on image format. It is good to update your content regularly.

It is better to use Cascading Style Sheet. It facilitates you to guide the browser how to present your content. Cascading procedure separately defines the presentation style of content. Cascading Style Sheet also enhances visual appeal of your content. Use of Meta tags like Title, Keywords and Article etc is an important part of SEO copywriting.

Improve Search Engine Ranking With Back Links

Posted on 09 December 2007 by Neha

Back links are the links of a websites which are drifted towards another website. Back links in SEO are also known as inbound links. These are important because Google uses these back links to evaluate the quality of your content. For Google these are very much important that is why in 2005 this company filled a patent application to secure its search technology based on back linking. To attain high rank among the search engine results, getting quality back links or inbound links is very important. Some webmasters and online publishers deploy various legitimate or illegitimate methods to improve search engine rankings.

Back links can be taken as voting system. Back links deliver a message to search engines that people value your opinion or content. Nos. of back links proves the standard of your web content. If more people go through your web pages containing anchor text according to the title or keywords, this is taken as approval certification of your web content. The logic behind this practice is that the people will go through your content if it is relevant, new, useful and easily accessible.

There are many people who click other websites just to get back links. For instance, if you have a website about the products related to chocolate and you insert the back links containing information about wine, then this would serve no purpose. Instead if you get three or four back links from different websites related to chocolate products, these will be considered more relevant and will boost your page rank. If you have some unproductive back links on your web content, put a tag -‘it is an advertisement’.

Today, many people are buying or selling links to promote their web ranking though it is ethically wrong. To check this practice, Google support the concept to impose penalty upon such people. Instead of adapting shortcut illegal measures to get quality back links, there are many trusted methods that deliver results for long.

Always remember that you should get back links in natural way. Received back links should be of voluntary nature and not of mercenary. If you publish external links on your web content, mention a tag there – ‘You are charging to publish these links’. Even the services like Google recommend rel=”nofollow” attribute for the referred websites.

Most of the webmasters and blogers prefer external links rather than explaining a specific topic. Hence, generating valuable and informatory content is a good practice to get high-quality back links and to improve your web ranking.

Developing A Web Site, Do Not Forget SEO

Posted on 18 November 2007 by Neha

Many people figure that when the design work is completed on a site, it is finished, and either sits and serves information publicly or begins to function as a business, community, or resource site. Yet that is when the Search Engine Optimization work really begins. The final stages of a web site’s construction should be based on an SEO overview and refinement. Usually this is coding meta tags for every page, refining text and titles with keyword research, and submitting the site to many search engines and directories automatically or by hand. Registering the web site with many search engines by hand will ensure a permanent link in the appropriate level of the directory. This is a different section usually from the search engine results pages, but will also help your site build Page Rank.

The next step is to promote the site on the web through forum posts, blogs, comments, announcements, press releases, and articles. You may also submit your site to link exchanges, banner exchanges, or PPC advertising sites during this stage. Basically the goal is to build a wide network of relevant links that describe and lead visitors to your information. As this web develops, your traffic and page rank will increase naturally. This is an SEO campaign in a manner that can be set up as a regular part of your domains development and maintenance. SEO is becoming more necessary as sites increase their evaluation of search engine algorithms to influence their results. Most SEO strives to create sites and campaigns of promotion that are in harmony with the way the search engines algorithms are calculated and how users browse information. For this reason there are many different types of SEO companies which use different methods for the same results.

Another increasingly common practice with blogs and content management systems is the automatic submission of XML site maps to search engines whenever a site has been updated. This automatic submission keeps the site indexed as dynamic content is created and expands. A site map that includes a text link to every page on the site is important to ensure that all pages in the domain are indexed and cached by the search engines. Content management systems should also be set to clean URL settings where possible, and use automatic generation of URLs from titles to build keyword density. CMS owners should also make sure to set the meta tags and descriptions on their sites for every page distinctly, to make the site more accurate in search engine index and results pages.

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