I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: YES My site's URL is: NADescription (including timeline of any changes made):This is a more general question rather than one pertaining to any website. I was wondering if I have subdirectories setup on my website - if Google prefers to have a trailing slash at then end. For example:http://www.example.com/somedirectoryorhttp://www.example.com/somedirectory/Keeping in mind I will have pages within this subdirectory - how would the most preferred way be to display this be? Question from  read more..

Ok, I had orginally programmed my online store as www.midsouthcoin.com/midsouthcoinstore. Is there any SEO benefit or better crawling, or higher ranks if I change it to store.midsouthcoin.com? Thanks for any info. Question from  read more..

My site's URL is: http://www.dannacarroll.com/Hi all,I am a graphic designer that does the occasional website (built in Dreamweaver).� A few months ago I created a site (http://www.dannacarroll.com) for a client and all seemed great until I realized it was not showing up in a Google search.� So I made sure it was submitted, verified, added a site map, tweaked the meta tags, made sure all the pages were linked within the site, ....and anything else I could think of to get it to show up.� But nothing.� If I do a site.dannacarroll.com search none of the pages from the actual site show up which (I think) tells me something is wrong.� I am by no means skilled in this aspect of my profession but I thought I knew enough about how to get a site to at least show up.� Apparently I was wrong.� Any help would be greatly appreciated.� I am hoping it's just something simple but I'm willing to work through it if it's not.� Thanks in advance. Btw, I also added Google Analytics (which verified that it is not showing up) and created a local business account for which the site is not showing up for either.Rick Question from  read more..

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I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: YES / NO YESMy site's URL is: www.offsetpr.co.ukDescription (including timeline of any changes made): Hi, this is a website for my new business. It is a Flash site and it has been verified by Google. I have added Meta Tags etc but it still will not come up in the results Question from  read more..

Is putting your company name/link on the footer of a clients site like most webmasters against Google's unsaid TOS? I'm noticing that my competition is getting credit for IBL from their clients sites but when I did it on my clients site my ranking immediately dropped 20 spots. The interesting thing about this is that I did not make any changes to my site for at least 30 days. The only thing I did was build some client sites which included a single link to my site in the footer, and the usual forum comments which had a link back to my site. No crazy link building schemes, or anything misleading. Right around the time my site ranks dropped 17, and 20 spots in a day Matt Cutts put out a blog article about how they're hunting aggressively for spammers. I'm wondering if one of my competition put out a misleading spam report just to knock me off the rankings using a fake account or something. I really can't understand why my site got the chop suddenly. Question from  read more..

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Like in any consulting field, SEO is rife with competition. There is only one way to win in such an environment, and that is to set yourself apart from the crowd.  read more..

I remember in 2nd grade when our teacher was teaching us how to do math I raced ahead and was doing lessons for today, tomorrow, and next week. The teacher rewarded my efforts by yelling at me and ripping up the pages from the book and giving me a 0 on that homework.  read more..

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"We face formidable competition in every aspect of our business, particularly from companies that seek to connect people with information on the web and provide them with relevant advertising. " read more..

"These are tech vendors with billions in profits that are largely ignored by business press... Oracle ($22 billion in revenue, $5 billion in profits) only cracks the top 10 companies by coverage for one of the eight publications..." read more..

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"By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter." read more..

"... "Show options" toggle and noticed a whole slew of geographic options that were new to me, including "nearby" and others, too. Apparently it all depends on what "default location" Google has recorded for your computer." read more..

In a previous post I covered how to link to a specific timestamp in a YouTube video. The short version looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDw3azfZWI#t=31m08s The “#t=31m08s” takes you to 31 minutes and 8 seconds in a video. I just found out that you can also start embedded videos at a certain timestamp. To do it on an embedded [...] read more..

Google has been working on some new algorithms and tools to tackle linkspam and we’d like to ask for linkspam reports from you. If you’d like to tell us about web sites that appear to be using spammy links (e.g. paid links that pass PageRank, blog spammers, guestbook spammers, etc.), here’s how to send us [...] read more..

I’m three weeks into a new 30 day challenge: no iPhone. When I got a Nexus One in December, I spent a few weeks carrying both phones around in the pockets of my jeans. It took a little while to adapt to Android, but I’m very happy with my Nexus One and I don’t plan [...] read more..

Last year I tried to limit my travel but still ended up making about ten (!) trips in 2009. This year I’ve resolved to travel less for work. Right now, here’s my current speaking/travel plans for 2010: March 2-4, 2010: SMX West, Santa Clara, CA. I’m doing a “Ask the Search Engines” panel. May 19-20, 2010: Google [...] read more..

If you own a website you no doubt receive hundreds of link request emails ranging from honest people to three-way-exchanges, and even to the following deceptive scams: I received the following email: Hello, Recently I visited your website http://www.jlh-design.com ; while visiting your site I noticed that you link to http://andybeard.eu at this address: http://www.jlh-design.com/2007/08/warnings-google-needs-to-incorporate/. As we are [...]Post from: John Honeck  read more..

By now you’ve heard of Illinois continued stellar record in politics with the arrest of their latest Governor Rod Blagojevich. While watching and reading the news I was almost mesmerized by that awful hair of his, I just knew I’ve seen it before. .Post from: John Honeck Rudy Arrested Post from: John Honeck  read more..

While you are pondering on the points made by Todd about online retirement, here's a worthwile albeit healthy activity that you may want to consider - biking. And to help you navigate your way through U.S. cities on your bike, Google has just added useful biking directions and bike trail data to Google Maps.Google has been gathering these bike trail…Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Google Adds Biking Directions to�Maps read more..

A lot of today’s top copywriters got their start in direct mail, broadcasting and catalog pieces.  Back then, the medium was strictly rooted in the “Push” era – we shovel out the content, you take it all in and buy this widget. When the web started coming of age, people realized that they didn’t have…Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Be “Real” With Your�Customers read more..

“Burningly it came on me all at once, This was the place! those two hills on the right, Crouched like two bulls locked horn in horn in fight; While to the left, a tall scalped mountain... Dunce, Dotard, a-dozing at the very nonce, After a life spent training for the sight!” Robert Browning “Childe Roland To The Dark…Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Your Online�Retirement read more..

Dang, it’s after midnight and I’m still at the office again. There’s been 2 cases of Sundaes Best hot fudge sitting on top of my desk that I’m not sure if I should be selfish... read more..

As a brand new member of both We Build Pages and Internet Marketers of New York, I’m really proud to announce that last week’s Charity Party hosted by WBP raised more than $13,000 to... read more..

Lisa Barone has moved to Historic Troy New York and has joined We Build Pagesas our Senior Writer. Stay tuned for a new website and blog on WeBuildPages.com in the near future. View the Press... read more..

Guest blog post from Danielle Ingram, Content Writer at Creare Communications. Discusses the benefits of utilising YouTube as part of an SEO campaign.Post from: Search Engine People SEO Blog read more..

It would seem we're about ready for that biennial discussion about the state of SEO, what it is and perhaps what it should be.� John Andrews put me on this train of thought with his recent piece on Why SEO Sucks. There is a reason why SEO sucks for many, many people. It seems SEO is [...]Post from: Search Engine People SEO Blog read more..

This is the third part in a four-part series on How To Ensure Social Media ROI. Read previous parts here: Part One: How To Get Social Media ROI Part Two: The 4 Functions of Social Media Part Three: Repurposing Linkbait To Get Social Media Marketing Results If you're not familiar with linkbait, it's essentially a way of getting links for [...]Post from: Search Engine People SEO Blog read more..

Google announces the ability to target your ads to only those placements that are above the fold on the Content Network.Post from: Search Engine People SEO Blog read more..

Tad's a smart person. Strikes me as such and shows it in the things he posts, says online. He lives in Europe, I come from Europe; instant bond. Us knows us. ps: contains weetable quotes In 2005 you described the state of SEO in Germany as backwards, out of time, virtually non-existent. How are things today? [...]Post from: Search Engine People SEO Blog read more..

As I sat down to write this, I realized that I could write this entire blog post in just four magic words, namely the Golden Rule.� Those who are successful at social media marketing would immediately understand exactly what I mean – no further explanation needed.� � But others might need a few more words of [...]Post from: Search Engine People SEO Blog read more..

Interactive infographics open up a whole new level of engagement. Social media users love them because they can easily segment and dissect data that they want to see.  read more..

Alan does a good job of laying out the two sides of the coin. A good read for folks confused about the relative importance of W3C compliance as it relates to SEO.  read more..

Diversification and creativity will get you a long way in your link building efforts ....  read more..

Are you obsessing over big 'trophy' keywords? Mark Nunney on Wordtracker takes a fresh look at the power of the long tail and suggests a great work process for tackling both head and tail terms when planning your site architecture / content.  read more..

Google and Chuck Norris have a long history. If you go to Google.com and search for [find chuck norris] and hit, "I'm feeling lucky" button you will be taken to this result that reads: Google won't search for Chuck Norris...  read more..

As many of you know, Microsoft is conducting a major ad blitz in the UK in order to capture market share for Bing, their search engine. Bing's product manager sent me a link to one of the new commercials, which...  read more..

If you visit MSN.com today, you may notice a new look and feel for the site. The beta design is now the new official look for MSN. Like it or not, this is the new look for now. Greg Sterling...  read more..

An updated Google Webmaster Help thread has confirmed reports from Google's "sreeram" that Google is updating the Site Performance reports in Google Webmaster Tools. During this update, Google has temporarily stopped updating the existing reports. The Googler said: We are...  read more..

Rome wasn’t built in a day. A journey of a thousand miles, begins with a single step. If you’re going through hell, keep going. It’s always the darkest before the dawn. Whatever the cliché being thrown around in Redmond, it must be working, because Bing’s US search share continues to nudge ever upwards. According to comScore’s data, Bing climbed from [...] read more..

Lots of cool Twitter statistics coming out of Barracuda Networks new study (pdf). Where do I start? 21% of Twitter users are actually using the service–meaning that have at least 10 followers, follow at least 10 people, and have tweeted at least 10 times. 74% of Twitter users have less than 10 followers! However, that number is improving [...] read more..

There’s good news for online retailers: Forrester is predicting a 10% growth rate for you guys! In fact, online sales will increase from $173 billion this year to a healthy $249 billion in 2014. Along with that growth comes a nice bump in online retail’s share of all US retail sales: up from 6% to 8% [...] read more..

Miso is a new mobile app that can be more or less defined as a version of Foursquare for people who are not that sociable, and who prefer to stay at home watching TV. This app will let them “check in” when they are doing so, and be connected with fellow homebodies to start interacting with. Just like Foursquare.Read moreLearn more about GoMiso.com in Dataopedia.comFind out how much GoMiso.com is worth with Stimator.com  read more..

Board800 can be termed an online whiteboard application that can be employed for collaborating with friends and colleagues in a pictorial fashion. That is, on the site people can make drawings in a shared space which is also updated in real time. This can be employed for tutoring, prototyping, brainstorming and similar tasks that require collective thinking.Read moreLearn more about Board800.com in Dataopedia.comFind out how much Board800.com is worth with Stimator.com  read more..

A service that goes by a descriptive-enough name, All About The Area will empower you to know all there is to know about any place that you are located in. For example, should you need to find out if there is a specific business in your vicinity this will do. You can use this service in order to find auto parts retailers or valet services.Read moreLearn more about AllAboutTheArea.com in Dataopedia.comFind out how much AllAboutTheArea.com is worth with Stimator.com  read more..

Have you just come back from the cinema after watching “Avatar” and can’t help it but think everything over in 3D terms? If that is the case, you might as well head to a site like this one and get these notions out of your system. Start3D will let you create photos that have a three-dimensional touch, and which are viewable without having to resort to 3D glasses at all to get the effect. The process involves taking two photos 3 inches apart and then uploading the both of them to the site in order to have them processed.Read moreLearn more about Start3D.com in Dataopedia.comFind out how much Start3D.com is worth with Stimator.com  read more..

You can say what you want about the negative trails it uncovers, but you can’t deny that Chat Roulette has caused a sensation. The programmer (a seventeen-yea old boy from Russia) is actually debating whether to stay in his homeland or relocating to Silicon Valley. It has been success story in every sense, and it comes as no surprise that others should try and replicate the formula, or come up with something essentially related that has a twist of its own.Read moreLearn more about Camcite.com in Dataopedia.comFind out how much Camcite.com is worth with Stimator.com  read more..

Rapportive can be accurately defined as a plug-in that gives Gmail CRM capabilities. How? Quite easily. You procure and install the plug-in, and whenever you receive an e-mail from that point onwards the right-hand side of the screen will be employed to display information about the sender.Read moreLearn more about Rapportive.com in Dataopedia.comFind out how much Rapportive.com is worth with Stimator.com  read more..

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Webmaster Level: AllLast October, we launched Webmaster Tools Labs and it has been a huge success. Malware Details have helped thousands of users identify pages on their site that may be infected with malicious code, and Fetch as Googlebot has given users more insight into our crawler. Today, we're happy to announce two additional Labs features:Fetch as Googlebot-MobileCreate your Sidewiki page owner entryFetch as Gooblebot Mobile (developed by Ryoichi Imaizumi)After we launched Fetch as Googl read more..

Webmaster Level: AllEverything is more fun with a friend! We've just added a feature to Webmaster Tools Site Verification to make it easier to share verified ownership of your websites.In the past, if more than one person needed to be a verified owner of a website, they each had to go through the meta tag or HTML file verification process. That works fine for some situations, but for others it can be challenging. For example, what if you have twenty people who need to be verified owners of your read more..

Webmaster Level: AllHow many of Google's web pages use a descriptive title tag? Do we use description meta tags? Heading tags? While we always try to focus on the user, could our products use an SEO tune up? These are just some of the questions we set out to answer with Google's SEO Report Card.Google's SEO Report Card is an effort to provide Google's product teams with ideas on how they can improve their products' pages using simple and accepted optimizations. These optimizations are inten read more..

Webmaster Level: AllAs we crawl the web, we see bad content inserted on to thousands of hacked sites each day. The number of sites attacked is staggering and the problem is only getting worse. Hackers and spammers target and successfully compromise any sites they can - small personal sites, schools and universities, even multinational corporations. Spam attacks against forums and user content sections of sites, though not as shocking, are even more widespread.You may have read in an earlier pos read more..

Posted by randfishWARNING: Get ready to read with this one. There aren't a ton of fun graphics or quick bullet points, but I do promise that if you read through, you'll feel much more knowledgable about the topic, and likely get more value from organizing, speaking or attending an event. Over the past�6 years, I've attended nearly 100 conferences on search, online marketing, startups and technology. I've given presentations or sat on panels at nearly all of them. I've organized our own SEOmoz seminars here in Seattle and in London, built panels for a variety of other conference series and sat in�the audience for�many hundreds of sessions.�Oddly, in the past 3 months, I've�had more discussions about the conference format and the optimization of the experience than I can ever recall in previous years. I don't know whether it's me thinking about the problem more or just stumbling into conversations that center around conference strategy and business models, but like Twitter and conversion rate optimization, it's been finding its way into the nooks and crannies of every lunch, dinner, casual coffee or post-session beer.  read more..

Posted by randfishDespite being a seemingly simple topic, this one seems to stymie even experienced SEOs. There's a natural conflict that creates the issue - the more keywords you target on a single page, the less you need to link build and optimize (for both search engines and user experience/conversion rate) on many pages. To answer this question in a logical and truly optimal fashion, you need to start with the answer to two other important questions: How many of these keywords carry the same visitor intent? How competitive are the targeted terms/phrases? When you answer the first question, you'll be able to break up lists of keyword terms into buckets of "intent." Searches are almost always intended to discover information or take action. If there are too many pieces of information/actions you need to provide on a single page, your conversion will drop. Remember that a 10% conversion rate�for position�#10 is better than a 0.5%�conversion rate for position�#1 (assuming the avgs. from the leaked AOL data cited below).  read more..

Posted by RobOusbeySearch Engine Optimization covers a huge range of tactics - all of which can bring direct benefit to a website. In this post, I've shared examples of different tactics used at different websites, and the effects that have been seen. If you're considering an SEO campaign for your site, or are trying to persuade someone else to invest in internet marketing, I hope this post will help demonstrate the potential of internet marketing. The post includes real screen shots from Google Analytics (click any of them to enlarge) but the sites and data have been anonymized. read more..

Posted by randfishThis week, despite still being seriously under the weather (see this week's sad WB Friday), I flew down to SMX West to speak on the Link Building Strategies panel. Although I'd wanted to put more work in and deliver a better presentation, I received some very kind words afterward and requests from folks to share the deck via the blog. Before I embed the actual deck, though, I need to provide some context (as this isn't a wholly self-explanatory presentation). Link building has, classically, been a tactic slapped on to a marketing campaign or website post-launch. I believe that those companies/sites that treat link acquisition as an afterthought, rather than building it into the product, will always lose out to those who treat link building strategically. In the deck below, I walk through a number of examples of sites, primarily startups, that have done this. These include: Twitter - every user of Twitter has an incentive to link to their profile so more people will follow them. This is also true of sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, DeviantArt, Etsy & others Vimeo - nearly everyone who uses Vimeo appreciates the beautiful aesthetic they've created. The embeddable versions of Vimeo videos look and feel more professional and high quality than nearly any other player, hence they get embedded (a lot). This embed action automatically drives links back to the video on Vimeo's site, Vimeo's homepage and the user's profile, all with targeted anchor text. Urbanspoon - not only do they give badges to restaurants like Yelp and have started an online reservations system like OpenTable, Urbanspoon also features reviews from bloggers and foodies, who are then incentivized to promote their inclusion on the site. Last.fm - the widgets users embed on their site to share their favorite music automatically creates links back to the service. SurveyMonkey - a truly viral product (anyone who's surveyed is automatically exposed to the site), SurveyMonkey is inherently link acquisitive through the product. In order to use the service, you need to link to SurveyMonkey's site, where your form is hosted. Scribd - just look at the embed and the link below; 'nuff said. Miibeian.gov.cn - possibly the greatest link building strategy ever devised. The Chinese government requires that all websites in the country link to this site in order to operate legally; not too shabby, eh? Here's the deck: Strategic Link Building As you can see, I've put in a shameless plug for Open Site Explorer at the end. If you haven't seen the new features launched yesterday, you're missing out. Tons of the data is completely free, and top pages is just about the easiest way to find traffic and link opportunities ever built (not that I'm biased or anything). :-) Look forward to your comments about the presentation and the concept of productizing link acquisition into a site. read more..

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Anyone who’s been involved in web development for any length of time has likely encountered the Developers VS Users situation. It’s a mistake that can often lead to expensive problems down the road. So what exactly is the problem? And how can you spot it–and solve it–before it derails you project and causes you to [...]This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.  read more..

When your blog or website becomes successful and starts to get traffic, if you don’t make direct sales yourself or commissions via affiliate traffic, you almost always look for other revenue streams. The most common revenue stream is CPM based advertising or something like adsense. However, once many publishers start down that path, they almost [...]This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.  read more..

I love competition. I compete against just about anyone, at just about anything. For the last few years, competitive webmastering has been my focus. I like to start a site in a small to medium sized niche, and outrank everyone. There are two niches that I hold the top 5 spots [...]This post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review.  read more..

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Date: March 9th, 2010 07:02 PM - davidthemavin - Untitled Post: I like Himanshu's suggestion in another thread: become an authority information site in your niche, then identify the information needs of others (such as other authority sites), develop killer content to fill those needs, and let them... Virtualization Solutions Optimize, Simplify, & Save Today. Learn About Microsoft Solutions. read more..

Date: March 9th, 2010 12:28 PM - RichInJapan - Untitled Post: Weirder still...when searching in Japanese google presents the correct page (eventually) but it does so 4 times. Literally the exact same url. I haven't updated the pattern of my urls or the page in question for that matter. Why would Go... Download the Windows Azure Developer Kit Get Tools & SDK here. Experience THE platform for coding cloud based apps. read more..

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Has Mobile Local Search Finally Arrived?; Look Out PageRank, There's a New Algorithm in Town; Universal Thoughts on Local Search; and more. read more..

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: The Future of SEM Education; Understand Where You Are To Know Where You're Going; Microsoft Adds Image Hotspots to Live Search Design; and more. read more..