I will be putting down a few simple rules regarding the type of content allowed within the Search Engine Optimization Forum. The Search Engine Optimization Forum is geared towards helping webmasters increase the standings of their website. The discussions here should revolve around: SEO (Search...

Hi everybody Just one month before I submitted my website to dmoz.org but still now my http://www.smackall.com is not listed. Anyone idea about this, please help me :(

Hello guys, While building my linking campaign I've met such a wonderful announce in one of the letters. "Website ratings are affect by the number of people typing the web address. At one time, number of links to a website had value, not anymore." I'm sure "straight crossing" has some kind of...

There have been many times where people end up discussing which SEs are more popular (Yahoo, MSN, Google). In most surveys, Google seems to come out on top with Yahoo a little behind and MSN in third. On my sites, I find that Google can be a huge driver of traffic but is much more finicky. I...

I know most of you will be surprised to read the title of this article. Actually this is what search engine optimization is all about. There are a few points which every search engine optimization engineer should remember. Going through this will not only get you a better SERP's ranking but also...

Hey, just something that i've just noticed and would like to point out, maybe have a discussion about it. Here is the tool: http://www.iwebtool.com/backlink_checker Now, at first, when someone views the tool, it's about webmasters backlink checking right? That's what i assumed and so i checked...

I am quite amazed at various techniques of Search Engine Algorithms. Yesterday I observed a strange phenomenon. The website www.seohawk.com has a PR of 3 whereas all deep links have PR 4-5. I am quote amazed at this phenomenon. If anyone knows whats up with the PR in this case do let me know...

I just posted a GID Community blog entitled: What are Google Sitemaps good for?. Please let me know what you think. This is an auto-generated message posted by GIDNetwork™ on behalf of the author.

I've read a lot of stuff on ranking, but I still can't figure how it functions in practice. I've got two sites: www.qualiresearch.com and www.bodystuff.org . BodyStuff, for example, is on body image issues, strength and things like that. Many different topics, different pages for each topic. Ok. It...

Hello Folks ! I need your opinions on a concept. Please do not fool around but honestly give your opinions because if your opinions seem all positive then I am thinking of running such a venture mentioned below. Also, please forward everyone you know (on the internet) to this post so I can also...

Hi. I'm a novice website designed. I learned DW3 in order to create my own website. I am a mom inventor who started a company a few months ago. I for some reason, cannot get listed on google. Also, my yahoo listing is #1 with only one specific phrase toddler timeout mat. How can i show up in...

The NewsWeek Article analyzes Controversial SEO Strategies http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10415455/site/newsweek/ Google Search Quality Software Engineer Discusses the Article with SEOs on his Blog http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-article-in-newsweek/ Slashdot Readers Chime in on the...

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Recently, I started submitting my sites' urls to directories - page by page, since the site's pages have different content and metatags. I should have quite a high number of external links by now to both sites. I have statcounters on both my sites and also on my blog. However, my traffic has been...

Google software engineer Matt Cutts has recently started blogging about what else, Google. :grin: He is considered a true insider when it comes to the blackbox that is Google's algorithm. Its a no-brainer that this will soon be one of the most popular sites with webmasters and...

Over the weekend, GIDForums™ lost almost 60% of it's regular traffic from Google. So, if we were previously attracting about 100 people off Google SERPs at any one time, we now only have about 40! Since I had upgraded from vbulletin 3.0 to 3.5 last September 21, I thought the forum script upgrade...

Not so long ago I was managing database with our link partners. It will be great to find appropriate software. It should keep the database of information (url, reciprocal url, name, email) and should indicate if the reciprocal link is on the place. May be there are some more features? What...

I have a Genealogy website that I have built and maintain. I submitted the website to all the popular search engines and it does show up when I do a search but it shows up like 20 pages back in the search. I know there are ways to add metatages or keywords or other items regarding relevance to a...

Hi! I have a web site which is built using PHP. Do the crawler recognise PHP language?? What can i do to increase this website listing in the search result??

I was surprised to find this paragraph in Yahoo's Submit Your Site page yesterday. I got a hint about it from a reply posted at http://groups.google.com/group/google-sitemaps I have been to the page many times in the past but I don't remember seeing it before. Is it something recent?

We know Google has been busy releasing new products/services recently and on the newest is "College Life". http://services.google.com/university/ Looks like a good way to push Gmail, Google Talk, SMS, Scholar and Maps to this demographic. ps - and oh btw, it comes on the heels of them launching a...