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 guys, Google has recently done pagerank and backlink update. so check out your link popularity on Google using link:www.example.com

Hi, This week I made some changes at my php script and I added some new Links at my Links Exchange section, and as a result my PR has fall form 4 to 0. Another important fact is that this week i submitted my sitemap.xml at Google Sitemaps. I don't know what to do! What mistake could I have...

Its been a few weeks since Google launched its Sitemaps service (https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login). It describes the service as: The basis behind it is to help Googlebot find more of your webpages and have fresher results. Has anyone here tried Sitemaps? If so how hard was the...

Google has updated its toolbar visible PageRank. I am seeing pages as new as 2 weeks old showing PR though I see no real change in SERPs. It looks like the PR updates are likely to become a quarterly phenomenon.

Hi to every body. I am new to this forum and has something real special for some of you. I was surfing the web for the special ingredient which will increase search result of my page, and I found a good topic @ http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html. And I want to share it with every one....

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Within the following lines I will try to give same general guidelines on how to make your website more search-engine friendly. These are common practices found to work but the whole thing is much more complicated since search engines constantly change the way they rank websites, so here you are:...

My site www.freestylewebdesigns.com has a nice ranking with Google when you type in FreeStyle Web Designs and it DID have the description that I put with it. Now for the past week, the only thing that appears in my search results is the url with NO description. What does this mean? Why has my...

I first noticed it yesterday, but it seems to have continued into the morning - Google's toolbar Pagerank (PR) seems to be down. Every site I surf so seems to be "grey" and the results are the same using Firefox with a PR plugin. I am thinking that this may be a glitch at the Googleplex (they...

How to use Alexa.com in a proper way in your website promotion?? Is it so popular? So helpful? Do I need to take some action to get a higher points there or it’s indexes are objective? How do they form “Related links for” section? Is it important that lots of rival web sites are matched...

I just uncovered a website that will charege me $49.00 to incled my url in 750 free for all links site. Should I pay for this and will this improve my rankings with google? Is it really worth it.

Does anyone know the fastest way to get listed with the search engines without paying a SEO company? Carol <removed>

1. link:www.customresearchpapers.us, without any blanks 2. link : www.customresearchpapers.us, with blanks In first case I’ve got only 19 links in second nearly 48. What is the difference between those 2 inquiries? Which links are more valuable when Google counts its PR?

I have a two-fold question that I’m hoping someone can shed some light on: Does anyone know why Google can't find "similar pages" for a website that has a large number of related pages in the Google database? The theme in question is shoe shine kits, shoe polish kits, shoe polish etc. and there are...

There are lots of soft in the web and all they promise amazing results with getting reciprocal links and reaching higher page rank. Did anyone use them? What is the best in the ratio cost: quality? I’ve met these, but I haven’t use them, what can u say about?...

Please help. We designed a Jewelry website (www.bestjewelryexchange.com) The submission started almost a year ago. I am doing the submission myself, and also subscribed for the pay service. So far I am No. 305 on Google for the keyword combination "Online Jewelry Store". This is ridiculous....

Hi, can anyone tell me how can i increase the page rank of my website? Whatshould i work on to increase the ranking? Thanks!!

Do search engines index an index.php file?

Relevant meta tags are: META NAME="TITLE" CONTENT=" When a search engine's spider crawls your homepage, it finds keywords in the title tag. It also finds these same keywords liberally sprinkled throughout the content (text) on the page. This effectively "links" the keywords and the key phrase in...

I have A fairly new web site http://makemoney.builtfree.org/makemoney.html and I'm having a hard time trying to get a resonable amount of traffic to it. I need Info on how to get a higher ranking web submission or any other ways of getting traffic at a low cost.