| July 2, 2008High Rankings forum members discuss a Guardian article by John Naughton (who was writing about a Nicholas Carr article in The Atlantic), which talks about how we seem to be losing our ability to concentrate for long periods of time. And apparently, the Internet is to blame! Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| June 11, 2008Forum member "ramki" has a bunch of questions about social media marketing. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| May 28, 2008Forum member "chrisjum" is wondering what the code is to redirect the HTTPS version of his website to the HTTP version. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| May 14, 2008If you're a true techie geek, you will like this High Rankings forum thread where member "doughayman" notices some weirdness in his server logs. With some probing, forum moderator and all-around server wizard "Randy" helps diagnose the problem, and all is well again. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| April 30, 2008Forum member "johking" posted that her 404-error page is getting tons of hits, and wonders if it's set up incorrectly.
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| April 23, 2008Forum member "Christopher" is looking for help to improve his checkout conversions. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| April 9, 2008When you're done reading the SEO Standards threads, here's a good one on sitemaps. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| March 26, 2008Forum member "lenwood" has provided a client with lots of SEO recommendations that should ultimately increase their search engine traffic. That is, however, if the client would only implement them! Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| March 26, 2008Now that the nofollow link attribute has been around for awhile, and even sanctioned by Google's Matt Cutts for "PageRank Sculpting," forum member "nethy" is wondering what your thoughts are on it. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| March 26, 2008Forum member "iloveseo2" wonders how one can prove one's return on investment and track conversions with SEO. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| March 12, 2008I recently read an interesting article by someone who goes by the name of "slightlyshadyseo" regarding negative SEO, and asked our High Rankings Forum members what they thought about it. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| February 20, 2008I was checking to make sure that all my client's PDFs were appearing in Google's index and noticed something odd. Luckily all the PDFs appear when I do a site:yoursite.com filetype:pdf. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| February 6, 2008There's a good thread in the forum from member "fishermack" explaining why toolbar PageRank is not an effective measurement for website traffic and sales. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| January 23, 2008An interesting topic of discussion has broken out in the forum regarding whether Google understands the "theme" of a website.
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| January 16, 2008Forum member "maleman" asks if it is worth $10K plus per year for advertising on a website/directory? Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| January 2, 2008Forum member "ronfrank" is new to SEO and is having trouble figuring out how to categorize his site based on keyword phrases. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| December 19, 2007Forum member "NeilPertRocks" tells the other members that the VP in his company completely removed their paid-search program, and is wondering how this will affect their business. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| December 12, 2007Forum member "Vini" wonders why his/her website keeps going down in the rankings rather than up. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| November 28, 2007For those looking for some advanced SEO info, we have a ton of it in our
“Technobabble” area of the forum. There’s tons of
great info on dynamic sites, as well as mountains of technical info on
redirects, mod_rewrites, etc. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| November 14, 2007Forum Member “Deverill” is ticked off at the SEO guy in his office due to some strange advice he is giving. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| October 31, 2007Forum member “Reflections” is looking for a quick way to increase PageRank
because the usual routes take too long. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| October 24, 2007I noticed something interesting the other day that made me wonder whether
links that have the nofollow attribute on them can/do still pass anchor-text
“juice” in Google. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| October 17, 2007Forum member “scouseflip” wants some good reading material on marketing. See others’ suggestions or share your own at the forum. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| October 3, 2007High Rankings Forum Thread of the Week Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| September 26, 2007Forum member "rolf" told the community of a website design company that
created a brand-new site completely in Flash for a client, even though the
client expressed an interest in having the website found in the search
engines. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| September 19, 2007At the place where I work as an e-commerce copywriter, we are about to take
a pretty successful, basic, unpretentious e-commerce website and guck it up
– er, I mean, enhance it — with fancy Flash animation on virtually every
page. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| August 29, 2007Forum member “SEMMatt” wonders if it’s good or bad that the Title tags on
his website are all the same. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| August 29, 2007Forum member “malhyp” asks if there’s a benefit to using both the singular
and plural forms of his/her keyword phrases when optimizing. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| August 1, 2007We’re also running a poll in conjunction with the birthday announcement... Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| August 1, 2007Google has decided to stop labeling pages in their Supplemental Results Index as such, and some webmasters are up in arms over it. Personally, I think it’s smart of them not to differentiate the results anymore, as all it served to do was cause unnecessary grief for people. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| July 25, 2007Forum moderator Jonathan Hochman (jehochman) noticed a post on Matt Cutts’ blog asking people to vote for what features they’d most want added to Google’s Webmaster Tools. Jonathan thought it was curious that one of the proposed features would tell webmasters which pages on their sites don’t validate. He wondered why Google would do that if they don’t care about pages that validate. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| June 20, 2007
Forum member "siringo" says:
"I'm thinking of starting a blog hosting business.
Not web site hosting, blog hosting. People will come to the site, select a blog
template they like, I set it up and away they go."
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| June 20, 2007We had a very interesting discussion regarding my last Search Engine Land article, "You Can't Fake Real Content." Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| June 20, 2007Forum member "1dmf" asks the High Rankings gang:
"If you wrote an article/blog, how do you do the links? Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| June 6, 2007Forum member “ARothman” is looking for suggestions on how to determine which website leads actually become sales. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| May 30, 2007Randy (and some others) have some great advice on how women and men view the
Web differently. You don't want to miss this thread! Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| May 30, 2007Forum member "kurzo" asks, "If you do SEO, SEM, optimisation, etc., do you
call yourself a Search Engine Marketer? Web Marketer?" Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| May 30, 2007Forum member "DannyAFC" tells us that he ranks well on the competitive
keywords in his industry, but he's getting concerned because his cache dates
are starting to get quite old. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| May 30, 2007In another post, "DannyAFC" says he feels that his site needs a redesign but
isn't sure what elements he can safely change without hurting his search
engine rankings.
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| May 30, 2007Forum member "Brandon C" asks, "I want to be able to offer a true breadcrumb
for customers in an ecommerce store, but I am afraid that the product page
will get penalized for duplicate content if I'm not careful." Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| May 29, 2007Forum member "Doogie" wonders why we've gone from <br> to <br />? Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| May 16, 2007Forum member "Nystul" remarks: "Due to the long name of my website
(keyword), a couple of my backlinks are anchor text as 'thisisme,' instead
of 'this is me.' Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| May 16, 2007Forum member "Kai2810" is wondering how one can find where their target
market hangs out online. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| May 16, 2007Forum member "vertigo" has been busy posting in online forums and says, "For
about 20 of these forums I have replied to existing posts with original
info, and have put a keyword-rich hyperlink to my website in my signature. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| May 16, 2007Forum member "Angelina" wonders about an unsolicited email she received from
a so-called SEO company saying that her optimized site was actually
unoptimized. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| May 16, 2007Forum member "bims" asks whether it's necessary to keep his/her Google
AdWords campaigns running for keywords in which he/she already has decent
organic rankings. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| May 16, 2007Google Analytics has a completely new interface, which I for one really
like! It's cleaner and seems a lot faster as well. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| May 9, 2007What if you have 2 identical websites with the
same Meta tags and same content, but one is “100% HTML web design (clean
code, CSS design)” and the other is “100% Joomla, fully loaded with SEO
options”? Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| April 25, 2007How often do you visit the High Rankings Forum? Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| April 25, 2007Forum member "rachellee" wonders if there are any good SEO software programs
around. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| April 25, 2007Forum member "fromtherooftops" has an ecommerce site and has a bunch of
SEO-related questions for the crew. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| April 25, 2007Forum member "sleidia" wonders why his or her website isn't performing well,
even though it has a high ranking for a specific keyword phrase. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| April 25, 2007Forum member "stacykan" tells the group that she filled out a recent spam
report on one of her competitors, which apparently resulted in the site
being penalized/banned. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| April 25, 2007Forum member "chorn" sees his or her rankings constantly fluctuating, gets
freaked out by it, and wonders why it's happening. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| April 25, 2007Forum moderator "qwerty" informs members of the new search engine site map
protocol, which allows you to direct search engines to your site map page,
via your robots.txt file. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| April 25, 2007Forum member "Sarah" tells the group how one of her clients wants them to
set up a new PPC campaign for them in English, Russian, and French, and
she's looking for some direction with it. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| April 18, 2007I believe that user-generated content — in the form of a forum — is going
to play a large role in a current client’s growth strategy. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| April 18, 2007Forum moderator Michael Motherwell (aka “ProjectPHP”) wondered what all the
hubbub is regarding a post Matt Cutts made at his blog asking for people to
report paid links to him/Google. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| April 4, 2007We have a website with tips and advice about health products. The
competition is quite tough in this field, but we have one product that is
doing extremely well in search engines and other websites are starting to
link to it as well. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| March 21, 2007Are Sites Created with CSS Better than Those Created with Tables? Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| March 7, 2007Forum member "joeeee" asks if it's okay to hide a link behind a Flash menu. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| March 7, 2007Forum member "Jon H" is looking for ways to build links and has started a
few different threads on the topic: Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
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| March 7, 2007"Ryan2" is also looking to build links and was wondering if it's okay to pay
bloggers to link to your site. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| March 7, 2007Forum moderator "ProjectPHP" heard the "SEO Rockstars" radio show dissing
Wikipedia and talking about how a paid online encyclopedia would be better. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| February 28, 2007Forum member “seo_bright” has a couple of SEO questions for the High
Rankings Forum members this week. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| February 28, 2007A client of “Bobmeetin” was given some advice about registering a bunch of
alternate domain names. Bob knows it’s not good advice, but decided to come
to the Forum for a little back-up. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| February 21, 2007"Kalew" asks website developers how much time they spend training their
clients to upload new content to the server. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| February 21, 2007"Rolf" says, "We've been discussing ways to increase subscribers to our
mailing list, and one of the ideas that has come up is those 'free stuff'
sites you can find all over the place."
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| February 21, 2007"Johking" is looking for a PHP calendar he can add to his website. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| February 21, 2007"Christelle" wonders if it would be useful to get some free hosting accounts
in order to test out some SEO techniques. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| February 21, 2007"Heather" wonders what to tell her clients when the rankings she sees for
their site at MSN are different from the ones they see. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| February 21, 2007"Jammin' Jake" tells the forum, "My employers would like to start three new
websites for these three aspects of our consulting services to focus on each
individual consulting service." Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| February 14, 2007Forum member “LarryB713″ was told by an SEO “expert” that linking to
unrelated sites could get his site penalized by the search engines and was
wondering if it was true. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| January 31, 2007Did you know that Google supposedly doesn’t crawl nofollows? My understanding was that they are to be used for untrusted links, not to keep Google’s spider out of places. (There are already tags/attributes for that.) However, Google seems to keep changing what they want to use the nofollow attribute for. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| January 17, 2007Not quite 2 years ago, Scottie Claiborne wrote a brilliant article here in HRA on
how to switch to a new domain while avoiding the nasty effects of the aging
delay. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| January 17, 2007If your rankings have slipped in Google recently, you’re not alone. Check
out this thread regarding a recent Google update that killed a few sites’
rankings. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| January 3, 2007I really would prefer having company name come first, but I feel, looking at competition that the best search term leading off (3-5) words at beginning and the company after… Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| December 13, 2006I recalled some advice you gave on redirecting multiple domain names
from a while back and to my surprise I was actually able to locate it on
your site... Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| December 13, 2006We’ve got a thread in the forum where we’re trying to figure out who coined
the phrase “search engine optimization.” Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| November 8, 2006Do you have a page that used to rank #1 in Google that is now suddenly
ranking #31? Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| October 25, 2006Forum member “arteworks” noticed a competitor site that had a keyword phrase in a comment tag wrapped with an H1 tag. Is it spam or just stupid? (Or perhaps both!) Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| October 11, 2006To go along with today’s featured article on trust, we also have a forum
thread on a similar theme. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| September 27, 2006If anyone is looking to buy a new laptop, Karon has started a thread at the
forum to try to figure out the best brands to buy. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| September 13, 2006The usually unflappable High Rankings® Forum admin Alan Perkins has had it
with all 3 PPC providers and rants about it this week. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| August 30, 2006Forum member “excel30″ asks whether it’s worth getting a link on a PR0 page. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| August 16, 2006In our forum thread of the week, new forum member “Carica” posted some information showing that many people have a lot of misconceptions about SEO. Carica was surprised by this, but we old, crotchety moderators weren’t. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| August 2, 2006New forum member "norty911" asks fellow members if anybody knows of a place
where he/she can find a copy of an SEO disclaimer that says he/she cannot be
held responsible if there is not a significant increase in rankings for
his/her clients' sites.
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| August 2, 2006And speaking of the forum, it was its third birthday this week. In many
ways it seems way longer than 3 years since we started it. I really can't
remember a time without it as it's been such a huge part of my life for so
long. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
| This is the first time that Erin has encountered every keyword in every
campaign and ad group having a broad match, phrase match and exact match
version. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >> |
