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Forum member "KemoSabe" wanted to mask a keyword-rich domain with a more memorable one for humans. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

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Last week at the SMX East conference, a Yahoo representative stated on a panel that the Yahoo search engine no longer supported the meta keyword tag, and supposedly hadn't for months. Unfortunately, what the Yahoo rep stated was simply not true. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

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Forum moderator "Qwerty" noticed that Microsoft's Bing search engine is indexing 301-redirected pages, which is very disconcerting. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

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The other day I stumbled across Google's 1-click for free program, which is a way of indexing content that can normally be viewed only by registered users. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum member "taterchips" (great name!) is interested in tackling a specific niche within their profession and was looking at the most effective way to play to that niche. Their question has to do with whether they should add a new page or section to their existing website or start a new website for this particular niche. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

There was big news last week from the SMX Advanced conference, which we've been discussing at the forum, regarding the use of PageRank sculpting. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum member "vanzist" asks what the best Title tag for a page would be. While my first response was the usual "it depends," additional comments make for a very interesting forum thread. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

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Forum moderator Randy has some interesting observations regarding Google Labs' "Similar Images" program. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum member "cswilliams" wonders if hosting your videos on your own server rather than on YouTube would provide any SEO benefits. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

I am doing SEO for a website, and I have tried to persuade the owner to include some copy on the home page to sell their services and for ranking, but they prefer just an image and navigation. Is this going to be a big setback in terms of SEO? Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum member "whitespark" is wondering if he could get in trouble for asking his customers to add a link to his website in exchange for a discount on a future purchase. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum member Convergent7 has a website that uses a subdomain along with the main domain. He/she wonders if it would be better to combine them into one. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Every website is different in terms of how competitive they can realistically shoot for with their SEO efforts. I typically use a combination of factors to decide on this... Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum moderator Jonathan Hochman posted about Google's new method for specifying canonical URLs, which the other major search engines have also agreed to use. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum member "anne999" was wondering how many keywords she could target on her website. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Rather than pointing you to any specific forum thread, I want to let you know about our new section of the High Rankings Forum called the "Best Posts and Articles of the Week." Basically it's a forum where our moderators and trusted members can post the great articles or blog posts that they have come across in their online travels. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum member "Say Yebo" was putting together an SEO proposal for a potential client who wanted to know if the project would be different because they had already done some SEO stuff. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum member jass_blink is looking for tips on optimizing a local school website. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

"I'm just about to launch a new site. It should really be 3 sites but the client talked me into making it one or the deal was off. It's for private sales of cars, property and boats. It also has a business directory for each section. The sections are in subdirectories rather than domains for easy maintenance." Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

"Our client has affiliates that want to bid on many of the same keywords that we are bidding on. How can we manage this so that the affiliates don't drive up our cost on PPC?"

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Forum member "bobmeetin" explains how a business he's evaluating has a main website plus 4 subdomains and seems like one big organizational mess.
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Forum member "wassim" asks if a domain name affects the search results, and if so, how much effect does it have? Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum member "wonder371" is wondering which software products and programming languages would be the best for him as he embarks on his new career as a website designer. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Last week Twitter decided to remove the ability to gain any link popularity via people's Twitter profile page. This set off a firestorm from some SEOs who always look for as much link popularity as they can gather. What really made them mad was that they felt that Google (via Matt Cutts) had "bullied" Twitter into the decision. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Google has announced that they are rolling out "Google Suggest" this week, which will provide searchers with a list of query suggestions when they start typing into the search box.
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Forum member "don h" discusses a website problem that's been plaguing him for ages. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum member "doogie88" was looking for a website where he could do a reverse DNS lookup. 

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Forum member "Webstream" wonders if it's okay to use the "noscript" tag as a place for links and text on a site that is all Flash and images. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Holy smokes...I just realized July is nearly over. Besides the fact that time is slipping by way faster than usual, the 31st of July also means that the High Rankings Forum is now 5 years old! Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

High 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 >>

Forum member "ramki" has a bunch of questions about social media marketing. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

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If 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 >>

Forum member "johking" posted that her 404-error page is getting tons of hits, and wonders if it's set up incorrectly. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

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Forum 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 >>

Now 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 >>

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I 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 >>

I 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 >>

There's a good thread in the forum from member "fishermack" explaining why toolbar PageRank is not an effective measurement for website traffic and sales.

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An interesting topic of discussion has broken out in the forum regarding whether Google understands the "theme" of a website.

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Forum member "maleman" asks if it is worth $10K plus per year for advertising on a website/directory?

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Forum 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 >>

Forum 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 >>

Forum member "Vini" wonders why his/her website keeps going down in the rankings rather than up. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

For 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 >>

Forum 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 >>

Forum member “Reflections” is looking for a quick way to increase PageRank because the usual routes take too long. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

I 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 >>

Forum member “scouseflip” wants some good reading material on marketing. See others’ suggestions or share your own at the forum. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

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Forum 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 >>

At 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 >>

Forum 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 >>

Forum 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 >>

We’re also running a poll in conjunction with the birthday announcement... Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Google 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 >>

Forum 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 >>

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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We had a very interesting discussion regarding my last Search Engine Land article, "You Can't Fake Real Content." Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum member "1dmf" asks the High Rankings gang: "If you wrote an article/blog, how do you do the links? Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum member “ARothman” is looking for suggestions on how to determine which website leads actually become sales. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Randy (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 >>

Forum 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 >>

Forum 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 >>

In 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. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum 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 >>

Forum member "Doogie" wonders why we've gone from <br> to <br />? Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum 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 >>

Forum member "Kai2810" is wondering how one can find where their target market hangs out online. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum 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 >>

Forum 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 >>

Forum 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 >>

Google 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 >>

What 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 >>

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Forum member "rachellee" wonders if there are any good SEO software programs around. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum member "fromtherooftops" has an ecommerce site and has a bunch of SEO-related questions for the crew. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum 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 >>

Forum 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 >>

Forum 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 >>

Forum 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 >>

Forum 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 >>

I 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 >>

Forum 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 >>

We 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 >>

Are Sites Created with CSS Better than Those Created with Tables? Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum member "joeeee" asks if it's okay to hide a link behind a Flash menu. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum 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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"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 >>

Forum 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 >>

Forum member “seo_bright” has a couple of SEO questions for the High Rankings Forum members this week. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

A 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 >>

"Kalew" asks website developers how much time they spend training their clients to upload new content to the server. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

"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." Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

"Johking" is looking for a PHP calendar he can add to his website. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

"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 >>

"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 >>

"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 >>

Forum 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 >>

Did 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 >>

Not 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 >>

If 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 >>

I 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 >>

I 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 >>

We’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 >>

Do you have a page that used to rank #1 in Google that is now suddenly ranking #31? Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

Forum 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
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To go along with today’s featured article on trust, we also have a forum thread on a similar theme. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

If 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 >>

The 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 >>

Forum member “excel30″ asks whether it’s worth getting a link on a PR0 page. Read More >> Related Forum Posts >>

In 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 >>

And 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 >>

New 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. 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 >>