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High Rankings Forum High Rankings Forum Posts http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:05:48 -0500 15 High Rankings Forum http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php Facing Problem With Redirection - Urgent Help Needed http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43076
I have two websites www.abc.com and www.xyz.com, My main website where my files are placed is www.abc.com, and my other domain www.xyz.com is being redirected to www.abc.com using response.redirect method.

I worked really hard on my domain www.abc.com to get it to top rankings and i acheived it to. Meanwhile, Google never indexed my www.xyz.com website. But now after 2 yrs. Suddenly my www.xyz.com have been indexed even after redirection and gradually it has started going up on searches and now today i saw that on most of my keywords my domain www.abc.com has dissappeared and www.xyz.com is showing up on those keywords. But when i see that website domain using site:http://www.xyz.com for indexing. It only shows one home page as indexed.

I wonder why my main website rankings are going down and my other website rankings are coming up in few weeks time. Also i got my sitelinks for www.abc.com and now those sitelinks also have been removed somehow. Whenever i type in search query with my company name it fisrtly shows my www.xyz.com domain and then shows www.abc.com domain.

Can any one please help me how to come out of this. I want my www.abc.com domain to continue and getting up in the rankings and to get back my sitelinks. I also want to redirect my website www.xyz.com to my www.abc.com domain.

I have done site:http://www.abc.com and it shows that all pages are indexed but rankings on keywords are dissappearning.

Any ideas guys? i am really in panic situation. i have to get this thing. I will really appreciate if some one can help me out on this.

THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR HELP.

THANKS
ADDY

]]> Addy Addy Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:43:26 -0500 43076 Unable To Access Forum http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43075 I am getting a message like Sorry, you cannot access the forum. I recently changed jobs and in the new company also the same error comes. But this works fine from my home. It it that they have blocked certain Ips from accessing the forum? If so what has to be done at our end? Actually I had used the forum from my old company itself and only recently ie from last November only I cannot access it. We had also written in contact us form here in website but got no reply
]]> seo_bright Jill Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:25:42 -0500 43075 <![CDATA[What's More Important Keyword Or Buy Keyword But Fraction The Traf]]> http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43056 Of course "Buy" is more targeted, but you aren't going to get as many daily searches.
Has there ever been any studies down on this?
Say for Blue Jeans you get 1,000 daily and for Buy Blue Jeans you get 100 daily.
And even more so there is less competition for "Buy Blue Jeans".
Do you think you would make more sales?
My guess would be on average a conversion for blue jeans would be about 1%
So roughly 10 sales. Of course the market and product will determine the sales conversion rate.
But I'd have no idea to guess how much more the "Buy Blue Jeans" are willing to buy.

Any thoughts?]]> doogie88 Jill Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:59:17 -0500 43056 Value Of Links From Pages Of Another Language http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42892
If i got a link from a german web page witch is related to my norwegian web page. Would Google see that as a useful link because the content on the pages are related ? Would that link count less than a link from a norwegian related page? The german and the norwegian language are not related enough so that we can understand each other.
But danish and norwegian are closely related, we can understand each other and many words are the same. Would then a link from the danish site count more than the link from the german site?

Of course Google ideal want to act as a human and treat link relevance like a human, but Google cant really do that perfect by now. So thats why I ask the questions above.

Thanks, have a veeeeery nice saturday

]]> tyggis Jill Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:45:29 -0500 42892 To Www Or Not To Www, That Is The Question http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43074
Do I force the issue and redirect to the www site, or take Google's lead and redirect any www.mysite.com traffic to mysite.com?]]> Tinabug Jill Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:14:04 -0500 43074 <![CDATA[Link Building Suggestion For Industry>packaging Site.]]> http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42640
Since 1 year I am doing Link building for my industry > packaging related site. I had done directory submission and still doing Link exchange and Social Bookmarking. But Article Submission and Press Releases is not done as we have some limitations though there are improvements in ranking but I feel we need to do something more.

Can anyone suggest me what more I can do to get more traffic and increase the page rank from PR 2 to 3 or 4

Thanks in advance. ]]> krisflex PatrickGer Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:35:12 -0500 42640 Directory Listings - You Have To Pay? http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41966
Is it standard for the directories to charge you to be listed? I was a bit surprised.

Does charging us make them more or less credible?

I don't want to waste company money but if it's a good return on investment, then we could consider it.]]> ScottHoff webdeveloper02 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:17:48 -0400 41966 <![CDATA["natural Patterns" & Ses Trying To Keep Bad Sites Down]]> http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43037
On the other hand I remember reading (I think it was Bob Massa (hope I didnt misspell or c onfuse the name)) that search engines dont try to get great sites to the top, but they really just try to keep bad sites down (again - I hope Im not misquoting him or the person who said it).

If I take both those considerations into account, wouldnt that mean that the SE's might often/sometimes prefer to give a penalty to a website, that had a natural pattern, but that could have been an unnatural pattern (SEO)?

In other words..if the SEs for the most part try to keep bad sites down not push good sites to the top (if thats true in the first place), as they have a large enough pool of websites to fill the top10 with.............wouldnt it make sense for them to be more aggressive than Ive been thinking with - at least devaluating (devaluing?lol) - sites that follow a slightly unnatural pattern?

In other words - maybe following a "natural pattern" that could have occured if one was a webmaster who doesnt know SEs exist..might not always mean the SEs will appreciate that a ton?

(hope I got my point/question across...had a hard time expressing my thoughts Im afraid lol)]]> PatrickGer PatrickGer Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:22:39 -0500 43037 <![CDATA[Can't Quite Get The Boost I Need]]> http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43038
I am at a loss as what to do for my website: [removed] I have added new content, products, descriptions, articles, etc. I have done directories, article banks, social media, etc. plus getting links from high pr sites. Yet I haven't moved in the SERPS for over a year. I am really frustrated as people keep saying 'do the right thing and the results will follow' but its just not happening in my case.

Please can anyone tell me where I am going wrong and suggest ideas that might be worth trying?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Regards,

Confused Annie

]]> ConfusedAnnie chrishirst Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:15:12 -0500 43038 Updating Website (all New Redesign) http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43072
Most of her Yahoo Site Explorer links are direct to the root, but there are a few deep links to some of her work that need to be 301'd.

Can someone point to a basic post on setting up 301s for a case like this? (This will be the first time I'm doing a 301)

Thanks!
]]> smed madams Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:54:30 -0500 43072 Downloading Google Keyword Tool Results http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42323
When I look up keywords in the Google tool, I can easily click "Add" for the ones I like, and then Google will download my selection. But unless I take everything Google throws at me and choose to "Download all keywords", what Google downloads is only a list of my selected keywords without the search volume numbers.

Am I missing something obvious here? How can I download selected keywords and their monthly search volume numbers?]]> btreloar Lorelle Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:15:53 -0500 42323 Getting Back On Page One Of Google http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43069
and booya

"window cleaning Dallas" the most coveted keyword around..I'm not only on page one but I AM #1!
Even before I went off the grid for what seemed like an eternity I was never the #1 hit.
anyway I read Jill's tips sticky on the top of the page and dug through articles and forum posts right here. Applied what I read..And booya.

Thanks I will return later for more questions and further education. I want to remain]]> bcleanwindows Jill Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:59:07 -0500 43069 Time Frame To Get To Se Position 1 http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43068
Is there a way to determine the approximate time(s) it will take to get

to the #1 page or to SERP position 1 for keywords with specified KEI's

(or just based on the number of searches per month per keyword)? I am

building a spread sheet for my sought after keywords with a lot of

calculations/analytics built in AND A "NUMBER OF MONTHS TO GET A #1

RATING" COLUMN IS ONE COLUMN THAT I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO DEVELOP. Any

information you can give me that would point me in the right direction

would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thank you!]]> imimin Jill Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:32:15 -0500 43068 Sudden Drop In Bounce Rate And How To Track The Cause http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43030
It's now around 15 days since the bounce rate dropped and it's still down, but I can't seem to find a corresponding change in traffic sources or any other cause - any ideas how to track it down?]]> rolf rolf Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:02:54 -0500 43030 Xml Site Map Tool That Handles The Canonical Element? http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43066
Duplicate Path Issue
I believe, most of the problems are duplicate path issues, many of those created by employing a mod rewrite process that lets the underlining URL’s get published and be public for up to a day before the mod rewrite routine runs at night. Many of those URL’s are getting indexed. I had them employ the canonical link element which they began implementing in November (and I’ve asked them to try to move to a system that doesn’t let the underlining URL’s get indexed).

They changed their domain name
The changed their domain name last June which lead to a serious decline in traffic from Google and Yahoo, even with a 301 employed. Google has been recovering (in part from some of the steps we’ve taken), but not Yahoo. There are thousands of URL’s indexed in Yahoo under the old domain still, and only a few from the new domain, even 6 months having shut down Yahoo Search Submit (They learned their vendor continued to submit the old domain name, but again its been 6 months)

Normally we don’t recommend an XML site map, but in this case I’d like to try it for these reasons -

They already have submitted one via Google, but it is out of date

Google has said that an XML site that points to the preferred (canonical) URL can give Google another “hint” of the preferred URL

I’m hoping that an XML site map submitted to Yahoo will start helping the problem there

So, my question, is there an XML site Map tool that will generated an XML site map using the canonical link element?

]]> geoinct geoinct Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:58:30 -0500 43066 Newbie Seo Questions http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43047 I just joined this forum and have a few questions since I'm trying to optimize [url removed] for SEO. I'm a web developer, not an SEO guru, so please bare with me.

1. Do you put the company name in the page title? I know that the page title is really important to SEO so I want to load it up with my keywords but it's good to get your brand name out there too, right? Currently I have the title as [removed so this thread doesn't start ranking for your terms].

2. I used the google adwords keyword tool to find popular keyword phrases (listed below.) I then searched for these same phrases using the google search-based keyword tool and get drastically smaller monthly results. What's the difference between the 2 and am I going about this wrong?

[keyword list removed so this thread doesn't start competing for your phrase]

3. How do you make your link text relevant to your keywords? If you look at the phrases above, it'd be nearly impossible for me to include these phrases in link text without making it unreadable and pretty much spam.

4. Do you have the same title on each page or is it important to have different page titles? How about for the h1 titles?

Thanks!
Justin]]> JustinToth Jill Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:00:56 -0500 43047 Are Blogs Really Dead? http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42924
I watched a documentary last night about the internet, its beginnings, the way it has changed, and the way it is evolving.

What was interesting, though of no suprise, was the considered creater of the WWW (Tim Berners-Lee), started the internet on the premise of enpowering individuals and to allow the free, easy transfer of information and ideas, and the first geek communities embraced the technology and its ideaology, such as 'The Well' in the early 70's, however, big corporations have now dominated the internet and silenced the individuals.

So now the dust has settled, and a few big brands dominate the internet, where do we go from here?

The program claimed, of the millions of blogs which started from @ 2005/6 , over 90% are now dormant, the main cyber communities are now Facebook, Bebo, MySpace & Twitter, but for how long?

Is this it? , is this what the internet has boiled down to a few poxy website ran by a global corporation?

Did the internet really empower anyone? , can you read millions of blogs in your lunch break? Do you really want to spend the rest of your life virtually poking people and tweeting text messages?

Have we suffered from freedom of information syndrome?

Do we suffer from loss of accuracy of information to make it free and 'communitised' such as Wikipedia.

Is the internet still a place for freedom of expression, freedom of choice and freedom of individuality, or is has it simply become another advertising channel for big corporations to saturate and dominate and sanitise with their own views, brands and agenda?

What's your thoughts?]]> 1dmf 1dmf Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:12:04 -0500 42924 Confusing Data In Google Analytics http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43049
The data showed that the top keyword phrase bringing people to this page brought in 197 page views and 134 unique page views. That figure really stood out, because the next most popular keyword in the table only brought in 34 unique page views, and also because the page really isn't very strongly optimized for the keyword.

This made me kind of curious, so I checked the page's current ranking for the keyword, and the results weren't very impressive: 44 on Google, 35 on Yahoo and 58 on Bing.

The thought occurred to me that, since I'm looking at data for a period of three months, maybe the page used to be better optimized for the phrase, and all that traffic came before some change was made.

So I went to Traffic Sources > Keywords, filtered the data to non-paid and ran a search for the keyword, expecting to see a graph of those 134 uniques over the three-month period, with the vast majority of them taking place in the early part of the period.

Instead, I got a graph showing me a measly 9 visits.

So where did the 134 unique page views go? Am I confusing the difference between page views and unique page views? The table showing the 9 visits for the keyword does indicate an unusually high Pages/Visit figure of 21.9 (average for the site is 4), but I thought that a unique page view didn't count multiple visits to a given page during a single session, so the difference between the 197 page views and the 134 unique page views was the number of times someone came to the page more than once in a session.

I could understand if there were more than 134 visits for the keyword, since it's possible different pages ranked for the keyword, but less than 134? And so many less? How does that work?]]> qwerty qwerty Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:09:59 -0500 43049 What Does This Mean!? http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43034
So, I'm trying to make workpress blog one of my pages and when i click on the blog from the main page, i get this error:

CODE

Warning: Smarty error: unable to read resource: "templates/Stargazer/style.html" in /home/XXXXXXXXXX/public_html/freeclubpenguinmembership.info/MYSITE/classes/commons/lib/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1095

What I did was go to .htaccess and deleted this code:

CODE

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

After i do that, the blog loads just fine!
Now, what I want to know, is what does this piece of code do and why does it give me an error?

Thanks

]]> andruha Randy Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:59:57 -0500 43034 Java Script, Mouse Move Tracking And Seo http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43053 Andrew Gates qwerty Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:41:07 -0500 43053 Suppliers Of Company Not Providing Links http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43014
In many cases we get "sorry we do not provide links out to other sites"

These range from average size up to quite large.

Also many of them have the full contact details of the company in question, all thats missing is the link to the web site.

I feel like saying "do you have a no phone number policy as well?" however I do not think that will assist in this dilemma.

What is it with some companies who think putting links to their partners is a bad thing? How do you get around this mentality? This company we are doing work for sells a hell of a lot of these other companies products so its not like its irrelevant or anything.

I also feel like saying "what do you think would happen to the internet if everyone had a no link policy like you do?" Its the most insane rediculous thing I have ever heard of. I think we should bring back flogging!

Accepting that flogging is not likely to be reintroduced, how do I approach these people to get what we want?]]> Mr Biggles Jill Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:48:04 -0500 43014 Tracking A Sale On A Site With No Affiliate Program http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43041 I have google analytics set up, looked into 'goals' but I figure he would have to add all my code to his pages too?]]> doogie88 doogie88 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:47:40 -0500 43041 Dublicate Of My Web Site http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43035 ]]> webplusseo qwerty Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:10:37 -0500 43035 Big Search Box http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42878 Check out google, looks like they implemented the larger search box. kynduvme Randy Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:40:49 -0500 42878 Getting Millions Of Pages Indexed http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42926
I've got a site with about 5,000,000 products.

The site has both a logical navigational structure and a series of sitemaps and has been online just a few months.

When I Google site:myurl.com it returns around 500,000 pages.

I've increased the crawl rate in Google webmaster tools to try to get them reading more of my pages but it hasn't had an effect.

Other than five million off site keyword targetted links, which by any stretch of the imagination is a stupendously huge and impossible task, what can I do to get Google to index more of my pages?

Or..... Am I being impatient? I understand it's a lot of pages to read and digest, should I just keep on doing what I'm doing and wait some more?

Any input would be appreciated, thank you.]]> Mooro Randy Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:06:43 -0500 42926 Jquery And Seo http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43033
Thanks]]> lahatte Randy Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:06:29 -0500 43033 Changing Site From Html To Ecommerce /cms http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43039
Our site (we sell gifts) was build originally in HTML and we have now around 1000 pages, all in HTML. We have a very good ranking and excellent positions on our main keywords and key-phrases .We are planning to have a makeover. My question is if we change platform to CMS /Ecommerce are we going to loose our ranking or (more importantly ) our positions in Google?

If we use redirect 301 is it going to save our Google position or there is a risk to loose it?

(we are not planning to change any content, just URL’s and site structure)

Thanks is advance for your tips and suggestions!!!!!!
]]> LindaVan LindaVan Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:13:43 -0500 43039 Using Google Translate. Will Detect Duplicate? http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43043
Do you think that Google will detect that I was using google translate tool? Do you think it has some measure which detects that article was translated by using automated tool?

The question is only about SEO. Leave user perspective questions for now because I would use this only for testing to see how difficult is to get serp to know if I will invest some money for proper content or not.

Thank you]]> seonewbie2 Jill Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:07:58 -0500 43043 Effects Of Ip Address On Seo http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43036
Will exchanging links with websites having similar IP address have any negative effects ?

Regards,]]> krisflex Jill Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:20:50 -0500 43036 Writing Useful Articles On Other Sites That Link Back To My Site http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41965
I'm a bit of a purist and have no attention of just putting random crap out there and then linking back to us with all the keywords that I want.

I am willing to write quality articles and to try and get them published. One example is ezinearticles, and they have a google page ranking of six. They have lots of articles that actually seem pretty good (apart from an ugly site layout) and it seems that they are working hard to maintain the quality of their articles.

I guess my question is what do you think of this practice? What would be other places where I could publish quality articles.

If there are two different sites and I published the same quality article there, would that have negative consequences?]]> ScottHoff WarnerCarter Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:57:55 -0400 41965 Creating Amazing Backlinks http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42703 I'm running a tattoo website and have been submitting to a whole lot of free web directories for 2 months now, without any greater results.
I have no customers, my site is informational - gives information in form of articles about different types of tattoos and also displays a bunch of photos/designs. My goal with the website is to drive traffic to some as an affiliate. So I'm not selling anything myself.

The people coming to my site come from all over the world, but mainly the united states.

Are there any tricks for getting these links from authority sites? any ways to make deals with them? or is it possible to just send them an e-mail saying that I've been linking to their site, and ask for a favour of them linking back to mine?

Any strategies that could help me would be awesome!

Should I keep on submitting my website to these free directories? Has anyone got a list of "really good" directories?

I truly do appreciate any help I can get!

Thanks
Luke]]> ludaluke WarnerCarter Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:37:55 -0500 42703 Starting Over? http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43032
"Long story short" I had a website that was ranked on page one of google..Did some SEO work that was possibly bad. Page doesn't appear for my keywords anymore. I'm thinking it was due to "spammy" stuff that I did.

* Having Multiple Sites Targeting Subsections of the Same Niche can be Indicative of Spam
Matt Cutts today mentioned that "having multiple sites for different areas of the same industry can be a red flag to Google." Though Googlers have mentioned this before, today's site review panel brought renewed attention to both Google's ability and proclivity for carefully considering not only an individual site, but all the other sites owned by that registrant/entity/person. Given Google's tremendous amount of data on web usage behavior, many SEOs suspect that they track beyond simply domain registration records.

* It May be Easier to Walk Away from Banned Domains
Sites that Google's webspam team has severely penalized or banned entirely from the index can be very difficult to re-include, and thus, Matt suggested that "walking away" and "starting over" may be a more prudent strategy. In my opinion, this is largely due to link profile issues - if your site has a "spammy" link profile, it's tough to ask an engineer to sort out the wheat from the chaffe manually (or algorithmically) and stop counting only the bad links. Thus, re-consideration requests may not be as effective a use of time as registering a new site and trying to re-build a more trusted presence.
_

Although I am not banned. My domain does come up on search terms just not ones that I want to. I do feel like I have been penalized.

So I have created another website and a different company name. Website A is the one penalized and Website B is the one I just created. I wanted to create this other company for a long time because I liked the name of it and the logo I created. This just gives me a reason to do that.

Website B is already starting to show up in the rankings for the keywords I want. (page 6 so far in Google) (Page one for Bing and Yahoo) Website A is on page one of Bing and Yahoo at the moment. But nowhere to be found in google.

Should I redirect website A to B? I'm going to put something on my home page of Website B explaining that the two companies are "merging" But should I just have a link on the Website A homepage linking to Website B? Which course of action would be the best? I don't plan on getting rid of Website A because I have some customers that remember my company name.

Thank you
]]> bcleanwindows Jill Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:45:57 -0500 43032 Lost Ton Of Rankings Friday http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41358
(title should be LOST not list)]]> kynduvme Jill Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:05:54 -0400 41358 Same Keyword Repeated In Every Page Meta Tags http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43027
Title: Personalised baby photo album | ourwebsite.com

Description: Personalised Baby Photo Album - Unique personalised gifts and photo albums with fast UK Delivery.

URL: domain.com/personalised-baby-photo-album.html

All our products are like this using personalised keyword.

We also use "Fast UK delivery" on every product meta description.

I've been told I,ve used the keywords Personalised, Unique and Fast Uk delivery everywhere and this is not the way to go.

There is no duplication according to google webmaster tools. We tried to write unique descriptions however used words everywhere.

What is your suggestions.

Thanks]]> ali0303 ali0303 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:24:42 -0500 43027 Anchor Text In Competitor Backlinks http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42914
What is the best tool to see the anchor text that is used in backlinks to a competitor's website (or to my own, for that matter)?

TIA,
Eric Fettman]]> EricLaszlo Randy Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:20:51 -0500 42914 301 Redirects http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43029
So a user will type website.de and will be redirected to website.com. And search engines, if I understand correctly, will crawl website.de and stop indexing it, as SEs will jump to website.com and index it there.

I read everywhere that this should be done in the htaccess file. We are a web software development company, and our programmers have done in the past some kind of redirects (by IP filtering) in the php code of the site.

Should 301 redirects necessarily be done in htaccess file? Or would a code in php work as well?
If we have full server access, is there maybe a 3rd and preferred option?

We currently run apache on our server but have been thinking about switching to Lighttpd sometime in the future.

Thanks for any insights!]]> Anderson Jill Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:42:14 -0500 43029 Is A 301 Still The Best Way To Deal With Index.html? http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42951
Is redirecting the page to www.URL.com with a 301 still the best way to deal with that?]]> Say Yebo qwerty Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:08:09 -0500 42951 Redirecting A Whole http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42898
]]> Marchy Randy Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:15:16 -0500 42898 Purchase Easy-to-remember Url For Offline Advertising? http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43021
Some competitors have done this by setting up a whole separate website (albeit just one or two pages) focused on the buying side of the business. They also use very easy to remember URLs for these "alternate" sites, which makes them easy to advertise on TV and radio - think "webuyusedwidgets.com."

I do not think it would be beneficial to set up a separate website for the buying side of our business, but I am wondering if it would break any SEO "rules" for us to purchase one of those easy-to-remember URLs, and have it redirect straight to an existing page on our existing site? I realize this is not likely to HELP my SEO efforts, but will it hurt? My plan is to have no content at all on this new URL, just a redirect. But, we also need to have a URL that can be remembered quickly after hearing once or twice on the air, and our existing URL sadly does not fall into that category.

Thanks for any help you can give!]]> JPotts JPotts Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:39:32 -0500 43021 Site Is Gone From Page 1 After Off Page Seo http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42763
I have a site which is over 1 yr old. Last week, I noticed it on Page 1 #6 for a certain long tail keyword for the past few months. I started some back linking since then and it moved to #4 on Page 1. I continued to perform off page seo and now it's gone completely for the keyword..it's no where to be found in Google. If I do a site:domain search in google it comes up. I did the link building for about 3-4 days until it was removed, 3-4 links a day. It's been one week so far where the site was removed. Some of the links received weren't relevant...but I got them from other sites which ranked high for other keywords and the links weren't relevant to theirs either...so i'm assuming google isn't punishing the backlinks coming from those sites/resources or they wouldn't rank so high.

Question is...will it return to it's old ranking? will it return with a better ranking? As of right now, should I stop the off page seo and link building completely?

I wanted to view the stats of my site in Google Webmaster Tools. I logged in and I noticed my site is unverified. Very weird, because I verified it with the html file in my root directory over a year ago. I noticed that file was 0KB in size. How did that happen? Anyway, I downloaded another file and verified it successfully.

So in the main dashboard, I see this:

Googlebot has successfully accessed your home page.
Pages from your site are included in Google's index.

Top search queries

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1 my longtail keyword 5

Updated Jan 14, 2010

This is the longtail keyword i've been discussing since my original post. I clicked my link and it's definitely not #5, it's no where to be found like I mentioned. Actually like I mentioned, none of the search queries are ranked in google, even though google webmaster tools states that they're ranked in google from #1-10 positions. Maybe i'm looking at the numbers wrong...I assumed positions mean where google thinks I rank in the engines? I may be totally off though b/c I just checked another site of mine showing #2 for some keywords where i'm not even close to.

What do you all think about this data? Is there anything else I can view and investigate in the Webmaster tools?

Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!]]> ddzc Jill Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:26:15 -0500 42763 Cms Forcing Site Name On All Pages http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43015
One of the things we are noticing is just how restrictive a lot of these CMS are.

This one puts the company name as the title at the start of every page and there is no way to prevent this, we also have to go back to the web designers every 5 mins when we want something, even if its very basic.

They are nice enough people etc however we are used to having full control and it is so much more difficult this way.

Is my assumption right that this will hurt our chances of ranking for any decent keywords, mainly because every page title will have "OUR GREAT COMPANY NAME; KEY PHRASES"

I dont see the point in this as they will get and have number one ranking for their company name anyway. Plus I think it is less likely to get clicked on when displayed in search engines (From my own personal preference)]]> Mr Biggles qwerty Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:21:32 -0500 43015 Indexing Problem http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42821 Is there a checklist out there that I can use to make sure google is not having issues indexing my site? or possibly a tool that will give suggestions?
]]> hexatex Jill Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:41:13 -0500 42821 Multiple Categories In Lbc Dillute Primary Category? http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43023
Mechanic
Auto-Body Shop
Truck Repair Shop
Car Detailing Service
Towing Service

Now Joe will once in a blue moon do some truck repair and car detailing and he contracts towing out on a case by case basis, but these are very small parts of his the business. Would adding detailing, truck repair, and towing as LBC categories dilute the search result visibility for "Mechanic" and "Auto-Body Shop"- the main bread winners?

I looked all over the web and couldn't find any information on this; just people complaining they were limited to just 5 categories. Naturally, I would rather my clients show really well for just one strong category than show kind-of-ok for five when most aren't winning any more customers.]]> vrJim Jill Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:41:13 -0500 43023 Noindex/nofollow On All Cart/checkout Pages? http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43012
I read this article, Secure Pages, Shopping Carts and Duplicate Content, by Michael Gray in December. He wrote:

Use a “noindex/nofollow” meta tag on all of your cart/checkout pages.

But I'm wondering, can a search engine spider even get to these pages? Just like a spider can't fill out forms, and can't use a pull-down menu, the only way for a SE spider to get to these pages of my website is to add something to the cart. So, should I really be doing this?

Thanks.
]]> jsimon Hank Cowdog Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:29:39 -0500 43012 <![CDATA[Google Local - New Category Not There, Inconsistence & Influence]]> http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42827
For this example I'll use "crafty widgets denver" as my search phrase. "crafty widgets" is an exact match for my new category. Google returns "no" local results, just regular organic stuff.

In comparison if I do "automotive service denver" I get the whole Google Local package, the top 3 listing + more local results.

If I type in the alternate, broad category, I also get full returns but our listing is so far down, page-wise, that it is effectively invisible.

Yes I am struggling with why the new category did not appear to help, no obvious results. How do I know this category exists? To test I visited Google Local: http://maps.google.com/ and entered "
crafty widgets denver".

We are 9th down on page 2 of the local results. Not great, but definitely there. Thus, a regular google search nets zero whereas an extra effort google local gets something.

Q1) Why, what?

I looked through some of the other postings about the influencing factors for local optimization. I see some suggestions that it is a combination of proximity and relevance. This business PO is a smaller town, not Denver and is the only business of its type in that town. When I do "crafty widgets town" it shows up 4th in local results if I go to Google Local, otherwise no local results display.

Q) Relevance - website content is great, but no inbound links. Does this impact local results?

Q) What about additional pictures and reviews?

I read somewhere the existence of the business name, address etc on other websites may have impact. Yeah/neah?

Other notables?

Thx...

]]> bobmeetin artie1 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:34:31 -0500 42827 How Frequent To Submit To Google http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43016
how often is it reccommended to continue to submit your web site to google (i.e. just once, once a month, only when pages change etc)?

thanks

louandel]]> louandel qwerty Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:41:12 -0500 43016 Very Poor Performance For Searches For Our Business Name Despite Seo http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42584
I produced a website that even after 4 months only appears on page 2 on Google for searches for our business name in Hebrew (we are a farm in Israel). The sites listed before us are all web articles or listings about our farm. I did quite a lot of SEO and now my site does very well for a variety of general searches (particularly in English) related to what we produce on the farm BUT STILL! our site performs terribly for searches for our business name in Hebrew. I can understand it

I'm not even interested in blooming SEO, I just want to be ranked number 1 for our business name.

Any ideas how I can resolve this? The website link and the farm's name in Hebrew is contained in my signature at the bottom of this post. The domain I used is obviously not the farm's name in Hebrew but rather a loose translation of the farm's names into English. If the domain was in Hebrew I guess I would have a much better chance of a high ranking for our business name but domains in Hebrew aren't really possible. On the other hand would anyone suggest I buy the equivalent of my current domain with an Israeli extension (co.il). Perhaps Google favourises searches in Hebrew for websites with Israeli extensions as I note that all the sites above our site for searches for our farm's name in Hebrew use Israeli extensions?

Any tips would be most, most appreciated, Leao]]> Arye qwerty Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:19:17 -0500 42584 What Happens When Your Main Keyword Is Also A Stop Word? http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42587
I have optimized the web site of an IT company in Philly. Some of their broader keywords are IT Support Philadelphia, IT Company Philadelphia, and other IT related words.

But if you search for IT Company Philadelphia the sites that come up are not IT companies. They are ballet, theatre, opera, etc.

I figured it was because Google reads IT as the word 'it' which is a stop word...so it's ignoring that part of the keyword.

However, if you search for just IT Company, actual IT companies come up! So Google does know what IT is.

So why would Google get all ignorant as soon as a city is tagged on to the search term.

I guess one work-around would be to optimize only for the more specific aspects of the company's services, but it's frustrating to be an actual IT Company in Philly and be blown off by Google in favour of theatre companies!

]]> Say Yebo PatrickGer Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:20:26 -0500 42587 About French Search http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42470 i want to know what are the keywords the more looking for for a adword campain for american people.

Thanks you]]> FrenchDirectory PatrickGer Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:24:35 -0500 42470 Which Is Better For Blog Url http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42923
which is better for SEO?

www.blog.company.com or www.company.com/blog ??

can I have both URLs to 2 blogs for the same company with totally different contents?

or that's a bad idea?

Regards...]]> T.N T.N Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:19:30 -0500 42923