... Search Engine Optimisation

• Duplicate Content and Your Experience.

Hi everyone, Just wanted to get some opinions on duplicate content. Matt Cutts seems to think its not a huge issue, but many SEO experts say its a...

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• Ranking Quickly

We launched a separate site for our VPS hosting (VPS hosting - virtuozzo parallels debian centos windows 2003 (http://www.blacknightvps.com)) about...

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• Google ranking oddness

About a week ago, one of my sites (http://www.huntforproperty.ie) was ranking between 2nd and 3rd for searches for the keyword 'property'. I noticed...

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• Organic listings

Hi all, Our website http://www.jurysdoyle.com (http://www.jurysdoyle.com/) has a PR 6 and has been around over 7 years now. We pay a fair amount to...

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• SEO Mirror sites

What is your view on mirror sites, how would these affect and or benefit search engine rankings. Has Google and Yahoo implemented a filter, to...

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• Parked Domains and SEO

Hi Everyone, Lately I have been looking into Drupal a CMS which allows you to run multiple websites from a single installation. So far I have...

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• Keyword Research - What do you use now that Overture is dead

As the subject title says, what do you use now? Wordtracker is obviously a paid for service and Google won't disclose numbers, so what does everyone...

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• Sitemaps

Is a public site map that is viewable from your sites main page as affective as **Creating a Sitemap based on the Sitemap protocol ? **What do you...

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• Gomezagent crawling my site

Hey, I have just been looking over webtrends reports for the past month. A spider by the name of gomezagent account for 78% of spider activity. Does anyone know anything about this spider? Is it legit? Also, at what point is a spider searching too much to effect my bandwidth? *78% = 685 visits from 19th May - 28th May*

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• Building links to Spanish property website

Hi, I am trying to build links to a new website promoting spanish property. Does anybody know of any suitable directories which cater for this area? Thanks Image: http://www.irishwebmasterforum.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Al

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• Info domains and spam

Aaron Wall recently posted about a G purge on .info domains (http://www.seobook.com/google-temporarily-purges-info-domain-names). Matt Catts has previously mentioned (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-2008-predictions/) .info domains as being spammy in nature because of their cheapness to register. I was considering purchasing a few .info domains recently but I might reconsider that as there seems to be a bit of uncertainty around them Does anybody here have a high ranking .info domain? Do you think there is a prejudice against them in any shape or form from the SEs?

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• Best Way to Get Indexed in Google

What is the best technique for indexing a new site in google? I have been using social bookmarking with good success, but I was wondering what everyone else is doing.

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• Links not showing

Hi, I am designing and optimising my own websites and I'm constantly building links, I try to add about 2 per week. Yet when I check link: + my web address baggotcourt.com it only shows 3 incoming links and none of which are my own website. Is there something else I can do to get google to index the links I'm building, some of my competitors of 3 pages of links. Thanks BL

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• Is Powered by Zen Cart backlink worth putting on your website

What do you reckon, what's the backlink from the zen cart website worth, would it be better to sacrafice the link or would I be letting customer know a bit to much....this site needs serious google brownie points, what would you do? :confused: tks gb

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• shmtl and seo

Little bit more technical but my reason for asking is SEO. Any impact on SE's when using shtml rather than html. Nothing that I can really find out there but looking for any experiences both in changing from one to the other and also new builds?

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• SEO title tags

Working on a project at the moment that has me thinking about title tags... It's a competitive sector, and a previous SEO company did some work on the old site, and the titles are all stuffed with keywords. This is not something I am a fan of, I prefer natural looking titles which scan well for humans in SERPS, with keywords used as naturally as possible. BUT - in many competitive sectors you see page after page of keyword stuffed titles, and the site I'm working on gets quite good results, despite having very little other than the titles going for it interms of the terms it's performing for... SO... what do people think? Keyword stuffed SEO titles: * Are they good practise? * Do they perform? * Will Google eventually penalise with keyword stuffed titles? * How do keyword titles perform against more humanly readable titles? * Do you use them? Any other views?

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• Social networking as an SEO tool

Hi there, I've been researching social networking as a SEO tool but even having read descriptions, definitions etc I cant seem to grasp how it works exactly. I've researched Digg, mixx, stumbleupon etc but does anyone know how to integrate them with your website? Or is this even what happens? Am I correct in saying you basically suggest a site worth looking at and post it to these social networking sites? Sorry, probably too many qtns at once. Thanks Loconor CustomerMinds.com (http://www.customerminds.com)

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• Common Misspellings and SEO

Hi Everyone, As you may or may not know sometimes misspellings can be very lucrative and produce large amounts of traffic to a given website. However there is a caveat for anyone wishing to rank organically for these terms. 1.) Either place misspellings on / in your website. 2.) Use Pay Per Click Listings to appear. For me I don't like to include misspellings in: Title Tags Headings Tags Meta descriptions While on some type of websites this may be ok, I'd really like to avoid it. So what do you do to include those common problems like: One of the biggest in terms of seo in my experience is with relation to: * Accommodation* 1. accomodation 2. acommodation 3. acomodation Just to name a few.... I used to use the meta keywords tag to include a list of misspellings, however if the big G (Google), doesn't even bother to look at this (correct me if I'm wrong). Then it seems a bit pointless to include it. What's your experience / advice?

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• swap links

Hi, there, is there anyone maybe interesting in link swap with me? www.couponmaster.ie (http://www.couponmaster.ie) if so, please pm me. cheers.

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• Submit Free the best top Web Directories with over 6500 links

I've made a list with more than 6.600 directories. This list contains: - i've included link updates at PR at each acces. - i've included Alexa Traffic Rank (Alexa Traffic Rank is a very important factor by which you choose the directory) - i've included Alexa Links - i've included the sort by PR (Google's PageRank) You can find the list here: Free Windows, Linux, Mac, Mobile Software and Games Download - Directories (http://www.downloadsoftfree.com/links-0-1-0-0.html) I hope it will be much usefull like this. Have fun!

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