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SEO's Largest Income Source?

What do you believe is an SEO's largest income source? Affiliated products.. sold ebooks.. selling their sites... or just plain company seo ... ? Expr

Strategies for obtaining SEO clients

As an SEO do you have process you go through to attract your clients. Obviously I do not expect people to spill their secrets on how they get clients,

Images appearing AdWords

Have any of you seen these types of ads in AdWords? Is this something that is now available to everyone? (url)http://www.box.net/shared/static/b23

duplicity filter...........Please help

Hi There is a big problem going on with my business site's services page. here is the problem explained: Since last few months my services page

how to add images?

Hi, I tried to add image but I don't know how to do this Can anyone be kind to tell me how? thanks a lot

page tags - repeat root url terms?

Watching G, and MSN, I see a very slow trend of G shying away from descriptive tags in existence. Although there are many, many repeat terms. What is

Whois Privacy Programs Illegal

Not exactly, but recent court rulings support claims that if you falsify your whois information and use a privacy program you could be nailed. A ru

How to generate Backlinks

Hi, I have a question, that how can i generate backlinks for my clients website without doing paid link, advertising or any kind of paid submission

What is the best way to structure URLs?

I have read a lot of conflicting advice on this, so it would be interesting to hear what your views are. What is the best way to structure URLs for SE

Single or multi top-level tracking

My client has a .com domain which is already tracked in Google analytics. Now I want to add .ru to the same Google account but I am not sure whethe

Non Important Page Stealing PR

Hi Guys, Ive been working on a client's site and ive noticed that for one of the keyword were going for, we are in the top ten but seem to be hangi

Live Chat Affiliate

After reading blogs and articles for a week or more. I've finally did my first affiliate sign up here. Live247Support Affiliate. If you have other aff

Links coming IN from a link farm

I'm about to launch an affilate marketing scheme where users get a unique ID and are rewarded for referring traffic to my site which results in sales.

Language suggestion when setting geo-targeting?

Maybe this is old news, but has anyone seen a new message under the Locations, Languages, and Demographics section of campaign settings that says:

Multiple sites switching IP's?

At this comapny we have like 30 differente sites. many of them on same IP some of the lesser sites have a PR of 2 i was going to create mic

Google says "Below First Page Bid" even with no competion

I'm not understanding this. I placed an ad using Google's suggested bid (0.35) - my ad ran for couple hours then disappeared. Back at the control pan

Bing and Twitter and Facebook

Ok the announcement is out - now what are people seeing as far as results etc go and how do you think this can help you. I see some ORM benefits - bu

Ways of being successful affiliates

Hey guys, I’ve been exploring the net for past few days and I have decided to be part of some affiliate programs. Does anyone of you guys can

Social Bookmarking List

1. Digg 2. friendfeed 3. Google Reader 4. Mixx 5. Bit.ly 6. Delicious 7. diigo 8. buzz.yahoo 9. Evernote 10.Facebook 11.Google bookmarks 12. kaboodle

Should I buy a link in a directory?

Hello everyone. Should I buy a link in a directory? The directory is very relevant to my business and is targeted to only those companies that oper

Multiple interconnected domains or one single domain

Having researched this topic quite extensively and found examples to support both approaches, I wondered what the general opinion was regarding this i

help with adding images

Hi, I tried to add image but I don't know how to do this Can anyone be kind to tell me how? thanks a lot

the Majestic SEO tool

Has anyone tried this tool? Would it be a good alternative (for link analysis) to yahoo's site explorer in case it dissappears (because of bing) or

Hi everyone! I'm Eva

Hi everybody, My name is Eva, I am 41 yrs old, living in Scottsdale, AZ. I'd love to make good close friends here. Thanks, Eva.

Custom Report Tool........

Hi Has anybody noticed a "Manage Custom Report" Tool in Google Analytic. It is very useful tool to analyze your traffic and help you to customize y

Article Directory Submission

I have a question on article submission. I know there are questions on whether articles still hold value, but I feel they do. Anyway, had a client

100% cloned SEO work for a cloned site

Hey all, I have two sites. They are identical in every aspect. The only thing different is the name and visual look/creative of the site. Just s

How to get google ads?

Hi friends, I am Melina Corbett. I am a student. I have my own blogs. But i don't know how can i get ads from Google. If anyone knows about it please

buying & selling links - directories

I've had a number of parties email me wanting to buy links on my sites. Which I have declined. But I've noticed a great many directories only make p

What's the best article submission software/program?

Its a well known fact that submitting articles to article directories is the best way to promote any web site. I am I am planning to purchase an arti

Need Traffic Solution

Hello Dear Members, I am facing some big problems in my traffic. Since Last 3 months i am having bit trouble. My 90% Traffic is coming from the reg

Google Holding Back Newer Sites

Hi I am working on a client's site in a very competitive market 'Mortgages', we have optimized it and have a good monthly link building plan going on,

Google is planning ...............Crawlable

Hey Guys, Do you know that Google is planning to make the AJAX crawlable. Do you think it will be good for webmasters who have AJAX based website?

google denying url removal request

Can someone advise how I can get some obsolete urls removed form google index. The pages have been deleted and my server returns a 404 error for th

Ad Text Versioning - Always Delete the Losers?

I have been running some ad text versioning on an account that I manage and noticed some unusual activity. I ran 3 types of ad text versions with impr

URL Branding for Verticals (SEO)

Hi, I would like to hear your comments on this post. I work for a huge dot com that is owned by a TV Channel (like discovery, food network, etc.) and

Google Local Business Listing Results - Only One Result?

Hi Have Google starting selling exclusivity for listings on the search results, next to the map for local business listings? (In the UK) If you

Angela And Paul Backlnks

Hi Guys, There seems to be a lot of news around angela and paul backlinks?. Has anybody any idea what this is?, and does it work? Kind Regards

SFIMA Nautical Networking Cruise Ft Lauderdale Fri Oct 23, 2009

Hi there, South Florida Interactive Marketing Association's Annual Networking Event - Nautical Networking - is Oct. 23, 2009, 5 p.m., Lady Windridg

Better Google.com rankings vs google.ca

Rightt now i have optimized the sites (about 30 different sites) and we are starting to rank well on Google.ca or Google canada We are canadian co

Link Exchange Under Estimated

People use to talk about building links through different manners. I want to know that why link exchange has been under estimated. Is the worth of lin

Same Site Text Links V OutBound Links

I have a question on same site links and outbound links. Okay I am working on a client's site and we have decided to write an article regarding usi

mod_rewrite and google index

Now that I have setup mod rewriterule to give me some seo friendly urls and changed all my internal navigation, what will google do? I am guessing it

Search engine marketing course

Hi, I am a web designer and have done some SEO for some of my sites and clients sites in the past and it worked out well. However this was a few y

Google's parameter handling tool

Hi Google has introduced another feature on webmaster tools to prevent duplicity on your website called Parameter Handling Tool read more about thi

Why Google search can't get "too good".

When "organic" search does its job, and the user goes directly from a Google search result to a site that can sell the user what they're looking for,

A guide to approaching the strategic redesign of a website

Every website has a life-span; they eventually become dated and no longer fit for purpose - especially if the business has been re-positioned since th

One keyphrase targeting two pages on the one site

I work on a local news website. Let's just say it's called www. newyork .com . We want the home page to rank for the term "new york news". I've

Best PR site for SEO

Hello Search Watch - I have used PR Web and EON. Both gave a jump to rankings and helped internal page rankings for 4-6 weeks. The EON release seem

Using multiple keyword domains for one site

I am working on a website strategy for a startup real estate company - let's call it ABC Real Estate. It covers three towns, Alpha, Beta and Gammavill