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301 on home page

I have an ecommerce site. For all kinds of historic reasons the shop is in a sub-directory (cunningly called /shop/) Now, the requirements have ch

Article submission. The results of my experiment.....

About 5 months ago I decided to try out article submission as a way of getting backlinks I wrote an article and paid a service to submit my article

Hi, help me

My site keyword in top 4 in google.For that keyword i added alt tag now that keyword left from SERP. What can i do get back my keyword in SERP same

Feedburner vs. Feedblitz

I am interested in using either Feedburner or Feedblitz for my E-Commerce site. With time I'm also launching a website that'll be a blog and will wan

Additional dates being added for live 'new AdWords UI' webinars

Earlier, in another thread, I posted about a live (and free) webinar which took place on June 26, which covered the new Adwords user interface. Si

Microformats?

hello friends Has any body embed microformats in your website? And if yes then can you share your website raking experience here so that others als

Google Website Analytics

Website Analytics helps you better understand your website’s traffic. Website statistics software designed to provide website owners with detail

Page Rank Sculpting?

Hey guys Google has recently made changes in its algorithm which is 'No More Page Rank Sculpting'. Means balancing the page rank of your internal s

Free Webinar on new AdWords user interface - this Friday, June 26th

Here it is folks - perhaps the third or forth thread I have ever started here on SEW. ;) As has been mentioned on the (I)Inside AdWords(/I) blogs a

Backlinks vs Bounce rate

I always thought bounce rate and visitor trending should be one of the key factors for your search engine rankings . It should be given more importanc

Cannibalization - ePiracy?

I wanted to know if anyone would like to discuss cannibalization. I am seeing a very large increase in the number of propositions we are receiving to

IIS 301 index.aspx to rootdomain.com

Is it possible to 301 redirect index.aspx to rootdomain.com? I know that when you try to 301 index.aspx you create an infinite loop. I've tried sea

Are you buing links?

And where do you buy them?

Geo-Targetting in Yahoo

I have been running the two campaigns, once targetted to california and another to florida. The problem i am facing is, if i get the good conversio

Yahoo! Launches "My Display Ads"

Hey Everybody, Just wanted to share some exciting news with you. Today Yahoo! launched My Display Ads, a pilot program that puts display advertisin

Explorer 8 update website problems

I noticed that my site has been effected by the latest update to explorer 8. Is there something I can do as a webmaster to alter my pages so they do n

Google Human Reviewers - Gone?

Hi all, This is probably a question for AussieWebmaster but any input from anyone would be great. The mobiles.com.au website (a classic old tim

Google announcement - Improved flash search and indexing

Hey Guys Google has just released a couple of days back that now their crawlers are much of capable to crawl adobe flash files with its embedded cont

Which tool i can use to check the broken links?

Does the broken links could affect the keyword position? You know the indexed page of our site have decreased more than 1000 pages last week,so i wan

Using & in Meta Title

I have been studying different meta titles. Noticed that most sites that use & in the title display as & in the page source. First question: d

one site - many same outbound links

I operate an established site, a job board and will now be having many outbound links to the same url address to apply for jobs (different url variabl

Help needed - search result onto iframe.

i am doing an e-book.. and wanna put a search in it .. My index page has an (B)iframe(/B) all the links will shows at the (B)iframe(/B). i donn

Poor Perrformance for Flash Site?

Hi All - I have a client who has built a pure Flash site, and we are trying to promote via AdWords. We shifted some keywords from an existing, establi

Following the Nofollow Kerfuffle

In my column today, "(url=http://searchenginewatch.com/3634118)Following the Nofollow Kerfuffle(/url)," I go through a few scenarios regarding Matt Cu

Monthly twice changing of meta description any effects in SERP

Monthly twice changing of meta description any effects in SERP.help me.

Defamation from Google Suggest and Yahoo! Suggest

What can you do to defend yourself and your company against egregious cases of merit-less Google Suggest and Yahoo! Suggest defamation? (mislabeling y

Adwords KW Tool vs Search Based KW Tool

I have recently been using the new Search Based KW Tool from Google as a supplement to the SEO Tool KW Tool. However I was comparing some numbers giv

I have one doubt please help me

For my site keyword position having in 2nd page i added for that keyword alt tag now in Google position gone how can i get my keyword back in same pos

Any changes in adCenter PPC Results?

Now that Bing has been live for a couple weeks and the novelty has worn off some, I'm wondering if anyone is seeing any different results in their adC

What is the best - Google/ Bing/ Yahoo

Hey Guys. I just came upon this website blindsearch.fejus.com/?q=Type+your+text+here It provides search results for all three search engines

SEO increases the traffic

SEO is used as internet marketing tool by increasing the number of hits on a website.It tells what topics are most searched by the users.Seo is also u

h2 tags - bad when used in your main links?

It looks like I've headlined all my links inadvertently by adding h2 to my sub heading (which is not a link) is that considered spam by the search eng

Using capital letters in your address code - Bad?

I have heard browsers do not like you using capital letters in your address. Is it really going to effect my SERPS? I heard the browsers revert to low

Build a directory for SEO purposes - Huge site

(B)Scenario(/B) Lets say you work for the most recognized brand/website in Germany and you get more than 20 million page views per month but you re

Welcome to New Bing PPC Thread

Okay a couple of our diehard mods wanted to start a separate forum thread for Bing - so here it is. Discovery and Mell66 will be running this one and

Wondering if this strategy is "legal" per AdWords

One of my clients is in the language-learning software business which is currently dominated by Rosetta Stone. Rosetta Stone now runs 3 concurrent Go

Need help

Hi Can any body here tell me that what are the key things to optimize a single language website for a country specific search engine domains like (

Search Engine Market Share

Hi All - Quick question - where is the best/most reliable place to find out the breakdown of search engine market share for April 2009 (or any othe

Does microsoft provide any tool to view the listings across different markets?

HI, Can anyone tell me if there is some tool to check the listings across the world. My listings are targetted to the different geographical locat

Googlebot and geolocation scripts

Hi guys, I need some help. Frankly im stumped. I have a client who is using the geobytes Geodirection tool. For those who do not know what this

facebook cpc

Very basic questions really - but what's everyone's impression of advertising cpc on Facebook now it's been around for a while for people to experimen

adwords image ads - (UK)

Hi I've been running adword text ads on search & content for some time and thought i'd try image ads again. whats everyones opinions? pro's cons a

Health Related Dofollow Blogs

I need health related directories and do follow blogs.Please help me.

Ad Preview Tool

Hey All, i wonder, if yahoo provides us with this kind of a tool. I am stuck, i want to check the listings that i run across the different markets of

Does yahoo have any ad preview tool

I wonder if anyone can tell me if Yahoo has ad preview tool like Google. I am from India and want to have a look over the ads which i run for differnt

Wowd and Yebol, two new products in search

Following Bing and G Squared there are other two new products �Wowd and Yebol� that tries to stand out unique and cover the market. Waiting to hear mo

Need Help - website localization

Hi I am going to build and optimize a Swedish website and will localize it for Sweden. Can anybody help me to define a strategy for SEO of this

Web Hosting Penalty? Unlimited Domain Help!

Hi, Does the search engines penalize you if you have about 5 websites hosted under an unlimited account or reseller account? In other words I have

Ruby or PHP - Search Optimization

Hi, I have general question for anyone that may have experience with PHP and/or Ruby on Rails. I am in the process of scoping out a site I would l

Social Media Outlets

I am looking for a somewhat comprehensive source of places to be able to immediately and freely post articles for our social media team. I realize