Re: SEO Question

2012-10-30 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Maureen wrote: > > Google is pretty good about not penalizing real sites with valid links, > unless the site is only links. You will likely be fine, but now you know > to keep an eye out. > And remember, a portion of Google rank is based on how many sites link

Re: SEO Question

2012-10-30 Thread Maureen
Google is pretty good about not penalizing real sites with valid links, unless the site is only links. You will likely be fine, but now you know to keep an eye out. And remember, a portion of Google rank is based on how many sites link to you, so if you're doing a lot of linking, you might wanna

Re: SEO Question

2012-10-30 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Maureen wrote: > > This is the best description of the problem and methods for handling the > problem that I have seen. One of my clients has a site that is nothing > more than lists of events and links to the organization holding the event, > so we fight with t

Re: SEO Question

2012-10-30 Thread Maureen
This is the best description of the problem and methods for handling the problem that I have seen. One of my clients has a site that is nothing more than lists of events and links to the organization holding the event, so we fight with this issue frequently. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/identifyin

SEO Question

2012-10-30 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
So I've been looking at stats and ideas for my podcast's site. I've run across a comment that has me scratching my head as to what to do and I wanted to get some thoughts or suggestions. Trying to keep the politics out of this thread... just curious what folks would do. One thing I work hard to

Re: seo question

2010-03-11 Thread Matthew Smith
Great answer. Thank you. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > is visual markup, it has no real semantic meaning. is > semantic and is usually interpreted by browsers to render as bold. In > your markup, you should always use semantic tags, not visual markup. > If you wan

Re: seo question

2010-03-11 Thread Judah McAuley
is visual markup, it has no real semantic meaning. is semantic and is usually interpreted by browsers to render as bold. In your markup, you should always use semantic tags, not visual markup. If you want something rendered a certain way, visually, use CSS. So if you want emphasis on something,

Re: seo question

2010-03-11 Thread Matthew Smith
What's better - or ? On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Matthew Smith wrote: > Ok good advice. Thank to all. So much to learn about seo. > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: > >> >> >What is the impact of css formatting on your h1 and such? For instance, >> the >> >defaul

Re: seo question

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Smith
Ok good advice. Thank to all. So much to learn about seo. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: > > >What is the impact of css formatting on your h1 and such? For instance, > the > >default size is pretty big, but if I make it the same size as and > >sprinkle keyword throughou

Re: seo question

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Skinner
>What is the impact of css formatting on your h1 and such? For instance, the >default size is pretty big, but if I make it the same size as and >sprinkle keyword throughout the text, is that good? > As Justin says, this is a good way to get caught red handed. While CSS does not affect the h*

Re: seo question

2010-03-10 Thread Casey Dougall
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Matthew Smith wrote: > > What is the impact of css formatting on your h1 and such? For instance, > the > default size is pretty big, but if I make it the same size as and > sprinkle keyword throughout the text, is that good? > > You should only use 1 per page,

RE: seo question

2010-03-10 Thread Justin Scott
> What is the impact of css formatting on your h1 and such? > For instance, the default size is pretty big, but if I make > it the same size as and sprinkle keyword > throughout the text, is that good? No. Stop trying to "trick" the search engines. Just write good markup and use the tags as th

RE: seo question

2010-03-10 Thread Jacob
Fresh, unique content and quality backlinks. That is 95% of the battle. -Original Message- From: Casey Dougall [mailto:ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:31 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: seo question On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Jacob wrote

Re: seo question

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Smith
What is the impact of css formatting on your h1 and such? For instance, the default size is pretty big, but if I make it the same size as and sprinkle keyword throughout the text, is that good? On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Casey Dougall < ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com> wrote: > > On Wed,

Re: seo question

2010-03-10 Thread Casey Dougall
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Jacob wrote: > > Domain... not much, > > To me.. most important: > > Title tag > Content > > > and quality links! links links links! >links to home page >>links to sub pages >>>links to their sup pages but they still need to be organic. links from within arti

RE: seo question

2010-03-10 Thread Justin Scott
> There are still other engines out there that still > use human editors and basic spiders, so I would still > include them, unless your only doing SEO for Google. This about sums it up for me as to where your SEO dollars should be focused: http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-ww-monthly-200

RE: seo question

2010-03-10 Thread Justin Scott
> Wow, didn't know that. I thought there was some > secret voodoo to picking the right ones and have > always fretted over what to put. Makes sense > though. It's been a while since those were important. The "keywords" meta tag is pretty much ignored entirely for public search engines. The "d

Re: seo question

2010-03-10 Thread Matt Blatchley
>The keywords/description meta >tags are effectively ignored for ranking purposes That actually depends on the engine your targeting. In Google, which is the most important, that's true meta tags are pretty much useless. There are still other engines out there that still use human editors and bas

RE: seo question

2010-03-10 Thread Jacob
Domain... not much, To me.. most important: Title tag Content -Original Message- From: Matthew Smith [mailto:chedders...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:15 PM To: cf-community Subject: seo question How important is the domain name in search engine placement? In order

Re: seo question

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Smith
>The keywords/description meta >tags are effectively ignored for ranking purposes. Wow, didn't know that. I thought there was some secret voodoo to picking the right ones and have always fretted over what to put. Makes sense though. Thanks. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Justin Scott wrote

RE: seo question

2010-03-10 Thread Justin Scott
> In order of benefit, what is most important? Obviously > I am excluding things outside of the site like links > heading in and such. My list for the site itself would be: Content (h1, h2, ..., strong, text), page title, domain name and other URL characteristics (folder/file name, etc.). The

Re: seo question

2010-03-10 Thread Matt Blatchley
I think it depends on whether or not you have a targeted keyword in the domain and how relevant it is to your content. So if you don't have a targeted keyword in the Domain name, it's probably no more important than say the title of an individual page. But I'd still recommend buying the domain fo

seo question

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Smith
How important is the domain name in search engine placement? In order of benefit, what is most important? Obviously I am excluding things outside of the site like links heading in and such. domain title description keywords adstract content h1 h2 etc b plain Is that about right?

Re: seo question

2006-03-20 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I'm going to test each for a few days and see. We posted a few new articles last night and changed all of the links and the site shot up to 7/10. Now it's back down to 6/10. :( >From what I've read, I think you've got the bases covered either way. > >DRE > >On 3/17/06, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL P

Re: seo question

2006-03-18 Thread DRE
>From what I've read, I think you've got the bases covered either way. DRE On 3/17/06, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've built a technique to get Fusion Authority articles displayed as the > article name on the url rather than an ID. I can have 2 different formats: > http://www

seo question

2006-03-17 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I've built a technique to get Fusion Authority articles displayed as the article name on the url rather than an ID. I can have 2 different formats: http://www.fusionauthority.com/Techniques/4590-Mach-Spring http://www.fusionauthority.com/Techniques/4590-Mach-Spring.htm Which do you think is bette

Re: SEO question

2004-12-06 Thread Ray Champagne
I'd like to use the CF version of this, but the pages are all just plain old vanilla HTML. So, the .htaccess file is the way to go for us. Thanks for the help guys! Ray At 12:50 AM 12/4/2004, Kevin Graeme wrote: >On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 01:54:41 + (GMT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This basically tel

Re: SEO question

2004-12-03 Thread Kevin Graeme
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 01:54:41 + (GMT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] > This basically tells the engine that the old page is gone and the new page > replaces it and that this is a permanent change. Essentially it is identical > to cflocation EXCEPT that cflocation is a 302 statuscode and is a temporary >

RE: SEO question

2004-12-03 Thread paul . vernon
>Has anyone done this before? I want to avoid having to > make copies of the new design with all the page names... Keep the old pages but remove ALL the content. replace them with a cfheader like this... This basically tells the engine that the old page is gone and the new page replaces it

Re: SEO question

2004-12-03 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Keep the old names but make all the new links point to the new pages. Either that or do a redirect (page based or server based). I've got old pages on FA called article1.cfm (lng story). They're in the search engines so I have to keep them. For the moment I have copies of both, but as the bots

SEO question

2004-12-03 Thread Ray Champagne
For all the SE guys/gals out there... We have a site that we have done a redeesign for, the previous developer had some pretty bad page naming conventions, and we went ahead and renamed the pages so that it would be easier to maintain. HOWEVER - the current pages are very nicely entrenched into