Archive for the 'Other Search Engines' Category
well, really bad…
Here is some content I found that was written exclusively for the search engines – it uses the keyword multiple times but sounds absolutely terrible.
The photographs can be something useful in making us able to get the certain memories stay in our mind. Without using the photographs we might not be able to recognize some moments in our life. And this is something that works on people too. It means that through the photographs, we can have someone stays in our memory forever.
The amount of misinformation floating around the web as it relates to search engine optimization is staggering. It seems that 9 out of every 10 posts I read contains blatantly wrong advice. I am begininning to think that some very sneaky SEO pro’s are spreading incorrect info on purpose.
Here is a thread I came across today over at DevShed Forums – the poster is asking the following question:
Hi all,
I’m based in Australia, and looking around for a VPS host. It’s down to 2 options, local or US hosting. I’m told that if my host is in Australia, that will help my Australian search ranking, but that if my host is in the US, it will help my US ranking. Is this really true? Why would it be so? Is it some kind of algorithm that assumes added relevance if the host is local?
Some of the responses (as quoted below) were quite interesting and only added to the confusion.
“yes it is true, but it is not necessary that you need to host in particular country.”
“Server location affects the ranking in Search Engine Result Pages (SERP) but not always”
“It depends on what and where you are targeting rather than the server location”
“this is one of the factor among 1000 which affect your ranking”
“Constant work on the website will improve the website ranking on Google dot com too”
It seems like the object of the above replies was to keep the original poster as confused as possible!!
I receive quite a few inquiries asking if I can match or beat some very low (and I mean looooowwww) prices of some overseas folks that offer SEO (and I use the term loosely here) services. I often explain that most of these companies are just making free directory submissions or spamming blog comments and nobody can do quality SEO for those prices, even in India.
I recently came across a post on DigitalPoint forums that really gets this point across – the thread is titled: Why peopel donut trust indian submisin services ? if the title does not give you enough info then you can check-it-out yourself here.
Like a good wine or a wise-man, proper SEO takes time to achieve fruition. One of the most challenging things I have had to accept as a professional SEO is the time it can take to see the fruit of my hard labour. And over at SEOMoz.org they hit this nail squarely on the head.
The engines need time to re-crawl your site. For a lucky few, this might take only days or a couple weeks, but for many large sites and even for smaller sites that aren’t terrificly high on Google’s “must crawl” list, we’ve seen as much as 3-4 months pass before a site’s pages are fully updated. The engines have to crawl all your link partners, too! If you’ve recently launched some great widgets or viral material or a new content licensing system, it’s going to be a solid wait before you experience the full impact of that work. The algorithms reward patience. Even if the engines start to see those links right away, it might be a few weeks or months before the algorithm rewards the full weight and heft of their existence. Why? Because search engines learned years ago that manipulative link building is often temporary, while high quality links stand the test of time. This issue is particularly true of new domains (or newly moved domains), so be aware that you might have to earn some trust over time before you feel all the positive ranking impacts of links. It takes time to attract links. Last, but not least, on our list of reasons is the growth of links themselves. If you’ve just started new content, design and promotion strategies to attract links, you not only need time for those campaigns to reach their targets, you need to wait for the links to start rolling in (and then get counted by the engines). This can be a long, tough slog, and understandably, a lot of site owners and SEOs give up without ever getting the full benefit of their work.
Convincing a client that SEO results take time and that time can vary from a 2 or 3 months to as long as 4-6 months is tough but if done properly SEO results can be well worth the wait!
It is not really a close-kept secret but it is relatively new and is quite powerful as I am finding with my tests. It is the power of image alt tags.
With Google image search being used at a growing rate you can really drive substantial amounts of traffic to your website by utilizing your alt image tags. Make sure they are descriptive but also that they use high-traffic keywords. For image heavy niches they can drive tons of quality traffic as I am finding out with my fashion blog, last month I recieved 12k visits from Google images and my adsense has tripled for that site. It seems three of my images are on the first page of Google’s image search for some very popular terms and those are driving the nice boost in traffic and conversions.
Another great thing that I am noticing so far is that the increase in traffic has not triggered ‘smart pricing’ because the quality of traffic from these image searches are high. So start going through your websites and find all the older images you have that are missing alt tags and add them in. The traffic boost will be well-worth your time.
Crusing through DigtalPoint forums I found another SEO fraudster coning folks with an old style scam with a fresh new twist. the guaranteed results or your money back swindle.
In this version (as seen below) you pay in increments as this hard-working SEO moves your rankings up the ladder at Google.com – the only problem is that there is next to no competition for the keywords so my dead grandmother could guarantee these steady climb of these keywords.
In order to prove our worth and establish some credibility, we have created a performance-based payment schedule:
- $99 down payment
- $100 due once your site reaches Google top 20
- Remaining $100 due once your site reaches Google top 10
When called out by IC_IC, in this post:
With all due respect the phrase you are trying to rank for below has a competition of 5 in quotes.
Move In Free Realty: “move in free Houston”
as a matter of fact so does this one:
O.C. PC Guy: “tech consulting Orange County”
You could probably take number one spot in either of those with a handful of links.
Do you have any better examples?
He gets quite angry and has a reply similar to the last scammer (could they be studying the same ebook; how to scam using SEO)?
“Analyze the competition of my clients’ keywords all you want – they chose the keywords that they wanted to rank in the top ten…not me. Bottom line: our company delivered a Google top 10 ranking as promised. ”
The absolute best part of this guy is the URL he runs his SEO from, drum-roll please…..www.centralvalleygiftcards.com!
Not to say Ask.com is anything like a pimple but we are talking relative size here. The question is, can a search engine that is 1/17th the size of the industry leader run a profitable business model? The answer is, YES!
Forbes is reporting that Jim Safka, head of Ask.com announced his company will acquire Lexico, the owner of sites including Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. The deal has an estimated acquisition value of over $100 million dollars.
Back in March Ask laid off just under 10% of it’s workforce and decided to focus on women above 30 and web searchers looking for answers to questions about health, fitness and entertainment because it appears this niche made up a majority of their user base. With only a shrinking 4% share of searches Ask seems to be holding on by a thread. There has even been speculation that they would soon be dropping its own search algorithm in favor of licensing Google’s search technology.
Safka denies this claim and say that the new Lexico acquisition is to take advantage of current Ask.com users that tend use full-sentence questions three times as often as users of other search engines. So for now it looks like Ask.com will keep up the fight and just try not to go head on with Google but instead to attempt some innovative side-steps in hope of capturing a bit more market share and perhaps some more loyal customers.
