I had a very similar problem.
this might help you.
Get google analytics onto your site if you dont already, then you can see when and how much the traffic dropped.
Google webmaster tools will show you the avg ranking of your keywords. if there is a large drop in rank for you main ones...
Hi,
I just recently spent a couple of hundred bucks on a failed adwords campaign.
I say failed, however there are valuable learnings. In a rush to cover the Christmas period, I set up my account, got appropriate keywords, wrote good ads, set mid level bids.
I found that my quality score...
The only way to answer this will be to look at the links they have to the specific page that is beating you.
If you think you can provide a better link profile than they can then you have a good chance.
Of course they do have a lot of authority, many of their pages probably have links and...
Hi,
I regularly put original content on my sites, and Google has me ranked on page one for my core keywords, but zip for bing? Makes me wonder why anyone bothers with such a third place engine?
I dabbled in short films and know how competitive the market is. Assuming that it has good production values, story line etc, and stays to its genre then its only a question of being found.
Are you trying to sell it or promote it?
If you are after raising money to enable it to be shown (ie...
"lost page rank (down to 2)"
Ok, let me get this right, you were rank 1 and you have a problem being rank 2?
Anything above five is usually considered great by most people.
And the $400 is to do with the site traffic and if the keyword is a buying intention and how well your site sells...
yes, google and your site are in a constant state of flux.
But if you havent done much new or wrong with your seo, perhaps start looking at how your competitors have out ranked you via their back links most likely.
going against consensus here ..
I used to submit all new sites to directories to get some kind of random IP links happening, never expecting visitors or caring too much about link juice power, as most have none.
HOWEVER, lately in sub niches of the services field, I have found google...
the future of listening to music at home.
As I am the only one in the house besides my dog, it acts as a metronome. adds noise b besides the whir of the computer.
I dont often play local radio stations because too many ads and random music. I like alternative radio off the net, but...
the whole penguin thing has made me wonder.
Would links from general forums come under scrutiny too?
And if you ever did make bad choice black links, from link farms to your site, how exactly do you undo it?
And if questionable links are on link forums (with thousands of auto posted...
I hope I am not upsetting any dmoz fans, but I have wondered all along how much of that was all a myth anyway?
Google is connected with dmoz, and it used to take years or never to get onto their directory, but since most people feel the value of directories are dead these days, why even...
its tricky getting a niche keyword set that really means what your site is about, and going after the bit keyword volumes that you may never rank for ... people i guess build up to the shorter words once their sites get powerful enough to compete.
i know he is the guru, but not sure how much unique info is emparted in video clips. Finding the time to view it all is the trick. What I have found is guru's critiques of matts blogs seem to provide as much if not more info to me that the guy himself, is this wrong?
Ok, i have started playing...
Hi good conversation., but about "The top 3 sites in the SERP's now has an average of about 2,300 words in the content, not counting navigation and ads."
I find that there are still a lot of low content homepages out there. Many people like the glamorous news feed concept with flash boxes that...
the original thread person has not been back for a while?
Spinners? Good if you have a reasonable number of articles that you need for something like a link wheel or similar. Yes you have to proof read, but probably better than creating hundreds of original articles per day or paying someone...
i would go with a blog as long as you can regulate it and get people to it, its on your site, you can build up a long list of easy to read articles in the archive and you can have many loyal followers, if you blog daily google will also know you are active, you just need to handle the spammers.
"No. First, because requiring links to be reciprocated is outside Google's guidelines, and second because it will flag your site as operating outside those guidelines."
WHO SAYS? i know that when i first started out that this is how I got traffic. It is also stable until the sites are...
blogs and forums that allow comments are great to draw people in, but unless people post links back from decent sites, you are not necessarily going to generate any sales and will spend long hours moderating content., just my thoughts
but of course there are gurus out there.
and not just the ones giving away the secrets or big promises but the ones that actually run things, for instance everyone bangs on about following matt cutts etc. this is probably very good advice
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