SEO Specialist thread ^_^

[daelite_mistress]

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hala nice ni.. thank you kaayo!

[NetMarketer]

Directory listings are not all one way links, as there are some directories that require a reciprocal link. Some allow one way but are paid submissions. To truly benefit from directory listings, the directories you submit to should be SEO friendly, meaning the link page that displays your listing and your anchor text points directly to your URL.. no java, no redirects, etc.

However sometimes there is a need to submit a listing even to a non seo friendly site.. and the justification there is if that directory has high region/city specific traffic, that you hope to get. For example, you want to rank well for searches in a specific area or city. To do that, you need a good number of visits from that specific area. Search rankings change depending on where the search is done. However I am more inclined to drive location targeted traffic with adwords rather than non friendly SEO directories.

One case in point, I had a client who wanted city specific rankings for a website that catered to a London only market. Meaning, since the site offered a service to London residents only, it MUST be found in the top 5 for searches done in London. To do that there was a need to submit listings to London directories that had high traffic even if they were not SEO friendly listings, but since the influx of the region specific traffic would help traffic rankings for searches done in that area, it was necessary.

[Rhee]

Another good trick is controlling the flow of link within your sites using the nofollow tag in your <a link. Normally putting this tags to unrelated sections of your site like contact page and etc. Whenever you have links within or even outside your website that is irrelevant to the general theme of your site, then use the nofollow tag.

The idea behind this is to disallow google to crawl contents and pages in your site that is not related to the keyword you want to target. Making google crawl to only related contents can, though not guaranteed, but at least increase your chances of getting better rank.

[NetMarketer]

Another good trick is controlling the flow of link within your sites using the nofollow tag in your <a link. Normally putting this tags to unrelated sections of your site like contact page and etc. Whenever you have links within or even outside your website that is irrelevant to the general theme of your site, then use the nofollow tag.

The idea behind this is to disallow google to crawl contents and pages in your site that is not related to the keyword you want to target. Making google crawl to only related contents can, though not guaranteed, but at least increase your chances of getting better rank.

this is a very good point...

for smaller sites with a structure that is easy to manage, controlling PR flow is best for you to get your important pages to rank and not your contact pages.. or disclaimer.. you will waste page rank on these.. focus on your main page or the specific service pages especially if you want those service or product pages ranked for relevant keywords..

for bigger sites it can be a problem..

one of my clients has a huge site with unnecessary pages that are simply press releases or news updates that have stale... my recommendation would be to instruct robots not to index nor follow those pages altogether.. the problem is made worse when these pages have duplicate page titles or meta descriptions

[LawFirmMakati]

Hi!! I am currently an OJT in a law firm and my work here is to do SEO. I also want to learn more about the subject because I find it really interesting even though it is my first time to do it. There are things that I learned about it that the website that we are promoting should rank high or better should rank number one whenever someone searches for the related keyword/s. It is really fun because there are different ways of doing it! Fun!!

carpolaw

[LawFirmMakati]

I think very best way to getting good ranking is always content, not just content but unique and relevant content as to the theme of your site.

You can have the most boring website but with very quality content then, you are on the right track. That is why blogging is a sure way of getting high rank because of its composition and content based format.

Another thing, word density is another trick to a successful SEO.



Yes possible na sya, in fact blogspot blogs are subdomains of the main domain blogspot.com yet they are considered as a separate site. Subdomains are considered separate sites to the main domain. Subfolders on the other hand are considered part of the main domain.

Any contents of a subdomain is rank separately and contents of a subfolder is for the parent domain.

Wow you really know a lot about this things! I agree that content is really important in websites ranking high and also for gaining traffic via submissions to different sites, search engines, and posting to blogs with sensible things to say.

carpolaw