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Re: How To Write Good SEO Content

Home-Work-Newbie — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:58:30 -0000

Thanks Nicolas, a very helpful article as usual. From my own recent experiements I've concluded that Google doesn't calculate keyword density and as you rightly point out, prefers keyword placement and proximity, in such tags as H tags, as ways of understanding content.

In your opinion, how many keywords should a page target?

Best,
Ed

Re: Top Commentator-Aug 2009

Home-Work-Newbie — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:43:10 -0000

Hi Peter, sorry for the late response!

What are the choices?

Cheers,

Re: Top Commentator-Aug 2009

Home-Work-Newbie — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:42:51 -0000

Joint 3rd! Thanks Peter, and thanks for the continuing advice on this blog.

Keep up the good work!

Best,

Re: Google Adsense Account-Don’t Get Banned

Home-Work-Newbie — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:32:27 -0000

clearly it pays to moderate your comments otherwise you could end up in real trouble!

Thanks for the info and advice Peter.

Best,

Re: Google Adsense Account-Don’t Get Banned

Home-Work-Newbie — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:54:50 -0000

Sound advice as usual Peter. Point 4 is actually quite worrying. Suppose you were away from your blog for a few days and a spam post to say an adult site got through Akismet and ended up being posted, would Google really cancel your AdSense account for a comment? Have you ever had anything like this happen?

Regards,

Re: Backlink Building To Google Top Search Engine Ranking: What I learned

Home-Work-Newbie — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:33:57 -0000

weird. Well, I hope it sorts itself out, just logged on this morning and noticed another 100 links have dropped off that particular site!! I'm starting to think Google doesn't like me!

Cheers,
Ed

Re: Backlink Building To Google Top Search Engine Ranking: What I learned

Home-Work-Newbie — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:40:58 -0000

Big congratulations Peter!

Can I ask, have you noticed link numbers dropping in Google's new Webmaster tools? One of my sites has dropped to only 300 incoming links, but using another tool, like: http://backlinkchecker.net/... I see over 2,200... I've been reading about there being problems with the new webmaster tools. Have you also noticed this?

Regards,

Re: Watch Me Get To Google Top 10 Ranking

Home-Work-Newbie — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:00:20 -0000

Fair enough, it would be great to see the benefits of top positions though if you have time :)

Best,
Ed

Re: Watch Me Get To Google Top 10 Ranking

Home-Work-Newbie — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:10 -0000

great work so far Peter. It would be really interesting to see your traffic stats during this project, to see just how much a difference it makes as you climb up the rankings.

Best,
Ed

Re: What Should You Expect From Your SEO/SEM Consultant?

Home-Work-Newbie — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:38:59 -0000

Very true Nicolas, an SEO might get the rankings, but a good SEO will get results. That's the biggest difference!

Best,
Ed

Re: What Should You Expect From Your SEO/SEM Consultant?

Home-Work-Newbie — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:02:38 -0000

Nice article Nicolas. SEO and SEM are such a minefield, and I've heard so many horror stories of large sums of money paid out for very little return. It's refreshing to see someone right about what the results should be, it's no good ranking really well if your traffic isn't converting.

I read an interesting article not long ago, I can't remember where, but it gave a rough guide on how to avoid bad SEO/SEM companies. Some of the things it mentioned was to avoid companies that put too much empahsis on things like keyword density, and not enough talk about visitor stats and tracking. Nice to see that opinion backed up with your piece here.

Re: Link Building: Taking Backlink Building To A Higher Level

Home-Work-Newbie — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:21:23 -0000

That's great news Peter! I've actually decided to turn my AdSense Treasure site into an article directory... not sure if that's going to generate any clicks but we'll see, I'll send you a link once it's done!

Re: Link Building: Taking Backlink Building To A Higher Level

Home-Work-Newbie — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:33:38 -0000

Definitely. I'm still building my AdSense Treasure site (I'm making it a little different than the format it was supplied in) and I think I'm going to use this to get some good links into it. I'll let you know in the coming weeks how that works out.

How is your AdSense Treasure/Blogprofitz site coming along?

Best,
Ed

Re: Link Building: Taking Backlink Building To A Higher Level

Home-Work-Newbie — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:05:57 -0000

I saw that offer sometime ago and was a little skeptical, mainly because I was overly concerned about relevancy of backlinks. It seems that Nicolas's opinion on relevancy is shared by more and more SEOs nowadays, that it is important, but it's not 100% essential.

I think I'll give this package a go! Thanks for the heads-up :)

Regards,
Ed

Re: 4 Link Building Myths That Can Hurt Your SEO

Home-Work-Newbie — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:28:57 -0000

Nice myth-busting work Peter. I was always pretty skeptical about so much attention being given to relevent links. I'm sure they count nicely, but as you say, you cannot always help where a link comes from so it's smart of Google not to put too much importance on that factor.

I heard that Google was considering putting an "opt-out" system in it's webmaster tools whereby you could confirm whether or not you wanted certain links to be counted or not. What would you think of a system like that?

Re: Top Commentator-July 2009

Home-Work-Newbie — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:19:12 -0000

Thanks again Peter, Getting higher each month!

Re: How To Get Free Backlinks From Google

Home-Work-Newbie — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:43:12 -0000

That's a brilliant tip Peter, I'm giving that a go now :)

Best,
Ed

Re: My Experiment To Monetize Adsense Treasure

Home-Work-Newbie — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:48:57 -0000

I will do Peter, thanks for all your help :)

Re: My Experiment To Monetize Adsense Treasure

Home-Work-Newbie — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:04:34 -0000

Ok that makes sense. I can totally understand why you went with Blogprofitz now.

If I do decide to stay with the 1600 prewritten articles, that would require an enormous amount of work changing every single set of meta tags and what-not :(

I guess it would make ranking in the search results pretty difficult too, having so much duplicate content.

By the way, thanks for sending the link, your site looks great, keep us posted with the progress of it!

Best,
Ed

Re: My Experiment To Monetize Adsense Treasure

Home-Work-Newbie — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:41:43 -0000

Hi Peter,

So do you think that having duplicate content would mean that Google would deny my AdSense application?

Re: My Experiment To Monetize Adsense Treasure

Home-Work-Newbie — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:15:24 -0000

Hi Peter,

Last night I decided I'd give this AdSense Treasure thing a go so I followed your link at the bottom of the post, purchased the files and now I've got a question: It tells me I can pay 35$ for hosting and they can set the whole thing up and secure an AdSense ID. I actually have my own hosting so I was wondering if I upload the files as they are and submit them to Google for review, will they be accepted?

Thanks,
Ed

Re: My Experiment To Monetize Adsense Treasure

Home-Work-Newbie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:00:00 -0000

I'm always incredibly skeptical about these kinds of deals. It seems unrealistic to me to be pulling in $40,000 every month from just using adsense... but I'm very keen to hear how you get on with this system, it certainly sounds intriguing!

Re: Don’t Worry About The “NoFollow” Update

Home-Work-Newbie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:14:03 -0000

Thanks Nicolas, point noted :)

Re: Don’t Worry About The “NoFollow” Update

Home-Work-Newbie — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:23:00 -0000

I've noticed a couple of links from definite "nofollow" sources showing in my Google webmaster tools control panel... would these have absolutely no SEO value at all?

Re: Don’t Worry About The “NoFollow” Update

Home-Work-Newbie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:22:06 -0000

Interesting article Nicolas. I've read so many conflicting views on the whole NoFollow saga. I've noticed that links from NoFollow blogs do seem to count towards SEO, or at least I see some of them are showing up in Google's webmaster tools. Whether they pass any page rank over is a different story...

I do wonder if this has actually helped cut down SPAM as it was originally intended to do.