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Hi, I am looking at the top rankings for a particular keyword on behalf of a person I am doing a small bit of SEO work for. I still very much learning my way in the whole area and just have a question on a particular site. The site at the top of the Google listings for the search term "bouncing...

HI recently attended an SEO talk where they mentioned that you need to tweak the Html behind the visible page in order to achieve better SEO - dont know how or if this is possible or necessary - please advise Louise

Hi Guys, I recently watch a video by Matt Cutt & he mentioned it's ok to buy links from valid sources. (pretty old video so I don't really know the stance on this now). I've been searching the net looking to purchase links but there is just too many service providers & I don't know who to trust...

I am doing a link building program on two sites for a customer both targeting the same keywords. Site 1 is on page 1 for the main keywords and alternates between 5th and 6th. If we don't build links for a month or two, it drops to 6th. When we start link building again, it goes back up to 5th...

Hi I've been thinking about anchor text & how to be creative. Let say I'm looking to get ranked for 'home improvements' To get coverage & lots of links would this work well in a monthly newsletter? *Also any other good ideas out there?

Excellent article on Seomoz's blog on why whitehat SEO tactics are better than blackhat ones: White Hat SEO: It F@$#ing Works | SEOmoz

Hi I'm looking for some advise on how to rank for specific keywords. I blog about Internet marketing, Social Media and Google I would like to be found for certain terms that are of high competition. Lets say I'm looking to rank for Internet marketing & various similar terms what's the best...

Started first website a few days ago and am looking to get stuck in to optimizing it, unfortunately I only have a rough idea of what to do. Does anyone have any good advice or resources on where to look. Theres a lot of stuff out there and some of it is a bit contradictory.

They seem to be fair game,I just wonder how much weight is really applied to their presence.

I consider my on-page SEO to be mastered, but when it comes to off-page SEO i can always use some pointers :confused: Anyone know of some good off-page SEO tips and tricks that have helped with your websites? Any advice would be greatly appreciated ;)

You build links to improve your visibility in search engine results pages. Search engines want to display authoritative pages about a topic at the top when someone searches for that topic. And the engines have decided that the number of quality of in-pointing links to a site is best...

I am somehow an expert when it talks about optimizing my website for searches done on Google. This is the thing that makes me consider that I also require learning how to accomplish it on other search engines such as MSN and Zeal. I desire learning how particular optimizations can be done for...

Last summer I hired someone to do some SEO work on my website. At the time the site was designed completely in Flash. (When I built the site I didn't realize that Google didn't like Flash!) The company I hired didn't make any SEO changes to the actual site because I had done some work with...

Inspired by another thread in this forum and also trying to work out my own mind, I thought I might ask what people thought: Do you prefer domains with "www" preceding them, like (A) http://"www.blacknight.com" OR (B) http://"blacknight.com" Thank you to everyone who votes :) David aka...

I am seeking an SEO provider and was referred to SEO. It seems to me that these guys are saying they don't want payment until they have proved results with webpage positions in searches. Is it just me?

Hi, I came across these seo tools seomz & majesticseo. I'm just wondering do you / online companies use seo tools such as these? If so what tools would you recommend? or should I just do my own seo work & stay away from these tools... Majesticseo is interesting in that you can analysis your...

In general how long does it take for search engines 'google' to fully index a new site? As in all content, meta data, etc etc. Am I right in saying a site does be sand-boxed for the first month or so?

Hi, Has anyone tried using 'Article Marketing Robot' or any article submission software for that matter? Is it a good way to get backlinks? I'm new to seo, so any feedback would be appreciated? Thanks Pete

A client is changing their domain name due to rebranding. I'm figuring I just need to pop some code in the .ht access file and hey presto robots will find us at the new site, right? Or am I missing something? Here's the code I'm thinking of using: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on...

This is strange, I was doing a search on google & I was prompted to stop! Please see image below, has this ever happened to anyone before?