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auditt05
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#1 · Posted: 9 Jun 2011 06:28
Im re-developing my website from scratch with the help of some fellows. I am considering paying for such a service. I know that SEO is not an easy game, specially If one is looking to be on TOP or at least in the first page.
Anyone knows a trusted company to do this for me? at a decent price??
Anyone tried rentacoder.com for that?
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ericlenhard
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#2 · Posted: 14 Jun 2011 09:15
Hi! Now I'm working with a nice freelancer and very happy with the results. Send me a PM and I will give you his contacts.
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Stephen Hanover
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#3 · Posted: 21 Jun 2011 12:05
On-page SEO improvements may raise you in the ranking, but usually much more is required to rank near the top of the SERP. Competing pages, offsite backlinks (quantity + quality), shares, tweets, likes, comments, average time spent on site, PR, age, content quality and uniqueness, geographical location ... There's a lot to the algorithms that decide where your site will land in the list. A lot more than re-designing your site, important as that piece may be.
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Just2EZ
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#4 · Posted: 22 Jun 2011 00:53 · Edited by: Just2EZ
Depends on the key words you are targeting and your site format.
WordPress rocks the search results using SEO plug-ins and pingomatic.
I just built a site this weekend using WP and for the key word title
The Pain Relief Biz, without quotes, it ranks #6 after a few days.
That's out of 73,900,000 results!
Only one link in that I know of and that is in my signature on this forum.
oops, not true, it's also on my FB personal and fan pages plus tweeted.
The Work-At-Home-Forum rules the search engine results for many topics.
(Thanks, Vishal! your PR5 juice is good stuff.)
p.s That's with virtually no original content, just copied Press Releases.
Even the little original content posted is under 200 words per page.
There are a lot of links going OUT from that site to my affiliate site.
Sometimes SEO makes no sense, but obviously KEYWORDs still rule.
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Just2EZ
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#5 · Posted: 22 Jun 2011 01:31 · Edited by: Just2EZ
Stephen Hanover: Competing pages, offsite backlinks (quantity + quality), shares, tweets, likes, comments, average time spent on site, PR, age, content quality and uniqueness, geographical location ...
Dang, such good solid advice yet I just broke every one of those rules in 3 days.
Maybe NEWest counts?
But you have to keep adding content to dominate page 1 and stay there.
FREE TIP: Every time you edit a post or page WP pings the update.
Just like you see at the top of this post, I edit a lot. Maybe 6 times per day!
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yahia
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#6 · Posted: 22 Jun 2011 05:40
See what #1 for your keywords are doing and do it to your site, then do some more. You can use a free tool like traffic travis to spy on your competitors.
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Just2EZ
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#7 · Posted: 22 Jun 2011 21:31 · Edited by: Just2EZ
Just2EZ: Depends on the key words you are targeting
Ah, therein lies the rub. Sure the long keyword phrase ranks but not the short.
Pain Relief Biz shows on Page 1 but for Pain Relief it is not in the top 10 pages.
At least not yesterday, I've been adding pages with those 2 words today.
And Editing them several times for format and spelling, etc.
I can't overstate the value of the PING as an update after Editing.
Google sits up and takes notice of every update to a page.
Even if you just change 1 bit it counts as an update.
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Just2EZ
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#8 · Posted: 22 Jun 2011 23:45 · Edited by: Just2EZ
Search results are dependent on the key words you are looking for.
Relevance is secondary to that, which is where longer terms help narrow it down.
The site I created was for the BIZ end and not the product end so much.
Another thing that may have been a factor is contrary to popular theory.
The domain was re-directed to my affiliate website for the first 4 days.
Accepted theory says that should penalize my domain in the search results.
It is entirely possible that the high Alexa rank of the replicated site rubbed off.
That being said, the real traffic and search hits only came after WordPress.
That was installed 4 days ago and is still being tweaked, yet is on Page 1.
If I can so it so can YOU.
I just practice a lot.
Edit, Edit, Edit!
Bada PING!
p.s. It didn't cost me a penny!
(well, $6.12 for the domain name - self hosted)
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TXT180
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#9 · Posted: 23 Jun 2011 11:05
Just2EZ: Every time you edit a post or page WP pings the update. Just like you see at the top of this post, I edit a lot. Maybe 6 times per day!
Does the editing only work in the case of using WP?
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Just2EZ
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#10 · Posted: 24 Jun 2011 11:41
TXT180: Does the editing only work in the case of using WP?
WordPress pings automatically but some other platforms do it also.
If you are making static HTML pages you'll have to do it manually.
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TXT180
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#11 · Posted: 24 Jun 2011 11:47
TXT180
Thank you for the info!
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