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Another thing to consider is that if you do have an image ranking within the SERPS that you don't change the filename at all - I've seen that it takes google's bot(s) much longer to reindex an image that's filename has changed vs like some content change or meta title etc

I'd take any of the above - but it would only be of interest if they were forced to directly answer any and all questions

Thanks Adam - the generateit tool works like a charm! Bookmarked!

Thanks Alan - I'm not looking for brute force link building was just curious about the concept

I need some help with doing the Mod Rewrite on our htaccess file. Basically I've a URL like this :

www.example.co.uk/new-toy-search?keys=xbox

and I want to rewrite the URL into something else (such as new-toy-search-xbox.html)

Could someone please take me through the steps of how to do this? I've had a look at the Apache site but it's really confusing the way it's explained!

What about dynamically created blogs and databases - surely comments are also stored in the database and then retrieved when the visitor requests the 'page' ? That would keep updating the feed atleast daily when the cron job is run?

And the commentRSS feed is a dofollow? That can be indexed by the search engine and still sits on the domain? Cos that then sounds to me like a dofollow link coming effectively from the domain of the blog?!

Personally I would look first at the DA since this should provide insight into the domains strength on the web. I won't get into the metrics of how it is calculated since I would just be repeating the information that can already be found here -> http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/link-topics

Aim for high quality links on related sites and create link worthy content whenever possible and you shall see results!

Good luck

While I'm not going to advocate the buying of links, I will say that in my opinion paying for a banner or text advertisement on high profile trusted and relevant site will not hurt your SEO goal at all. Where you have to be careful is the low quality 'spammy directories' that are dime a dozen out there.

For me it's pretty clear that you're not just buying a link, but advertising on a relevant business directory.

Surely that can'y be the case - since one of the uses for an RSS feed is to track when someone has replied to your comment/made another comment?

Perhaps not THE deciding factor - and yes I agree that the backlinks are perhaps of a higher strength/quality - but surely the domain name still plays SOME part in the overall ranking of the site? Or is this something that used to be effective and that's why people bought up domain names that matched their highest traffic keywords?

With the nofollow tag used very widely on the internet these days I was just wondering about how an RSS feed might help me find a way around it.  Basically my question is this : I post a comment on a blog, it's approved and my comment together with my link(nofollow tag applied) is there. Now when the blogs RSS feed updates, does this nofollow tag get applied to the feed? As far as I can tell it does not - but I'm not too clue'd up on how the feed is generated.

Anyone want to help me understand how it works and if what I'm suggesting would be 'a way around the nofollow tag' ?

Thanks

I give a thumbs up when someone answers a question in a very accurate and understandable way. Also I tend to thumb up something that really makes me stand back and think - or just makes me laugh

Hi I'd just like to ask the opinion of my fellow members here :

We are currently ranking second for a very important keyword and would obviously like the top spot on the SERP - the site that is ranking first has the domain name as the keyword phrase(along with a good amount of quality links from a variety of domains) - now I know it is possible to outrank them since I do remember reading about this in one of Rands posts(I think it was the whole white hat black hat one he posted recently) - bascially we have more domain authority, slightly less links but from double the amount of root domains and a higher page authority too!

Does having the keyword as your domain make THAT much of a difference when we are(imo) quite close in terms of great content and link profiles(and all the onpage factors) ?

Thanks!

If their domain name is their brand(which is likely) then you don't really need to have it in the title tag(since the domain name carries more weight).

Quality content and links are still key though!

1. If you only want the .PT indexed and the .COM already has pages indexed then you should do 301 redirects for each and every page on the .COM that has been indexed and then make all the others noindex,nofollow in the robots meta tag.

2. If you are just redirecting the whole .COM domain to the .PT domain then do the 301 redirects of the pages that are cached/indexed by the search engines and then remove all the pages from the .COM server which would save you having to add the noindex tags to all the pages(but will affect point number 3 below).

3. If your target market is only in Portugal then by all means implement the redirects and leave it as is - but if you are going to expand to target other countries then you might want to think about either having different content on each of the domains which are specific to that country.

4. What about language? I'm assuming your target market is Portoguese speaking and the .PT domain contains content in that language?

5. What I think you should do is have your content on the .COM and have different sections for which country the user is in(or which language they select) - this can be detected with some simple coding by a developer.

Hope this helps a bit

Copy the page and name it download-xml-editor.aspx and redirect the old page to this 'new' one. Take the slight ranking hit now while you're on the second page since the higher up you're ranking the more you have to lose.

Just remember that changing the file name/url is not going to always increase your ranking for that keyword - it depends on lots of other factors too

I'd agree that it's unnatural - but could there be a way of Google gauging this and maybe counting number of posts/replies within each of the forum to see if the person is actually active?

Just a thought

Our site is recognised as a news source for our niche - was just wondering if anyone had any idea how long the news story stays on the front page of the SERP once Google picks it up?