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LOL,,, the kid in the car used our product to make that video. It's all the ones under it that are in question.

Here is the resulting search without time filters.

https://www.google.com/search?q=miveu&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-beta

Hello Everyone,

I have just spent the past 9 months designing, engineering, and manufacturing our first product. We just opened our web store and started selling product. http://miveu.com. I have spent zero time doing any kind of SEO. We haven't even put up a sitemap yet or any redirects. I'm just now starting to take a look at things.

As soon as I start digging, I find that it appears that someone is at least attempting to do some kind of negative SEO against us. It seems to have started about a month ago. Check this out.

https://www.google.com/search?q=miveu&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-beta#q=miveu&hl=en&client=firefox-beta&hs=bo2&tbo=1&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:d&sa=X&psj=1&ei=AGgBUJfJNK650QHW8YW-Bw&ved=0CE0QpwUoAg&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=335379d2f3ac2208&biw=993&bih=637

At first I was thinking this isn't so good, but  it seems they are just trying to build crap content about our keywords and make it relevant to us. After taking a closer look, I'm thinking maybe this isn't all bad. They have targeted all of our exiting YouTube videos and created new videos that use all of our keywords, titles, people, etc in an effort to make our existing videos  irrelevant. They have have also done the same thing with articles that were written about us, awards we have won as well as started negative campaigns about us and people who have said good things about us.

Here are my thoughts. While the content is really crappy, it seems like they are actually building keyword relevance to us and our products. They have all the right keywords, the content is just crappy. "There is no such thing as bad press". I don't know if anyone has ever said this before, but I'm going to refer to their effort as "White-Hate SEO" because it doesn't appear to be a real dark effort.

Am I missing something here, am I way off base?

My bigger worry is that their campaign may include some much darker efforts that I just haven't found yet.

I'm pretty sure I know who is responsible for this. They have made it clear that they really do hate us. Frankly, I'm not interested in retaliation, I just want to get my own house in order with some good old-school whit-hat SEO. I'm really curious to hear your thoughts on this.

Thanks!
David

Hey Mozzers,

Our company designs, develops, and manufactures products for a living. Last year we came up with an idea of our own, designed, developed, tooled and produced it all on our own dime. We did all the branding, website, EVERYTHING on our own.

The product looks like it's going to be pretty successful. We are now planning on opening our web store tomorrow and expect to be selling and shipping product tomorrow.

The product is an iPhone accessory that basically turns your iPhone into a wearable POV camera similar to GoPro. Check it out at http://miveu.com.

I'm wondering if we should actually do a press release about the opening of our web store. I only say this because it seems like a natural thing to do at the moment. That said, it sounds like it could actually hurt us. If this is a good idea, what's the best channel. Doesn't need to be the cheapest channel, but one that will spread the word.

I guess the real question is, "how can we drive traffic to our site?" over the next few days.

Please don't bash me after looking at our site. While the site looks great IMO, we have done ZERO SEO work to this site. This includes even the most basic novice work, like titles and descriptions. To this point, we have focused all our efforts on getting the product to market, getting the website running, getting the store ready, etc. I do plan on doing some SEO work soon or maybe even hiring and agency to do it. For now, we just need to get selling. 

BTW,,, we have gotten some pretty good exposure by exhibiting at CES and have won several awards. Our reputation is extremely important to us and we don't want to do anything that could tarnish our reputation, now or in the future.

I look forward to all your thoughts and feedback.

Cheers!
David

Yeah,,, that's what I thought.... THANKS!!!

Yeah,,, that's what I thought.... THANKS!!!

Sorry if I'm asking a rookie question here, I'm a hobbyist not a pro. I purchased a domain from Dodaddy and it's hosted on Network Solutions. We are now adding a shopping cart and need to create the subdomain shop.mydomain.com and forward the DNS to Volusion.

I assumed this is done at Godaddy, where I purchased the domain. I called and they told me that Network Solutions needs to do it. I called NS and they told me GD had to do it. I called GD again hoping to get a different answer, but NOPE... guess what??? "everyone knows that it's done by whoever is hosting the site."  UUUUGGGG

So PLEASE let me know WHO has this responsibility???? Hopefully everyone has a common answer.  

I still believe it's done at GD.

Thanks Everyone

Hey Everyone,

I think I may have screwed up big time. I have an old 4 letter domain that I've been sitting on for many years. I had no idea what it was worth and ended up putting it up on ebay. I have since been told that it's quite valuable. I just tried to end the auction and ebay won't let me end it.

My thinking is that someone here may want to take advantage of my mistake. Even better, let me know if there are any tricks to ending the auction.

The domain is http://proa.com

If for some reason it doesn't sell, where is a good place to sell it at a fair price?

Have a good one.

David

Hello Everyone,

I'm just wondering, is there a quick and good way to actually cause a google alert for a keyword? I'm thinking of a press release, but there must be several other ways as well.

I look forward to your  response.

Thanks!
David

Exactly, this tool is perfect for this!

We don't block robots from our mobile site. Our site is designed to work well with iPad. We have found that our KWs perform slightly better when searched from a mobile device. It's a once little bonus for us. Duplicate content hasn't been a problem, I think the engines are smart enough to figure it out, even without a mobile sitemap.

I check both yahoo and bing regularly. It seems like Yahoo pretty much treats us about the same as Google. Bing gives us very high ranking only for the keywords that best describes our site. It seems like the keywords are tougher to get ranking on, but the ones that do enjoy the fruits of success. We don't do any SEO specifically for yahoo or bing. Thats my and I'm sticking with it.

Key Keri,

Thanks for the link, was a good read. Funny thing, once I figured out how SENuke spins articles, I started to notice them. Several times I have found myself reading an article and think to myself that I would really enjoy reading the original version of that article. Frankly, I can't stand spun articles and hopefully people and search engines can learn the difference between an original article and a spun one. I really can't stand spun articles and think anyone doing it should be penalized.

Having said that, if I can read a spun article, and I probably have,  and I don't notice. Good enough for me.

I would also expect the search engines to be a little more aggressive about spun articles than they are about paid links. Your competitor is much less likely to spin articles on your behalf than they are to build crappy links for you.

David

I loaded it on my computer and it looked like it was hard to use, at best. After educating myself more about what SEO really is, I decided against actually using it. IMO it may have been good at one time, but I think the search engines are getting wise to this kind of thing. It looks like a really good way to get sandboxed to me.

Never heard of it, but it seems like a GREAT idea. Glad it's working for you.

Sorry, nothing personal, but you asked. 

My opinion is you have a huge problem witht he domain name. I'm sure some people think it's cute and don't mind. That said, I would be much more likely to buy ink cartrides from a domain like best-ink-cartridges-dash-dash-dash.whatever than from stinky ink. Even if the best ones were more expensive.

In short, many people will relate the name with the quality of the product being sold. I bet changin your name would lower your bounce rate across all your pages.

Sorry, nothing personal, but you asked. 

My opinion is you have a huge problem witht he domain name. I'm sure some people think it's cute and don't mind. That said, I would be much more likely to buy ink cartrides from a domain like best-ink-cartridges-dash-dash-dash.whatever than from stinky ink. Even if the best ones were more expensive.

In short, many people will relate the name with the quality of the product being sold. I bet changin your name would lower your bounce rate across all your pages.

Do it, you'll convert to Pro so you can run it the fourth time. It's a VERY nice tool.

Could it be because it takes far less character to write the same sentence in Chineese than in English. "Blue Widgets" would be 蓝色部件. If you tried real hard, you could probably write a whole paragraph in the title. It might be a good idea to translate it to English and see how many characters it would be.

EGOL, I would have responded directly to your response, but found yet another bug between this site and the iPad. I wrote to tech support, but the response was, well...., not so favorable. To answer your question, yes I tried it. The short story is it takes 15 or 16 keystrokes to accomplish what should be one keystroke. I don't want to rock the boat too hard about the iPad issues because I'm a newb. I think it's an easy fix. If any administrators monitor this, feel free to tap my shoulder at MOZcon. I would be happy to help get it fixed. This is a great forum and I want to thank everyone for sharing their wealth of knowledge and experience so freely. I will try to reciprocate whenever I feel my comments could be helpful. Thanks Again!

Thank You so much! I watched/listened to the whole video, and even listened to parts of it twice. Thanks Again! David