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Thanks for the reply. Is the broad option automatically applied? or do I need to specifically tell it to be broad?

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Hello,

I'm a 'noob' when it comes to adwords and have never really used it before. I'm about to run my first campaign and have a question that I surprisingly cant seem to find the answer for.

If for example my campaign was targeting the keyword 'flowers' and as a result the long tail keywords that went with that keyword would adwords show my advertisement to those searching black flowers or flowers for sale?

A further question is if I limit my area to say my state if it was in the US would the word flowers include flowers statename or statename flowers?.

If google does count and show to the above does it count these when it provides results in the traffic estimator?

If anyone has any good adwords resources I would be extremely appreciative.

Thanks,

Luke Hutchinson

Hi All,

Basically I have 3-4 Biggish video autoblogs that I keep tabs on and they pull videos on my niche and are actually decent quality websites they are just autoblogs as they automatically get the youtube videos.

The issue is that I want to advertise my brandnew site on them as I'm selling a service in the same niche. I know that nofollow will not pass rank and should be safe but what is the absolute safest way to put banner advertisements on these sites without being penalised? I'm wanting the advertisements for advertisement purposes not link building.

I'm worried about getting 10k+ links from the same domain x4 and google not only noticing that but linking the fact I own all 5 sites..

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the reply. Do you think that most job boards use some kind of algorithm to determine results or do you think they simply arrange by most recent?.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

Cheers.

Hello all,

I seriously doubt I will get a reply to this as I'm guessing no one has experience with it. if you do though then I would appreciate any information either via comment or PM.

Basically, I need to know how I can improve the rankings of job posts within the third party sites. An example would be totaljobs.com, how can I improve the rankings of advertisements that are posted there or is it simply ranked by date and location?.

When I had my eBay business, I did a lot of research on eBay SEO and discovered some important factors for ranking within the eBay website. I'm basically wanting to do the same here on job board websites for job ads posted to them.

Their algorithms won't be as advanced as Google etc so I'm guessing if they do they will be open for higher keyword density levels and that kind of thing..

I've googled it quite a bit and can't find any information at all on it.

Thanks.

Thanks for the replies. I will look at both resources and let you know how it goes. I'm guessing that most optimization and knowledge comes from trial and error?. As far as analytics goes, dotmailer tracks everything from who opens, forwards, reports as spam, doesn't open, how many times opened, links clicked, popular links, email clients used and % / numbers, bounces, unsub requests, social network views and a massive variety of other analytics. It also allows you to view a copy of the email with hotspots showing click through areas and % statistics etc.

In regards to actually learning how to lay the emails out and improve click rates I will read the guides provided.

Thanks all.

Hi All,

I'm fairly inexperienced when it comes to email marketing and know that it isn't as simple as firing off an email and hoping for the best. Realistically it involves tracking responses, clicks and overall the conversion of what you are trying to achieve.

My job involves email marketing on a monthly basis and although I'm capable of sending emails I want to be maximize the results and perfect them.

I'm sure that those reading this agree and have looked into perfecting their email marketing campaigns over the years.

Can those with experience point me in the right direction with this?. I'm open to all resources both free and paid including videos, blogs and other various resources.

If you can recommend a book of some sort that would also be appreciated. Personal experience and advice would also be fantastic.

As mentioned, I'm capable of actually sending emails and we use 'dotmailer' as it features analytics. I need to know how I can better my skills and ultimately increase the success of email campaigns.

Kind Regards,

Luke Hutchinson.

To be honest, I would be more likely to click a branded domain over the EMD. From what you have said there is numerous EMD domains on the first page meaning it is likely that users will ignore and think of them as spammy. I'm not basing this on any facts so don't quote me on it or anything but I am speaking from my own experience and how I know my friends and family think.

Thanks.

Thanks for the advice.

I have about 30 websites in total including a few eCommerce sites that I sell services on (they convert), video autoblogs, niche websites and a variety of other websites.

I'm competent with SEO and have a portfolio for rankings both locally and internationally. I rank locally for multiple keywords, nationally and internationally for low - medium competition niches.

As far as SEO goes, I feel that I am at a stage where I can't learn a great deal more and it is now at a stage where the things I am learning are the kind of things others in SEO learn on a daily basis such as new techniques and questioning existing ones (perfecting them). Don't get me wrong I'm not an SEO expert in comparison to lots of SEOmozers that are SEO professionals are but I am capable of ranking a large majority of websites with all core SEO techniques and can have an in-depth conversation with them.

I also have a few large websites that have 5,000+ pages ranking for lots of keywords in various cities. These bring traffic to my ecommerce websites.

I also have experience with eBay SEO and SEO on a variety of other platforms as well as Social Media and PPC on some platforms.

The college course is extremely simple and covers the basics of social media, as mentioned I'm doing it purely for the paperwork.

I do need to grow my skills though as I lack the commercial experience and I know for a fact that there is a difference between ranking websites in your own time for various niches and ranking them for a corporate company.

I was reading a few SEO articles a while back which actually covered what SEO involves now and as you said it covers a huge variety of things such as general marketing, web development and to a certain extent design.

My view is that the SEO/IM should be capable of managing on their own when it comes to web development. They should be capable of implementing basic features that they need and creating images that are not graphic intensive as well as modifying existing content to suite.

I want to pick a degree that will serve as a backing for my career and the platform for my knowledge. Once I choose a degree I can self teach the other aspects or complete some short courses.

A friend of mine is actually dong a masters degree in computer science and recommended that I do web development as a degree and business as a sub course and then self teach the other things.

Realistically I think that there is only so much you can learn as such when it comes to SEO and Internet Marketing and as previously mentioned no matter how much of an expert you are you continue to learn bits and pieces each day.

Rand is known as a SEO expert but I'm sure he to learns on a daily basis.

Again, thanks for the response I appreciate you taking the time to answer my question. I was wary about doing web dev as I don't want to fall into doing web development constantly. I enjoy the variety that Digital Marketing/ Internet Marketing offers as it typically seems to cover bits of everything and does not get boring.

Thanks.

Surely the links are no-follow?. I personally don't know anyone at all that pays for Alexa. Also, Is it 9.99 one time or per month?

Thanks

Hi Lawrence,

I'm far from expert on the subject of .org but my understanding was that you can now use .org for anything and the none profit aspect no longer applies as such.

I don't know if it helps but I recall reading a blog post by Rand a few weeks back and he mentioned the .org of SEOmoz. He stated that .org was originally used due to the fact that SEOmoz was none profit but once they went commercial they kept the .org.

SEOmoz is obviously commercial as products are sold yet .org is used. Based on this fact and the other mass of .org domains being used commercially, it indicates to me that using .org commercially is perfectly fine.

I would personally feel safe using a .org and would recommend it should the .net or .com be taken. In some cases I would actually opt for .org over .net.

I hope that I helped,

Luke Hutchinson.