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High Bounce Rate
Looks like your site was the target of an advertisement. If you didn't place the add... stranger things have happened. It's not all that uncommon to get a link placed somewhere weird on the web and receive 100s or even 1000s of off-topic visits a day. Almost always in these cases, your bounce rate and time-on-site are negatively effected. But don't worry. A high bounce rate in this case won't hurt you at all. What Google (and the other search engines) are looking for is the "long click". Dr. Pete calls it "dwell time" in this article he recently wrote. What this means is that when Google itself directs users to your website, they don't want those users returning to Google right away to click on another result or perform another search. This is the type of high bounce rate that can hurt you. On the other hand, Google doesn't care (and doesn't even look at your analytics) if a 3rd party is sending you off-topic clicks. Hope this helps. Best of luck with your SEO!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Cyrus-Shepard0 -
Details about SMO
Hello and welcome to the industry! Since you're new, you're going to want to start here: http://www.seomoz.org/article/social-media-marketing-tactics Do a lot of reading. I mean a lot. Read and read and read. Then make sure you read this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tracking-the-roi-of-social-media That'll make sure you don't fall into the SMO for SMO's sake trap. You've joined the right community if you're looking for help, and we'll all be glad to help you get started. Your initial query, however, is really really vague. If you can get more specific we can provide better, more directed help.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | MRCSearch0 -
My ranking got down from 4 to 9 in just 2 days
Hey, Now its not there in the SERP. Is there any way i will come to know the reason for these? It was in position 4 may be 5 days ago. Today it is not there. Help!!!!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | raybiswa0 -
I want some good bookmarking sites to work with.
Vahe's post below is a good way of maximising the benefits of these othewise low quality links. As far as finding others, that is what most of SEO is and somewhat beyond a reply here. Search quality sites like seomoz for linkbuilding for an endless stream of ideas. Always run suggestions through a filter of what you already know and what you want to achieve as there is a lot of seemingly contradictory answers in seo.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | matbennett0 -
Do we have to do different work for SEO for an affiliate site than for a normal blog?
Hi raybiswa, Matt Cutts gave some insight on this. I can not for the life of me, dig it up, I believe it was a video. The topic was either affiliate links or ratio of advertising to content or maybe reviews? Sorry! The basis of the advice was the same as always great content, more content, typical stuff. But, then he gave a little tidbit that I have found vitally important when dealing with affiliate marketing. He made a statement that said as long as you're "giving visitors choices, you'll be fine". I tested this, I had a pretty established page that was ranking very well and by chance it had 3 affiliate links at the bottom to 3 different partner stores. For fun, I deleted two of them. The page dropped SIGNIFICANTLY, I wasn't using SEOMoz tools at the time but, traffic dipped from 60-80 visits per day to less than 10. I left it for about a month and it never regained the ranking, until, I added the two options back to the page. It came back to previous levels within 2 weeks. So, give visitors options, use real reviews, watch your ratio of content to aff links and that works fine for me. Also, I have a mini site that deals with the sale of tickets. There are only a couple ticket providers available so this method works for me. At the bottom of each event description I use a link to a single page that has links to the 3 main providers. I no index and no follow that page with the aff links. That seems to work very well and only a small percentage of click throughs seem to be lost, not having the aff links on every page is well worth the slight loss in the click through transition. I hope this tidbit helps you out. I also hope that you weren't asking about YOU being the sales page and having affiliates pointing links at you! If so, I completely misunderstood! And that is a totally different topic!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | dogflog0