Social media as a variable annoys the %$#@ out of me honestly. Being a 12 year SEO vet I frequently think back to simpler times...
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RE: Google plus one
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Google plus one
Does having a lot of Google +1 adds really affect your ranking?
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RE: What company/person do you recommend for improving conversion rates on landing pages?
What is the cost for something like this?
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RE: What company/person do you recommend for improving conversion rates on landing pages?
That is my expertise so I never have had to hire one. The most basic thing to remember is
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MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO SEPARATE YOUR VISITOR FROM HIS MONEY OR INFORMATION
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ASSUME IT IS THE FIRST TIME THE PERSON VIEWING YOUR WEBSITE HAS EVER USED A COMPUTER
Follow that to start with and you will double conversions. That was free the rest well...:)
"I seek a page-level review of a specific area of my site. "
send me something to look at
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RE: What caused my huge drop in search ranking?
On first glance I would blame this on the domain migration.
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RE: What caused my huge drop in search ranking?
Are you comparing adbio.com to www.bioworldusa.com when you are calculating rankings drop or are you saying traffic to www.bioworldusa.com has dropped?
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RE: Do you consider it risky to hire outside firms to build links?
What happened to JC Penny??
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RE: Can you dominate a niche with just guest posts?
I don't think any one technique will cause you to dominate anything. If your site has great content coupled with guest posts and other link techniques you will certainly compete provided your competition is not putting as much into it. The short answer is "not necessarily"
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RE: Where to link to HTML Sitemap?
I always create one and link from the footer text navigation. It is beneficial for usability and search engine spidering. Also. I never add special qualifiers to links like follow etc etc unless it is in the negative (don't follow etc) and even then you can omit pages via robots.txt
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RE: How best to set up Google + business pages for clients
I do it in basically the same way I do facebook pages for clients. I set up a band new personal Google account for the client, set up a G+ account THEN setup a business page from there. This way the client can maintain ownership of the account if you part ways and will not be connected to any of your properties. I believe this is considered a "best practice".
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RE: How to search HTML source for an entire website
Is it a website you own?
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RE: Site-wide/Blogroll Anchor Text Linking
"From my experience it is really rare to get a keywords as anchor text on blogroll links."
do you mean when you request them?
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RE: Site-wide/Blogroll Anchor Text Linking
I totally agree that context is extremely important. Perhaps if Content is King, Context is Queen
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Site-wide/Blogroll Anchor Text Linking
I have some blogs that I own with 10,000+ indexed pages of content. I have wondered for sometime if adding anchor text links for my clients on relevant blogs would be helpful or harmful. I realize that having an anchor text link on ONE article page in context is better than 10,000 anchor text links on my blog roll or footer, but I have been reluctant to use this strategy due to the bad press site wide and blogroll links have gotten,
What has been YOUR experience with this method?
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Do you believe CTR affects rankings
As you know, Google tracks CTR on keywords for your website visible through google Webmaster Tools. How much if at all do you believe this affects your rankings on the tracked keywords?
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RE: Keyword Research on SEOmoz
I really believe this would add infinite value mutually.
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Google Analytics - Goal tracking question
If my form starts on domain1.com/leadform/html and the confirmation page is on Domain2.com/confirmation.html can I still set up GA goal conversion tracking?