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[Baniboy]

Damn anwiii, you should have a Dr. Phil show but for SEO Are you going to vlog soon before the trend is over?

Anyway... Dear Dr. anwiii, I have small tutorial site that tries to give tips for web site builders, much like what you do in your show, but the technical and critical website structure-related information instead. Anyway, since my website isn't only about one subject like how to get a kindle or something, I don't have keywords for the whole site (well I have tutorials , web designer tutorials and stuff like that, but the market is too crowded for me to try to shove my site through on google to even get on the 100th page), instead, what attracts people to my site is the individual tutorials and how-to stuff people search for. I am aware though that having an overall good pagerank will help me get closer to the top with my tutorials, but the tuts themselves make a big difference.
I don't promote my site in any way at the moment. I get 6 visitors a day, almost all of them arrive through google. I haven't posted any content in months.
I wondered if you could give any suggestions for promoting the tutorials and getting them higher in the search (you know, except the usual subheader and bold text and stuff). What kinds of keywords should I use? Currently I'm using 3-4 keywords each consisting of 2-4 words. I was thinking of promoting on Facebook or Digg. But none of my main facebook account friends are interested in websites, nobody will probably digg my stuff... it'll be just like those blogs where there is a pathetic "tweet this" or "share this" button and it says nobody has tweeted it or shared it on facebook on every page. It's almost as pathetic as the share this buttons on this forum... I mean, who is actually going to do that? on a forum? People are lazy. The only thing I can think of is linkbacks. Other than social networking and article sharing sites I can think of spamming forums and blogs. But I don't want to spam for linkbacks. So, any suggestions for a tutorial site type of thing? Like, you know, before you leave the sutra thing forever...

[mahesh2k]

Hi anwii, now that i'm inactive on this site i find it hard to follow your replies and thread. Is there any other place you're active? forum or blog ?

Thanks for the update. Glad to know that you're starting a guidance site for mini sites and make money online. This is very much needed because there is a lot of distractions already. By the way can you discuss changes like LSI, Grammar mistake and search results, duplicate content topics on this thread ? this will keep this thread active. If you don't want, you can post it on your blog or another forum if KS is going crappy and down like this. (Psst- astahost is down for 2 days and trap17 redirect for this forum stopped working, sad to know the way shri is thinking). Anyway, that's not our problem. I would love to see update on above three topics - LSI, Grammar mistake and search results, duplicate content.

[mahesh2k]

Hi anwii, thanks for the answers. Few more questions that i have regarding these topics.

1. LSI - i'm a bit confused with overall pictuer of LSI, any idea how to view it in layman's way ?

2. Grammar Mistakes - i wasn't clear with grammar mistakes/typos. I mean to say if bani and i started separate blogs on ASP.NET and being a non-native speaker if my blog contains typo and grammar mistake more than bani but carry more content then how quality and social vote will be judged ? i know that there are many irish, poland programmers who write in less grammatical friendly way but have solid content, in such case how google will judge with ? backlinks ? social promotion ?

3. Duplicate content - by the way, adding comments under the duplicate content increases SE value ? i know it is myth but some people i came across on infobarrel say comments are also part of content for which i disagree,so asking you for this.

4. Content length - do you think there is minimum and maximum content length limit ? i know more words are helpful for SE promotion but i have also seen 150-200 words content ranking higher. so which should be min threshold ?

Thanks again for the earlier answers. I find it hard to post here but this thread is keeping my one foot sticky at KS.

[mahesh2k]

Hi Anwii thanks for answers. I did one experiment 6 months ago related to nofollow link and my results are definitely impressive. I started one site and used article writing on xomba and few other nofollow sites and found that domain was indexed in few hours. So yes, google does pay some attention to nofollow places on the web. I'm definitely going to pay attention to directories and content writing sites which are keeping nofollow tag on the submitted articles. Those places are good for traffic because on such places there seems to be a lot of member activity.In between i'll definitely spend some time testing how 150 word page performs on SE (though i have strong feeling that it'll perform good if there are other feeds on page just like on xomba or other sites where bookmark submission length is 50-150 words). Also thanks for clarification on grammar mistakes/typo, i think i have to get back to my british english class notes.

[web_designer]

really very interesting posts and replies anwiii, i will give you another wisdom flag because you really deserve it my friend . and if you are really going to leave this forum (which i hope not ) because i used to see your name in online members or posts or topics posted by you or even a fun comment in the status, so not seeing you around is a horrible loose. but if you did, i will respect your choice and i must say that you left with (glorious leaving) with this thread and all your past threads you left your touch here. and we are all will be appreciated to you, because most of us don't know a lot about seo, or know a little and messed up with what they should do, as i do .

now i want to ask something, according to what i read till now, comments is important to bring traffics, and i am now using "akismet plugin" to avoid spam. and i must say since i started using it i rarely get any comments, and my website's rank in google be worse. as i remember, i read recently a topic a few days ago to avoid akismet plugin and use anyone else, so, what do you think?? should i keep it or use another one, and if so which one do you recommended??
thanks in advance, and waiting for your next post

ah by the way, the keyword "kindlewirelessreadingdevices" is RANK #2 in google right now.

and

the keyword "kindle wireless reading devices" is RANK #11 in google now

both of them navigate to your site, i checked that personally .

"WOW ...A HUGE SUCCESS ANWIII...GREAT JOB"

[web_designer]

anwiii, on 04 January 2011 - 03:01 AM, said:

i don't like plugins that prevent spam comments personally. it's the lazy man's way to control spam. i have my comments set to admin approval. i would rather look through all of them myself. once in a while, you have spammer who will spam your blog non stop with comments. with that, you just block the ip directly. the reason why i don't like spam filters is the same reason why ligitimate mail gets sent to your spam folder. i hate that! so although i have my own opinion on that akismet plugin i never enabled, i can see the purpose for it.

kindlewirelessreadingdevices nobody will ever search for the other one people search for. as well as the non plural word which actually gets more searches where i am on the second page for that as well without doing much. but i will take a piece of the 7,000 searches once i get on the main page but my mind is elsewhere right now.....

i think my next post on how to seo will be about how to get ahead of the bigger websites like amazon. according the my example site, amazon holds the top 3 spots. people think it's tough to get ahead of them, but it's not as hard as people think if they realize the legitimate theories behind seo and not assume too many false theories and rumors.

thanks a lot to your reply. and i share you your opinion. and i will disable aksimet plugin, i know i want to do that long time ago. because even if others taking advantages of my site by taking backlink from my site. but i think it is ok, since i have fun reading all those comments either they were spam or not . i feel like i am more connected to my site than now. and i really think that if my site isn't well known better than before then i won't get spam any more . so, no more aksimet any more and thanks again anwiii.

[livepcportal]

Hi anwii,

I have got a query for you to answer!

Suppose there is a smoothly running website having content focusing on the keyword "XYZ". But, the site don't have keyword "XYZ" in its domain name[..... and it is clear from your kindlewirelessreadingdevices.net that how having keywords in your domain name can lead to higher search engine rankings....] However, the domain name with exactly same keyword "XYZ" is available. SO, if the domain name with keyword "XYZ" is purchased and added as an add on domain name to the existing domain name and website.

Will this change affect the search engine ranking of the site? Will this add on domain name with the keyword "XYZ" in its domain name improve search engine ranking of the existing site?

Also, your kindlewirelessreadingdevices.net is motivating me. Would you mind telling me if the site kindlewirelessreadingdevices.net have started generating you some revenue or not? Also, how much visits you are getting daily on your site.

I am extremely desperate to see some stats of your site, so that I can analyze and learn something from it

Waiting for reply

Regards

Edited by livepcportal, 04 January 2011 - 02:20 PM.

[Little Asterisk]

Hey Anwii, I've just noticed your topic here on How to SEO and wanted to congratulate you on coming up with such a topic and writing good content so far. I hope you continue with your "quest" although you haven't yet reached number one; but if you stop now, there's no way to know if you ever will!

There are a few things that bother me, though, and I just wanted to get them out there:

1. The titles. While you've chosen good titles and they would be picked up by Google as fairly relevant, unfortunately you've only increased their size, whilst their importance remained the same as "regular" text (if you check the source of the website, you'll see that the titles are marked up like so:

<span style="font-size: 21px">How to SEO</span>

If we wanted them to be more important from a SEO aspect, it would be better to do something like this:

<h1>How to SEO</h1>

2. The body copy. You're writing a fine tutorial, but readers can see when you repeat words too often, especially when they're set in bold and, possibly, underlined. Yes, I'm talking about "How to SEO." It IS important from an SEO standpoint, but you shouldn't terrorize your readers just because of it. On a normal website, you really should try NOT to repeat words just for the sake of SEO. It's more important to write fluid, "regular" text.

3. Also, I've noticed that bold words are marked up as <b> tags, while I believe that <strong> tags would be more relevant from an SEO standpoint. W3C states <b> and <i> tags are purely presentational tags, respectively. <strong> and <em> tags, on the other hand are structural elements (a simplified version on http://www.webmaster...orum21/9344.htm ).

I hope you understand I'm not trying to say anything is wrong with your posts, but just that a forum like Knowledgesutra, where you haven't got full control over your content and markup, isn't perfect when trying to make the best SEO decisions.

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Finally, I have a question for you:
In one of your posts, you've written the name of one of your competitors with a "DOT" instead of ".", and said that's because you don't want Google to pick up on it and give them a better PR. But doesn't Google only index links that have an anchor tag applied to them?

So I believe that, while "google.com" wouldn't be indexed, "google.com" would. What do you think?


Sorry to have bothered you so much, but I just felt inspired to write something here considering I didn't for a while now, and your topic seemed really interesting.

Thanks,
Littleasterisk

[outsourcelink]

Thanks for the such an informative post.