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I have wondered before how much some particular rankings are worth. Certainly there are a lot of first page rankings that are worth a lot to the business who has them, but how do you put a value on that? None of the domain name reselling guides talk about rankings at all.
This thread/story brings two things to mind; one is the fact that there are SEO company sales people out there (big ones) who use the "we rank better for 'seo term' than 'other company we are pitching against'" argument to potential clients.
And it is about traffic and conversion, but it is amazing how many clients find that difficult to grasp.
I've seen this before, but the seeing it every time is new, which is an interesting thing. I think previously, if you signed up you would just see them more often than average.
When I read the intro to this I assumed it was going to mean they were searching Facebook et al to choose him a name that no-one else had :-) Go register that .com domain name for myname.com now!
Wow, this one takes me back a long way. There was some speculation years ago (I'm talking the 90s here) that if you searched for a domain on one particular ISPs website that they would register it and try to sell it to you to stop you doing it elsewhere. I believe it turned out to be groundless, but this appears to be Network Solutions doing something similar even if their intentions are good.
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There's an interesting counter argument here: http://searchengineland.com/080306-083414.php
There are definitely sites I've worked on where the Privacy Policy is one of the highest weighted pages on the site because of the number of links to it! It's right to have the link there for human & usability reasons, but it isn't important for the search engines to give that page the weighting this gives, hence the using of nofollow internally.
Before I became a full time SEO I assumed that all web designers at least took things into consideration when they built a site. Since - well, I've been shocked out of that assumption!
I enjoyed this comparative list. I've seen plenty of implementations of these on various blogs but never tried any myself, so it's great to see a comparison.
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If you've got a .co.uk site that targets people out of the UK you are out of luck - there's no option to say that you really want to target another country instead.
I'll agree it's a really basic post, but there are *so* many websites out there that get these basics wrong. Until I started working as an SEO I didn't really realise that there were still people building sites that were so damn difficult for a spider to crawl!
Story: HTML Entities and SEO
It does say that in the article, but it's an SEO article, which is why it comes at things from that point of view! I always advocate good valid XHTML, but if people correct these things because they think it will benefit their optimisation, then it will doubly do so by also making their page valid.
PS Thanks for the sphinn Walt!
Story: HTML Entities and SEO
Hey g1smd, that is so true. I ran the validator on a site the other day and I couldn't believe I had to use the scrollbar so much!!
Have noticed this a lot, and in fact for several months (I'm in the UK). Sometimes you get an interesting blend of ads for the second search with a combo of the two queries.
What does my head in is trying to figure out what term Google reports that you clicked on the search for, if I do click an ad for e.g. perfume when my second search is actually for lawyers. My guess is it gets billed back to the first term.
Web designers need to also learn the difference between "search engine friendly" and the ongoing process of SEO.
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