most recent 30 from http://www.searchmarketingarena.com 2010-03-10T06:45:37Z http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/feeds http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/509/google-adwords-and-organic-ranking smeger 2010-01-16T19:06:49Z 2010-03-09T22:23:54Z

<p>It is true that Google don't give a good organic ranking at the websites that have ongoing an AdWords campaign?</p> <p>thanks</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/248/http-error-on-webmasters-google-but-urls-work-fine stefano 2009-10-31T07:58:54Z 2010-03-09T13:23:53Z

<p>Hi guys, congrats for this site :) So, i have a problem, i'm using Google Webmasters to monitor my site, i have something like 150.000 pages indexed on Google, but now i see that Google reports many errors on my sitemaps and on HTTP error page for many threads of my vbulletin forum. Urls seems not available for Google's bot, but if i try to visit them all works fine, how can i solve this problem? Seems that my indexed pages are slowing down right now, but i don't kno why!!! Thanks </p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/532/sub-domain-vs-cc-tld kooka 2010-02-16T10:35:04Z 2010-03-09T09:25:50Z

<p>My site is now in English, I plan to add a Japanese version. Should I create a sub-domain like jp.mydomain.com or use a .JP top-level domain?</p> <p>The situation is, My site has a PR7 and the ranking is pretty good, so if I create a sub-domain for the Japanese version, will I get a better ranking than brand new .JP top-level domain?</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/136/freelancer-or-company Fabrizio Di Carlo 2009-10-19T17:49:07Z 2010-03-09T02:24:09Z

<p>In your opinion, when is a case to work as a freelancer and when it's time to open a SEO consulting company?</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/418/items-description-for-a-multilanguage-site enzone 2009-12-14T18:53:10Z 2010-03-09T00:23:28Z

<p>Hi, if I've a multilanguage site for selling something (eg. cars), every user has the possibility to add detail field and a general description field.</p> <p>Now, regarding the description field which is the best solution:</p> <p>1) Give to the user to update/insert a Description for each languages.</p> <p><strong>Pro</strong>: The user can manage the description for all languages. If they are populated I've pages with the specific content language</p> <p><strong>Contro</strong>: I've the real possibility that for some languages the Item doesn't have the Descrition populated if it is not entered by the users. </p> <p>2)The users will update/insert only one Descriptions for a specific language (based on the login language page).</p> <p><strong>Pro</strong>: In this case I've all the page with the Descriptions</p> <p><strong>Contro</strong>: On a Eng page I should have Ita Description</p> <p>3) the scenario 2 but using a JS to traslate with Google Traslator the content </p> <p><strong>Pro</strong>: all the pages will have for the end user an automatic traslator page</p> <p><strong>Contro</strong>: maybe Google continue to read in a wrong language (no JS are executed).</p> <p>Which is the best approach in the case? </p> <p>Moving around in many portals I've noticed that they are using for simplicity the <strong>option (2)</strong></p> <p>Regards Enzo</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/376/article-marketing-and-duplicate-content enzone 2009-11-30T14:21:02Z 2010-03-08T22:23:59Z

<p>Hi, is not so clear for me what is really duplicate content and what is ok...obviously it is clear that if I copy and paste an article from another website it is duplicate content, but I would like to have more clear some different topics:</p> <ol> <li><strong>Article Marketing Webites</strong>: May I have an article written by me that is published on my website, and I want to push it in the article marketing sites (one or more)...If I put the article as it is: <ul> <li>Do I create a duplicate content? If yes but to who? For me? For the article marketing sites?</li> <li>Do I have to choose if publish it on the Article Marketing sites or on my Website? Which is better? </li> <li>May I publish the same article to more than one Article Marketing site?</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Aggregator Websites</strong>: is it clear that they don't create duplicate content...but why, if I have an article that is on my sites and it is published also on some aggregator sites.</li> </ol> <p>Regards Enzo</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/295/seo-and-change-of-the-http-protocol-to-https Rinzi 2009-11-10T20:34:52Z 2010-03-08T14:24:11Z

<p>A site with good link popularity, trust and ranking on search engine is to change his internet protocol. </p> <p>Today all pages are aviable with the HTTP protocol, soon be applied the HTTPS protocol for all the site.</p> <p><strong>Examples</strong>:</p> <pre><code>Today: http://www.domain.com http://www.domain.com/page.html Tomorrow: https://www.domain.com https://www.domain.com/page.html </code></pre> <p>Can harm the ranking these change?</p> <p>What should the site owner to preserve the search engines ranking?</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/311/how-to-create-a-good-squeeze-page franconov 2009-11-13T20:10:43Z 2010-03-07T16:23:34Z

<p>Is there a method for creating an effective squeeze page?</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/516/what-ctr-can-i-expect-with-adsense ripper234 2010-02-01T14:18:53Z 2010-03-03T12:26:20Z

<p>I know this is different between sites, etc... but what CTR rate do you people get?</p> <p>So far I had about 1000 impressions with 0 clicks. The ads are still not optimized, I"m seeing ads that are not related to my site at all - I assume these will settle once I get some clicks.</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/510/google-analytics-doesnt-show-adsense-data snoofy 2010-01-16T20:06:37Z 2010-03-03T09:24:16Z

<p>I would track the AdSense Clicks on my sites in the Google Analytics Account.</p> <p>I've linked the accounts but Google Analytics doesn't show the Adsense data, what is the problem?</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/529/how-to-separate-content-in-different-languages Oleksandr Bolotov 2010-02-15T23:20:33Z 2010-03-02T09:23:35Z

<p>When making site with content in multiple languages is it better to:</p> <ul> <li>separate it using sub-domains</li> <li>separate it using sub-folders</li> <li>generate it depending on browser preferred language and/or geoip setting and then settings stored in cookies. That sounds good but… Will it work for different search engines? Do they have preferred language set in their request headers?</li> </ul>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/333/commission-junction-and-direct-deposit-to-italy weppos 2009-11-20T21:38:01Z 2010-03-01T19:23:53Z

<p>According to <a href="http://www.cj.com/" rel="nofollow">Commission Junction</a> help section, publishers who bank in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the US and the UK are eligible to receive their commissions via direct deposit into their bank account, rather than by check.</p> <p>As you can see, Italy is not included in the list and I haven't been able to find a way to get paid via Direct Deposit. Checks are slow and expensive and I had to increase the minimum payout amount to reduce the number of checks per year.</p> <p>Is there any Italian Commission Junction user here? How do you get payments?</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/441/modify-the-google-suggestions-helps-results petez 2009-12-18T14:21:39Z 2010-02-28T15:24:54Z

<p>How to modify the Google Suggestions helps results?</p> <p>It's possible?</p> <p>Sometimes it is dangerous to the reputation online :D</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/547/too-many-meta-keywords-dragging-down-search-results unknown (google) 2010-02-26T14:27:20Z 2010-02-26T21:51:19Z

<p>A while ago, we hired someone do re-do our corporate web site. They way the designed our site, they use some 50 keywords for each page, most of which are tangentially related to our products or services. Could these be muddying the waters as far as rankings?</p> <p>The reason I ask is that the web-login for one of our flagship products, which has no SEO other than the URL is the name of the product, is the #1 search result, while the page on our corporate website promoting the product doesn't even place in the search results!</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/548/search-funnels-tool-other-than-microsoft-adlabs Jay Neely 2010-02-26T21:44:43Z 2010-02-26T21:44:43Z

<p>I'm curious if anyone knows of a tool for viewing search funnels (from a starting keyword, which related keywords do people search for afterward) other than <a href="http://adlab.microsoft.com/Search-Funnels/index.aspx" rel="nofollow">Microsoft AdLabs'</a>. Do any alternatives exist?</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/150/new-contents-how-to-publish-them Alessandro.Binello 2009-10-20T09:11:25Z 2010-02-25T11:23:36Z

<p>I'm working to optimize an hotel's website. This site has 30 pages in 2 languages (total: 60 pages).</p> <p>I wrote new relevant contents and I created 55 new pages (only for 1 language, at the moment).</p> <p>Should I publish all the new pages at the same time? Or is it better to publish them at different time (5 pages a week, 10 pages a month, etc)?</p> <p>How interpret search engines the sudden pages increase? </p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/432/new-google-adsense-control-panel petez 2009-12-16T20:57:04Z 2010-02-25T11:23:36Z

<p>I know that Google has recently released the new Google Adsense Control panel. My friends have the new version from some week, but I have not yet the new features. </p> <p>When will be available the new Google Adsense control panel to everybody?</p> <p>What are the new features?</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/427/how-to-detect-the-search-engines-visits-to-a-directory-with-google-analytics Carlao 2009-12-15T18:21:36Z 2010-02-25T00:23:50Z

<p>I need to know the search engine traffic to a specific directory to make a detailed analysis of SEO campaign results. </p> <p>How do I detect search engine visits to a directory with Google Analytics?</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/424/google-analytics-tracking-code-as-external-file phpsys 2009-12-15T14:52:25Z 2010-02-23T08:27:21Z

<p>Is it safe to move the Google Analytics tracking code into an external javascript file and link it instead of writing the code in each page? What I want to do is to take the following code</p> <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("..."); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}&lt;/script&gt; </code></pre> <p>and save it as google-analytics.js. Then I would rather use something like the following code in all my pages.</p> <p></p> <p>Does it makes sense? Would it work?</p> <p>In case you are wondering why I need to move the tracking code, my application architecture is quite complex and all the JavaScript and CSS files are minified and compressed on deploy. The technical department asked to merge the Google Analytics JavaScript code with the other JavaScript files to take advantage of asset caching.</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/538/is-there-a-method-to-prevent-google-from-indexing-a-div-or-a-p Nena 2010-02-19T12:32:21Z 2010-02-23T08:22:08Z

<p>It's not a black seo request, I have a toolbar in my website and Google News takes it as an article preview. Instead of moving the toolbar in the source code (very time-consuming and expensive solution) I'd like to know if there is a better/more simple solution.</p> <p>And it's an interesting topic by the way ;)</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/542/please-explain-this-search-engine-phenomenon Paul 2010-02-21T23:33:57Z 2010-02-22T05:56:46Z

<p>How can a rather rudimentary site www.findatutor.ca completely and consistently dominate both google and bing for keywords pattern "subject tutor city" for all major cities in Canada There are several tutoring listings sites, but no one even come close with search results</p> <pre><code>math tutor ottawa 3 www.findatutor.ca/tutor/list/7/19 english tutor ottawa 3 www.findatutor.ca/tutor/list/6/19 chemistry tutor ottawa 1 www.findatutor.ca/tutor/list/3/19 math tutor toronto 1 www.findatutor.ca/tutor/list/7/9 english tutor toronto 1 www.findatutor.ca/tutor/list/6/9 chemistry tutor toronto 1 www.findatutor.ca/tutor/list/3/9 math tutor calgary 1 www.findatutor.ca/tutor/list/7/17 english tutor calgary 1 www.findatutor.ca/tutor/list/6/17 chemistry tutor calgary 1 www.findatutor.ca/tutor/list/3/0 </code></pre> <p>Doesn't <a href="http://www.findatutor.ca/tutor/list/7/19" rel="nofollow">http://www.findatutor.ca/tutor/list/7/19</a> page even brake all SEO rules? no keywords, description, little of content? and yet it holds 3rd position in google?</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/539/is-there-social-truth-and-what-is-social-truth franconov 2010-02-20T21:53:47Z 2010-02-20T21:53:47Z

<p>As Social Media continues to move toward maturity, it is beginning to coalesce around several core truths. Someone have a report of his experience in social network?</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/534/google-adwords-and-keywords Allain Lalonde 2010-02-16T14:56:26Z 2010-02-17T22:16:03Z

<p>If an advertiser is appearing in the sponsored links when I search for a trademarked word, does that necessarily mean that they have purchased ads under that keyword, or could the Google Algorithms be associating that advertiser with the keyword indirectly?</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/528/topical-current-seo-book Oleksandr Bolotov 2010-02-15T22:43:45Z 2010-02-16T12:10:19Z

<p>Could you advice good book on white-hat SEO.</p> <p>I know that best way to get good position in search engines is to write original content, but I think this question should be asked anyway.</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/533/how-to-develop-an-automated-solution-to-avoid-the-duplicated-contents-creation Arthur 2010-02-16T11:37:06Z 2010-02-16T11:37:06Z

<p>Hi to all!</p> <p>I am managing a website focused on computers and plasma-TVs ecommerce.</p> <p>I am wondering if someone can suggest me some programming tips in order to automate the modification process of the product description pages. In this way, every content will look different from the manifacturers description pages.</p> <p>I have already automated the metas TITLE, DESCRIPTION and KEYWORDS generation process, but it isn't still enough to improve my website visibility in Google.</p> <p>Any suggestion?</p> <p>Thank you in advance!</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/524/best-website-speed-tools enzone 2010-02-10T08:37:33Z 2010-02-15T19:42:45Z

<p>Hi, I've found an intersting topig that collects 10 Web Tools to check your website performance</p> <p><a href="http://techpp.com/2009/02/11/10-free-tools-check-website-loading-time/" rel="nofollow">http://techpp.com/2009/02/11/10-free-tools-check-website-loading-time/</a></p> <p>Which of them are more useful for you?</p> <p>Have you any other tools to compare website performances?</p> <p>Regards Enzo</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/525/sequence-keywords-order-in-a-title enzone 2010-02-10T09:06:05Z 2010-02-14T17:26:11Z

<p>Which is the best order/sequence for a Title</p> <ul> <li>Used boats and New boats for sale</li> <li>New boats and Used boats for sale</li> <li>Used and New boats for sale</li> <li>New and Used boats for sale</li> </ul> <p>If I would like to push on Used Boats....which is the best option?</p> <p>Regards Enzo</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/520/can-we-have-multiple-urls-without-being-penalised-by-google unknown (google) 2010-02-07T10:09:17Z 2010-02-10T04:17:26Z

<p>I know that duplicate content is not allowed. But if your base site was:</p> <p>www.Florida-Widgets.com</p> <p>and you wanted to expand and project the image of a multi-state operation and register Texas-Widgets.com and Alabama-Widgets.com, how could you best proceed?</p> <ol> <li><p>do redirect to your base site?</p></li> <li><p>show a single holding page of fresh content for Texas and Alabama (though with the same header &amp; footer &amp; branding as our base site) and link to your base Florida site</p></li> </ol> <p>Would either of these be heavily penalised?</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/522/redirect-traffic-from-old-googlepages-com-website-to-new-domain vrish88 2010-02-08T23:47:19Z 2010-02-08T23:47:19Z

<p>Hello all,</p> <p>I've got a site on an old googlepages.com site that has a fairly high searching engine result for choice keywords and I'd like to redirect search engines to a new domain address. Now I understand that this can be accomplished with 301 redirects but I do not have that level of control through the googlepages interface on the old site.</p> <p>So I did some research and I found <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/switch-from-blogger-to-wordpress/9707/" rel="nofollow">one solution</a> that seems feasible. In this solution the author suggests that you:</p> <ol> <li>Replace your current site with a single link to the new site which also passes parameters which tell which page it's coming from.</li> <li>On that page figure out what is the corresponding page on the new site.</li> <li>Send a 301 redirect back to the browser to the corresponding page.</li> </ol> <p>So the question is, is this feasible and will it work? Are there better solutions out there?</p> <p>Thanks.</p>

http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/questions/456/seo-for-google-news phpsys 2009-12-22T13:21:14Z 2010-01-21T08:25:33Z

<p>I manage the SEO project of a very important online sport journal. The CMS is recently optimized for SEO and the ranking on search engines is very good, but unfortunately the site isn't ranked on Google News.</p> <p>I have added all news in the XML sitemap for Google News and pages are indexed but not present at the first news results.</p> <p>Someone experienced with the SEO for Google News?</p>