Search Engine Optimization generally refers to all technical and non-technical measures to improve an organizations' visibility in search engine results.
14
votes
12answers
884 views
SEO: Where can I get reliable information about building my website presence and reputation? [closed]
Every web site owner wants more traffic. There's an overwhelming amount of information out there about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Some is legitimate, some outdated, much is based on rumor and ...
12
votes
11answers
1k views
What are your top 3 - 5 SEO tips? [closed]
We're working on improving our website. We're using WordPress with the "All in One SEO Pack" plugin. But I have very limited knowledge on this topic. I'm interested in hearing what your top SEO tips ...
9
votes
4answers
576 views
What is the best way to spend an initial budget of $1000 on SEO?
We recently launched an online quoting SaaS and are targeting some fairly competitive keywords (e.g. quoting software or quoting system). Because the domain is relatively new (~6 months), I know it ...
8
votes
6answers
700 views
How to approach SEO for a new website?
We have just launched (yesterday actually!) a website for our startup - providing mobile and Facebook app development services. Sales will totally drive from leads generated from the website. ...
8
votes
18answers
6k views
What is the best free seo rank checker tool? [closed]
I am looking for a tool that can monitor my website rankings on search engines like Google, Yahoo bing etc ..
Is there any such tool around that is free ?
8
votes
7answers
553 views
Looking for SEO testing tool
We have updated our web app so that there will be unique SEO entries(page title, meta keywords, meta description etc) for every page. I am looking for a SEO testing tool that will automatically go ...
6
votes
7answers
413 views
Invest in best possible SEO rather than using AdWords?
From stratup MicroISV perspective, the way I look at the possibilities for advertising, it's much better, as a long-term strategy, to invest and work on the best SEO possible for your web site rather ...
6
votes
11answers
782 views
Outsourcing SEO on sites like Fiverr
I saw a lot of posts on Fiverr where people who offer creating 1000's of backlinks to your website for a pretty low price.
Is it a good way to improve my SEO?
Is it safe to use this technique? I ...
6
votes
5answers
243 views
What is the implication of Google Panda on a blog?
What is the implication of Google Panda release on my clients who are "outsourcing" scontent creation for their blogs?
6
votes
3answers
327 views
Is advanced SEO snake oil?
I keep reading about how search engines like google keep changing and optimizing their algorithms so I wonder how effective SEO is beyond the basics of having the right keywords, robots.txt, etc and ...
6
votes
7answers
891 views
Does domain registration length have any effect on SEO?
I was recently playing around with the Website Grader at websitegrader.com and read this:
Google and other search engines may penalize websites with domains that are set to expire soon. The reason ...
6
votes
4answers
341 views
How to find and evaluate the most popular blogs to promote your business
I would like to find bloggers who speak to my target market, and who might mention my business and therefore drive name recognition and search engine optimization for my website. Any suggestions on ...
5
votes
5answers
206 views
How much do you worry about keywords when blogging?
I'm relatively new to blogging - only been doing it for a few months. The common advice is to make your posts keyword rich for high search engine ranking. But I don't normally worry too much about ...
5
votes
6answers
296 views
B-to-B landing pages and conversions
Within the online marketing space, a standard rule I have heard about landing pages is to limit choice. Ideally you have one page, with your sales pitch and they can either take your desired action ...
5
votes
5answers
428 views
After hiring a person responsible for SEO for 3 months and having the site online for 5 months how good is it to have 9,000 visitors/month from SEO?
Is it a good number to have 9,000 visitors after 3 months of having someone working on SEO and being online for 5 months just from SEO?
5
votes
3answers
196 views
Should I go for SEO or PPC?
I am working on starting up a new company for providing software development services for iPhone and Android apps. My goal is to get at least 10 projects in a month to reach break even in 3/4 months. ...
4
votes
7answers
838 views
How can I evaluate a link building company?
We're looking for a link building company, but are weary of anything we find in Google. So far I've looked at:
backlinkbuild.com (most promising so far for their blog network)
submitedge.com (for ...
4
votes
4answers
259 views
Can I work on my SEO and have my web site “invisible”?
Here is a kind of confusing :) web site/SEO newbie question. I was looking for answer everywhere, but it is hard to find the one I was looking for.
The question:
Since my product is still not ready ...
4
votes
4answers
282 views
Mini-Site to attract Investors?
I have an idea about a web application type of website. I am wondering if I should make a mini site and allow users to sign up and get information about whats coming up. I can use the numbers of sign ...
4
votes
6answers
280 views
SEO for a B2B startup
Looking for suggestions on improving the rank/search results positioning for my website.
My business is B2B. My target audience are very internet/computer savvy individuals... mostly software ...
4
votes
3answers
135 views
Promoting startup on Google+
I'm just getting started with promoting my startup in Google+, and am looking for suggestions on the best way to do this.
I can post to Google+ as (1) the "page" for the startup or as (2) my email ...
4
votes
5answers
680 views
SEO questions for URLs [closed]
I have couple of questions regarding SEO for URLs
Does hyphen vs. underscrore in the urls affect SEO?
e.g. www.mysite.com/my-first-post vs. www.mysite.com/my_first_post
Does capital letter vs. ...
4
votes
4answers
620 views
What is best website for SMB for SEO? WordPress or static site?
I have come across a question by a local business. When it comes to SEO, is there a difference between a website built on WordPress and one using any other means (static pages, website templates, ...
4
votes
2answers
268 views
What effect(s) does Google's Panda 2.5 update have on new websites in the SERP?
I recently launched 3 websites (within the past 7-10 months) that had been steadily increasing in the rankings on Google search up until this past weekend, when I noticed a huge drop across most of my ...
3
votes
4answers
259 views
As a representative for my company, how can I suggest my product on blogs and forums without sounding spammy?
My company recently launched a product and I've been attempting to build up the page rank of the product site by building up inbound links to it. To kill 2 birds with one stone, I've been searching ...
3
votes
5answers
470 views
SEO priorities for Startups?
We are in the process of building a website for an online start up offering live entertainment to those organising events. What should be our onpage/website SEO priorities for driving traffic?(except ...
3
votes
3answers
209 views
Why did my site vanish from Yahoo and Bing search results?
I have a website that sells a software product. My site used to be high up in search results on Google, Yahoo and Bing. Stupidly, I didn't do much with the site for about two months. It slipped in ...
3
votes
3answers
216 views
SEO question: Starting a new blog. Will I be “punished” for syndicating select post from my other blog?
For the last year I have been running a blog called Lean Startups Blog. I want to take it to another level by inviting guest posters and possibly inviting some of my friends to co-run it with me. I ...
3
votes
6answers
152 views
Anyone have any evidence that keyword URLs (with and without redirects) drive traffic?
I am launching a web application in the Fall for parent teacher conference scheduling. I have some real customers already using a version of the product, I'm ready with a Coming Soon page, have a ...
3
votes
3answers
215 views
How much should I expect to receive per website (for web design)?
I am a student who wants to start a small web design business with a few of my friends. Our clients will be local small businesses (e.g. family-run businesses). We're not expecting them to request ...
3
votes
3answers
252 views
Is it worth spending money on SEO consulting and services?
Assuming one wants to launch a website with good reviews from beta-testers-users, is it worth spending money on Search Engine Optimization consulting/specialists or does a hacker with good IT skills ...
3
votes
3answers
291 views
Approach to online marketing
What online marketing strategy do you use if you run site that sells services? Where do you start?
3
votes
3answers
368 views
What's a reasonable rate for an SEO consultant?
I am looking to hire an SEO consultant to help us with keyword research and building backlinks.
What are the reasonable rates (hourly, monthly) for a good SEO consultant?
3
votes
4answers
152 views
Ad/SEO Spend Budget
My question is, how should we decide how much money to spend on advertising if the return on this advertising isn't easily measured?
For example, spending it on an adwords campaign to acquire new ...
3
votes
1answer
80 views
Are download sites effective for google page rank?
Are download sites effective for google page rank?
A competitor is listed on first page of Google for a certain short-tailed key word phrase for which my company does not rank at all(not on first 15 ...
3
votes
2answers
351 views
Are press release distribution sites such as PRWeb or MarketWire worth paying for? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it worth using a press release distribution service?
From either an SEO standpoint, or an exposure/PR standpoint, are press release distribution sites such as PRWeb ...
2
votes
5answers
262 views
Should I use a separate domain name for each of my apps?
I have a business website where I have the marketing and support pages for a Mac app that I've developed. I also bought the domain name for the app which has the format myappname.com. Should I move ...
2
votes
5answers
503 views
How much is this site worth?
I own a site that on which I "practiced" SEO. It isn't a real business. I only make money from it by putting Google AdSense and right now it makes just under $100 per month and growing, although I ...
2
votes
3answers
167 views
Any recommendations for getting listing in DMOZ.com directory?
We've been trying for a long time with no success. I've heard all sorts of stories. Anybody have any suggestions?
Appreciate it,
2
votes
2answers
157 views
Best way to structure URLs for SEO?
I am creating a service that help users connect with local vendors in a certain niche.
Each vendor currently has a URL in the form:
http://example.com/vendor/<id>/<vendor-name-slug>
...
2
votes
2answers
74 views
re-name product website pre-launch?
I've been working on a B2B SAAS product for the last year or so, and it's almost ready to launch.
I havn't done any SEO yet, however I did use BuildMyRank.com a couple of months ago, and during that ...
2
votes
3answers
148 views
Is marketing the most important thing?
I was reading about the creation of mingle2.com, and what struck me as curious is that at that time (in 2007) the online dating market was well on its way to being saturated (aside from niche areas of ...
2
votes
4answers
217 views
Top Position on Google search results overtaken by download sites
A couple of months back I launched Data Moving Tool, an application to Extract, Transform and Load data to and from any data source (database, flat files, etc).
In an effort to boost my online ...
2
votes
3answers
181 views
to create blog/forum under a separate site or build under current site
inspired by hubspot, we're dedicated to creating more remarkable content. we think it can be engaging and relevant for our customers. we feel mass-customized apparel is an area that doesn't have that ...
2
votes
2answers
138 views
How to structure the multi-layered(?) blog of a startup
So, this is likely more of an "information architecture" sort of a question... but I admit, in the last 20years of internet revolution, I've been on the frontier of pretty much every new wave... ...
2
votes
1answer
101 views
What do you think about Seo Suites? Are they worth it and are there free alternatives to cover all the aspects?
This is my first question here so I take the opportunity to say hi to all of you!
I'm a mac user and a Seo student :)
At the moment I'm using several tools to check my progress on a particular ...
2
votes
2answers
89 views
Dealing with online complaints
The company I am working for has some complaints on the first page of Google. They have asked me to attempt to bump these off since they are untrue. I realize this is not an easy task. I was ...
2
votes
1answer
262 views
I need ideas, your thoughts would be great!
So I have this domain called bargainstomper.com and I have been thinking all weekend about how to monetise the site. I came up with various ideas, like tech reviews leading to amazon affil links, ...
1
vote
4answers
223 views
SEO dilemma while setting up blog
I have a website which is a web application. I am going to add a blog(wordpress installation). From SEO point of view is it better to have "http://blog.mysite.com" or
"http://www.mysite.com/blog" ?
1
vote
4answers
208 views
What are some common mistakes made when trying to implement SEO?
I'm no expert in this area, and I've heard that search engines can be very unforgiving when you try to change or restructure things in certain ways. What should I definitely NOT do? Are there certain ...
