Ask Ur SEO Q's 2011
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- dbloc0
I'd like to do it without adding written by to each post. Thanks!
- trooperbill0
@dbloc wow havent encountered this as a goal before. let me look into it.
- dbloc0
having trouble getting the rel"author" the bring up the author photo in a google search.. any help is appreciated.
- antagonista0
I developed these amazing pills that make your johnson huge. It's amazing. I emailed about 50 million people, but nobody bought any.
How can I use SEO to get my results to the top of Gogle so people around the world can enjoy a better love life with my amazing product?
- trooperbill0
@i_monk if you think about it its really about matching expectation with your design (conversion) so get your messages right and dont lie or misslead in your design. communicate using the appropriate language and make sure it motivates the recipient
- trooperbill0
@SteveJobs yep
- i_monk0
How do I apply these tips to posters and brochures and letter heads?
- SteveJobs0
is it ok to use images of text for aesthetic reasons as long as alt or title tags are used?
- trooperbill0
@mydo nope i wouldnt do that. the drum gets indexed more frequently than your site... best to write about your post and link to the active post on the drum.
- trooperbill0
@nosaj yes this is a great idea but you must treat them as independent sites and put in thr work... theyre a link that your competitors cant replicate so its best to make them super powerful ones.
- trooperbill0
@numbers google has to pick a source and does so by picking the one thats indexed forst or that has the most citations... so in short yes google does devalue content republished. tryit you'll see
- That's pretty much what I said - I was just disputing the idea that there's a huge scary penalty that gets slapped on younumbers
- Seems like a common misconception that's out therenumbers
- yeah not a penalty but given the choice why not just make new contenttrooperbill
- numbers0
It wouldn't be good for both of you. The only question is whether Google would actually penalize your site (or theirs - or both) for having the same content.
I suspect they don't, considering all the times this happens in web publishing. At the same time, you're always best served by having unique content, otherwise Google might decide the other site's version is more relevant and serve that up instead when it matches the user's search.
- mydo0
so i write a blog for www.thedrum.co.uk i'm guessing posting my articles on my own site would be good for both of us?
- nosaj0
Is there a way for a small company to leverage owning multiple domain names? Specific keyword focused micro-sites on separate serves linking back to the main domain maybe? Or is this more work then it's worth?
- numbers0
^ Right, but the link you posted is talking about duplicate content within a single site. For instance if you have three differently titled pages with identical content.
I'm more skeptical that Google is able to enforce a "no duplicate content" rule across the entire internet, or would even want to.
Think about all the republished articles and copy and pasted quotations out there. Even if they don't promote identical content, they couldn't possibly slap a huge penalty on you for it.
- trooperbill0
@numbers that was the whole point of PANDA (an update rolled out over Feb - now) it devalues entire sites for having duplicate and/or low volumes of text on a page.
the issue was with scraper sites ripping content off other sites and outranking the originators. PANDA seeks to fix this imbalance. if you read up on it you will see lots of people crying because they hadnt spent enough time making good quality content and simply duplicated the same stuff off other sites.
- numbers0
What about the fact that Google themselves has come out and said there is no actual penalty for duplicate content?
I found the article above's explanation more believable, that it would not kill you to have duplicate content but not help you either. Think about hundreds of news organizations all reprinting the same article from AP for example
- trooperbill0
@mydo yes duplicate content is the biggest cause of issues with a site. make sue every paragraph is unique (paste them into google search to view similarities - if you see lots of bolded entries, re-write it some more)
- trooperbill0
@citizen_h no sIFR works fine... just dont overdo it and make sure that with javascript turned off you can still read the content and headers etc
- trooperbill0
@citizen_h yes dropdowns if written to the code (not within javascript) are indexable