Ask Ur SEO Q's 2011
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- trooperbill0
@nocomply for youtube they dont have transcribing down just yet so my advice is to make the title more optimised to your keyword and upload it... you can always delete the old version.
- If you delete the old version, you lose all your visitor statistics and you video will loose ground in YouTube searches.spot13
- It's better to keep both but set them in a playlist so that the both videos are visible and make it clear that the new one is newspot13
- Spot13 - That's exactly what I was afraid of. The multi-video playlist sounds like a good idea.nocomply
- trooperbill0
@nosaj yes too much plumbing also your titles always start with your main term - simply reverse them for deep pages. the google adwords keyword tool will give you better medium and long tail terms you can match to your content.
tip: use a keyword density tool to see what keywords your content is referring to and tailor your titles around that.
- trooperbill0
@hektor911 best thing to try is probably wordpress with a load of plugins
- Ancillary0
Dear Mr SEO Guy,
The SEO guy at my work is morbidly obese and but manages to date cute Japanese girls. Is he a racist?
- nocomply0
OK got one more...
I know YouTube videos can come up in Google's results, but is there any kind of a penalty for posting duplicate videos on YouTube?
The issue is that my client posted a video several weeks ago, but they now have an updated version with a minor edit that they want to use instead.
But the way YouTube works is that you can't simply "update" a video. You'd have to delete the old one and post the new one at a new URL.
- Also, thank you trooperbill for all your support!nocomply
- nosaj0
You're a good man TrooperBill. I have a page title question. If I was to create a rule to automate Page titles in a CMS would this example be strong or poor - too many uses of "Plumbing"?
Rule:
Toronto Plumber | ABC Plumbing | [Page]Actual Titles
Toronto Plumber | ABC Plumbing | 24 Hour Emergency PlumbingToronto Plumber | ABC Plumbing | About Us
Toronto Plumber | ABC Plumbing | Locations
- My suggestion is to be more specific regarding the actual terms people will be searching for...spot13
- The closer the match the better your results. For example, instead of just 24 Hour Emergency Plumbing add residential, bathroom, etcspot13
- residential, bathroom, etc. And take out the repetitive stuff completely.spot13
- hektor9110
Do you guys have a sample website that follow the guidelines above, say for a photographer or graphic designer? A website with a portfolio in other words.
- ukit0
Content may not (always) be king but links definitely are.
- OSFA0
Thanks for the info trooperbill!
- mikotondria30
Content is demonstrably not always king - just think of the number of garbage sites you end up on when you're searching for something that you normally don't (and don't know where to look - just at the mercy of google...).
- scarabin0
very cool of you to do this trooperbill
- trooperbill0
@spot13... even if the content is crap you can still rank a site! content is NOT king when it comes to SEO thats another myth.
- that's what SEO people will tell you, and it's true, but unless you spam and pay, it doesn't work and it will be very short term.spot13
- trooperbill0
@plash got one coming... planning a free ebook thingie
- trooperbill0
@spot13 im proud of the 300 hits... i know its a drop in the ocean but its taken a while to get there and ive earned every visit.
- I bet, and I'm sure your "annual thread" on QBN doesn't hurt either.spot13
- trooperbill0
@nocomply its a lie based on missinformation
- Link?
I understand it to be otherwisedetritus - stemming from what people expected the update last may to be before the reality kicked introoperbill
- i could show a link but then u could find a counter link... thois is all based on experience and testing not myth and hearsaytrooperbill
- Link?
- plash0
got any good primers for seo? for absolute beginners ?
- spot130
thanks for all these insightful SEO tips trooperbill. So, with a whopping 300 visits a day to your site, are you going to write a book about your amazing SEO success?
- nocomply0
So in regards to page speed NOT being a factor in SEO, then that means Media Temple is either lying, ignorant, or believes otherwise.
Because check out their splash page for their CDN service:
http://mediatemple.net/webhostin…
"Improve Your Search Rankings
Did you know search engines now reward fast-loading sites with better rankings? Increase traffic, rank and visibility with little effort."I thought that was just too good to be true.
- trooperbill0
@attentionspan i mean
foo.com/index.php?id=1&pid=2&gid...
/?id=1&pid=2&gid=3
is just a canonical url of the above (same would be for a folder)- This would be terrible for SEO as it communicates nothing about the content of the page. Are you seriously selling this bs?spot13
- its the diff between best practice and reality... many querystring urls rank just finetrooperbill
- attentionspan0
Thanks
but not completely clear on this
"if you're using querystrings keep the variables to a max of 3"
Example?Also .html of urls at the end or no extension at all?
- Trooperbill, can I ask where this 3 variable suggestion came from?spot13