You should not redirect any urls encountered in navigation. Change the urls in navigation instead, to match their final destination. Redirections are for incoming links only.
I am quite sure that for the online store aprt you should disallow at least some urls in your robots.txt file. Anythign to do with login and checkout for instance. Anything involving sorting results. No idea if your store application can lend itself to this kind of paring. It seems not.
Thanks Webdo, I'll research your suggestions and take action. In terms of Link Machine, I only use it to index relative sites and sites that have significant page rank. Can I keep the links and get rid of the program?
> You should not redirect any urls encountered in navigation. Change the > urls in navigation instead, to match their final destination. > Redirections are for incoming links only.
> I am quite sure that for the online store aprt you should disallow at > least some urls in your robots.txt file. Anythign to do with login and > checkout for instance. > Anything involving sorting results. No idea if your store application > can lend itself to this kind of paring. It seems not.
"Errrmmm.. linkmachine.net.... thismeansreciprocallinks... a no- no in Googledom."
An just how was the internet built? Why are reciprocal links a "no no" all of a sudden? And if they are, why do many of the website directories require one?
Oh I was just mentioning it because Google makes it pretty clear you shoud not participate in link exchange schemes nor buy/sell links for the purpose of icnreasing PR. They are ok fro purpose of bringing traffic (buit then such liks shoudl have rel="nofollow" on them, so robtos don't crawl them, oly human visitors would).
Sometimes the mere mention of link exchange on a site may bring up red flags in Google's robots.
For Len:
Of course links are what makes the web go round.
But reciprocal links are too often used for the sole purpose of building pr, thus an obvious no-no. They need to be natural links.
There's a fine line in there somewhere, and if you are cultivating link building by checking other sites PR and ask for backlinks that way, instead of linking to them because you find them an ehancement to your site's content, and hoping that those who link to you do it for the same reson, then you are pretty obviously interested only in the PR boosting aspect of links. A lot is in the intent. How much of that can be detected by robtos, I don't know. Possibly sometimes more than by us.
> Thanks Webdo, I'll research your suggestions and take action. In > terms of Link Machine, I only use it to index relative sites and sites > that have significant page rank. Can I keep the links and get rid of > the program?
> On Jun 28, 12:45 am, webado wrote:
> > Well there are some serious problems.
> > Your site is not issueing a 404 for missing files. It's doing a 302 to > > a custom error page. This is bad.
> > You should not redirect any urls encountered in navigation. Change the > > urls in navigation instead, to match their final destination. > > Redirections are for incoming links only.
> > I am quite sure that for the online store aprt you should disallow at > > least some urls in your robots.txt file. Anythign to do with login and > > checkout for instance. > > Anything involving sorting results. No idea if your store application > > can lend itself to this kind of paring. It seems not.
> A lot is in the intent. How much of that can be detected by robtos, > I don't know. Possibly sometimes more than by us.
I think that's a safe assumption. Google has a copy of the Internet on its own servers - who knows how many data mining daemons are run against it and by how many research groups doing all manner of things. Quite possibly Google itself doesn't know.
Don't worry too much if your site is new... it will suddenly go up and down until stabilize. Google uses a lot of information sources to calculate placement of your page for "piano lesson" search terms: Google Analytics, Google Toolbar, Google AdSense, and more.
Hmmm. Well, in response, the site is not new. Been around since 1997. And, I'm not sure if you're poking fun at my previous serp ranking at #7 on Google.com for "piano lesson." or not.
The fact is, that term is very important to my website plan. Why? Because it gets over 26,000 searches per month on google alone. And, my concern is why it dropped so rapidly to page 8. Especially since it's still #2 on google for same term. You can verify here....
I'm with Webado on this one. I've uncovered several store errors and broken links. It'll take a few weeks of crawling to bounce back, but I'll get there.
> Don't worry too much if your site is new... it will suddenly go up and > down until stabilize. Google uses a lot of information sources to > calculate placement of your page for "piano lesson" search terms: > Google Analytics, Google Toolbar, Google AdSense, and more.
> Hmmm. Well, in response, the site is not new. Been around since > 1997. And, I'm not sure if you're poking fun at my previous serp > ranking at #7 on Google.com for "piano lesson." or not.
> The fact is, that term is very important to my website plan. Why? > Because it gets over 26,000 searches per month on google alone. And, > my concern is why it dropped so rapidly to page 8. Especially since > it's still #2 on google for same term. You can verify here....
> I'm with Webado on thisone. I've uncovered several store errors and > broken links. It'll take a few weeks of crawling to bounce back, but > I'll get there.
> > Don't worry too much if your site is new... it will suddenly go up and > > down until stabilize. Google uses a lot of information sources to > > calculate placement of your page for "piano lesson" search terms: > > Google Analytics, Google Toolbar, Google AdSense, and more.
You need to drop the unnatural link exchanges. And do a lot of work on getting natural links.
The internet was not built on "you link to me and I'll link to you" - it was built on people linking to other people's sites because it contained something valuable for the user.
"If you're running a site in a specific niche that has garnered most of it's authority from unnatural linking between sites through exchanges and Google busts up that linking ring, some people are not going to be happy. If your site's links were comprised of mainly industry wide exchanges expect a big drop, on the other hand if your competition had a good amount of real links, expect them to weather the storm better than you. "
There's no magic trick - the "spammy techniques" used to work for your site, be glad of the time you had. Now get to work on getting good, natural links. Remove the link-exchanges from your site, file a reinclusion request (though it most likely will not change anything) and get to work at getting good links.
> You need to drop the unnatural link exchanges. And do a lot of work on > getting natural links.
> The internet was not built on "you link to me and I'll link to you" - > it was built on people linking to other people's sites because it > contained something valuable for the user.
> "If you're running a site in a specific niche that has garnered most > of it's authority from unnatural linking between sites through > exchanges and Google busts up that linking ring, some people are not > going to be happy. If your site's links were comprised of mainly > industry wide exchanges expect a big drop, on the other hand if your > competition had a good amount of real links, expect them to weather > the storm better than you. "
> There's no magic trick - the "spammy techniques" used to work for your > site, be glad of the time you had. Now get to work on getting good, > natural links. Remove the link-exchanges from your site, file a > reinclusion request (though it most likely will not change anything) > and get to work at getting good links.
> Hey John I did not know you are an expert! > How many years does one have to work as a programmer to become one? > 30 years? I guess that qualifies you!
No, sorry. It would qualify me, too - and that might be a mistake.
> > Hey John I did not know you are an expert! > > How many years does one have to work as a programmer to become one? > > 30 years? I guess that qualifies you!
> No, sorry. It would qualify me, too - and that might be a mistake.
> Ha, Ha! Punch cards in Cobol..... > Visa must be proud of you!
How did you guess?
1401 Autocoder with Ptapes and macros, at first. I don't think there was a COBOL compiler for the 1401. I didn't learn COBOL until 1971, and I've lost count of the number of languages I've used since then.
Then IBM Assembler and - as you guessed - data input and validation of punched cards (the old credit card vouchers) for Barclaycard, now part of the Visa scheme. Metal trays of 3,000 cards each, one every ninety seconds into each of four IBM 2540 card readers. Four to a shift, also printing 40 boxes of fanfold. Modern computer operators get to sit down - we never did.
> > Ha, Ha! Punch cards in Cobol..... > > Visa must be proud of you!
> How did you guess?
> 1401 Autocoder with Ptapes and macros, at first. I don't think there > was a COBOL compiler for the 1401. I didn't learn COBOL until 1971, > and I've lost count of the number of languages I've used since then.
> Then IBM Assembler and - as you guessed - data input and validation of > punched cards (the old credit card vouchers) for Barclaycard, now part > of the Visa scheme. Metal trays of 3,000 cards each, one every ninety > seconds into each of four IBM 2540 card readers. Four to a shift, > also printing 40 boxes of fanfold. Modern computer operators get to > sit down - we never did.
> > Ha, Ha! Punch cards in Cobol..... > > Visa must be proud of you!
> How did you guess?
> 1401 Autocoder with Ptapes and macros, at first. I don't think there > was a COBOL compiler for the 1401. I didn't learn COBOL until 1971, > and I've lost count of the number of languages I've used since then.
> Then IBM Assembler and - as you guessed - data input and validation of > punched cards (the old credit card vouchers) for Barclaycard, now part > of the Visa scheme. Metal trays of 3,000 cards each, one every ninety > seconds into each of four IBM 2540 card readers. Four to a shift, > also printing 40 boxes of fanfold. Modern computer operators get to > sit down - we never did.
You know all the mark up languages and scripting is so easy! Just takes time! Includes, functions, classes!
I love the routines and variable declarations! We did not even have arrays so had to build them!
The only thing I hate is regex! I use to build mathematic modeling with routines in Pascal....but my brain is to small for regex----or have not wasted enough time---->
> Hey I had to write 500 pages of Fortran code to run SPSX lag > correlation modeling on DEC.
> I put in the job in the evning and come back in the morning to debug!
> Sometimes it took me weeks and months just to get a routine to > compile! > And then run it so I can see the results.
> <__>
> So every morning I would come in to the computer facility and get a > nasty suprise.
> I would ask my mentor for help!
> He would say, "Bug, debug!" > Got to have the cain of Raid on hand at all times..........
> On Jun 29, 9:33 pm, Phil Payne wrote:
> > > Ha, Ha! Punch cards in Cobol..... > > > Visa must be proud of you!
> > How did you guess?
> > 1401 Autocoder with Ptapes and macros, at first. I don't think there > > was a COBOL compiler for the 1401. I didn't learn COBOL until 1971, > > and I've lost count of the number of languages I've used since then.
> > Then IBM Assembler and - as you guessed - data input and validation of > > punched cards (the old credit card vouchers) for Barclaycard, now part > > of the Visa scheme. Metal trays of 3,000 cards each, one every ninety > > seconds into each of four IBM 2540 card readers. Four to a shift, > > also printing 40 boxes of fanfold. Modern computer operators get to > > sit down - we never did.- Hide quoted text -
> Hmmm. Well, in response, the site is not new. Been around since > 1997. And, I'm not sure if you're poking fun at my previous serp > ranking at #7 on Google.com for "piano lesson." or not.
Hi Jazzer, I am not poking fun! My first post about "rank for search term" is not applicable for your specific case, so I posted next one and forgot to delete 99.99% ;)
>My page http://www.paultobey.com/piano-lesson.html was ranked as high >as #7 on Google.com only 2 weeks ago for the keyword term "piano >lesson." >Next thing I know it's on page 2, then 4 then 5 and now page 8.
Of course, it must happen with such a huge Search Engine as Google - you may occasionally connect to different servers - many users already know about your site, and most clicks go to a different page via Google Toolbar, even with lower PR and more... many more...
Do not worry, when you monitor your SERP placement, please, check pages of your competitors, they are also roving in the index!
Please explain what you mean by real competition? Does not 26,000 searches per month for search term "piano lesson" constitute as real competition. There are several online piano lesson companies and individuals competing for this market. I personally have 650 already signed up to receive their first lesson free and most of that traffic came from seo. My conversion rate will be around 10% (based on previous experience.) At $300 per course that's significant cause for doing the best seo I can. There's a lot at stake. It's not a hobby it's a business.
If I'm missunderstaing your question, please explain. Thanks.
On another note, for all webmasters. I noticed that according to Xenu I have "301 moved permanently" notices for links that point to folders. For example. Most of my internal links to the blog are writting as "/blog" without the trailing forward slash. Should I be linking to "/blog/" or even to "/blog/index.php" ????
Can somebody please explain the difference in seo terms?
> Please explain what you mean by real competition? Does not 26,000 > searches per month for search term "piano lesson" constitute as real > competition. There are several online piano lesson companies and > individuals competing for this market. I personally have 650 already > signed up to receive their first lesson free and most of that traffic > came from seo. My conversion rate will be around 10% (based on > previous experience.) At $300 per course that's significant cause for > doing the best seo I can. There's a lot at stake. It's not a hobby > it's a business.
> If I'm missunderstaing your question, please explain. Thanks.
> On another note, for all webmasters. I noticed that according to Xenu > I have "301 moved permanently" notices for links that point to > folders. For example. Most of my internal links to the blog are > writting as "/blog" without the trailing forward slash. Should I be > linking to "/blog/" or even to "/blog/index.php" ????
> Can somebody please explain the difference in seo terms?
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> > Frankly: I don't understand why do you think that your page is #7 in a > > real competition...- Hide quoted text -
