Archive for November, 2006

Ituloy angsulong by Matt Cutts Google SEO Video

Our ituloy angsulong official website is still on the rise on Google SERP. And for us to be able to boost our rankings in Google I have here some of the answer of Matt Cutts (Google Engineer) about Google SEO related issue.
Here are the questions that have been read by Matt Cutts on his video:

Questions

“1. Some comments on sitemaps please. It seems update in sitemaps depends on the pageviews of the site? ”
It not depends on pageviews

“2. What are some general guidelines and recommendations you would make to people who desire to increase the site’s visibility in Google?”

3.” What conditions cause google to use DMOZ snippet when there are already valid meta description tag on the page?”

About the 1st and 3rd question it doesn’t give me interest to hear it. But the 2nd question is really interesting. To give a brief answer to the 2nd question here it is what I’ve jotted down while listening to Matt Cutts Video.

“Make it crawlable. Use text browser. Use lynx. Use sitemaps, use Google sitemaps tools.”
“Making sure your site is crawlable, great contents, try to find ways or some reasons why users will love your site, return to it and bookmark it ”

This is generally the formula to make your website visible in major Search Engines. This is how you will rank in SERPs very simple right? Go do the dirty work by writing interesting contents and make as many returning visitors for your site and eventually bookmark your site.

You find the whole video here .

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ituloy angsulong: SERP rankings and observation

SEOPinoy.com is still on the rise. Yahoo seems to love now my ituloy angsulong entry. MSN still there on its previous rankings at top30 and Google on Top 50. Well I’m still feeling comfortable that I can beat all the odds that my site has no “ituloy angsulong” in the domain, newly registered domain, and has no PR.

Why I’m doing these? It’s because this is my ongoing experiment on the 3 search engines. I joined this SEO contest for me to be test my SEO prowess. I love challenges thats why I’m really up to this SEO contest being the “underdog”.

Based on my observation the site that are in top 10 are sites which has keyword rich domains, with high PR(although PR is not a direct factor in SERP it only has the advantage of getting index fast) and old domains.

Top position in SERP = domain age + indexed pages + regular content update + keyword rich domains.

If my experiment mentioned above won’t get me in top 10 at the 3 Search Engines in the middle of December. I will used another SEO techniques that all of you will be interested. But right now I’ll just keep doing what I’ve told you on my previous post ( Basic SEO techniques).

BTW I’ve changed the look and the structure of the site that’s why some of my pages are not being indexed right now. But in the next few days all will get back to normal. Google will soon put me on top 30 again. ;)

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Black hat SEO 101

Finally I’ve decided to write about Black Hat SEO which I promised to you last week. I’ve wrote this article because I’ve wanted those people who aren’t aware of the danger it will bring to your website.

What is Black Hat SEO?

Black Hat SEO is an SEO technique of manipulating search results by illegal methods. Black Hat SEO’s are either used to boost rankings of their site or to make a competitor’s site to be banned by Search Engines.

What are the Black Hat SEO methods?

Cloaking – other words for stealth. Search Engine will see pages different from human. Usually affiliate programs are being displayed on these pages.

Excessive keyword repetition – Because search engines rely on keywords in their algorithm keyword spamming is one of the common techniques used by webmaster to manipulate search results.

Hidden text or links – Also a keyword spamming techniques. Hidden text are being used to rank to some keywords. These will help in ranking in to keywords that are being search by human because as I’ve already told keywords are part of Search Engines algorithm so if you place lot of hidden keywords on your site then the possibility that you will gain traffic from SERPs is huge because you’ve put lots of hidden keywords in your site.

Deceptive redirects - Misleading someone to be redirected to another pages .

Doorway pages – A webpage is redirecting to another website that’s main purpose is for marketing their products or affiliate programs. This can simply be done by a 2 lines 301 redirect.

What are the Black Hat SEO’s Myth?

I have read few people claiming that their victim of black hat SEO. Because their rankings suddenly dropped in SERP. The reason that they told that their victim of Black Hat SEO is because bad neighborhood linking to them. Just remember that Search Engines wont penalize you on these type of instances otherwise all spammers out there will do these to their competitors. Just don’t reciprocate to them if you don’t want to get penalize by Search Engines.

What are the things you should do if you suspect that you are being black hat?

Just check all your pages if their working fine. Find the pages where they manage to infiltrate and do the black hat technique such as deceptive redirects, cloacking and doorway pages. Because it is the most probable cases that will happen to your site.

What if I found out my competitors are using black hat SEO?

Report them directly to Search Engines.

Report here in Google
Report here in Yahoo

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Yahoo Guidelines 101

While checking seobunker.com about my rankings I feel relief now on my Yahoo SERP rankings.I’m on top 11 now. (wohooo). Because I have few luck in my Yahoo SERPs in the last 6-8 months. Finally Yahoo put me in their SERP. :D Anyway what are the things that Yahoo like? and dislike? Well I will give you few pointers on my research while studying Yahoo algo . I have this client who approached to me to get her back in Yahoo SERPs. While checking the whole site of the client it seems that they have all it takes to get back in SERPs but just wasn’t sure what happen to their site. So I’ve told the client to give me couple of months to research on what happen to their website.

After couple of minutes of checking their site’s backlinks, and indexed pages I’ve found out that there was something wrong with their indexing of pages. So what I’ve did was to keep pushing the link building for the site to get indexed.
After couple of months I decided to write for Yahoo if the site was banned. To my surprise Yahoo! replied to my email and told me the site was banned.

Here is the complete content of the email I received that I want to share you guys to prevent your site being banned by Yahoo. I hope this will serve as a warning for those people who wasn’t aware of it.

Thanks for writing the Yahoo! Search and Directory Support.

I understand that you have a question about why your site does not
appear in Yahoo! Search.

It has been determined that your site may not comply with Yahoo!’s
Content Quality Guidelines located at:

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/deletions/deletions-05.html.

Below are some answers to common questions regarding this issue:

Q: What are some of the common reasons that a site may violate Yahoo!’s
Content Quality Guidelines?

A: Yahoo!’s Content Quality Guidelines (link above) outline what we are
and are not looking for in pages that we index. Listed below are some of
the more common examples of how a site may violate these guidelines:

- Cloaking (showing crawlers deceptive content about a site)
- Massive domain interlinking- Use of affiliate programs without the
addition of substantial unique content
- Use of reciprocal link programs (aka “link farms”)
- Hidden text
- Excessive keyword repetition

Q: If my site violates Yahoo!’s Content Quality Guidelines, can I still
use the Search Submit inclusion program?

A: All pages submitted to Search Submit are editorially reviewed. If a
site has is not in compliance with the content policy guidelines, it is
likely to be rejected by the Search Submit program.

Q: If my site violates Yahoo!’s Content Policy Guidelines, can I use the
Yahoo! Directory Submit program?

A: The Yahoo! Directory and Yahoo! Search Index are different systems.
Inclusion or exclusion from one does not affect the other.

Q: How can I have my site re-reviewed?

A: Please review our content quality guidelines to make sure that your
site meets all of them. When you feel the site is ready, please complete
the form located at:

http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/ysearch/cgi_rereview

to request a re-review of your site. You may wish to include an
explanation of unique features on your site, or details of changes to
your site’s content that may assist our editors in their evaluation.

Please allow several weeks for the review process, YST indexing, and a
complete refresh of the database before checking http://search.yahoo.com
to see if your site is listed in the Yahoo! Search Index. We do not
offer specifics detailing how an individual site is not in compliance
with our guidelines, but we will review your site individually. You will
not be receiving further notification regarding your request for a
second review, and we are not able to offer the option of another
review.

Thank you for taking the time to make the Yahoo! Search Index even
better.

Thank you again for writing the Yahoo! Search and Directory Support.

For answers to other questions you may have regarding Yahoo! Search,
please see:

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/

For answers to other questions you may have regarding the Yahoo!
Directory, please see:

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/dir/

Regards,

Sky

Search & Directory Support
Yahoo! Inc

So what are the signs that your site was banned by Yahoo! ?

If you’re indexed pages is not increasing i.e. if your site has 500 pages and after a checking your monthly indexed pages and still your indexed pages remains the same. And also you’re site is not ranking in SERP while in Google and MSN you’re ranking on their respective SERPs then its better to email Yahoo if your site is banned or not. In the next few days they will promptly reply to your email about your inquiry.

So what’s the next goal on ituloy angsulong campaign? Just keep pushing to reach the top10 of the 3 major Search Engines Yahoo, MSN, and Google.

SEOPinoy’s ituloy angsulong goal is to promote SEO and SEM awareness to the Philippines. Lets spread the word about what you have learned from www.SEOPinoy.com

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ituloy angsulong

There is an ongoing SEO contest in the Philippines right now and I would like to declare that these blog is part of my entry in 2nd SEO Philippines keyword ranking contest. I wasn’t aware of the first one. And today I’ve decided to join this contest. I was really not sure on joining this contest because I’m really a busy man. I’ve worked in a web development company. I’m the head SEO there now after five months of hard work and still managing few sites of client. Almost really no time for this contest. But hey why not give it a try as I’ve told myself yesterday. So it’s official now I’m joining the SEO Philippines contest.Actually I’m currently a member of the SEO Philippines Yahoo Groups and I’ve been observing all the time on what’s new there. I would like to take this opportunity to give thanks to Marc Hil Macalua from bringing SEO Pinoy to the next level. I’m proud of you Marc as a pinoy. I haven’t met you but your words are really inspiring. I’ve read you’re going to Las Vegas for the Pubcon next week! Spread the words you’ve learned from it when you comeback and we’re really love to hear all of them. I saw that Danny Sullivan will be there as well. If you will have the chance to talk to him that would be great.

If you’re still have no idea on the ongoing SEO contest please read the whole mechanics of the contest here.

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Most searched keywords in the internet

In starting a website you must first know what niche you are going to create. It’s important that you are really interested and happy what website you’re building otherwise you will end up quiting on the project in later time.After you’ve decided what you’re going to create this is where SEO first take place. In starting a website you must know first what keywords you will be using in your website so that when people type a certain keyword in Search Engines they will appear on Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs).Why keywords are important in SEO?Keywords are the main ingredients of a Search Engine Algorithm. If someone type a keyword/s Search Engine will look on website that has keywords similar to what you’ve type in your browser. This is the simplest explanation I can define how important keywords in SERPs. I will tackle the much broader explanation to that in my next blog so stay tune to that.What tools I will be using so that I will know what keywords I will use in my website to make my website to be Search Engine friendly?Digitalpoint offers a keyword suggestion tool. Its a tool that gives results from wordtracker and overture.Also SEOLogs gives a useful keyword suggestion tool that will help you target you’re specific audience. I.e. you’re target market is USA you just choose on the drop down menu so that you will know how many people are typing this keyword in their browser.What is the importance of this keyword suggestion tool?It’s very important that before starting a website you must know your target audience. Otherwise if you just keep on adding not so popular keywords in your website it wont help you gain traffic.

If you want to have an idea what keywords that are most popular there is a list of 10000 keywords here. BTW here is the top 10 keywords on that list: 1. Mp3 2. Warez
3. Chat
4. Games
5. Travel
6. Yahoo
7. Jobs
8 . Music
9. Google
10. Morpheus

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How to rank fast in MSN?

Well after 16 hours I have decided to check if my page is indexed already by Google, MSN and Yahoo. And guess what I’ve found out. MSN is still the fastest to pick up a website.

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What’s new? Nothing just want you to emphasize that among the 3 Major Search engine they’re the fastest to indexed a website. This is part of the SEO procedure I’ve told on my recent post on how to get listed on Search Engine database fast and get rank on SERPs.

Why I wrote these blog for?

I just want people to realize that MSN is fast and easy to rank.

What’s the secret to rank in MSN?

1. Keyword rich domain

2. Lot of keyword rich contents – Make as many pages as possible.

3. Get as many backlinks as you can- it doesn’t necessarily mean quality backlinks. MSN seems to prioritize quantity rather than quantity.

4. Submit to as many directories as possible. Use good anchor text in your directory links.

5. Put a signature link on your forum’s account with good anchor text.

How effective this pointers in ranking to MSN?

I’ve been through lot of experiment about MSN and all of them are successful. All websites I’ve handled went to top10 in MSN for the target keyword I’ve handled.

Is there any side effect on implementing strategy?

Yes, Google don’t really like most general directories because most of them are link farm and contains link with bad neighborhood. You’re site will be penalized sooner or later in SERP. So for you to be able to rank in 3 Search Engine you must have a balance SEO strategy.

Why I’m sharing these secret?

Well I’ve always believe in good karma.

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Google indexed my website in 1 day

Yes, the experiment is still successful. The 3 days plan became 1 day only. It’s really effective. It indexed all pages of my “ituloy angsulong” website.Here is the proof

So whats next in our ituloy angsulong experiment? Our next goal is to get SEOPinoy.com to be listed on SERP. How to do it? Simple, you must continue what I’ve told you on my previous post . But this time we should go into a much deeper level and we will also tackle the different SEO techniques that I haven’t told in my previous post.

First in order for us to get listed in SERP we must first be patient. Our target would be 1 week before we could see our links in atleast top 1000. But as of today SERP only showing top 300. Ofcourse our keyword target would be ituloy angsulong.

Actually we have to consider lots of factor in order for you to rank in SERP. But at this instances since ituloy angsulong is a new keyword in Google we have to disregard the keyword suggestion tool and sandbox.

If you’ve missed the start of this “ituloy angsulong SEO experiment” it’s all started here.
Also I have stated here pointers on how to get our website indexed fast in Google and MSN
Among the 5 pointers there are still few SEO basic that you will learn from these experiment.

1. Keywords density is one of the factor that Search Engines measure in ranking a website. Since our target keywords is only “ituloy angsulong” then we will focus on putting content that has ituloy angsulong on it. There is a limit in putting up a keywords in your website. Make sure it doesn’t look like spam.

2. Since our domain (seopinoy.com) is not a keyword rich domain for our experiment I’ve decided to just put a category named “ituloy angsulong” so that it will still a keyword rich URL. MSN really like keyword rich domain. As of now our website is on top 70 in MSN I will estimate that in the next 2 weeks seopinoy.com will be placed on top10 soon. The bottom line is make your URL be SEO friendly. Don’t use the numbers in your URL instead use keyword rich URL like “http://seopinoy.com/2006/11/03 /how-your-website-will-be-indexed-in-3-days-by-search-engines/”.

3. Still content is king. If you’ve continued adding useful content to your visitors you will be guaranteed lot of returning visitors. As we’ve stated on my 1st pointer about keyword density you will have to add the keyword you’re targeting in your content but be careful you will be mark spamming if you don’t limit it. Just make it look normal.

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Yahoo finally got me indexed for ituloy angsulong campaign

Yahoo finally got me indexed for ituloy angsulong campaign

Yes, the 1st stage of the experiment for indexed pages is now completed.
Yahoo, MSN, and Google indexed my ituloy angsulong entry (seopinoy.com).
So the next stage now is to rank in SERPs.

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Now we have to look now on providing our readers and search engine the content they’ve needed.
Since my feedreader meter is now rising as of today it has 7 readers.
I have to double my effort on providing quality content for readers and search engine.

Ok lets start now the 2nd part of the experiment. Yahoo got me on top 300, MSN on top 60 and Google on top 100 which is way ahead than I expected. It means I’m doing good as of the moment. Now we have to set another goal for the experiment for ituloy angsulong. Since we rank Google as the best Search Engine in terms of SERPs I have to make the deadline about 2-3 months before we reach the top 20 atleast. It means that in January ituloy angsulong entry seopinoy.com must reached that level. In MSN I will look estimate that seopinoy will be on top10 in the next month. And in Yahoo? I really have to think about it because I haven’t got much luck in Yahoo in the last 4 months because of Yahoo algo change.

Since we have already a goal on ituloy angsulong we have to make the next step. The dirty job called writing quality content. It’s always true that “content is king”. No matter there is an algorithm change your website will surely have stable rankings.

Another strategy is to keep your homepage fresh. Since ituloy angsulong SEO contest is just almost 4 months we have to do the homepage as fresh as possible. Maybe we could add atleast 1 article a day which will only took me 30 mins- 1 hour.
The third plan is to make the website as huge as possible by adding forums, directories, top sites and news section. This will increase the indexed pages of a website and it will solidify your rankings in SERP. I should have done this first before launching the website but because of lack of time I could only do few task at a time. Since our first stage of the experiment was completed already now we could move in these task.

Link partners. I love link partners. This is one of the intangible in the world of SEO. Because in SEO friendship is being built from one person to another. The more you stay as an SEO the more friends you will gain and also link partners. In my almost 2 years as an SEO I have gain lot of friends from around the world mostly in USA. But as of now the SEO world is already conquered by the people from India. But sooner or later Filipinos will out throned them. This is one of the benefits that ituloy angsulong contest. To promote the SEO in the philippines and discover the hidden talent and intelligence of Filipino in online world. I really do believe that Filipinos can really go out there and compete in other nation. The bottom line is treasure your friends in the internet because sooner or later they will surely help you.

Link building, construction of the website and building content for the site is our goal as of today and until next week. So till then you will have the update on how to get into top10 in 3 major Search Engine SERPs. But watch out for the the upcoming days because I will teach you onpage optimization and link building in a deeper understanding. Part of the onpage optimization is how to deal with 301 redirect, 404 error page and Search Engine friendly URL.

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Googlebots 101

Lets talk about Googlebot how they works. I remember when I’m training a chinese girl about Google Search algorithm I’ve told him about Search Engine spiders. Then after the brief overview about Search Engine Spiders I’ve told him to ask me question on what are the things that she don’t understand. And to my surprise she told me that he dont understand Spiderman. “How it looks like” ? LOL. I was about to laugh at it but hey this girl don’t really understand english well so I just keep my silence and laugh afterwards. It made me realize that for newbie it is hard for SEO aspirant to know what is a bot.

Lets take a closer picture of a bots. A spider/bots are the one sent by search engine to crawl websites. It is an electronic message sent by Search Engine to look and gather data from websites around the world. Google spiders are called Google bots. This our topic for today how Google bots works.

How Googlebots work?

Lets take for an example a sales manager sending a representative to collect data about a certain products they’re endorsing to different houses in their local areas. Google bots is just like these they are one sent by Google to look and gather data so that it will be sent back to Google to analyze how the website is structured and it’s contents.

If someone is linking to your website your site can be crawled by Googlebots. Also if your website is already crawled before then Googlebots will just keep crawling your website much often.

What are the pages Googlebots crawling?

All of your pages will be crawled unless you disallow Googlebots in your robots.txt

Why my site isn’t crawled by Googlebots?

Google crawl lot of pages but unfortunately they can’t crawl all because for some reasons. i.e. your site must have links from high PR websites so that they can crawl fast your website. Also Google missed your website because when you launched your website Google has just finished the most recent crawl. The structure of your website is also important. You may include sitemap in your website so that Googlebots can crawl your website efficiently. This is one of the importance of Onpage optimization. If your host is down at the moment Google spiders went to your site is also a factor why Google didn’t crawl your website.

There are also some issue about Googlebots that webmaster may encounter. Because Googlebots are taking lots of bandwith. So if your site is running from a webhosting with small bandwith, then you will suffer from this Googlebots problem. The solution is to block Googlebots from some parts of the site such as php or asp files. Also you must block Googlebots in your robots.txt for security purpose only such as admin area of your site.

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