Category Archive for: ‘SEO Techniques Questions’

I have not been in the class in about a year so maybe you have covered this recently. Plug Boards are popping up everywhere: 1. Do they help at all for SEO? 2. What do you think about them for marketing outside of SEO? Thanks, Cynthia Powell, South Carolina Chicks & Cubs Hi Cynthia! You …

Cricket, It seems that more and more people are using Image Search tools in Google and Yahoo (and others). I have done a lot of reading about how to optimize your images & pages to increase your image search ranking. At one point, typical keyword searches in Google Image search were finding and ranking images …

Hello Cricket, The good news is that I’m not just getting traffic, I am getting sales! I hadn’t had any from the site until I began your course and made some changes. I’m on the first page of Google for many of my search terms. My problem is that the template that was one of …

Dear Cricket, Recently I noticed that there are some unsavory websites linking to my site. I am concerned that this could reflect poorly on the credibility of my business or affect my search standings in Google. Can anything be done to stop these bad incoming links to my sites?   Tina Clarke, England Original Abstract …

Dear Cricket, I know that some fonts are better to use than others simply because they display correctly on more computers, but I was wondering if the size of the type I use in my product descriptions has any impact on SEO . I personally like larger type (I do wear reading glasses) and think …

Dear Cricket, Is it true that if you purchase a domain name for 5 or 10 years or more it will improve your google ranking, rather than paying for 1 year at a time? Charles Buhrmann, Texas Texas Programmer Hi Charles! It is believed that Google may take how long you have owned a domain …

Hi Cricket, I am going to be changing my domain name this week. I consulted with a trademark attorney and decided this was the best thing for me to do. Further research revealed 3 others using the same business name I initially chose. I am not indexed by the search engines yet as I just …

Cricket: I am curious if I switch web hosts how that will affect my current SEO rankings. I am with several hosts now and I think it is needless to spend money on others when I can just have one host. When switching are there any special considerations I need to take?   Craig Mullins, …

Hi Cricket! Content Management Systems are increasing in popularity by quantum leaps. Because they are driven by php there seem to be serious SEO considerations and/or consequences. Are you going to be addressing this issue in your classes? Do you know if Google is planning to adjust its spider bot code to be able to …

Hi Cricket! Since my site is being seen by more, I am getting more requests for linking. Today I received one from a site that sells coffee makers–which would be great since my site sells coffee/tea. However, upon further inspection I realized this site (the-coffee-maker.com) is actually just an entire affiliate page. Yes, it’s coffee …

Hi Cricket! I have another question for you!! This is regarding link exchanges and google. When I type in link:www.craftedcustomgifts.com google only sees 7 pages that link to me. However when I use a link popularity checker I see many more people who have linked to me. Why doesn’t google recognize these links and what …

Hi Cricket! Does the number of hits on a page affect where it shows up in the Google results? My page with the keyphrase Custom Christmas Stockings went from #97 on Dec. 1st, to #9 on Dec. 31st! I did get a lot of hits, and contacts from customers. Thanks. Kelly Feibes, Lexington, KY Primarily …

Hi, Cricket! I’m writing concerning not my primary website, but my Craft Cave website. I have been trying to find an inexpensive web hosting package which includes a built-in shopping cart. The host I use for our primary site is great, but too expensive for my secondary, small site. I did check out 1&1 per …

Hi Cricket, Wanting to do a link / resources page on my website, but there are too many links to do it manually, so I need some sort of search engine script to put them into categories etc. Could you recommend anything like that? Thanks for your help. Regards, Erica Mueller, Sydney Australia Earth Repair …

Hi Cricket! When I discontinue a product, what is the best way to handle the now-obsolete page? I have a custom 404, but I wondered if there is a preferred way of doing it. If I am replacing the product with a somewhat similar one, is there any advantage to keeping the page but replacing …

Hi Cricket! I have a program that I use to help me maintain my website and it has a portion for “Optimize pages” where it gives you advice on optimizing the pages for search engines. It’s really helpful to check on keyword density, weight, word counts and such before I publish. One of the things …