Posts Tagged ‘snake oil’

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What signals do self-promotional links tell the search engines?

What signals do self-promotional links tell the search engines?

We all know the importance of building links to web sites to improve traffic and improve search engine rankings. For forums, building links to individual threads is a great way to take advantage of the long tail part of the... (Continue reading)

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The curse of the profile spammer

The curse of the profile spammer

Spam and fluff posting on forums are as old as forums. What is getting worse lately is profile spam, mainly because the SEO Kiddies think that forums links are worth it. This is done by those who join forums or social... (Continue reading)

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Watch out for these SEO Scams

Watch out for these SEO Scams

If you decide to engage a SEO’er (Search Engine Optimizer) to help with the SEO on your forum, how do you tell which ones to stay away from; which are the ones running a scam?; which are the ones that... (Continue reading)

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Submitting a forum to search engines

Submitting a forum to search engines

Do not waste your time on this. The need to submit a site to a search engine, such as Google, Yahoo or Bing using their add url page went out of fashion last century and has not made a difference... (Continue reading)

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The SEO Kiddies

The SEO Kiddies

If you hang out at SEO forums long enough you get to recognize the SEO Kiddies. They are the ones that: 1. Always want to know when the next Google PR update is and expect their sites ranking to change... (Continue reading)

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Link exchanges are not worth it

Link exchanges are not worth it

We all know the importance of link building to get a site indexed in the search engines; to have the search engines crawl deep into a site (especially a forum) to index most of the site; and to have the... (Continue reading)

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How important is a good Alexa ranking?

How important is a good Alexa ranking?

Basically an Alexa ranking is not important. Having a high or low Alexa ranking does not help a site one bit, unless you want to use it to impress people who are impressed by this sort of thing, but do... (Continue reading)

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