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Posting reviews can help in SEO
06-26-2008, 07:32 AM
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Posting reviews can help in SEO
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Name: Neeraj Srivastava
Location: India
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Hi,
Posting reviews is a good thing and it helps users to select righr product or service availabe in the market....Can anyone tell me about posting reviews can also help in getting rankings on search engines....
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06-28-2008, 12:35 AM
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the more content on your site the more that gets index in the search engines specialy products...
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06-30-2008, 05:19 PM
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Local reviews can help boost your search engine rankings and if they are positive reviews they can boost your sales.
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06-30-2008, 06:44 PM
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Name: John Alexander
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Posting reviews for SEO purposes makes a web site look amateurish and is a signal for customers to go elsewhere. I'd recommend against it.
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06-30-2008, 09:28 PM
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Name: Steven Bradley
Location: Boulder, Colorado
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Why would a review have anything specifically to do with SEO? Is there something special about it that a regular post or article doesn't have.
The best reason to review something is because you tried the product or services and want to let your readers know about the good and bad about it.
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07-01-2008, 03:17 AM
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I don't see any relevancy of a review. But if you can get your keywords on that review (just make sure you won't do keyword stuffing) then I think it could help somehow.
I'd rather focus on getting quality and related links than do a review for a product...
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07-01-2008, 03:57 AM
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I don't think it can help SEO
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07-02-2008, 02:10 AM
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Name: Anie
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Reviews are beneficial from user point of view. If the reviews are pointing towards specific keyword or specific product of your website, then it may help to boost search engine rankings.
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07-02-2008, 02:21 AM
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It might not help..
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07-02-2008, 08:30 AM
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Name: Martin
Location: London, England
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They can help if you use them to optimize for relevant keywords.
download ***
buy ***
is *** any good?
*** review
*** pros and cons
But you can do this with articles, as another poster mentioned, so I wouldn't consider it an SEO hidden trick.
Reviews are good for pre-selling affiliate products. If somebody is looking for a review of a product, it's likely that they're further down the road of buying than somebody who's searching for what could be just general information.
Many people - so many, in fact, that the technique has now lost much of its appeal - have made a fortune by posting up Google Ads such as "Don't be scammed by ABC Product" then a call to action of "Read our full review before you buy"
Of course, the user goes to the review page and reads a glowing article of praise telling them that AGC Product really is a brilliant buy.
In this sense, reviews can be very helpful. But for SEO alone? There's no real difference.
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07-06-2008, 07:58 PM
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Name: boris
Location: Arizona
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Originally Posted by coolslko
Hi,
Posting reviews is a good thing and it helps users to select righr product or service availabe in the market....Can anyone tell me about posting reviews can also help in getting rankings on search engines....
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I was going to offer some sage advice on the topic... Then I noticed that your signature included links to an SEO Forum and an SEO website... And then I thought why is an SEO asking such a basic question?
How can you offer SEO yet ask such a basic question...?
Did I miss something? |
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07-07-2008, 06:13 PM
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Name: Steven Bradley
Location: Boulder, Colorado
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Sadly you haven't missed anything.
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07-07-2008, 06:55 PM
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Name: Julien
Location: Vancouver, BC
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Reviews can help for local listings. Beside that, I wouldn't recommend it. Especially fake reviews from store owners, seo guy etc....this could hurt you way more than the actual benefit of it.
Remember at the end of the day, it's not about SEO but about what you did with SEO brought to your business...
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07-07-2008, 07:15 PM
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Name: John Alexander
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Originally Posted by tehfincheh
Reviews are good for pre-selling affiliate products. If somebody is looking for a review of a product, it's likely that they're further down the road of buying than somebody who's searching for what could be just general information.
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No!!! This is how you earn a reputation as a yes man with nothing valuable to say. |
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07-08-2008, 07:49 AM
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Name: Martin
Location: London, England
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No!!! This is how you earn a reputation as a yes man with nothing valuable to say.
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To the average SEO junkie, sure. To the average consumer in my target market? Different story altogether.
Most people won't have the slightest clue about the mechanics of an affiliate campaign going on behind the scenes. I improved my sale conversions from 1:60 to 1:8 by pre-selling with reviews.
That's a technique that comes with good copy and a positive but critical writing slant. |
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07-08-2008, 02:36 PM
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Name: Julien
Location: Vancouver, BC
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I was going to offer some sage advice on the topic... Then I noticed that your signature included links to an SEO Forum and an SEO website... And then I thought why is an SEO asking such a basic question?
How can you offer SEO yet ask such a basic question...?
Did I miss something?
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Sadly you haven't missed anything.
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I think that the problem with SEO experts like Vangogh or local SEO (and don't get me wrong, I like vangogh's work, website, blog etc...) is that you don't accept that people can just be starting in SEO and not knowing everything. I work in an SEO company and I haven't work in the SEO business very long. I've learned some of it at school but to me, you really learn in the real life. That is also why I am on few forums. I think I know quite a bit but I still consider myself in the learning process. You seem to look down on people like me and the one who posted that thread . Well, we can't magically know everything. Like in every field, you need time to learn, make mistakes to learn from them etc....
I respect you for your work and your knowledge, but I do not always your tone in posts. I think anyone should be free to ask whatever question he wants to ask....despite how stupid it may sound to you. |
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07-08-2008, 03:51 PM
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Name: Chris Hirst
Location: Blackpool. UK
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Originally Posted by juliensimon
I think that the problem with SEO experts like Vangogh or local SEO (and don't get me wrong, I like vangogh's work, website, blog etc...) is that you don't accept that people can just be starting in SEO and not knowing everything. I work in an SEO company and I haven't work in the SEO business very long. I've learned some of it at school but to me, you really learn in the real life. That is also why I am on few forums. I think I know quite a bit but I still consider myself in the learning process. You seem to look down on people like me and the one who posted that thread . Well, we can't magically know everything. Like in every field, you need time to learn, make mistakes to learn from them etc....
I respect you for your work and your knowledge, but I do not always your tone in posts. I think anyone should be free to ask whatever question he wants to ask....despite how stupid it may sound to you.
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The problem is not with members who actually learn something along the way, but with the ones that purport to be experts and sell their services while still asking the same beginners questions and posting the same useless "advice" time after time.
In fact, for most of them, the only thing that changes are the links in their signatures.
And you are quite right everyone is free whatever question they like, no matter how dumb it seems.
But when you get questions like THIS for instance. ....
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07-08-2008, 03:52 PM
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Name: John Alexander
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Originally Posted by juliensimon
I think that the problem with SEO experts like Vangogh or local SEO (and don't get me wrong, I like vangogh's work, website, blog etc...) is that you don't accept that people can just be starting in SEO and not knowing everything.
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I don't know much about brain surgery - and I probably shouldn't be trying to remove any tumors until I do! 
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I think I know quite a bit but I still consider myself in the learning process. You seem to look down on people like me and the one who posted that thread .
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The learning process never stops, and it's important to gather knowledge. Even just for its own sake. It's all the more important to learn for reasons besides that it's just good in general. The problem comes when one person tricks a company into paying them to learn by making all kinds of mistakes with that company's reputation.
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Like in every field, you need time to learn, make mistakes to learn from them etc....
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And, also like in every field, you do this until you're ready to start working professionally, having already made all the mistakes in a way that doesn't hurt anyone.
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I think anyone should be free to ask whatever question he wants to ask.
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I think everyone would agree with this. |
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07-08-2008, 04:06 PM
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Name: Julien
Location: Vancouver, BC
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The problem comes when one person tricks a company into paying them to learn by making all kinds of mistakes with that company's reputation.
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My work is usually checked at my company
I guess the point I was trying to get across was that sometime, I feel like I shouldn't ask a question because I feel that most of the replies I'm gonna get are comments about how stupid my question is and how trivial is it to you guys....it feels very judgemental sometimes...instead of being supportive. 
I also get your point. The post Chris linked to is a perfect example of post that are not actual questions but more: "give me a review of my site" or "teach me everything about SEO in one post". Those are pointless
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07-08-2008, 05:39 PM
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Posts: 10,815
Name: Steven Bradley
Location: Boulder, Colorado
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I think that the problem with SEO experts like Vangogh or local SEO (and don't get me wrong, I like vangogh's work, website, blog etc...) is that you don't accept that people can just be starting in SEO and not knowing everything.
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I respect you for your work and your knowledge, but I do not always your tone in posts. I think anyone should be free to ask whatever question he wants to ask....despite how stupid it may sound to you.
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juliensimon, I'm a little surprised you singled me out. I do understand your point, but I think if you look through my posting history you'll see I'm probably one of the most patient people around here when it comes to newbie questions.
However in this case the OP is offering SEO services. There's nothing wrong with someone first learning how seo works. It's another thing to offer services at the same time. You should learn first and then sell the services. You don't have to be the most knowledgeable seo on the planet to offer services, but if you aren't past the newbie stage then you do a disservice to clients.
SEO has a bad reputation in part because so many people who know little about it are trying to sell services as though they're experts.
The OP also has a history here that doesn't put him in the best light. I'm happy to help his understanding of seo, but he comes across more as someone who wants people to tell him quick fixes instead of being someone who truly wants to learn. My apologies to the OP if my characterization is mistaken. That's just how it comes across.
Again my apologies if my comments offended, but I really do think I'm one of the most patient people here in regards to answering newbie questions and I think my posting history more than bears that out. |
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