SEO Tycoon

**memorygreetings** · 08-16-2007, 05:32 PM

Dear friends

I am getting about 400 unique visits daily and i am so not satisfied with it. I want to increase the traffic to min 1000 unique visits. please review my website and guide me regarding it
http://www.memorygreetings.com

i have been trying to optomize site with acnhor text "Birthday E cards" i hardly manange to get it to 80 position on google with about 40+ links exchange with p3+ web sites.
Let me know if am missing on any thing
best regards
Joey

**Learning Newbie** · 08-16-2007, 05:35 PM

Step 1: Kill the link exchanges. You have 40+ too many of them.

**memorygreetings** · 05:40 PM

Kill, u r suggesting me to stop link exchanging?? what would i do then?

**ADAM Web Design** · 08-16-2007, 06:05 PM

Earn the links by having something worth linking to.

Link exchange = BAAAAAAAAAD news in the long run.

**Learning Newbie** · 08-16-2007, 06:07 PM

Exactly!

What you would do then is put some time into a better looking design, then focus on getting your site in front of eye balls that are there because they like what you have to offer, instead of because they get a link out of you. A side effect is you'll stop sending traffic you earn off to someone else's site, and you'll start to gain links organically, which means without having to do any more work on your part.

Now I'm not sure about you, but if I can get higher quality links without doing work or lower quality links and lots of chasing and checking, it's an easy choice. But then Google makes it a lot easier:

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However, some webmasters engage in link exchange schemes and build partner pages exclusively for the sake of cross-linking, disregarding the quality of the links, the sources, and the long-term impact it will have on their sites. This is in violation of Google's webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact your site's ranking in search results. Examples of link schemes can include:

Links intended to manipulate PageRank
Links to web spammers or bad neighborhoods on the web
Excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging ("Link to me and I'll link to you.")
Buying or selling links

The best way to get other sites to create relevant links to yours is to create unique, relevant content that can quickly gain popularity in the Internet community. The more useful content you have, the greater the chances someone else will find that content valuable to their readers and link to it. Before making any single decision, you should ask yourself the question: Is this going to be beneficial for my page’s visitors?

http://www.google.com/support/webmas...n&answer=66356

What they're saying is the link exchanges might be hurting your rank more than they help it, especially with more than 40 of them.

**memorygreetings** · 08-17-2007, 01:14 AM

Thats makes my job way more harder then it already is. I have two more websites to work with but as long as i dont link exchange with other website they dont seems to come up properly in ranking over search engines(Thats what i think).Without link exchanging can i have my new sites to get ranked on first pages of search engines?
Guide me so that i change the course for me and head towards right direction.
Thanks
Joey

**ForrestCroce** · 08-17-2007, 02:42 AM

You need outstanding, unique, "sticky" content, like a pop song you can't get out of your head. Then you need to get it in front of the people who will be interested. Let them do the work for you.

It sounds like the hardest thing in your case is going to be patience, which is a big part of sustainable seo. So ... if you need something to do in the meantime, submit to every free directory in sight. That gets you one-way links; they're nearly useless, but it'll keep you busy, and it's good practice for the next step.

Everybody wants to be on the front page, above the fold ... but there are only 10 slots for every search. I consider it a problem for my own web site when more than 1/3 of my traffic comes from search engines. Pretend for a second that toolbar page rank had anything to do with results and ranking - which it doesn't - Google is rumored to update the toolbar in the next few weeks. You could do better or worse ... in reality they change their algorithms all the time and have many data centers that aren't perfectly in sync.

What I'm getting at is search traffic is a gamble. You can't rely on it. Find sources that send constant and steady traffic. That really comes down to word of mouth, online and off.

Go to the library, borrow The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, and read it cover to cover.

**memorygreetings** · 08-17-2007, 05:08 AM

Thanks.
Its a leanthy process if you just have to exchange links with quality and related websites. If you are experimenting you need to do it and wait for about three months to see any difference in results.
there has to be something which assure that you will get better results afterwards.

**Learning Newbie** · 08-17-2007, 12:33 PM

There is. It's called link-worthy content. All of the link exchanges do you no good, and are probably already starting to hurt your rankings. If you had something useful enough people naturally wanted to link to you'd be doing a lot better.

**ADAM Web Design** · 08-17-2007, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by memorygreetings

Thats makes my job way more harder then it already is. I have two more websites to work with but as long as i dont link exchange with other website they dont seems to come up properly in ranking over search engines(Thats what i think).Without link exchanging can i have my new sites to get ranked on first pages of search engines?
Guide me so that i change the course for me and head towards right direction.
Thanks
Joey

Dude, you need to get this idea out of your head, and the sooner or better. It's completely, totally, utterly false.

Sites that don't rank to the point where webmasters feel the need to resort to link exchange usually have other flaws that webmasters don't want to acknowledge. In your case, your site is unreachable in some locations (i.e. mine), so I can't comment any further other than to suggest that maybe some of the reason your userbase isn't growing the way that you'd want it to is because you have issues with hosting and/or your domain registration. I can at least tell you that I can reach your registrar/host's site (shakeelahmed.info) so it's something else.

As far as other issues with your site, someone who can see it will have to comment on it, because I can't.

**Learning Newbie** · 08-17-2007, 02:21 PM

Freaking board just at my message. I typed out a bunch of useful advice and it vanished. Great. Gonna cut this one short.

You link to some "PR 10 SEO Experiment" thing that Google will punish you for. You have text all over your page about Brazil bikinis, free shipping in Pakistan, a flashing love letters banner, adwords that blend in perfectly with your site. I don't know what it's about, as a visitor, as a first time potential user.

All I can see is it's about advertising. That's all well and good, everyone loves to get paid. But no one loves to be crammed full of ads to get someone else paid. I hit mute when the commercials come on, on TV, and I have an ad blocker running in my browser. Turned it off to see what's going on. People don't like ads and want to avoid them. Your site has so many, it's driving people away, the same way your link exchanges, especially to one spamdexing manipulation ring that Google will surely kill, is driving search rank away.

**thevirus** · 08-17-2007, 02:50 PM

The only real way around the old link exchanges is to try three way link exchanges. So someone links to your website and you link to another one of there websites so none of them point toward each other.

**Learning Newbie** · 08-17-2007, 03:24 PM

What horrid advice! Honestly, do you think the people at Google don't have access to Google? Triangle links are every bit as easy to detect as quid pro quo ones, and you still have the bigger issue of linking out to spam sites and giving away the traffic you're fighting to build.

**ADAM Web Design** · 08-17-2007, 03:35 PM

What John said. A three-way link exchange leaves a footprint too, contrary to the current myth.

**Learning Newbie** · 08-17-2007, 03:53 PM

If you think about it from a computer programming standpoint, finding reciprocal links isn't a very easy task. It actually requires a whole new way of querying your data. But what you have to do to sort through basically all the links on the net to find 2-way ones, is the same thing you have to do to find 3-way and 4-way link schemes. It's all the same process, on the same set of data that you better believe Google has more access to than we do.

**babychicken4u2** · 01:32 PM

>Load Time: 110.65 seconds--get this uder 30
>Title tag is a little long 83% relevant--shoot for over 90%
>Description tag is 88% relevant
>Your kw tag is 560 charcters...if you are going to use one make it a legal one...look for 20 words or less..10 is better. 75% relevant
>WWW/NonWWW Header Check: FAILED Your site is not returning a 301 redirect from www to non-www or vice versa.
>Google Cache Check: FAILED Google may have duplicate copies of pages on your site due to indexing both the www and non-www version of your site shows 572 pages cached, while the www version shows only 479 cached. Unless your site has subdomains, this often means that some duplicate content may exist.
>Similarity Check: FAILED Google indicates that it has "omitted some entries very similar" to the top 1000 pages on your site. This similarity is a duplicate content preventing these pages from being considered uniquely valuable in Google's index.
>Default Page Check: FAILED You have not standardized your default pages meaning the following versions of your url return a 200/OK Header, which may cause duplicate content issues. The following extensions work:
http:// www .memorygreetings. com/default.asp
http:// www.m emorygree tings.com/
>% of links to code is 18%...too high
>More than 100 URLs on the main page, some engines have problems spidering that many in a crawl
>Code to Text Ratio: 9.17 % -- Far too low
>get a robots txt with your google sitemap in it.

All but 27 of your pages are already in the supplemental, most likely as a result of the canonical issues I mentioned above. I realize you are concerned about your queried results, but honestly you have much bigger issues. Those supplemental pages are not returned in results unless they are the last page on earth. So you are fishing with only 27 pages, in a very big pond. Concentrate on your mechanics, build organic links to the supplemental pages and then see where you stand.

GL
--Melanie

**ADAM Web Design** · 08-20-2007, 04:58 PM

Running tools and dropping text links to your site is not cool, Melanie.

**babychicken4u2** · 08-20-2007, 05:09 PM

Remove the link, it is a very helpful post...

I was trying to be helpful. He is concerned about the serps, but truly has some issues with these other areas. I noticed the page load time and some other things when I visited it...so I worked it up for him. I was guessing he didn't know about these things. If it bothers you feel free to remove the post, I am no spammer and no harm was intended....surely if it was a link drop I would have more than of of my sites in my sig?

**ForrestCroce** · 08-20-2007, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

Running tools and dropping text links to your site is not cool, Melanie.

That's a very common tactic, and one of our former DVD Addicts friends does this all the time. But Melanie is good people. A lot of people who ask how to improve their rank in Google have larger problems and don't want to acknowledge them ... I think Melanie was trying to point out the most basic of them without putting too much work in to do it.

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Originally Posted by babychicken4u2

I am no spammer and no harm was intended....surely if it was a link drop I would have more than of of my sites in my sig?

I found Melanie's blog by accident, left a comment asking for clarification on a minor point inside her article, and the next day she wrote a detailed and unusually insightful post answering my question. Having read her blog for the past week, I can already tell the woman is far too intelligent, spends her time studying the data and trying to figure out how it applies to running a web site. I haven't known her as long as I've known you, VanGogh, Chris Hirst, John, LNR or Seolman, but Melanie is one of the good guys, too.

**ADAM Web Design** · 08-20-2007, 06:45 PM

That's kind of why I held back a bit on what I would have usually said, Forrest. I still can't tell which side of the fence Melanie's on.

Judgement reserved. (And that doesn't often happen with me.)