Denver SEO - Latest Comments

Re: Google Places, Spam, Edits and More

Jobellavillamor — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:01:56 -0000

This article is really helpful, thanks for sharing all of these things from Google.

Re: Local Marketing Games

primeval dad — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:35:20 -0000

Hahah! Thanks for this fun post.
I think the facial expressions say it all.

Hey, there's a lot going on out there but your customers expect you to be as in it as they are. They need you to supercharge your word of mouth because they use local search to find you. It's a marketing concept they can help you with, though. Embrace the social customer.

Re: Nofollow Does Pass Anchor Text

Mark A — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:56:43 -0000

Hi Gregray,

The "NO" in the 4th result you point out is the scraper telling you the backlink no longer exist at the target URL.

Remember, most of these SEO tools scrape Yahoo SiteXplorer for the actual link data, the trouble is, Yahoo is far from perfect and often out of date. So whilst the link will be scraped, that's no indication that it still exists on the target site.

Once the link has been scraped from Yahoo, the tool will then scrape the actual page to see if the backlink still exists, the "NO" just means either there has been an error scraping the destination URL, or in most cases, that the backlink is simply no longer exists - which also accounts for the N/A in the anchor text section.

Hundreds of High PR followed backlinks with identical anchor text built in a short period of time to a new site could certainly look a little unnatural, but personally I've never had any problems so far. I think the most important thing is to actually mix up the anchor text a bit - but followed links definately have a far more drastic effect on serps than nofollowed anchor text links. The one thing I would discount is PR, my testing seems to have shown that so long as the link is followed, the anchor text will certainly have the desired effect regardless of PR. If you are in an especially competitive environment, then PR could play a more important role, although I'd say domain age of the site linking to you is a fairly important factor right now too, alongside relevancy.

Re: Nofollow Does Pass Anchor Text

gregray — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:09:12 -0000

In my mind all follow links screams of deliberate manipulation of link building.

I'm of the thinking that a good mix of all types of links, follow and nofollow in this case, appears as a more natural incoming link structure.

Re: Nofollow Does Pass Anchor Text

Rencontre — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:47:58 -0000

This is exactly the kind of topic I cannot find in french. Your explanation seems nice, but the picture is too small and I... I don't understand the logic behind your conclusion (not forgetting that I don't know what your tool does).
Would you recommend link building with nofollow then ?

Re: Nofollow Does Pass Anchor Text

gregray — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:31:41 -0000

Sorry about the image quality...the theme I'm using here is a little small in width. However if you use Chrome you should be able to right click the image and view it full sized in another window. In Firefox you can right click to View Image.

Re: Nofollow Does Pass Anchor Text

zigojacko — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:23:55 -0000

We can't view your findings via the image as it's not linked and the one displayed is too small.

I've always been dubious whether the nofollow attribute does not pass any anchor text on, I've always had an incline that it does although never tested as you have.

I would definately still say that a nofollow attributed link can pass on relevancy and trust however, and that when building a healthy link profile, nofollow links should be included for more naturally built links.

Re: Nofollow Does Pass Anchor Text

gregray — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:44:29 -0000

I didn't say the anchor text was followed (weighted), simply that the link text was being passed.

Dave stated in his post that the nofollow attribute would not pass link text. I simply found, through a little testing, that to be an incorrect conclusion.

Would you agree that if the anchor text wasn't passed the results should be n/a as shown in the 4th result down in my screen shot?

For the record I don't fret whether a link is a nofollow. IMHO there is to much hoopla around the whole thing and not enough hard evidence one way or the other to discount the links totally.

Re: Nofollow Does Pass Anchor Text

Mark A — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:58:06 -0000

I don't believe anchor text is followed in Google - of course it will still be there for tools such as SEO Elite to scrape and display, but google is aware of the links nofollow status, so will know not give it any value regardless.

I could be wrong though, there's a possibility I'm not understanding your explanation here, so if you could further explain why the above is proof that anchopr text is giving weight from a nofollow link, then please do!!

Re: Foothills Elementary Fun Run

Athena — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:44:56 -0000

This goes for a good cause. We will be doing this Fun Run as a family to help support my sons school. I hope the word gets out and a lot of people show up!

Re: Foothills Elementary Fun Run

Marchel Ray — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:10:14 -0000

The school needs your support. They are always looking for ways to involve the community. Our children need your support in many ways. If everyone took a little time to get involved just think how great our community can be!

Re: Mining For Additional Keywords With Google SKTool

gregray — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:54:33 -0000

The Adwords keyword tool is very helpful for building large lists that includes synonyms of the root keyword.

The sktool drills down on the sub niche phrase itself finding long-tail phrases- up to 800 results. i.e.- dog training tips, dog obedience training, training your dog.....

Re: Mining For Additional Keywords With Google SKTool

David — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:35:18 -0000

I've been playing around with sktool to build keyword lists that I will use for reference when writing content for niche sites. However, I had a question, any idea how it's different than the normal Google Keyword tool (https://adwords.google.com/sel... ?

Re: Staying In Touch With Denver Search Marketing Advocates

Knox — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:51:42 -0000

Thanks for the mention Greg:)

Re: Google Profile SEO

dotJenna — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:57:35 -0000

Excellent article. Thank you very much!

Re: Website Traffic Strategy Using Your RSS Feed

mfarney — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:30:28 -0000

RSS is one way to go. It's actually one of the simple ways that most users could work with. And speaking of problems with indexing a site, it only takes a back link to get Google to notice a site or a page.
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Re: Google Profile SEO

clerical jobs — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:53:17 -0000

Great article, thank you. I looked at my profile and I didn't have any links to my site in the Bio section. I hope that helps my site more.

Re: Staying In Touch With Denver Search Marketing Advocates

Carrie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:45:09 -0000

I'd like to suggest a listing for my Denver SEO company, Wise Owl (www.wiseowlseo.com). I am currently trying to build a bigger client base and have several great references. I have gotten a recent client - who works in real estate - from zero results in Google to the number 1 and 2 spot for his keywords! Another client, a staffing company, is #3 for one keyword and on page one for several others. I'm proud of my accomplishments and would like a little more visibility so as to grow my business.

Thank you for your consideration!

Carrie Meurer
cmeurer@wiseowlseo.com

Re: Generating Keywords Targeted To Your Local Area

Lav — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:40:04 -0000

Very useful. It is annoying if you have to do this manually for each keyword!

Re: Google Profile SEO

gregray — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:07:26 -0000

Sure thing! Your profile lends itself as being a great example. It's indexed, and ranked, has a good balance of targeted keywords relevant to your business and appears to really help your branding efforts. A lesson about the power of Google properties to be sure.

My profiles is around 90 days old and all links are follow so Google must have just started plopping the nofollow attribute onto the new ones.

I wonder if being verified has any weight on the accounts "realism" as to whether the attribute is used or not? - though wouldn't hang my hat on a statement like that without a little research, so purely conjecture on my part.

Re: Google Profile SEO

Zack Katz — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:59:38 -0000

Thanks for the mention! I've recently found that new profiles are being nofollowed by Google...too bad! Thankfully, they seem to have grandfathered in the existing profiles to be dofollow.

Re: Link Building Tips from Around the Web

swasa — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:25:46 -0000

Very good tips in the links provided.Thanks for sharing the informative one.Really nice indeed.

Re: SEO Companies Too Expensive For Small Business

Catch Search Marketing — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:34:12 -0000

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Re: Search Engine Marketing Explained

Greg — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:24:24 -0000

Today's Internet marketing has become a complicated and branchy science involving a great deal of theoretical knowledge in combination with applied techniques and social sites do have a rightful place in SEM as one of those techniques, although some SEO's would disagree with me.

Yes, I personally believe (from my own experience) that social networking, bookmaking and media play a huge role in a person's marketing campaign. I could have written several 1000 words on the subject of SEM and web 2.0 properties, but didn't want to ramble. Always room for more later.

Re: Search Engine Marketing Explained

Denver Internet Marketing — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:46:34 -0000

Fantastic post! But there is something you might add to SEM which would be the social networking, social bookmarking and social media aspects of a good search engine marketing campaign. I think these are critical today for a well rounded campaign, don't you?