I have read lots of articles about how to constrain search results on Google by domain, by site, and even how to group words and include “negative” keywords to ensure that I don’t get spurious matches. What I haven’t figured out is whether there’s any way to constrain my searches by date. For example, to just find material that’s been updated or indexed in the last week. Doable?
This is a rather geeky SEO question, but I have heard that Google considers internal site links as relevant as external links and that it’s smart to “nofollow” links that go to pages you don’t want or need ranked in the search engine. Is that true? More importantly, is it safe?
I have rebuilt my website using the advice in your great book Growing Your Business with Google. I hope that I understood everything correctly! And, of course, I have a question for you: I understand that there are companies that will add you to a site with a higher PageRank for a fee. Do you recommend doing this, if the site is related to your line of work? If so, are there any sites that you recommend, including your own?
Dave, there are a bunch of new comments on my MySpace profile that link to “msplinks.com”, even though they look like they’re from different people. Is this some sort of unified attack on my profile or what?
I just noticed this week that sometimes when I search for information on Google that the top few results have a little plus sign next to them. I’ve seen the little shopping cart for Google Shopping, but what the heck does the plus sign denote?
I’m freaking out. I went and logged in to Google Analytics this morning and it reported this: “No pages from your site are currently included in Google’s index due to violations of the webmaster guidelines. Please review our webmaster guidelines and modify your site so that it meets those guidelines.” Ohmygod! What guidelines? How can I figure out what caused me to get the boot and how do I get my site re-included?
Hi Dave. I work at a small, new company and I’ve been hounding the CEO to start a corporate blog. He mainly interested in increasing Pagerank and I’ve explained that a corp-blog will help with Pagerank, page views, branding, et al. (That is correct, isn’t it?) Well, he’s warming up to the idea and I want to give a roll out plan, but my tech knowledge only goes so far.
Ideally I’d like propose something that means nobody else has to do more work, so I can own it. When I saw that Blogger is now offering custom domain names (or whatever it is), I thought that might be my ticket. Would that be a quick solution to what I’m trying to do? What exactly happens behind the scenes there? The URL shows our site, but the blog is actually on Blogger’s servers? Will that undermine the Pagerank goodness we’d get from (the inenvitable) in-bound links to our (high quality content) corporate blog?
I love selling things but am not that strong with numbers. Are there suggestions on ways to organize my SEO, cost per click and stuff, but is easy on my brain?
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