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Hi has anyone used go articles.com to increase their brand awareness and traffic. I have been using the site for a while now but never seen any real results where our articles only get a couple of views over the space of a few months while i have seen some other articles on the site that claim they are receiving thousands.

would like to know if the stats are true what is the secret to generating traffic to the articles on the site and if there are better article sites out there to increase brand awareness.

is there a tool that will allow you to enter all the ping sites that are availabe and then enter the details like pingomatic and enter the url that you want to ping which will then ping all the ping site that you want.

thanks andrew, i use these at the moment, just wondering if there is one where it will ping all the sites at once.

have tried buying a k2 ping tool for my joomla 1.5 site but it does not work with the 1.5 site which is a sahme as it would make it a lot easier if it was done automatically like word press.

Hi i am trying to work out how to use google plus to increase brand awareness and to increase traffic to my site, but i am not sure how to do this.

can anyone please give me step by step instructions on setting it up and using it to generate traffic please

thanks for this, i will start using google plus.

hi, how can i add these ping services to one service. I use joomla so i do not think they have an automatic ping service. What will it actuall do for my site and for attracting visitors to my site.

Hi I am looking for advice to get my new articles out there and my news stories. I would like to know if i should ping my articles and news stories each time i write a new one and if so which ping services do you recommend and what do they really do.

Can anyone recommend any other services that i could use to promote my new articles and news stories to gain more traffic.

Many thanks

thank you for that. I am going through the links now to see how i can improve the linking on my site and to see how relevant the links are.

i am wanting to know about the links in general. i am trying to find links that i have arranged and links that people have decided to add

hi i have been trying to find all the links that i have to my site http://www.clairehegarty.co.uk but i am not having any luck. I have used the open explorer but it is not showing all the links but when i go to my google webmaster page it shows me more pages than it does on the semoz tool.

can anyone help me sort this out and find out exactly what links are going into my site

many thanks

this helps a lot many thanks

Hi i wonder if anyone can help me with google adsense. I am having trouble making money with google adsense. I have been altering my pages to try and get better results with google adsense but nothing works.

my traffic at the moment is about 3000 visitors a day but this should be doubled to around 6000 a day within the next two months.

here is the layout of a typical page and i would be grateful for any advice on how to alter it to make money with google adsense

http://www.in2town.co.uk/showbiz-gossip/rihanna-news/rihanna-shocks-fans-over-her-sexy-body-claims

i have not been using the difficulty tool, i have just been working on keywords that i need customers to find so they come to my site.

Thanks for checking the gastric band hypnotherapy for me, it has left me puzzled why the report above says i am not at number one, very strange. will send an email to customer services on here and find out why it has gone wrong.

i have just used the rank checker and it is bringing me the restuls that i can see when i search google. this is strange as the semoz rank checher tells me that my keyword gastric band hypnotherapy is number one but the above information tells me it is number nine

i have tried doing what it says on the link but still getting same results. can anyone please put into google uk gastric band hypnotherapy and let me know what the top three results are.

and also can anyone let me know even though i have followed the above advice on the link why i am getting the same results please

Hi i am very puzzled, i have just got a report saying about my keywords and the data seems to be wrong.It says that my keyword gastric band hypnotherapy is ranked at 9 but when i check online it is ranked at one. When i put in anger management therapy it says it is ranked at 25 but it is ranked at 10

Can anyone please explain what is going on. the url is www.clairehegarty.co.uk

Google UK

Keyword        Current Rank        Change
gastric band hypnotherapy    9         5     
anger management therapy    25         5     
virtual gastric band hypnosis    21         5     
gastric band on the nhs    46         > 4     
hypnotherapy gastric band    23         3     
hypno gastric band    17         3     
gastric band hypnosis    16         3     
gastric banding cost    50         3     
gastric hypno band    32         2     
gastric banding

thanks for this. i have podcast factory put away somewhere, it was something that someone gave me a couple of years ago, will this do the job. will look at movie maker as well.

Hi, i have been sent a cd with a radio programme on and i need to use a fraction of that disc to put on you tube but not sure how to do this.

I am going to put it on you tube as well as on my site but the problem i have is, i have been sent the whole of the radio broadcast and the section i need is half way through the programme.

Can anyone let me know what equipment or programmes i need for windows to be able to edit the disc and put it on you tube

many thanks

tried the redirect but did not like it and it looks like my hosting company have put the main domain without the www. so will read how to sort this out

my hosting company done something the other day do you think this is what the problem is

hi just about to start a new campaign to i can monitor my website and i get this message up but not sure what this means.

Roger has detected a problem:

We have detected that the domain www.headlineplus.com and the domain headlineplus.com both respond to web requests and do not redirect. Having two "twin" domains that both resolve forces them to battle for SERP positions, making your SEO efforts less effective. We suggest redirecting one, then entering the other here.

can anyone please let me know why this message comes up please

thanks for this. i will follow your advice.

Hi, I am wondering if i should include a description tag for an article page where the news on that page will change around five times a day.

I am not sure if to fill a description in for local news or to leave it blank so the search engines pick up the latest local news and then the next day they show the latest local news again in the search engines instead of having a static description of the news page.

any help would be great

I have looked at Firstserv but there are no prices. 1 and 1 has been recommended to me Keri, but the trouble with 1 & 1 is, a lot of joomla people do not seem to like them although the tech guy does, but when i researched them, they got a lot of negative feedback.

On a cost point of view there dedicated servers are a good price but because i am not technical when it comes to sorting out databases it would cost me more in the long run. I have also looked at 123 reg, Tsohost, go daddy, and united offer less memory etc for much more than i am paying at the moment.

The sites have been put there for the time being so they can be worked on in the near future, none of the sites will be similar, they are just there at the moment, waiting to be worked on.

I am seriously thinking because i cannot find a suitable hosting company to spend a few thousand pounds on having my own server at our office and then employ someone so many hours a week as this seems the better option.

Hi i am asking this question again as not had much resonce with the other question. We are urgently looking for a decent hosting company in the UK who offer managed hosting. We are looking for a dedicated server that can handle forty sites or more.

Can anyone please let me know if there are any good hosting companies in the UK for joomla. I have researched a large number but they all receive bad reviews so i thought i would ask on here again and see what other people are using

many thanks

I am reading this and tried it but i must be missing something

If your object is in a folder within your bucket, then the folder must also be included in the URL. For example, if image.jpg was located in your bucket's Images folder, then the URL would be: http://d604721fxaaqy9.cloudfront.net/images/image.jpg.

i have my domain name d22wnjaygrh83y.cloudfront.net

and then my image is jenniferanistonlarge.jpg

so i put it together like it says which is d22wnjaygrh83y.cloudfront.net/jenniferanistonlarge.jpg   but nothing comes up

if i double click on an image that i was looking at only a few minutes ago in my bucket, i get this

<error>AccessDenied<message>Access Denied</message><requestid>311AC6250EC638CC</requestid><hostid>J0dwp7GCiRcxFd1nrQg6fXnCQxt8/6PgrlGEgXpeBaBFXDm7I8f3bYwd6D0Ciifu</hostid></error>

not sure why because i have loaded the image to my bucket and i doubled clicked it a few minutes ago and it shown it but now brings the above message up.

just been reading the info, it is a great help. i have to say that amazon in my opinion need to make things a bit more clearer.

thanks for this, so i have signed up to s3 and fulled the bucket with pictures so i now have to join the cloudfront?

i will read the info, any help would be great and thanks for the heads up

Hi i have signed up to s3 amazon and have uploaded my images to my bucket but the trouble i am having is, how do i have the images on my site. i have tried to use the url that it is showing but all that is doing is  https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/in2town/audreyrobertslarge.jpg  not bringing up the image on my site and when i have done it through the internet search box it does not bring up an image.

I have been told this is a great cdn service and a cost effective one but i really need to learn how to use it.

has anyone used this service and if so can you please let me know what i need to do

I have now managed to get a bit futher with the help of stuart Bell but the images are still not showing on my site. any help would be great.

many regards

thanks for that john i will take a look

As some of you may have seen in an earlier post, i have had problems with the speed of my site. After good advice i got an expert on board who done tests and found that my server (hosting company) was taking a long time to answer, on some occasions it was taking seven seconds.

I have tried to get the hosting company to listen and sort the problem out but they are not interested and keep trying to sell me other things to get the site faster, i am already on a dedicated server.

So now I am looking for a UK hosting company who offer good service and would be grateful if anyone could recommend some on here so i can speak to them, as i want to get my sites moves a.s.a.p

many thanks

what i was looking at, was for our readers to be able to read local news while on our site, i think i will give it a miss then.

what i was thinking was, listing the title and the first two sentences but not sure if this would damage my ranking

hi my website is www.in2town.co.uk which is a lifestyle magazine and for some time now i have been thinking about bringing in news from other sources but i want to know how this will affect my site.

I have read that by bringing in articles from other sources which will be sources like bbc news, that it can increase visitors but i would like some advice.

What i do not want is for the sites to take away my link juice and for me to drop down the rankings. I also would like people to read the news and hopefully come back to my site.

any advice on this would be great.

Hi i am a bit puzzled. i am optimizing my site to speed it up but i am getting two different speed reports.

my site is www.in2town.co.uk and the two speed websites i am using are

http://tools.pingdom.com  and http://gtmetrix.com

Can anyone please let me know what results they are getting for my site with the two above tools and also why i am getting two different results.

the other day before i made some changes, i was getting on average 2 seconds for loading speed, but at the moment, sometimes i am getting seven seconds and then when i test it again it goes down to three seconds or below.

Also, does anyone know how i can test to make sure that my site is faster when you go from one page to another on my site.

I am not getting the true loading experience on my site from one page to another because good old virgin are updating their broadband in our area and we have also had voltage problem, whatever this means on our broadband box outside on our street which they claim they have sorted.

any help would be great

the hosting company is in the US, it is important for me to make the site load fast, the last thing i want to do is for the readers to get fed up of slowly loaded pages.

I have to get the site up to scratch so i can start making money from it which it is not doing at the moment.

google analaystics, says under site speed 0.00 so i am a bit confused by this

yes all of those are mine

Hi can you explain more about the 26ms etc as i am not really familiar with this. are you saying that the server is slow and that my site is slow because the server is.

this is the tool i have been using to find out the speed of my site

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/pgZ9jKqDR/http://in2town.co.uk/

on average it is saying about 4 seconds but i am not sure if this is really correct or not.

would like to know more about the server speed you are talking about. my hosting company is tmd hosting.

here is the reply i have just got from them

What my colleague is referring to is that there is a glitch in the website that you are seeing that the following domain:

buycostumes.com

is located on your server. We can confirm that this is not a true statement and this website (as well as the others) are not located on your dedicated server. You do not have to worry about any of that content being uploaded from someone else.

Please feel free to contact us regarding any further questions or comments.

Please note that we have traced the domain names in question and we receive the following information:

buycostumes.com

buycostumes.com. 86400 IN A 66.45.3.44
buycostumes.com. 90000 IN NS ns3.inflow.net.
buycostumes.com. 90000 IN NS ns4.inflow.net.
buycostumes.com. 90000 IN NS ns5.inflow.net.
buycostumes.com. 90000 IN NS ns6.inflow.net.
buycostumes.com. 90000 IN NS ns1.inflow.net.
buycostumes.com. 90000 IN NS ns2.inflow.net.

target.com

target.com. 1800 IN A 161.225.130.163
target.com. 3600 IN NS ns4.target.com.
target.com. 3600 IN NS ns1-auth.sprintlink.net.
target.com. 3600 IN NS ns2-auth.sprintlink.net.
target.com. 3600 IN NS ns3-auth.sprintlink.net.
target.com. 3600 IN NS ns3.target.com.

www.certifigroup.com

www.certifigroup.com. 3600 IN A 66.96.131.78

This means that those websites are not even pointed to your dedicated server. This means that there is an issue with the website that you are using:

http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server/

as the information displayed in there, is not accurate. Please note that this website is not affiliated with our company and we cannot provide assistance for 3rd party websites and tools. In order to get the issue resolved, you should contact their development team and ask them for more information on this matter.

Thank you for your patience and understanding in advance.

Please feel free to contact us regarding any further questions or comments.

Hi i have found a website on my dedicated server that is not mine by using a number of tools including

http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server/

the site that i found that was not mine is buycostumes.com

i contacted my hosting company and told them and this is the reply i got back

We have checked the issue and it appears there have a bug/glitch in this site, because after we checked the mentioned domain we found that this website respond on IP which is not our and is not assisgned in your Dedicated server as you may preview below:

Found 3 domains hosted on the same web server as buycostumes.com (66.45.3.44).

buycostumes.com (linkback)

target.com (linkback)

www.certifigroup.com (linkback)

Thus if you find any issues on your web server, please mention them in this ticket and we will be glad to provide you with further assistance on this matter.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any further technical difficulties.

Best regards,

Now they have not said if they are going to do anything about this and to be honest i am getting fed up with the hosting company because i am being told that the slow speed i was receiving for my website www.in2town.co.uk was down to it taking a long time to reach my server before reaching my site.

Now not sure if this is correct or not but with all the help i have received off semoz i have managed to increase the speed to my site but now i have found this problem.

Can anyone tell me if i am being played and also can anyone recommend a professional UK hosting company.

Also is this site affecting my spped and my site performance.

many thanks. after you great advice alan, it is now turned on

Hi i am working on my site at the moment www.in2town.co.uk and i am going through y slow as well as http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.in2town.co.uk/upnmEWvO  to make my website faster and better and it is telling me to enable keep alive.

Now i am not sure what this does but i have contacted my hosting company and they are asking me if there are any settings that i want.

my site is in joomla and it is a magazine site, can anyone let me know if it is a good idea to enable this or not and if so what settings should i be looking at.

my site is updated all day long so i need to make sure this is write for me.

many thanks

just been looking at fast submitter which charges $20 a url. has anyone used this and if so is it any good, did anyone notice a difference to traffic and ranking

james where you are saying about the main header, should i put an introduction there. i have been worried about putting an introduction as i fear it may look out of place.

tom can you give me an example of a good internal link structure. could you look at my site www.in2town.co.uk and let me know what i am doing wrong and write with reference to internal linking

hi james. I use digg a lot and cannot understand why after using digg for a few years now that no links are showing in the report.

I also do press releases but i think i need to look at better press release sites

my site is www.in2town.co.uk   Hi i hear a lot about having a linking structure in place and a linking stragedy but i am not really sure what i need to do even though i have spent months reading about it.

What i have been trying to do is to link as many of the pages within my site to the home page and i am now looking at linking pages in my site to around my site to different pages, just like <cite>en.wikipedia.org</cite>

So when i have a story on cheryl cole, i will make sure that i link from that story to another story i have on cheryl cole etc.

But i would like to know what else i need to do.

For my home page i want to rank for the following keywords

Lifestyle magazine

Lifestyle news

celebrity news

celebrity gossip

showbiz news

soap spoilers

I would also love suggestions for other keywords i should be aiming for, for the home page.

I find it hard as my site is a magazine site, so i do not have many places to put a description of each page of the site, so i would love some help on this and advice what i can do to let google know what my site is about.

If anyone can help with putting a linking stragedy in place and what things i should be doing to increase my ranking for important keywords, then that would be great

many thanks

Hi i have just checked my google back links for my site www.in2town.co.uk and it has said that i have only five, not sure where these are from as the tool i was using did not tell me. But i have looked at my compeditors and they have a few hundred and some have thousands so i am just wondering what i need to do to compete and get more backlinks.

I have been writing articles for other sites, free article sites hoping to get some traffic as well as backlinks, for this has not worked out.

i just done a report now and i have got the following information

DMOZ Directory ? NoYahoo Directory ? NoDigg 0 Yahoo Indexed Pages ? 0

Bing Indexed Pages 0

I would really like to know what steps i need to take as i feel that i have done a lot of good work but my back links are not improving. any help would be great

many thanks for this. i will have to research and find out how to solve this. just looked into my cpanel so i will have to get some advice from the developer on removing this.