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Hi our site has always been either number one in google or at the bad times number two for the search word gastric band hypnotherapy but today we have dropped three places and we do not understand what has happened
Can anyone please have a look and see what we need to do to get back on top. the site that is above us does not have much information on the subject so we are very puzzled
here is our site www.clairehegarty.co.uk/virtual-gastric-band-with-hypnotherapy
many thanks
Hi I am working on a site at the moment http://www.cheapflightsgatwick.com and i had the site using a different template and in the search engines for the search term cheap flights gatwick we were fourth and for the term holiday magazine we were 12th in google but now we are not even in google on the first page for the search terms. But now after changing the template in joomla our rankings have gone out of the window.
It took me about a day to sort out the site with the new template so i was not expecting any problems with the search engines but for some reason there is.
If you put into the search engine www.cheapflightsgatwick.com then you will see that google has not visited the site for four days and also it is not showing the description and instead it is showing details about joomla.
Can anyone let me know if there is anything i need to do to sort this out and why google is taking so long to visit my site
would it take away any of my juice from my site and also would it be a good idea or a bad idea. want people to stay on my site but thinking if i do this then people will leave my site and not come back. in two minds if to do it.
the one thing i cannot understand about the above site is, all they do is have feeds so how do they make money if people are going to jump off their site every two seconds.
Hi i have seen this site and have been watching it for some time and really like it. I would like to put news on my site for one topic and would like it displayed like this site does but i am not sure how they do it.
here is the site http://www.topix.com/uk/grimsby
I use joomla so i am not sure you can do exactly what they do where they have so much of the story before being sent over to the main site.
Also i would like to know if this is a good idea or a bad idea as i am thinking this could take away my juice from my site
any advice would be great.
thank you for that. i will do.
Hi i would like some ideas on how i promote some websites that do not belong to me. The reason i would like to promote them is because they are newspaper sites that have written articles about me that have appeared in newspapers and now they have appeared on their website.
One newspaper article that was done last week which is on their site is already on page two but others that were done some time ago, a few months ago are on page six and seven and i would like to try and get them on page one.
Any ideas on how i can do this would be great as this would be great to gain as much exposure from these articles as possible
Hi i have heard so much about Linkedin but i am not sure how to use it. I would like to start off using it for free and have opened an account but i am not sure how to use it to promote my site and to gain traffic before i go to the paid service.
Can anyone please give me some basic advice on how to use the free service to gain traffic to my site and also the best way to use it.
I want to try and use it to promote my articles on www.in2town.co.uk
many thanks this is excellent, strange because i did search the extensions but must not have put in the correct search word, this will make my life a lot easier.
Hi I believe that if you have wordpress then you can automatically ping your site with new content but I am using joomla and would like to know if you can do it with this type of site.
I write lots of articles each day and it takes time to keep ping each article so i am wondering if there is an easy way of doing it.
Cheers for that, i will have a read of it now. I cannot understand why people use these re writing article software where they do such a bad job
Hi i have been submitting a lot of fresh articles on free article sites and they have been picked up which is good but my problem is, i am finding loads of these sites who have picked up my article using some sort of article rewrite programme and my articles look like they have now been written by a two year old.
I want to know if this is going to spoil my reputation and i would like to know why people use these programmes when they do not even make sense.
hi, it keeps changing, one minute it is an a and then a f
Now i have worked out how to do this, can anyone let me know if this would be wasting my time. I am correct that it is good for seo to find all my lost pages that are generating good links and putting the content back on my site to gain that link juice.
Hi after reading lots of pages, i have found how to do it with joomla, but it says it is better to do it within the htaccess file, not sure if this is correct or not.
What i have done is used the Aliases feature where i have put the old url in there
Hi, my hosting company after they updated my joomla website lost thousands of pages of content, i am now searching for all broken links and re doing the content to get my links back, but i am having a problem understanding how to redirect these links.
For example, i have now managed to retrieve this page
but the old url for this page was
i do not have the unfriendly url for this page, so what i am trying to find out is, how to tell google that the above page is now
in my joomla site. if anyone could please explain how to do this with joomla 1.5 then you will make me very happy as then i will be able to retrieve some of my lost links
hi, how would i add the old urls to the site. there are lots of urls from the old site that i have had to change.
What i mean by this is, when we changed the site, we asked the hosting company to move all the data over, they made a huge error and because of this we lost thousands of pages of content and thousands of pages of links
If you could explain about adding the old urls and if this is possible.
Buit what i had on the old xmap was, it was showing all the content that i had, which made the sitemap look very long, but by doing this google was adding it and it was showing in my google webmaster tools, but now it is only showing that 13 pages have been listed by google instead of all the content pages that we have.
On the old site by doing this, it showed thousands of content pages listed in google in webmaster tools, but at the moment it is only showing our main sections
With ref to the coronation street, it is because we are adding this over the weekend
any help would be great. It has been a nightmare building the new site after the hosting company lost all of our data
so basically pingler just does the same job as google ping then, so what is the point in pingler and why do they ask you to join them for a fee
Hi i am trying to understand how services such as pingler.com help your site. I think i understand about the google ping service which tells google that you have updated a page but how does pingler work.
Pingler claims that it sends traffic to your site but i do not understand this.
Any help would be great
Hi here is my site map http://www.in2town.co.uk/sitemap-xml?sitemap=1
But i am concerned that i have not set my joomla site map correctly. The reason why i think this is, because i have a lot of articles on the site and google are not picking them up in my google webmaster tools.
On my old site google was quick to pick up all the articles.
Can anyone offer me any help on this and let me know if my site map should be set to show all of my articles
Thanks for this, i will have a look now
Hi i have been reading that if you have links going out of your site then this can damage your site, so i have been trying to find out, how i can do no follow links for some of the affliate sites that i have on my site.
I have a couple of adverts on my site and i would like to turn these into no follow links while the rest of my internal links on my page are to stay follow links but in joomla i am not sure how to do this.
can anyone please give me some advice
Hi i am still finding my way around semoz and still learning what the tools do and i am trying to find out how i can increase my page authority. My competition page authority is 52 while mine is 36 and i would like to learn how i can increase mine to beat my competition.
If anyone could give me some step by step instructions on what tools i should use and how i should use them to increase my page authority
many thanks
Hi i like the info, can you show me an example just like the one i have put a link to please, as i would like to do one just like that where i can have the articles showing on the same page.
If you have any examples to look at then that would be great.
Hi i have come across this feedburner account and have found it a great way to get our message out there but after spending a few hours trying to work out how to get a feedburner account to do the same as this and failed i would like some advice on simple steps on how to promote our website by using the same methods as this company.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/hypnosisnorthampton
As you can see they have lots of articles on the same page but i cannot see an option for doing this on feedburner, can anyone please advise me on what i need to do.
most glossy lifestyle magazines cover topics from holidays, celebrity gossip, true life stories etc.
Our online magazine is aimed mainly at women
i think you misunderstood me. what i want to do is to post a paragraph of the article for people to see it and then press a button to my site to read the rest of the article.
Hi i am looking to promote my home page which is a lifestyle magazine www.in2town.co.uk and i am not sure what keywords i should be using to promote it.
I am doing ok for the keyword lifestyle magazine but i am struggling on what other keywords i should be using to get people to the home page of the magazine.
The magazine is nearly finished and we still have a couple of finishing touches to do but the basics of the magazine is as follows
holiday and travel news, soap gossip, celebrity gossip, product reviews, lingerie brands, gastric band hypnotherapy, health, fashion and beauty and holiday reviews.
I want the home page to be the main page where everyone visits but i am not sure what i should be doing to accomplish this.
Any ideas would be of a great help
Hi i run a lifestyle magazine and we have articles that we need to promtoe straight away before they go out of date. I am looking at ways where i can promote an article to attract visitors to the site to read the article.
For example
We write articles and want to find a way where we can promote the articles where we could place a paragraph or two and then put at the bottom of that read the rest of the article here.
Can anyone please suggest how we can do this to attract traffic to our site and then hence this traffic would then keep coming back to the site to read more news and articles.
That is great to hear. How would i on that page use the linking system. I am wanting to gain linking for celebrity news, lifestyle magazine and soap gossip
Hi i am working on my site which is a lifestyle magazine and i have been reading about using linking within your own website to help you climb up the search engines. Now i am trying to find out if this is correct information and if so which is the best way to use this.
I have an example page below, as stated i am still working on the site and the site will still take me a few more weeks yet.
http://www.in2town.co.uk/news/soap-gossip/eastenders-fans-not-happy-over-tanya-plot
Now if it is correct that linking from within a site is a good way to climb the search engines, i would like to know how i would do it for this page.
I am looking at climbing the search engines for soap gossip and celebrity news.
I was thinking should i have a line at the bottom saying something like for all the latest celebrity news visit our site or something like this.
any advice would be great
sent you the info. customer service should be the most important thing
Keri, can you wake someone up there please as i have just checked my help desk ticket which was eleven hours ago and it says the following
Awaiting assignment to a help desk operator
Not being funny but this is not very professional and we are paying good money to receive a second rate service. the rank tracker has been down for some days now, so i am just wondering why we are paying the money we pay when it has not been sorted out and why after eleven hours no one has got back to me and it says that it is awaiting assignment.
I need to see an improvement if i am going to stay with seomoz
I have checked my spam and nothing there, i cannot believe that it is still broke. i will contact them again and see if there is any life there lol
i have sent them an email and still not heard anything back, i have contacted them before over issues and never received an email
I have been waiting for many days now to use rank tracker but it is still broke. when i put the keyword into rank tracker the wheel just goes around and around and brings no results.
Can anyone from the semoz team let me know when it will be mended
Hi i am wanting my site to come up in the search engines under certain search words such as Hypno Band but i do not want the words displayed on my site.
I would like to know if there is a way to let the search engines know that the page is relevant to the chosen keywords without having them on my site.
I have been reading about anchor text and would like to know the best way to use these and the best way to let the search engines know that the page is rellevant to the keywords.
any help would be great
Hi, i have been trying to check some ranks with my site www.in2town.co.uk but for some reason over the past couple of days the rank tracker has not been working. I thought it could be a fult with my computer but i have tried a few computers and i am still getting the same responce.
Can anyone let me know if they are experiencing any problems
Hi just had my weekly report on my website to show me how i am ranking in the search engines and i am puzzled, i have not changed my page except from one paragraph and the page has gone from a grade a to a grade f. can anyone explain how this works out
Hi, the articles on there are articles i wrote but put them onto free article sites. i put them on the blog to see how it works and then i will be writing origianl content on there.
What i am looking at is, i have noticed that google picks up blogs in there blog news or when you type in a phrase into google blogs you get a load up so i was hoping that once i can work out how to make the blog look good that i can put original content on there and at the same time have links going to my site and also traffic.
I am not sure if this is worth my time or not, or if i should just put two paragraphs of the content on the blog and then have people read the rest on my site or just leave the blogging alone.
I am trying to explore new ways to get people to my site www.clairehegarty.co.uk
hi as i am new to blogging i have got myself a blogger account which is here
http://gastrichypnoband.blogspot.com/
To be honest i do not like it that much as there are no nice graphics that i can put anywhere and it seems limited to what i can do
but the idea is to try and promote it, well learn how to promote it and use it for articles that will not be on my site and generate interest to my site.
any advice on the best way to drive traffic to my site using this blogger would be good.
what i want is, for people to read the articles and then go to my site
so say if i had a blog on my account and i was writing lots of different blogs, could i add a link each time to my site.
do you please have an example of a blog with a website
i like the sound of this alan, can you explain about joining a blog to my site. i did ask my hosting company about this but they said that i would be wasting my time as it would not bring me any extra juice to my site but then i have heard people say it does. would love to learn more