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Hi not sure if anyone uses joomla on here but if they do i would love there advice. I have just got a joomla site that is joomla 1.7 but i cannot find a sh404sef component to make the url friendly and would like to know if there is a component out there or if you can use an older one.

I would have thought by now that they would have installed one with joomla 1.7

If anyone uses joomla, then i would be glad to hear from you.

Hi i am trying to work out what is the best when it comes to domain names. What i mean is, should you go short or should you try and fit in what you need.

So as follows.

say i need a domain name that i wanted to buy which i have done research and found that these two words together are good keywords. please note that this is an example

the two keywords are manchester airport

and the next two keywords are cheap flights

should i get a domain name that say manchesterairportcheapflights or should i have a shorter domain name like manchester cheap flights

or another example

say i wanted a domain name that fitted the following two keywords in

manchester hotels

budget accomodation

should i just get a domain name that says manchester hotels or should it get the following manchesterhotelsbudgetaccomodation

I am looking at buying a number of domain names and i am trying to find out if shorter is better or if a longer domain name is better

there is an article site that i came across and i was going to put an article on it but stopped myself because i did not understand the trackbacks. it allows you to put the article on the site and then at the bottom is ask you if you would like to put a track back, i did not understand what it was asking me so i did not write the article.

Should i have let it blank or should i have put the site down that i want to promote

Hi i am trying to learn how to use track backs as a way to get link exposure. Cana anyone please explain to me the importance of them and how to use them please.

Would i use one by putting a link back to my site or am i wrong on this.

any help would be great

this is very interesting. If i had two sites with a similar theme and i had two links on that article, one with a anchor text for one word to one site and another anchor text for another site, would it ignore the second link

This is very interesting ryan. If you have a number of articles on one article site, would this not increase your link juice to your site.

With reference to earning money on hub pages i and friends of mine have submitted lots of articles on the site and have never earned a single penny.

Hi, i am getting lots of spam in my mail box about how companies can help you get more traffic and i see on lots of sites about tools that can bring you more traffic and help improve your site, and i am just wondering if anyone has tried any of these services or products to help promote their site.

For example, i keep getting sent about submitting my site to over 200 directories or search engines and just wondering if these are a waste of time.

thank you for that, i will concentrate on the main site instead of buying urls

How about if with the new domains that i built links for them, and then i had two sets of links, would this just be pointless. i read about it on a site but it seems a lot of hard work.

Hi i am wanting to know if this is against google rules.

I am building a website which will have lots of different sections and i wanted to know if you were allowed to have a new domain name pointing to a section of the site.

so for example if i had a site with a domain name of manchester and then i wanted a section of the site to be called www.manchester.com/complimentary health

I want to know if to help with traffic to the site and to have a better domain name, if it was allowed to have a new domain name pointing to that section of the site which could be called www.complimentaryhealth.com and have that pointing to the section.

would love to hear your thoughts on this

i want to take it back to the way i first started with it instead of moving away from what i wanted. So i would like to include a lot of the same content, but what i am worried about is losing all the links. My hosting company have put a new installation of joomla in a new subdomain and then this will be put under www.in2town.co.uk and then i am trying to learn how to keep the old links for the new site

hi i think this has also happened to my site, can you explain what you mean by spammy links and also about getting links removed.

I had a site http://www.cardiffhypnotherapy.com which vanished from the first page and we also had a good keyword for that site gastric band hypnotherapy and that keyword came on the first page but now that has vanished.

One of the problems we have is, we have a compeditor who has been playing silly games and trying to make problems for our site, and since they started this our traffic has been reduced by about 80% and we are not sure how they are doing what they are doing.

Hi i have a site that i want to re build because it has moved away from what i wanted it to do and deleted a lot of the site and due to this has caused a lot of errors.

My site is built in the old joomla and i want to build a brand new site in the new version.

My site in2town.co.uk which is a lifestyle magazine runs very slowly and what i want to do because it has a lot of problems under the google webmaster control panel, is to rebuild the site and turn it back into the site it should be instead of trying to make it into so many different things.

The problem i have is, i have thousands and thousands of great links going to the site and i am worried about losing these links.

It would take me about a day to turn it into the site it should be and improve it. My hosting company have said that i can put it under a sub domain the new site and then when i have built it, they can then move it under the correct name. But what i am worried about is, the site is very slow at the moment, and i am worried that by doing this that it would not solve the problem of making it faster even though i have a dedicated server.

I want the site to be brand new with no errors and i am worried by doing this that the site will run slowly because i am still working off the old script.

I have tried migrating the older version into the new joomla but it could not be done and caused problems so this could be my only other option.

Any advice would be great

My history has been cleared

This is a good site to gain traffic

http://www.zimbio.com

Hi shelly, no it was not but thanks. The site allowed you to either write a full story with a link to your site or just part of the story and allow people to read the full story on your site. The dashboard for the site was on the right and that is all i can remember about it.

I am searching the net at the moment because i found it the night before i went on holiday and thought it was great and was going to post it on here about the site with a review but when i got back from spain i lost the paper with the details on.

The site that i was looking at was a very good free one, but then i went on holiday and lost the name of the site. I have to agree prweb is very good

Hi can anyone recommend any news sites that you can gain links from submitting your news. I did find a really good one where you can write a whole news story or share a news story and it generated a lot of traffic but shockingly i have lost the address of the site.

Any recommendations would be great

Thanks for that. most of my traffic comes from google organic and now all of a sudden that traffic has hit rock bottom

My site http://www.clairehegarty.co.uk has always got around 500 visitors a day but for some reason the past couple of days this has dropped to around 50 visitors a day. can anyone please help me to understand what has happened and has anyone else come across this where their traffic has gone down hill by so much

many thanks

Hi I would like to know if Bing is an important search engine for traffic. I have submitted my site to bing http://www.chesterhypnotherapy.com which is currently off line as i have just transfered it to a new hosting company and i have found in the past that i get very little traffic from it.

On average i would say i get around five a day where as with google i gets lots of traffic. I have submitted a site map to bing but that has not increased traffic.

Can anyone let me know for bing is an important search engine if you are targeting customers from the UK and if it is, does anyone have any ideas of how to increase traffic through bing

Hi i have read some info that says that sub domain names help with increase traffic but i am not sure if this is true.

I would like to know if i should use a subdomain name to increase the size of my website and increase traffic.

I have also read that it is a good idea to put a blog on a subdomain name.

Can anyone share their experience and let me know if they have found that sub domains are a good idea

What i have had trouble with is finding article sites to write articles for and get links back. I have tried lots of different article sites and we get lots of our articles republished but without any links back which is not good.

I feel that I am writing lots of articles with no benefits as we are not getting any links back. All we seem to be doing is having our articles reprinted around the web which does not make much sense because of these wording programes that people are using.

If anyone can recommend article sites where we will get a link back then that would be great. I am writing around eight articles a week and i am on the verge of giving up on writing articles for links and seo

I write a lot of articles to promote my site but even though i am happy that my articles get picked up and appear all over the net what really annoys me is when people use silly programes to change the words which do not make any sense.

Here is an example:http://weightlosstipsnow.info/2011/08/weight-loss-secrets-are-inside-you-claims-weight-loss-hypnosis-expert.html

feel that when people use this silly programes to change the wording to make the article look unique, it makes my writing look stupid and i feel it could damage my reputation.

Does anyone use these programes or are you like me and think they are annoying and do you think they will damage my reputation.

Hi i have started to use knol to look at gaining more visitors to my site but i am very knew at this. On average i am getting 10 visitors to my knol page for the different content i am writing and would like to know how i can gain more knol visitors.

Has anyone used knol before and if so how have you increased your visitors on knol. there does not seem to be anyway of promotion on the site to gain more visitors

any advice would be great

can you let me know where this duplicate content is and how i can check please to see the duplicate content

Hi on my site Weight Loss Hypnotherapy site i have a bonce rate off 55.1 where up to now 60 people have stayed on the site for less than one sec and i would like to know how to combat this and how to keep people on the site for longer.

I have tried playing around with the content but i am thinking about adding images to make the page look better but would like the advice from others.

many thanks for your help.

ok that may answer that question but what about responding to emails. I have had lots of friends of mine who work in the website industry who have been thinking about joining this company and also people at business groups have asked me about this company and have asked me to let them know how i feel it beneifts me. At the moment i have nothing positive to say about seomoz.

I would like to know if anyone else feels let down by seomoz and their customer service. I will give you a couple of examples why i feel let down.

I contacted customer services over an issue a couple of weeks a go and never got an answer from them, and the second issue is the private question that you can ask. I asked many days ago and it was an important question and it has still not been answered.

I am just wondering what we are paying for by using this site and if other customers of this service feel let down like me.

Hi my site has vanished from google. We have been for a very long time. for example if you put in gastric band hypnotherapy then we would be first page number two and also lots of other keywords but now we have vanished from google and i do not know why or how to solve this.

can anyone please help me and help me understand what i need to do to solve this please

My site is http://www.clairehegarty.co.uk

I am not sure if i have been banned or why i have dropped out of google

thank you that is a great idea. cheers for that.

thanks for all the great advice. the magazine is aimed at people using gatwick airport and when the site is designed, it will concentrate on cheap flight offers and cheap holiday offers from gatwick. and then the rest of the site will be about holiday issues and travel news.

the magazine is online, so it would be lots of travel articles and holiday news as well as news about cheap offers. by worry is, i have studied the keywords that i want and the only way i know of attracting the search engines for those words is by writing an introduction with the keywords in but it looks very messy doing it that way and i do not want to have loads of keywords placed all over the front page for no reason

Hi i am building a site at the moment which i am working on. please ignore the state of the site as we are just playing with designs at the moment but please do take notice of the top part.

The site is a travel magazine but i am a bit concerned. The keywords that we will be looking at to drive travel will be as follows, cheap flights gatwick, holiday magazine and travel magazine.

Now i do not want the site to look untidy with loads of content describing the site but at the same time i want google to know what the site is and for people to pick the site up with the search terms that we are aiming for.

the site is www.cheapflightsgatwick.com

Can anyone please show me some examples of how i should structure the site to attract the keywords and give me some advice. It seems hard when you are designing a magazine site where the content changes all the time to try and attract the search engines with your keywords.

any advice would be great

Hi is there any free ways of link building where you do not use exchange link sites. Also are there any free tools and paid tools that you can use to increase your links to your site.

I have a couple of new sites and i am trying to bring more traffic to them through link building and other methods and trying to find the best way of doing this.

I have heard of people talk about free tools and paid tools but not sure which ones they are.

any help would be great

sorry my mistake ref the health site, i am not sure what i was thinking, i am working another a health site but got confused which is not easy at the moment trying to type with one hand after having the other in a steal plate after a car decided to drive on the pavement and hit my hand while trying to avoid an on coming car

i would love to see a good example of a travel site or similar site to see what design method i should put in place and if i should reduce the number of articles on a page

sorry about this, this is because we are working on the site and currently using old articles while we work out the best design, i thought this time of night people would not notice and since we get little traffic i am spending the next six hours sorting it all out so hopefully tomorrow it will have a new feel about it.

the site is more about letting people know about saving money on holiday, letting them know about holiday news and also about personal experience about holidays.

i thank you for your comments which i agree with. please bare with the site and see what you think tomorrow but while you are there please with bullet points give me some advice on you as a user and what you would like to see of the site for you to say on it and come back

yes the site is cheap flights gatwick which i am just re-designing at the moment http://www.cheapflightsgatwick.com

not sure jassy how relevant this is to sending out free press releases

Hi i built a site around ten months ago but at the moment i am only receiving around 3 visitors a a day. it is a travel site that i write new content for but because i am still learning seo i am not sure what i have been doing wrong.

I am not sure of the basics from getting people to the site or the correct way of generating free links or if i should be submitting  my site to all these free site submitters which includes to lycos and other free services that you can find on google.

If anyone can please explain what i am doing wrong and how to generate more traffic for free then that would be great.

also can anyone recommend any free service that would help with increasing traffic and links

hi this is a good site. so does this help with rankings and google by showing what the articles are on the site. at the moment i use sef404 so would have to add this to the site. sef uses h1 and h2 etc

hi been looking at mynewsdesk and can see where you can read press releases and set up your alerts but i cannot see where you can post press releases.

Thanks for that.

thank you for this and i look forward to reading the ones you add tomorrow

can you give me an example of a page where you put this into place please

The only thing that i have noticed which has already been said is the google adsense at the top besides that it is a great site and cannot see why google would have any problem with it.

Hi i have a site called in2town lifestyle magazine http://www.in2town.co.uk/ and up until two months ago we were with google news and for a long time. But then all of a sudden we were dropped which left us with no confidence about our site and led us to make changes to the site, some good and some bad to try and find out what was wrong with our site and why we were dropped.

We have now been concentrating on sorting the site out which has led in a drop in traffic due to not updating it as we should because we are more concerned in trying to make it a quality lifestyle magazine and get back in google as well as making it a good experience for our readers..

I would like your help and finding out what you feel is wrong with our site so we can then work on it and change it and try and find out what went wrong with google news.

we have spent years on the site but now we have gone in the wrong direction because we were more worried about google news.

If you can advise us on how we should change the site and sort the site out and make it into the professional site it was once more then that would be great.

Hi I am trying to find some good free press release sites that allow you to have a link with your press release to help drive traffic to your site but all the ones that i have found do not have links within them. The only ones i can find where you can have links in them are paid ones.

Does anyone use press release sites to gain links to their sites and if so could you let me know which ones they are please and how important you feel they are.