I got 9 thumbs up on mine, but I think it's because I asked for it. Here was my post. Give me a thumbs up.
http://www.seomoz.org/q/is-this-directory-guide-by-seomoz-still-accurate
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I got 9 thumbs up on mine, but I think it's because I asked for it. Here was my post. Give me a thumbs up.
http://www.seomoz.org/q/is-this-directory-guide-by-seomoz-still-accurate
You have me stumped! There is a person in the Official Google Base Blog. Her name is celebird or something like that. I think you should ask her OR post you question there at the blog. Sorry I couldn't help, but I tried.
For magento, you can always enable the attributes: size, color, brand, model, l x w x h, weight, everything. I know you've only been on magento for about 3 months, but I think it's something you should consider. I have never heard about google base giving penalties. Did your rankings go down as well? I am wondering if one of the Google Website Reviewers (they have about 10,000 contractors who manually review websites) thought your site wasn't as valuable as the competitors. This sounds like your site was affected by either someone reviewing your site OR the Google Base algorithm changed against your favor.
Try this Admin > System > Config > Google API > Google Base. Enter username and password. When i used Google Base (about 3 years ago), it used to take about 2 days until I started getting traffic. Maybe the psmext v2is what Google Base is not liking. Sometimes they feeds have a URL secretly inserted. This is what happens to me when I use one of those free XML site map generators.
I use Magento. Are you using the Google Base feature in your admin panel? What version are you running?
You better back up your DB before doing that. Anyway, take a look at this MagentoConnect extension http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/MageWorx.com/extension/2852/seo-suite-enterprise#overview
or this one (it's by the same company
http://www.mageworx.com/seo-suite-pro-magento-extension.html
when you say "submitted the url to google twice", did you submit to google.com/adurl? If so, forget it! Go into your Google Webmaster Tools and submit an xml sitemap. Make sure it is clean an no 404's. If you did submit an XML sitemap, then I don't know. Also, I can see you already went through the site verification so I don't know why it wouldn't be cached
Also you have to be logged into adwords when you do it. If you are using the keyword tool external, they tell you to log in to get the full report. By the way, as far as I know, it's still not accurate. I think the best way to see how many impressions you are getting is to look at your Google Webmaster Account. maybe focusing on those words can bring better results.
I used to be the google base king, but I never had that much drop in traffic. Did you check your Google Base feed? Maybe the autocrawl or something was turned off. I have never heard of a penalty.
You may want to watch this. It give a lot of information regarding the SEO tools we have here. http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/seomoz-pro-tool-overview
Sounds like you are doing a category instead of a product. You have a couple options. 1) Do what you are describing 2) Apache Mod Rewrite and 301 the old urls. I saw a video of Rand talking about option 2. He says it'll lose all it's ranking at 1st, but they typically see about a 50-60% drop in volume once it's back up.
I tried sending you an email and this is what I got: "This user is currently not accepting private messages"
Your product category pages should only focus on 1 or 2 keywords. If you come out with a lot of keywords on one page, it may look like you are keyword stuffing. The only way to tell which are going to be your best keywords is by hooking up Google Analytics and setting up conversion goals. This will tell you he value of the keyword. If you are using Google adwords, it'll tell you if a particular keyword is making or losing you money.
I always break things down into categories.
Mens shirt, Womens shirt, Baby Shirt, Dog shirt. You won't run into so much duplication like you would with the two categories you are talking about (baby & shirt). Use the Control F in Excel to find and replace duplicate keywords.
Are you using this for Google Adwords. Because if you are, I see a BIG problem with that strategy. Basically you will be competing with you own self for the keyword Baby Shirt & t-shirt for baby. Most likely you will have them in different campaigns or adgroups and all google is going to do is show the one with a higher bid.
What software are you using? Sometimes there are plugins for a software where you can robot.txt individual pages. Some are free, others aren't. Whatever you do, back up your DB 1st.
Okay, well I can create a google doc and however wants to contribute can be an editor. After we finish the directory list, we can submit it to Rand and he can update the post.
They are signing up for a quote. International Car Shipping We ship cars overseas from USA to other counrties. My adwords campaign is 50% exact match.
These IP were spoofing from many countries. They would disappear in minutes. Anyway, we found the main IPs that were attacking. YES YOU ARE RIGHT about identifying the one common factor. At 1st we thought blocking IPs would work, but when that didn't work, we started blocking the 'sytle' they were using.
Woot Woot! I don't see eHow above me anymore!
I think a new list of the top 10 or 20 would suffice for the time being while the rest are being deteremined viable or not.
thanks Petra, JoeAnt charges a onetime fee of $39.99 USD. I would rather pay the fee.
I need to pay for some directories, but I don't know if BOTW, Business.com, Joe Ant and others are still worth it. Anybody know if this is still viable?
http://www.seomoz.org/directories
All Mozzers, can you please give me a 'thumbs up' so I can get more MozPoints?
Update:
Switched to Amazon Cloud and got Amazon involved. They helped out by providing some tools. Basically we filtered the attacks by not accepting IPs who were transferring a certain amount of packets. Woot Woot! We have been up and running now for about 6 days with no problem. All I know is that the attacker had a browser with a Russian Language. The site Ship Car Overseas survived!
To optimze a webpage for my number one converting keyword in Google Adwords instead of purely going off Google Keyword Tool.
The answers above are all good. I don't know if there is a right answer though. I think my approach would be something like what http://www.gap.com did. They have 5 different sites combined into one. Look at the URLs. Looks like they are using subdomains to use the same shopping cart between all sites. But I don't think you would need to do subdomains. I would shoot for long term SEO strategy.
I have a client I landed about 1 1/2 months ago. The only traffic coming to the site is from Google Adwords. The goal page is the "Get A Quote" page and the closing ratio is 32.4%. So about 1 in 3 visits fill out the quote form. I usually do eCommerce and I am used to seeing 2-3% goal conversions. But 32.4%???? Is that normal for a regular static site (non-ecommerce). It's been like that for a whole week! Should I toot my own horn here?
Update:
We dropped Dreamhost.com since they couldn't help. They were useless in this area.
We copied the DB and pointed the URL in GoDaddy to our new host at Amazon Cloud. Well, the DDoS attacks a still coming in. The site was up for a short while (I'm talking minutes) then refreshed the pages and the ISP says the site wasn't there anymore. Damn, this attacker is relentless. I will be enabling the Amazon Balance Loader tomorrow. If this renders the DDoS attack ineffective, then Amazon solves it. But I won't find out until tomorrow.
Here is what dreamhost said:
" it does indeed look like you were getting attacked yet again. Unfortunately there isn't much you or myself can do in these cases.. I've disabled your domain again and will re-enable it in a week. I'm hoping that by then, the attacker has given up and moved on. If this is not the case, I regret to say that you will need to find hosting elsewhere as we do not offer a DDoS protection service. Please let me know if you have any questions.Thanks! Jason Y "
In conclusion dreamhost can't help.
Thanks there cowboy. Dreamhost still has not replied. I think I'll keep everything tracked here just in case other people run into this DDOS problem in the future. So far this is what has happened:
The reason I decided to transfer the DB to a new domain was I don't want to be a sitting duck if Dreamhost says they can't help. I am pretty sure they can help, but I put into place my plan B just in case. I'll keep everyone posted.
Here the setup:
Server is hosted inhouse. It got attacked using a DDOS from 20+ IP addresses spoofing in different counries. Our server overloaded and didn't work anymore.
URL is registered at GoDaddy.
Signed up at Dreamhost. We pointed DNS to Dreamhost successfully.
Attacks kept coming and messed up other sites on the Dreamhost shared server. We didn't know we were being followed at first. We originally thought they were attacking the IP address on our inhouse server.
Dreamhost noticed the attack and put us on a seperate IP and disabled our URL until the attacks 'stopped'.
MY QUESTION IS:
What do I do if they don't stop? Close shop? 99% of the business is internet driven. This has to be the blackest Blackhat SEO ever.
Here is where the traffic comes from.
60% of the quotes come from people in the United States
40% of the quotes come from people in their own country, not usa.
It sounds as 'if' I GEO target url.com to US (this has the rankings), my international keywords will disappear because I am telling google that url.com is only in the US. 40% of my traffic would go away by geo targeting URL.com to the US. I see that you said URL.com/us, but then I would have duplicate content. Url.com would equal url.com/us, unless I rewrote everything. I think url.com will go as unlisted. "If" I create url.com/us with original content, then I will be competing for the same keywords.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html
Read the part:
Also watch this video
I have a client who already has rankings in the US & internationally.
The site is broken down like this:
Each folder has it's own sitmap & relative content for it's respective country.
I am reading in google webmaster tools > site config > settings, the option under 'Learn More': "If you don't want your site associated with any location, select Unlisted."