Australian Worst Directories

Here I am posting the most worst Australian web directories. I will add items when ever I found new worst Australian directory.


http://www.healthdirectory.com.au/

- Ends with "Fatal error: Cannot use object of type DB_Error as array in /usr/local/lib/php/YZage/AdvertiserRegister.class.php on line 160"


http://www.ausfind.com.au/

- Almost all categories empty

Please post if you consider any more directories, I will list them here for you.

Difference between search engine optimiser and website optimiser

There is a lot of difference between search engine optimiser and website optimiser. Search Engine Optimiser deal with optimising the website only for search engines. But website optimiser optimise the website for search engines, speed and for users. Website Optimisers should take care about many other things that can not be handled by search engine optimisers.


The job duties of Search Engine Optimiser may include

• Optimising title tags
• Optimising meta tags
• Optimising image alt tags
• Optimising HTML code
• Writing meta redirects
• Optimising URLs
• Writing .htaccess rules
• Keyword recommendations
• Competitor analysis
• Content writing
• Link building
  

The job duties of Website Optimiser may include
  
All the job duties of SEO as well as the following things

• Optimising the website for users
  
• Optimising the website for Speed
• Analyzing the bounce rates and suggesting to the client
  
• Usability suggestions
• Rich User Interface recommendations
• Most of the website optimisers can be able to go into the code and edit without the developer help
 

These days I am afraid of  introduce myself as SEO in LinkedIn. I am getting many rejections when i request to join some one's professional network. The reason, may be they are thinking that SEO's are spammers. But It is not always true. An SEO is not just limited to Title, meta tags and link building. An SEO is more than that. Search Engine Optimiser or Website Optimiser is the key to a website success. Please do not consider SEO as spammer, SEO/website optimiser is a Professional, they deserve that work. Some of the SEO's/website optimisers are better programmers than professional programmers.

Sometimes professional programmers are becoming as Search Engine Optimiser/web optimiser, they like to deal with entire business instead of just program. Website Optimisation is an art to promote any business online, its not just link building and optimising title and meta tags.

I am proud to say that I am an SEO. Some other qualities i had in me: a PHP programmer, JavaScript programmer, Jquery programmer, Joomla expert, OS Commerce expert, CSS expert...

But I love SEO Job.

noindex for part of content in a webpage

This is experiment on how class="robots-nocontent" works. All my previous three experiments class="robots-noindex", rel="noindex", <noindex> failed in making a part of the content non indexable by search engines. Lets try this finally.

<div class="robots-nocontent">As yahoo told at http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/webcrawler/slurp-14.html, this part of content in this div shouldn't indexed by yahoo search engine. But not sure about Google. Google may not support this "robots-nocontent" class. Because it is quite opposite to Google SEO philosophy, "do no do anything specially for search engines" </div>

Let's see what happens.

class="robots-noindex"

This is another experiment on how robots treat the following class="robots-noindex".

<div class="robots-noindex"> Robots must exclude this content in their search index</div>

Lets try  to get a paragraph indexed by Google bot only

<div class="robots-noindex googlebot-index"> All robots must exclude this content in their search index except Googlebot</div>

<div class="robots-noindex slurp-index"> All robots must exclude this content in their search index except Yahoo bot</div>

rel="noindex"

This is the experiment for rel="noindex". Let's test how the rel="noindex" works for search engines.

<div rel="noindex">Melbourne Web Developers live in Melbourne </div>

<div rel="noindex" name="robots">Melbourne SEO's live in Google.com.au</div>

We are done. Lets see the results.

<noindex>

Here i am experimenting on nocache and noindex tags within the paragraph.

The aim of this experiment is to test search engines for noindex and nofollow if they were used in the middle of the content.

The following text is for testing.

<p content="noindex"> All melbourne seo's belongs to Australia </p>

<p name="robots" content="noindex">All Australian designers are not belongs to Melbourne</p>

<noindex>All Melbourne web designers live in Australia</noindex>


<strong>do not use strong tag but use bold tag. This will not treated as bold by search engines. Search in Google cached content of this page</strong>

<b>Do use b tag instead of strong tag. It is good for seo</b>

Please leave your comments if you like these kinds of experiments.

Change of Address - Google webmaster tools

I have my two sites verified in Google Webmaster Tools. Today i tried to apply for change of address. From and old site to newly designed site. The change of Address.

Google saying that i need to verify the site i wanted to redirect from which is already verified by Google Webmaster Tools.

We couldn't verify oldsite.com.au. To submit a change of address, oldsite.com.au must be verified using the same method as www.oldsite.com.au. Add oldsite.com.au to your account and verify ownership, then try again.

Here we need to understand one thing. www.sitename.com.au and sitename.com.au were treated differently by Google. So we need to verify both of them

I did it. Then Google accepted my change of address (redirection request) from old site to new site.

SEO Buzz words

I would like to list some SEO buzzwords here. The order is random.

Keyword Density
Keyword Proximity
Keyword Prominance
Keyword Stemming
Keyword Stuffing
Linkbait
SMO
Doorway pages
Cloaking
Blak hat seo
White hat seo
Gray hat seo
Hallway page
Google Caffeine
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI)
Google bombing
SERP's
Link Juice
Canonicalization
Google dance
Google cache dance
Video Optimization
News Optimization
Image optimization
URL optimization
Piggyback SEO
Twitter SEO
Link Spam
PageRank
Bing SEO


Please remind me if i forget some of them

Understanding Sneaky Redirects

What are the good redirects and bad redirects(sneaky redirects)?

The redirect of a web page made using Javascript is a sneaky redirect.

Why?


Because search engines ignores javascript. So they don't know even there is a redirect exists.

Which redirecting techniques are good?

Using meta redirect 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2; url=http://web-search-techniques.blogspot.com">

For more info: http://webdesign.about.com/od/metataglibraries/a/aa080300a.htm

Using .htaccess (mod rewrite)

Or use 301(permanent) redirect using .htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

For more info on .htaccess 301 redirect: http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm

Best way to present the content in flash to search engines

Well.. there are three ways

Good way, bad way, another one.. not good and not bad.


Lets discuss about the bad way first

Cloaking

Yes. It is the bad way. Showing different to search engines and site visitors. Obviously Google hates it.

It is not good practice to show the flash content to the site visitor and text content in that flash to the search engines. There is a smart way to do this. But don't go for Cloaking or doorway page techniques. It comes under SEO black-hat technique.


Hiding text behind flash

This is not good and not bad. Not an SEO Blak-hat technique. But there is a rule. You must show the content same format which is exists in the flash movie but not any other text.
It is not a black-hat technique because you are not showing the different content or URL to the search engines and site visitors.

Well.. there is a better technique below..

using <noscript> tags


Interesting !!!

Call the flash movie using javascript and write your flash content  html version in <noscript> tags. Obviously search engines ignores javascript and get the content which is in between <noscript> tags.

So.. It is supportable by Google itself. See: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66355

They mentioned

Provide the textual contents of JavaScript in a noscript tag.

 Finally i would like to repeat it. Sorry for repeating

Ensure the text you are showing in <noscript> tags is the same content and format in the flash move

Bing and Yahoo Search engines following and indexing nofollow/noindex ?

Yes. I already made a post regarding this.

http://web-search-techniques.blogspot.com/2009/07/yahoo-and-bing-ignoring-noindex-and.html


Well unfortunately the meta tags in the http://www.melbmartialarts.com.au/ were changed. So we don't have any proof.

Here I am going to give you the proof.

I created robots meta tags of this blog as following

<meta name='slurp' rel='noindex,nofollow'/>

<meta name='msnbot' rel='noindex,nofollow'/>

Lets see what is going to happne in yahoo and bing search engines

I am going to give you the experiment result in my next posts.

1329 Dofollow Directories Listings

Do follow Directories List

I found it is useful so.. want to let you know.

http://seopune.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/dofollow-web-directory-list/

What is Keyword Stemming?

Stemming Keyword

What is it?

It is a way of using keyword in different ways with prefix, suffix and using plurals. It is a practice in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).

Any Example?

Yes, why not.

Lest start with keyword of "keyword stemming".

We can stem the keyword stemming in the following ways.

• keyword stemming
• key word stemming
• keywords stemming
• stemming keyword
• stemming keywords
• stemming key words
• stemming key word

All the above key words were stemmed.

Why is it so important ?

In optimizing a page it is a good practice of stemming of keywords. While you are writing the content take care all your stemmed keywords were used in a proper manner and spread throughout the content. Content quality is also important factor in SEO success not only keyword stemming.

Keyword stemming is very much important in Bing Search Engine Optimization.
For more information read: http://web-search-techniques.blogspot.com/2009/08/bing-seo-technique-bing-bug.html

Don't try to fool the Google using Stemming technique. Google is intelligent enough to recognize the different between "stem cell", "rose stem", "plant stem" and "keyword stem".

Happy SEO stemming... :)

BING SEO Technique - Bing Bug

Important Bing SEO technique

I would like to address one SEO technique for Bing.

I found it is very interesting and foolishness of Bing Search Technique.

Roll up your sleeves. Start re-optimizing for Bing if it is so important for you.

Suppose if you want to optimize a page for "Bing Ignoring NOINDEX" you will not found for "Bing ignores NOINDEX".

Do you need a proof?

You can find http://web-search-techniques.blogspot.com/ on Google for both "Bing Ignoring NOINDEX" and "Bing ignores NOINDEX" key phrases.

But on BING you can find this blog only for "Bing Ignoring NOINDEX" key phrase but not for "Bing ignores NOINDEX".

So.. BING is just in learning stage. SEO's can treat this as Bing Bug (not Bug Bing).

So(SEO) be careful while you are optimizing your site for Bing too. Keep in mind all the possible combination of keywords.

I will all SEO's.. Happy Bing Optimisation..

Piggyback SEO

strange?

What is Piggyback SEO?

When it takes time to you to go there... take a ride on the back of the top sites.

How to do it?

Well.. I did it for my site http://donate-books.org

I used answers.yahoo.com.

At the initial stage of marketing of this donate books site.. I am no more top for any of the search queries.. So i created some questions on yahoo answers like... "How to donate books in bangalore?"

So... Obviously yahoo will be given high priority for that query. So who ever visits answers.yahoo.com they will come to my site to donate books.

It will takes very short time to yahoo to go to top of Google search results for that related queries.

Isn't it useful? Start piggybacking....

Menu - Left side or Right side of the page?

Lets discuss about the menu.

Which side is good for SEO? left side of the page or right side of the page?

Well.. My preference is... right side

The reason is simple.

The fresh content is always top in the page. So obviously search engines likes it. That's the reason i selected this blog layout to make sure the fresh content always follows < body > tag.

And it is very convenient for blind people. When the machine reads the content of the page.. the listener don't need to listen to all of the menu items again and again for each and every page.

Correct me if i am wrong...

Awaiting for your comments..

SMO - Solution for rel="nofollow"

Are you one of the optimizers who are worrying about rel="nofollow"


Many of SEO's or SMO's expect links with dofollow. But unfortunately these days almost all the Social Media sites include rel="nofollow" in link tags to control the spammers.

Don't worry about it. I will give you a good idea to get advantage of the link even it has rel="nofollow".

In general we try to get a link back using keyword. like < a href="somesite" title="keyword"  >keyword< /a >

But when ever you want to get benefit from social media sites you have to use your domain name instead of keyword.

i.e., www.yourwebsiteurl.com

So you may not get a vote from the social media site.

But when ever you query in Google for "yourwebsiteurl.com" you can find your site listed in social media sites. That means nothing but popularity. The number of times your website name appears is also a good thing not only the number of links your website got.

:) Happy SMO

Impact of Domain age and years of registration on SEO

Is the domain age a considerable factor in rankings?

Yes. No doubt about it. If the industry is very competitive... then the domain age definitely is going to be the one of the deciding factor for rankings. But domain age is going to play its role when all other factors like back links, quality and unique content and the quality of the site are good.

Then what about the number of years a domain booked

Many people were under wrong impression that.. if a domain booked for next ten years.. then the search engine rankings are going to be more. It is not a fact. Matt said it. Watch this video




But it is good idea to consider the age of the domain but not how many years it booked. If the number of years a domain booked is going to make an considerable impact on rankings.. many people are ready to book the domain for 10 years which may costs around $100.

Please leave your comments on it..

Google policy about paid listings in Yahoo Directory

Every on know that Google treating paid links seriously. Buying links is a way to interpret Google organic search results. So.. Google punishing websites which participates in link buying and selling..

What about Yahoo Directory?

Yahoo Directory charges money and places your link into its directory. Is buying links from Y Directory is is punishable? if yes.. thousands of sites has to suffer from Google rankings.

No. It is not punishable get listed in yahoo directory. The reason told by Matt is..

"All Yahoo directory listings were reviewed under specific editorial guidelines. Google respects directories which have certain good editorial guidelines. Yahoo directory is not just taking money and placing your link.. they reviews your website, its quality and your business. If your website reach their guidelines.. then only your website is going to be approve."

So... It is not punishable to buying links from certain web directories which has good editorial guidelines.

So be wise in buying listings (links).

My Blog Rankings on Google

I didn't observed it till now.. My blog getting top positions for many keywords on Google main search (not blog search)

The reason is obvious.. Unique and fresh content.. Who don't love it? Google is not an exception.

The keywords I am winning ...

Understanding Canonicalization - 1st page

SEO Interview Questions and Answers - 2nd page

Bing Beta - 2nd page (1st page on .co.in and .com.au)

Microsoft BING Beta (2nd page)

Informed State Space Search - 2nd page

yahoo ignore noindex - 1st page

bing ignore noindex - 1st page (in fact fist position)

bulk unfollow twitter - 2nd page

unfollow twitter users - 1st page

bulk unfollow twitter users - 1st page

Capitalization Rules - 5th page

ten capitalization rules - 1st page

Ezine capitalization rules - 1st page (this is coming prior than ezine, I am sorry to ezine. I will write an article about ti)

Case Sensitive Google search - 2nd page

Google url search command - 1st page ( Misspelled the Search in my title tag of the blog posting .. still it is in top 10)

seomoz tool - 1st page (2nd position after seo moz official website. Sorry to SEO Moz team.. I written something negatively about that tool. But i mean it :P )


"Indexing flash text in Google", "Video Statistics" looks like a tough competitive key phrases, so.. my blog didn't get any considerable position..