How about you come clean and say who you are then? a competitor by any chance?
No, I'm not a competitor. I don't ply my trade as an SEO, although aspects of what I do involve SEO. I'm not here to compete with you.
Obviously i'm not going to be able to answer questions in this thread in the quality (or length) that I would for clients. The info I have been giving is the basics, im not going to go into server site validation errors or firewalls slowing down servers yet preventing ddos attacks but with a fractional chance of blocking legitimate robots or even preventing and reducing damage from a competitors malicious seo taskings (all three make a difference). There are literally thousands of different ranking factors and if I wrote all of this in a forum it would bore everyone to death, and considering im doing it for free just the basics (that make large differences) make the difference.
Of course I wouldn't expect a book on ranking factors. That's why I asked some very specific questions to see if you lived up to your own billing as an "SEO genius", and you seemed happy to give some specific answers.
All I've done is point out that you've completely missed the point with some of the more sophisticated SEO approaches.
I write fast, what can I say. I don't have time to spell check every post I make. We are all human.
Absolutely. We all make mistakes.
On the other hand, you have made umpteen here and on your site. Copywriting is such a fundamental aspect of site optimisation that any site owner should review the copywriting skills of an SEO before they take them on.
From everything I've seen you write, I stand by my assertion that your copywriting skills would be a barrier to me hiring you.
Ask yourself this; if you wanted to hire a gardener, would you hire one whose garden was overgrown?
Please tell me you are joking here. You haven't studied into higher converting traffic enough. Aiming for pointless "show off" keywords just to impress your client is just a legalized form of robbery if you ask me. Not only in your seo time, but also server costs.
You're right. CR is a very important KPI. But so is volume.
Long tail is certainly a sensible approach to take when in competitive industries. A different approach may be required if you compete either at the very top tier or if you are optimising for brand (company or product) or in a fairly new or narrow industry.
I suppose the point I'm making is that you seem very focussed on CR and long tail performance as KPIs to the point of potentially ignoring other KPIs. A simple caveat of "depending on your sector" or "depending on your aims" would help mitigate this criticism. Site owners deserve this context, even when you're giving free advice.
Alright.
Just been doing my research into
clickedon.co.uk.
Firstly who puts adsense on your website driving your traffic to your competitors?
See Ashton's comments re: site age (and my comment about my AD account being 4 years old...) - I'm not actively trading under any of these names. I'd be the first to acknowledge that these sites are below par!
These sites aren't doing anything other than providing a bit of residual monthly income through advertising. They break plenty of other SEO 'rules' too, including being dumped on a single shared hosting IP range, crap content and selling links.
In fact, this probably applies to almost all domainers with semi/underdeveloped sites
Not sure, made me wonder lol
, interesting usp though.
A USP is a USP - you always need something to stand out form the crowd ;-)
Seriously though, see above. I knock out sites in an hour or two and either flip them or let them trickle in a few quid a month until I decide to flip or expire. Just for fun, really, nothing serious - I'm certainly not in the domaining big league.
As I said, sorry if I came across as being harsh. You pitched yourself pretty high though - the higher you climb the harder you fall, etc.
I'm not interested in getting into a slanging match - it won't do your reputation any good, either. Feel free to take the bits of my post that Ashton highlighted (small/medium sites, etc) as encouragement, and the rest as constructive feedback
