Forum Moderators: open
Using the Overture search suggestion tool really helped to create keyword combinations. I also found a bunch of misspelled keyword combos and I rank 1 or 2 for those. What portion of the market does Google have? I've heard near 50%. Hope I posted this in the correct forum as it's my first.
The reason I say that is that things are really in flux right now, and a lot of people (as well as various sites of both our's and our clients) are reporting getting hits from Google for searches that don't match what their site is about.
They were previously known for being very good at this.
Things may change suddenly as well, as we're all hopeful that Google can get this glitch fixed soon and better match the returned sites with the right searches.
Either way, congrats on the extra traffic! Hope it can do you some good.
Yeah, which keyword is key. I am doing amazingly well for keyword1, but I used to be doing well for keyword1 keyword2. Keyword1 traffic is nice but doesn't convert. It is the broadest possible keyword.
Conversions matter, but not too much with Google since it's free traffic. If you were paying a CPC, then conversions would be THE key.
-panic
Same is true when you develop new sites. Determining what converts helps you figure out where to focus energy.
It's an important question even if the traffic is free.
My logs show I am hitting the keywords I wanted, and some others I didn't plan on, but they are still relevant. I still have 70% of my pages to index.
Free traffic can actually be damaging under the present circumstances. If your sites gets one of those unrelated top listings for a real popular search, you could find your server crashing from the load, a hosting bill that goes interstellar, and nothing to show for it but a lot of people who were actually looking for something else instead!
Thinking about that, I kinda feel for that poor real estate guy with the Top 10 listing for a super-competitive unrelated 1-word search! If even a tiny percentage of all the people doing that search this time of year click to his site just out of curiosity, his site could easily get "smoked" by all the traffic!
I found the awesome page on getting to the top of Google in 1 year and followed it for the last 2 months.
You wouldn't happen to have the link to that page would you? Thanks! :)
I would also add that
90% of the search engine traffic are made by Google and their partner sites. :)
... but may come back even stronger.
Yidaki thanks I forgot to add that.
Here is the link: [webmasterworld.com...]
ie. mywebsite1.com & mywebsite2.com which is really mywebsite.com/mywebsite2/
Will the second website lose rankings with Google because it does not have it's own IP? I assume I cannot link to myself and get credit for it if they share IPs.
My belief is that a subdomain is
wwWebmasterWorldebsite.com VS. products.mywebsite.com
Since you're using two different domain names, Google should view them as separate websites, unless you're using very very similar content (word for word) and in that case you could trip the infamous "duplicate content filter". If that happens, the one with the lowest PR would be removed. (As I understand it).
Using the Same IP shouldn't be an issue, since most shared webhosting systems will host hundreds of sites on one IP address.
Free traffic can actually be damaging under the present circumstances. If your sites gets one of those unrelated top listings for a real popular search, you could find your server crashing from the load, a hosting bill that goes interstellar, and nothing to show for it but a lot of people who were actually looking for something else instead!
There's lots of affordable, fast, and stable hosts out there. These days, server load should never be an issue (with connection speeds as high as they are).
-p
But if they're on shared hosting on a single PC, they could run into a problem, particularly if their site has extras like database-generated content.
The problem is not the connection speed, it's the server trying to keep up with all the requests.
This is a not unusual thing to see, they even have a name for it! You may have heard of a small site getting "slashdotted", or linked to by somebody like an MSNBC story, and their site is brought to it's knees by the load.
Yep - I got the "on hold" message too. The moderators are being careful with new threads.
I tried to start a dedicated "Florida rants, raves and observations" thread so that other threads can stay on topic and people can have an outlet to vent constructively.
