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They'll do the same for meta descriptions (sometimes the meta description can be a snippet from the page itself). Basically they'll serve what they think is best based on the search query. *edit* To test this, I took the brand name completely off the home page for one of my sites, and only...

You may want to check out the beginner's guide to SEO from SEOmoz. Halfway down chapter 4 will probably guide you fairly well. Just search for "beginner's guide to seo" Some information may be a little dated, but the theory is still sound.

Sounds like you should make sure your hubpage is as conversion friendly as possible =)

Sorry buddy, live and learn =) Those speedbumps make success that much nicer.

The default meta is index,follow. Typing that out on the page won't change or override robots.txt

It's tough to say right now, Envy. I think it's likely they sniffed out some blog networks and devalued them, which is probably where your rankings drops came from (if you used BMR, linkvana, link vine, or any others). It could also be an algo adjustment unrelated to blog networks. I have a...

Some great info here - http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2122234/Panda-DNA-Algorithm-Tests-on-the-Google-Panda-Update After you're done reading it, you should know what to do to fix it and avoid it in the future.

If you're manually doing the same thing automated tools can do, you're doing it wrong. The point of manual link building is to build connections with other more successful webmasters. Manual link building in my eyes should be treated like sales. Get to know the webmaster or author, pitch an...

Ordered 25 .edu links.. He delivered 26 a couple days later. Good service, URLs are good enough for me to report to a client without a major fuss.

Placed an order for the $40 pyramid. Keep up the good work. Thanks Ankur!

Thanks guys, like I said I've got plenty more. Hopefully this inspires a few people to look at things a little differently and motivates them to get on the right track.

Like the other guys said, it really doesn't matter. If you ever get curious, check out the anchor text footprint of the major sites like Newegg or Microsoft. Authority sites go for branded links.

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Don't worry about those kinda words, the search engines skip them to save space. http://www.link-assistant.com/seo-stop-words.html -edit- To the post above, some search engines still use the keywords meta tag, but Google stopped a while back (which is where most of your traffic usually comes...

There's still a lot of talk about building backlinks for your site to rank it. It works, it's familiar, it's easy, and it's cheap. If you think about it for a second, what are you really doing? What signals are you sending to the search engines? At the very basic level, you're telling the...

The answer is, and always will be, "it depends". The algo is pretty good at picking up sentiment. Even if there are only 600 results, and the top 5 results are ranking based on internal alone, you'd need to out-optimize them (see: LDA) and out-juice them as well. Sometimes that's a lot...

If you see a message that says the capacity has been exceeded just try again later. They'll open it up every hour or so, and you can use your same invite URL over and over. The success rate is pretty high early in the morning and late at night (US time)

The only thing that works for certain is networking, whether it's manual or automated or backlinks or followers, to build connections and put a beacon out to the search engines that this is a site to consider for the SERPs. The amount of connections is irrelevant. If they're shitty links you're...

Proxygo is a great guy and I've enjoyed speaking with him immensely. I'll definitely come to you soon for a personal account!

Sounds good, pleasure chatting!