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Which links counts?

Dec 4, 2008 5:22 PM

unclefester 21 posts since
Nov 17, 2008

I have only been trying to get my business's recognized on the internet for about a month now. One is a construction firm and the other is a photography business. I thought that I was doing pretty good at getting links established only to find out that it is not working. I have been submitting my company's to places like yellow pages online, contractor referral company's, craigs list, and art gallery sites. I did the links test from google link: http://www.eyresinphotography.com/ and it showed no links on the photography business and like 5 on the construction business. What am I doing wrong.
If it will help I will post the URL's.

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your_web_guy 68 posts since
Aug 4, 2008

1. Re: Which links counts? Dec 4, 2008 6:36 PM

in response to: unclefester

probably nothing.

google takes a while to index things and even longer to update their information in back links and page rank etc...

the only link that might not count is if they have some kind of click tracker that is inbetween the link and your site itsself. The best way to find out if this is the case is to hover your mouse over the link and see what shows up in the status bar of your browser (usually the lower left hand corner), if its http://www.yoursite.com then its a direct link and google bot will appriciate it. If it says somthing like http://www.theirdomain.com/?link=outgoing&url=http://www.yourdomain.com or some veriation thereof or even worse just a whole bunch of crap that you cant read then googlebot will prolly get lost in it too.

hope that helps

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your_web_guy 68 posts since
Aug 4, 2008

2. Re: Which links counts? Dec 4, 2008 6:36 PM

in response to: unclefester

on another note, i just noticed you use frames on your website... dont do that. Google indexes pages not domains. to google your site is going to look like this:

</td></tr></table><table dir="ltr" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="1%"> </td><td valign="top" width="24"></td><td valign="top">
<p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.
</td></tr></table>

and it will only be one page because there are no links to follow on that page.

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websolutions 191 posts since
Feb 4, 2008

3. Re: Which links counts? Dec 4, 2008 6:21 PM

in response to: unclefester

hey Uncle, your site has frames, one of the biggest mistakes you can make in SEO. Show me a link example on another site and I will see what you are doing wrong.

Have you installed sitemap.xml, google web masters account?

Best. WS
Certified SEO Master

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websolutions 191 posts since
Feb 4, 2008

4. Re: Which links counts? Dec 4, 2008 6:44 PM

in response to: your_web_guy

google might take time but first things first, the site has to be on-page SEOed. I also can get google to crawl the site within 2 days if I needed it to. Backlinks will take a while, at least 6 months or so but remember, time is good for SEO.

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unclefester 21 posts since
Nov 17, 2008

5. Re: Which links counts? Dec 4, 2008 6:46 PM

in response to: websolutions

My other site is www.eyreandcompany.com and no I have not installed site maps.

Tim

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websolutions 191 posts since
Feb 4, 2008

6. Re: Which links counts? Dec 4, 2008 6:58 PM

in response to: unclefester

okay, here is what you do:

1. get your xml sitemap generated here: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ - upload it to you root folder, public_html or something.
2. sign up with google web master tools here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/ - if must have gmail account to do this, if you don't sign up, it's free. Once you have done this, go in to your webmaster tools and add the xml sitemap.

These are the first things I would do, also, are you doing business locally or inter/nationally?

Have you tried searching your domain on google, have you see the title it displays at the current moment?

Alright, what else do you need to know? If you want someone do handle this for you, check out http://www.websitedesignpeople.com.

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unclefester 21 posts since
Nov 17, 2008

7. Re: Which links counts? Dec 4, 2008 7:05 PM

in response to: websolutions

I do local business only. I have searched google and they do come under their web names, have not done any searches by keywords yet, I figuarded that the sites are too new to show up that way.

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websolutions 191 posts since
Feb 4, 2008

8. Re: Which links counts? Dec 4, 2008 7:10 PM

in response to: unclefester

no, the domain comes up but the title doesn't.

that is awesome that you do business locally, what keyword would you like to target?

If people are searching, I can get you the visibility on google. I know budgets are tight but think about the ROI, it is all about ROI.

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unclefester 21 posts since
Nov 17, 2008

9. Re: Which links counts? Dec 4, 2008 7:23 PM

in response to: websolutions

On the Photographing I put in a huge list of key words and phrases, mainly about "photography" on the construction company its "remodeling" or "contracting". since I'm new to this I figured that the more keywords the better. I don't not know the term ROI. can you explain. Yesterday I tried to fix the title, thought that it was solved, sorry.

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websolutions 191 posts since
Feb 4, 2008

10. Re: Which links counts? Dec 4, 2008 7:27 PM

in response to: unclefester

Return On Investment, the keywords you are targeting aren't correct, you need to have it geological, you will never rank for those keywords unless you spend thousands on SEO and SEM.

Yes, I saw that you changed the title but google has not crawled your site so thus the issue with title.

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unclefester 21 posts since
Nov 17, 2008

11. Re: Which links counts? Dec 4, 2008 7:34 PM

in response to: websolutions

I also have the words "portland" "Oregon" and a few other local towns in the key words. How many are too m
any? How can i get that tool bar on the bottom of fire fox that i have seen on some of the youtube videos? I have gotten the wiget for page rank and rankquest.

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websolutions 191 posts since
Feb 4, 2008

12. Re: Which links counts? Dec 4, 2008 10:06 PM

in response to: unclefester

here is your competition: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=photography%2C+portland&btnG=Search

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websolutions 191 posts since
Feb 4, 2008

13. Re: Which links counts? Dec 4, 2008 8:23 PM

in response to: unclefester

ya, you have a lot of competition.

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unclefester 21 posts since
Nov 17, 2008

14. Re: Which links counts? Dec 5, 2008 11:12 AM

in response to: websolutions

Okay, I have had a busy morning, site maps are made and submitted, www.eyresinphotography.com no longer has any frames and key words have been added.

Thanks alot for your help.

Tim

PS Am I missing anything?

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