One of the things I was shown at the SES expo was Bruce Clay's link maps. Basically the strategy is this: Check your back links in various search engines to find discrepancies. Your backlinks won't be counted in SE's unless they know about the pages - so you put up a non-cached page that links to all of the discrepancies to help make sure that those pages get spidered. Sounded like a good plan to me. They have a tool for it at www.bruceclay.com or you could do the work yourself to implement it.
Cool, Thats a good idea. But won't SE's considers this links as reciprocal ? [ Assuming it to be linked from same domain ?]
I would think so, but if you are just putting up a link map for sites that are not currently spidered, then a reciprocal link is probably better than no link at all. Anybody else have an opinion on this?
nevetS what did you think of them as a company? I was kind of turned off thought they were really egotistical. Course it probably doesnt help I asked him the same initial question that I ask all the seo people here. "Hi, You are a seo company right? Since you cant rank for seo, sem, seo company or anything else you say you do how can you do it for my company and keywords" I just feel like that is getting financial advice from someone who is broke. Maybe I am just to simplistic for this business
Shoemoney, BruceClay Inc is ranking #2 for term "search engine optimization" which is more competetive than simply "seo". Google+Search Edit: ferret77 beats me.
And they (as a general term) say you should have a small file size if you want to rank well for your particular keyword. Their web_rank page is 74k in size, which IMO is huge (though it's mostly text). Anyhow, even though they do rank well and I would imagine have good information, the amount of text on their page would turn me off and go to another page simply due to the way the page is formatted.
Yea Infiniterb, Check others and it seems average is 40K, google's own seo page seems to be the lowest with 14K and highest being seochat's 158K.
They've been pretty consistently showing up in my seo related searches for as long as I've been doing this - although I really don't know about terms like seo or search engine optimization. Of the guys working the expo that I ran into, the bruceclay guy really knew his product and talked with me a lot about on page SEO. I think that paying for SEO services like theirs is way too costly, but if I had a great e-commerce company with no in-house SEO knowledge, it might make sense. I'm with you though in my general skepticism of SEO consultants. There are so many out there that don't know nearly as much as me, and frankly I don't know that much.
ahhh someone should tell them they rank that high... or atleast the guy i talked to.. lol he was pissed off. I wasnt targeting them i did that with every seo company there... was kind of funny to hear them backpeddal from that. I got excuses like "we switched domains 2 years ago and are still sandboxed." and crap lol
This might help clear up the reciprocal link issue What's to keep these links pages from being viewed as a link farm, causing a site to be penalized? Bruce: Reciprocal linking is required for a link farm, and the NOINDEX parameter on the META robots tag keeps this page from being indexed. I use NOINDEX, FOLLOW tags on every LinkMaps page. As such it is simply food for spiders but not for indexed links since nothing on this page is indexed. I have verified this with Matt Cutts of Google. More info on them http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmtp9/linkmaps_review.htm