I once tried some free blog comment softwares,but none of them satisfied me.I also buy such softwares,they cost me much more money than what I get.Yesterday I finally figured out a very good way to find valuable blogs easily.Now I share here,hope it can help you and you give me suggestions.Also I may post the list of blog pages with PR here,when I do my SEO job I can collect the list step by step.Please note that these blogs are dofollow,blog pages can be listed with PR,OBL.
P.S.Currently there are some "comment plugins" which can let a page have function of comment.The best one I know is Disqus(http://disqus.com/).Each plugin have its own feature.Disqus has words "blog comments powered by Disqus" on the page.Some plugins are dofollow,some are nofollow,you need to take a look.Fortunately,Disqus provides a dofollow commenting.Now,let's begin the search.
Step 1.Search "blog comments powered by Disqus" on google,don' forget the quotation mark.Google says there are 4,160,000 pages using Disqus.That's too many.We need keyword to reduce the result.Goto step 2.
Step 2.If you want pages related to Obama,just search:Obama "blog comments powered by Disqus" Google says 540,000 result.Click the 1st result:http://shripriya.com/blog/2008/10/19/powell-endorses-obama/You can write your comment now,your name is anchor text,please do input your website address in "Website" field.This page's PR is 0,it doesn't matter,let's goto step 3.
Step 3.Now we search the whole pages indexed in google.Search:site:http://shripriya.com/blog/We get 200+ result.Use get-url software to get the whole URL list in txt file.Then use PR checking software to check their PR,also you can check OBL if you have timeas well as software.Finally we get the processed URL list from blog site site:http://shripriya.com/blog/ :
PR URL2 shripriya.com/blog/2007/02/22/math-test-responses2 shripriya.com/blog/2007/05/01/green-dimes2 shripriya.com/blog/2008/04/06/to-move-to-tumblr2 shripriya.com/blog/2008/06/06/graphing-social-patterns-east2 shripriya.com/blog/2008/06/26/jetsons-style-grocery-shopping2 shripriya.com/blog/2008/08/16/michael-phelps-7-in-pictures1 shripriya.com/blog/2007/01/15/dreaming-of-galle1 shripriya.com/blog/2007/01/24/neo-sports-tasteless-ads1 shripriya.com/blog/2007/05/15/insanity-in-baroda1 shripriya.com/blog/2007/10/27/benny-lava-is-stuck-in-my-head1 shripriya.com/blog/2008/03/12/why-do-the-wives-stand-there-next-to-their-men0 shripriya.com/blog/2006/11/27/london-cabs-win-hands-down0 shripriya.com/blog/2007/02/14/are-you-a-romantic0 shripriya.com/blog/2007/02/21/flame-wars0 shripriya.com/blog/2007/04/16/an-emergency-landing0 shripriya.com/blog/2007/11/08/happy-deepavali-20 shripriya.com/blog/2008/01/02/2008-emphasis-000 shripriya.com/blog/2008/03/17/change-colors-in-the-k2-theme0 shripriya.com/blog/2008/10/19/powell-endorses-obama0 shripriya.com/blog/2008/11/01/sarah-palin-punkd-by-montreal-radio-station0 shripriya.com/blog/index.php?tag=amangalle0 shripriya.com/blog/2006/090 shripriya.com/blog/2006/09/29/_globalization0 shripriya.com/blog/2006/09/29/hello-world0 shripriya.com/blog/2006/09/30/60 shripriya.com/blog/2006/10/01/_of-cool-grandmas0 shripriya.com/blog/2006/10/01/cool-desi-meme-ready-steady-charity0 shripriya.com/blog/2006/10/03/tatvam-is-born0 shripriya.com/blog/2006/10/04/two-cool-apps0 shripriya.com/blog/2006/10/04/when-to-raise-money0 shripriya.com/blog/2006/10/07/jammed0 shripriya.com/blog/2006/10/10/kiran-desai-wins-booker-prize0 shripriya.com/blog/2006/10/11/cycles-of-social-networking-sites0 shripriya.com/blog/2006/10/11/podtech-interviews-3-folks-i-worked-with0 shripriya.com/blog/2006/10/15/nyc-subway0 shripriya.com/blog/2006/10/16/welcome-a-and-l0 shripriya.com/blog/2006/10/19/second-life-improve-the-newbie-experience0 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shripriya.com/blog/2008/03/04/thank-you-shailu-iyengar0 shripriya.com/blog/2008/03/09/tumbling-on-wordpress0 shripriya.com/blog/2008/03/13/stunning-painting0 shripriya.com/blog/2008/03/14/lasik-not-always-crystal-clear0 shripriya.com/blog/2008/03/18/handwriting0 shripriya.com/blog/2008/03/18/this-blog0 shripriya.com/blog/2008/03/25/shoot-the-blog0 shripriya.com/blog/2008/03/29/film-festivals-and-the-online-audience0 shripriya.com/blog/2008/03/29/film-festivals-and-the-online-audience-20 shripriya.com/blog/2008/03/29/film-festivals-and-the-online-audience-tatvam0 shripriya.com/blog/2008/03/31/iphone-pwned0 shripriya.com/blog/2008/04/01/if-dubya-designed-the-washington-monument0 shripriya.com/blog/2008/04/07/congestion-pricing-plan-nixed0 shripriya.com/blog/2008/04/25/on-choosing-and-settling0 shripriya.com/blog/2008/04/26/ipl-and-international-cricket0 shripriya.com/blog/2008/04/27/elizabeth-edwards-on-the-pathetic-coverage-of-the-elections0 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In the above list there are 236 URLs,all are dofollow.There are 11 URLs have PR >or =1.The above list is based on only ONE result for search term:Obama "blog comments powered by Disqus" We can get 10 PR pages from one result.(It is reasonable,isn't it?),thus in 1000 results,we get 10,000 PR pages!You may say it cost much time,Yes it do,but pls note that which software can provide such numbers of valuable result to you?Another important thing is that when you do Disqus commenting,what you need to do is towrite your comment,don't need to write name/email/website for second time,the cookies have your record.And,everything is under your control.If you are a company,your staffscan do the 1000 results job in short time,it brings very good resource.By now,we get 10,000 PR Blog pages base on ONLY ONE keywords related to Obama.If you do the same thing for 10 keywords then you get 100,000 PR pages.Ok,this 100,000 pages is base on plugin "Disqus" only.When you search "comment system" or similar term you can get more plugin,the basic job needed is to check dofollow for this plugin.
see many people ask for dofollow blogs,or ask for some softwares,but I notice that the posts are commonly some scattered lists,and too many peopel post on them,that's really notgood enough.I advise you don't waste your money in these software,too many people are using it,and it is not good enough to handle.
I'm also wondering if I should gather some valuable URL lists here.If I do,there will be too many people post comments on them, that generate too many outbound links,and,the content may be not related to your site.The best way is that you do your own search,your hard job will bring good benifit to you.
P.S. In the searching,we need two kinds of software:
1)Extract result URL in txt file.----I'm using a Chinese hacked edition software,I think most people can't read Chinese here.So if there is someone have such similar software,please share here.
2)Check PR for URL list. ----I'm using a software names "PaRaMeter".If someone can share another free one it is much appreciated.Enjoy it.Suggestions are welcome.
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http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/05/12/twitter-the-first-draft-of-history3 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/05/26/does-robert-scoble-own-his-comments3 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/07/16/the-twitter-api-giving-away-the-store3 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/08/05/rocketboom-sony-signs-rent-to-own-deal3 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/08/11/salon-builds-it-but-will-anyone-come3 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/08/14/music-and-the-web-one-bands-experience3 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/08/15/aol-buys-socialthing-but-why3 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/08/15/zucker-is-wrong-to-be-so-smug3 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/08/16/rushmoredrive-dumb-idea3 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/08/17/let-a-hundred-facebooks-bloom3 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/09/08/real-launches-dvd-ripper-but-why3 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/09/09/so-did-apple-cave-or-did-nbc-bend3 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Excel Word Content Spinner
This is an free tool for making original work of your article.
The document is small, only 3K, the author made it very careful. So i recommend it to you.
http://www.profitswithchris.com/blog/free-article-spinner-download-your-free-article-rewriter-here/
Carefully look at his 20 minutes video, Very funny.
Enjoy it.
Comprehensive List of SEO Tools
Everyone, here is a comprehensive list of SEO tools that I utilize when performing SEO. If you have any questions about them, just ask. You are free to copy them and post them to your websites. I only ask that you post a link to my website along with them. Thanks
1. Reporting Spam to Google - http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html
2. Use Google to search your website - http://www.google.com/services/free.html
3. Submit your website to Google - http://www.google.com/addurl.html
4. Monitor Keyword Phrases - http://google.com/webalerts (This is neat to check out however does not help that much)
5. Googles Guidelines for Websmasters - http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html (A must read new people)
6. Facts for Webmasters - http://www.google.com/webmasters/facts.html
7. Having Trouble? Contact Google Directly - http://www.google.com/ads/offices.html
8. Googles Top 3 asked Questions - http://www.google.com/contact/search.html
Froogle
1. Get your products into Froogle - http://services.google.com/froogle/merchant_email
Advertising
1. PPC with Espotting - http://www.espotting.com/advertisers...ferralTypeID=1Website Design & Tools1. Free Forms for your website TFMail - http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
2. Validate Your HTML - http://validator.w3.org/
3. HTTP Error Code Meanings - http://www.searchengineworld.com/val...errorcodes.htm
4. Keyword Tracking - http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/
5. Link Checker - http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/...0charset=utf-8
6. Search Engine Relationship Chart - http://www.bruceclay.com/searchengin...nshipchart.htmBruce Clay does an excellent job of keeping this updated.
7. Link Popularity Checker (Uptime Bot) - http://www.uptimebot.com/
8. Character Counting - http://a1portal.com/freetools/charcount.htm (This is great when optimizing your title or meta tags)
9. Character Encoding - http://www.itnews.org.uk/w_qrefs/w_i...p_charsets.cfm (Ever wonder what those iso-8859-4 or utf-8 were or how to use them?)
10. Converting Hex to Dec or Vias Versa - http://www.hypersolutions.org/pages/hex.html#DectoHex
11. Ascii-Dec-Hex Conversion Code Chart - http://www.sonofsofaman.com/misc/ascii/default.asp
12. Ascii-HTML View Conversion Chart - http://a1portal.com/freetools/asciicodes.htm (This is an excellent resource when placing ascii code on your website. Remember to use the correct character encoding)
13. Ascii Chart in .
14. Customer Focus Tool - http://www.futurenowinc.com/wewe.htm (Tells you whether your website is focused on your customers or not)
15. Dead Link Checker - http://www.dead-links.com/ (Doesn't crawl links within Frames or JavaScript)
16. Adsense Simulator - http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-sandbox/ (This will give you an idea of what ads will be displayed on your website before you place them)
17. Google Page Rank Calculator - http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank_...ator.php3?pgs= (This is an advanced tool for finding out what you need to get your PR to the next level.)
18. Page Rank Finder - http://www.seo-guy.com/seo-tools/google-pr.php (This is a great tool to find quality websites with the PR that you are looking for to exchange websites with. This tool only looks at the home page not the link pages. This tool looks at 10 pages or 100 results)
19. Future Google PR - http://www.searchengineforums.com/ap...e::eek:rphans/ - This is an article that tells you what datacenter your Google PR is udpated on first.
20. Keyword Analysis Tool - http://www.mcdar.net/ - This tool is a must. It's quick and easy to use
21. Keyword Density Analyzer - http://www.webjectives.com/keyword.htm
22. Keyword Difficulty Checker - http://www.searchguild.com/cgi-bin/difficulty.pl (You will need a Google API for this one)
23. Free Google API - http://www.google.com/api
24. Rocket Rank - http://www.rocketrank.com/ - This will only check the top 20 of the following SE's:(All The Web DMOZ AltaVista Overture Excite Web Crawler HotBot Lycos What U Seek Yahoo) Keyword Suggestion Tools:
25. WordTracker & Overture Suggestions http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/ - This is the best one of the three
26. Adwords Suggestion - https://adwords.google.com/select/ma...KeywordSandbox
27. Overture Suggestion - http://inventory.overture.com/d/sear...ry/suggestion/
28. Link Analyzer - http://www.scribbling.net/analyze-web-page-links Analyze the ratio of internal liinks vs. external links. This is a good tool when determining page rank leakage.
29. Link Appeal - http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/link-appeal.shtml (Want to know whether or not you actually want your link on that page?)
30. Link City - http://showcase.netins.net/web/phdss/linkcity/ (This place has EVERY tool under the sun for everything you could ever possibly want)
31. Link Reputation - http://198.68.180.60/cgi-bin/link-reputation-tool.cgi (Reveals baclinks pointing to the target URL along with a link survey for eack backlink.)
32. Google PR Tools - http://www.thinkbling.com/tools.php (This guy has tons of fantastic tools. He is not as popular as some of the rest but the tools are great)
33. Protect Your e-mail address - http://www.fingerlakesbmw.org/main/flobfuscate.php (Obfuscates your e-mail so spambots don't pick it up from the Internet)
34. Digital Points Ad Network - http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/ad-network/?s=2197 - After using all of the tools and more on this page. This has helped out the rankings faster than anything else.
35. Sandbox Detection Tool - http://www.socengine.com/seo/tools/sandbox-tool.php - Is your website being sandboxed?
36. Spider Simulation - http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/ - See what the spider sees on your website
37. SEO-Toys - http://seo-toys.com/ - These are some things that I had in my favorites. Some of them are okay.
38. Multiple SEO Tools - http://www.free-seo-tools.com/ - This website has a variety of misc. tools on it that you can use to better your search engine rankings.
39. Bot Spotter - http://sourceforge.net/projects/botspotter - This is a phenomenal script that will track what bots hit your website at what times. (Runs on PHP enabled websites)
40. Net Mechanic - http://www.netmechanic.com/toolbox/power_user.htm - This will break your website down and tell you any errors that you may be unaware of.
41. Statcounter - http://www.statcounter.com/ - This will track your clients throughout the dynamically created pages of your website. This is a free service. (of course I don't have to mention this to you guys)
42. Dr. HTML - http://www.fixingyourwebsite.com/drhtml.html - This will test your website for any errors that you may be unaware of and tell you how to fix them.
43. Page Rank Calculation - http://www.sitepronews.com/pagerank.html
Webmaster Forums
1. Web Pro World - http://www.webproworld.com/forum.php
2.Webmaster World - http://www.webmasterworld.com/
3. Digital Point - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
4. Search Engine World - http://www.searchengineworld.com/(There are 10,000,000 others but those are some good ones)
Newsletters & Articles
1. Site Pro News - http://www.sitepronews.com/ (This guy has some great articles however he tells you up front he knows nothing of SEO)
2. In Stat - http://www.instat.com/ (This has some decent insite)
3. Page Rank Explained - http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank....olbar_pagerank
4. Seach Engine Ratings and Reviews - http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/
5. Database of Robots - http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/active/html/index.html(Ever wondered anything about the spiders that are out there?)
6. Guide to deisgning a website - http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/contents.html - This is an online book that tells you the basics of website design.
Webmaster Information
1. Want to know where all of the Internet traffic is at? - http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm
ISAPI Rewrites
1. URL Replacer - (Free) - http://www.motobit.com/help/url-repl...od-rewrite.asp
2. Mod Rewrite2 - ($39.90US) - http://www.iismods.com/url-rewrite/index.htm
3. URL Rewrite - (23.00EUR) - http://www.smalig.com/url_rewrite-en.htm
Link Exchanging
1. Links Manager ($20.00US /mo)- http://linksmanager.com/cgi-bin/cook/control_panel.cgi (This is great for the beginner however you will find out that you need to majorly adjust your pages manually in order to pread page rank throughout them otherwise you end up with 20 pages with no PR and 1 page with PR.)
2. Page Rank Finder - http://www.seo-guy.com/seo-tools/google-pr.php (This is a great tool to find quality websites with the PR that you are looking for to exchange websites with. This tool only looks at the home page not the link pages. This tool looks at 10 pages or 100 results)
3. Link Appeal - http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/link-appeal.shtml (Want to know whether or not you actually want your link on that page?)
Search Engine Submissions
1. Submit Express - http://www.submitexpress.com/newsletters/dec_15_00.html (A lot of people utilize this service. I don't utilize it)
2. Alexa - http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmaste...tml#crawl_site
3. AOL - http://search.aol.com/aolcom/add.jsp
4. DMOZ Dummies Guide - http://www.dummies-guide-to-dmoz.org...not_google.htm/
5. DMOZ Instructions - http://dmoz.org/add.html
6. DMOZ Resource Forum - http://resource-zone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=396 (This is where you go when you website doesn't show up in DMOZ after you have submitted READ THEIR RULES FOR ASKING)
7. ExactSeek - http://www.exactseek.com/freemember.html
8. Google - http://www.google.com/addurl.html
9. Yahoo http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request (You must have an account)
10. Yahoo Directory Help - http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/appropriate.html
11. Yahoo Express Submit TOS - https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/express/terms (After reading the TOS for Yahoo, I would never submit my website to Yahoo and pay the $300.00 to due so- Everyone, I broke down and was forced to pay the $300.00. The website would not get past 30 for months and about 2 weeks after we paid it we are now number 10.)
12. Yahoo Submit Help - http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/dir/su...uggest-01.html
13. MSN - http://beta.search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?If you have any tools that are not listed here and would like to add them, please do. This is only a partial list of the tools that I utilize. It would take way too long to provide everything. If you are looking for a specific tool let me know, chances are that I probably have it.
List of CSS Tools
List of CSS Tools
Fonts
CSS Font and Text Style WizardUse this wizard to experiment with font and text styles and generate sample CSS style source code.
Em CalculatorTool for calculating pixel font sizes to ems.
korhoen typeviewercss typeviewer
text sizing - up the garden path264 Screenshots
TypetesterCompare fonts for the screen
Forms
Accessible Form BuilderGenerate XHTML-compliant accessible forms quicky and easily
CSS Form Code MakerGenerates ‘Colorful Box Layout’ For Forms
JotFormWeb Based WYSIWYG Form Builder
Layout
CSS CreatorLive CSS Cascading Style Sheet Layout generator for your web site
CSS HTML PHP Website Template MakerThis PHP - HTML - CSS template generator creates a two column layout with both a header and a footer….
CSS Rounded Box Generatorgenerates html and css for rounded corner boxes
FirdamaticFirdamatic is an online tableless layout generator that allows you to create and customise layouts easily…
Free CSS Template Code GeneratorMaker for 3 Column Layout (tableless)
Layout-o-MaticGenerates tableless CSS layouts at the touch of a button
Page Maker - The Generator Form v2.90CSS Source Ordered Variable Border 1-3 Columned Page Maker
QrONE CSS DesignerOnline CSS Generator
ScriptomizersA CSS stylesheet generator
Navigation
Colly’s CSS rollover generatorCollyLogic CSS Multi-element Rollover Generator
CSS Tab DesignerCSS Tab Designer is a unique and easy to use software to help youdesign css-based lists and tabs visually and without any programmingknowledge required!
Listamaticnot a tool but very useful! - one list, many options - Using CSS and a simple list to create radically different list
Listamatic2nested list options
List-O-MaticGenerate CSS-styled navigation menus based on list items
List-O-Rama!Dreamweaver MX and UltraDev Zone - List-O-Rama will allow you to generate nice CSS inline menus in seconds
CSS Menu GeneratorCSS Menu Generator will generate both the CSS and the HTML coderequired to produce a text-based yet appealing set of navigationbuttons.
Misc Tools
CSS Love ChildThe Man in Blue Experiment - I want the body of Site […] with the face of site […]
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What's an SEO? Does Google recommend working with companies that offer to make my site Google-friendly?
SEO is an acronym for "search engine optimization" or "search engine optimizer." Deciding to hire an SEO is a big decision. Make sure to research the potential advantages as well as the damage that an irresponsible SEO can do to your site. Many SEOs and other agencies and consultants provide useful services for website owners, including:
1.Reviewing and providing recommendations on your site content or structure
2.Technical advice on website development: for example, hosting, redirects, error pages, use of JavaScript
3.Content development
4.Managing online business development campaigns
5.Keyword research
6.SEO training
Keep in mind that the Google search results page often includes paid advertising and free organic search results. It costs nothing to appear in our organic search results, and advertising with Google won't improve your ranking. Free resources such as Webmaster Tools, the official Webmaster Central blog, and our discussion group can provide you with a great deal of information about how to optimize your site for organic search. Many of these free sources, as well as information on paid search, can be found on Google Webmaster Central.
Before beginning your search for an SEO, it's a great idea to become an educated consumer and get familiar with how search engines work. We recommend starting here:
Google Webmaster Guidelines
Google 101: How Google crawls, indexes and serves the web.
If you're thinking about hiring an SEO, the earlier the better. A great time to hire is when you're considering a site redesign, or planning to launch a new site. That way, you and your SEO can ensure that your site is designed to be search engine-friendly from the bottom up. However, a good SEO can also help improve an existing site.
Some useful questions to ask an SEO include:
1.Can you show me examples of your previous work and share some success stories?
2.Do you follow the Google Webmaster Guidelines?
3.Do you offer any online marketing services to complement your organic search business?
4.What kind of results do you expect to see, and in what timeframe?
5.What's your experience in my industry?
6.How long have you been in business?
While SEOs can provide clients with valuable services, some unethical SEOs have given the industry a black eye through their overly aggressive marketing efforts and their attempts to manipulate search engine results in unfair ways. Practices that violate our guidelines may result in your site being removed from the Google index. Here are some things to consider:
1.Be wary of SEO firms and web consultants or agencies that send you email out of the blue.
Amazingly, we get these spam emails too:
"Dear google.com,I visited your website and noticed that you are not listed in most of the major search engines and directories..."
Reserve the same skepticism for unsolicited email about search engines as you do for "burn fat at night" diet pills or requests to help transfer funds from deposed dictators.
2.No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google.
Beware of SEOs that claim to guarantee rankings, allege a "special relationship" with Google, or advertise a "priority submit" to Google. There is no priority submit for Google. In fact, the only way to submit a site to Google directly is through our Add URL page or by submitting a Sitemap and you can do this yourself at no cost whatsoever.
3.Be careful if a company is secretive or won't clearly explain what they intend to do.
Ask for explanations if something is unclear. If an SEO creates deceptive or misleading content on your behalf, such as doorway pages or "throwaway" domains, your site could be removed entirely from Google's index. Ultimately, you are responsible for the actions of any companies you hire, so it's best to be sure you know exactly how they intend to "help" you.
4.You should never have to link to an SEO.
Avoid SEOs that talk about the power of "free-for-all" links, link popularity schemes, or submitting your site to thousands of search engines. These are typically useless exercises that don't affect your ranking in the results of the major search engines -- at least, not in a way you would likely consider to be positive.
5.Choose wisely.
While you consider whether to go with an SEO, you may want to do some research on the industry. Google is one way to do that, of course. You might also seek out a few of the cautionary tales that have appeared in the press, including this article on one particularly aggressive SEO: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002002970_nwbizbriefs12.html. While Google doesn't comment on specific companies, we've encountered firms calling themselves SEOs who follow practices that are clearly beyond the pale of accepted business behavior. Be careful.
6.Be sure to understand where the money goes.
While Google never sells better ranking in our search results, several other search engines combine pay-per-click or pay-for-inclusion results with their regular web search results. Some SEOs will promise to rank you highly in search engines, but place you in the advertising section rather than in the search results. A few SEOs will even change their bid prices in real time to create the illusion that they "control" other search engines and can place themselves in the slot of their choice. This scam doesn't work with Google because our advertising is clearly labeled and separated from our search results, but be sure to ask any SEO you're considering which fees go toward permanent inclusion and which apply toward temporary advertising.
8.What are the most common abuses a website owner is likely to encounter?
One common scam is the creation of "shadow" domains that funnel users to a site by using deceptive redirects. These shadow domains often will be owned by the SEO who claims to be working on a client's behalf. However, if the relationship sours, the SEO may point the domain to a different site, or even to a competitor's domain. If that happens, the client has paid to develop a competing site owned entirely by the SEO.
Another illicit practice is to place "doorway" pages loaded with keywords on the client's site somewhere. The SEO promises this will make the page more relevant for more queries. This is inherently false since individual pages are rarely relevant for a wide range of keywords. More insidious, however, is that these doorway pages often contain hidden links to the SEO's other clients as well. Such doorway pages drain away the link popularity of a site and route it to the SEO and its other clients, which may include sites with unsavory or illegal content.
8.What are some other things to look out for?
There are a few warning signs that you may be dealing with a rogue SEO. It's far from a comprehensive list, so if you have any doubts, you should trust your instincts. By all means, feel free to walk away if the SEO:
owns shadow domains
puts links to their other clients on doorway pages
offers to sell keywords in the address bar
doesn't distinguish between actual search results and ads that appear in search results
guarantees ranking, but only on obscure, long keyword phrases you would get anyway
operates with multiple aliases or falsified WHOIS info
gets traffic from "fake" search engines, spyware, or scumware
has had domains removed from Google's index or is not itself listed in Google
If you feel that you were deceived by an SEO in some way, you may want to report it.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) handles complaints about deceptive or unfair business practices. To file a complaint, visit: http://www.ftc.gov/ and click on "File a Complaint Online," call 1-877-FTC-HELP, or write to:
Federal Trade CommissionCRC-240Washington, D.C. 20580
If your complaint is against a company in a country other than the United States, please file it at http://www.econsumer.gov/.