Archive For April, 2006

Well my wife, the ultimate Harry Potter fan, has been asking me for some time to create a HP skin…finally have it done. We will be testing it for a few days before releasing it for sale. You can select it from the style picker at the footer of every design…it’s called Muggled.

GoogleGuy Urges reinclusion Requests for Sites That Have Had Spam Probems in the Past

If you are not getting indexed, your crawl priority might be low since the BigDaddy update at Google. GoogleGuy urges users to perform a reinclusion request.

He also provides an email address to request special reviews. See the source link for more information.

Notes on vBSEO

vBSEO optimized your forum. However, if you have previous been involved with any blackhat SEO activities or have fallen into the sandbox, you may not get indexed as quickly as you would otherwise expect. Stay whitehat!For Discussion

Have you ever been flagged as a spammer and dropped from the Google index? How did you deal with the issue?
Does having a site flagged affect the indexing of our sites that sit on the same dedicated server or shared hosting environment?Source:
Pages Dropping Out of Big Daddy Index

GoogleGuy Urges reinclusion Requests for Sites That Have Had Spam Probems in the Past

If you are not getting indexed, your crawl priority might be low since the BigDaddy update at Google. GoogleGuy urges users to perform a reinclusion request.

He also provides an email address to request special reviews. See the source link for more information.

Notes on vBSEO

vBSEO optimized your forum. However, if you have previous been involved with any blackhat SEO activities or have fallen into the sandbox, you may not get indexed as quickly as you would otherwise expect. Stay whitehat!For Discussion

Have you ever been flagged as a spammer and dropped from the Google index? How did you deal with the issue?
Does having a site flagged affect the indexing of our sites that sit on the same dedicated server or shared hosting environment?Source:
Pages Dropping Out of Big Daddy Index

Does Google Still Like ALT Tags?

Karen Thackston raises the question of whether Google has a renewed interest in ALT Tags.

She reports that she had a page ranked #17 for a search query existing only in the ALT tag.

Notes on VBSEO

vBSEO automatically inserts the thread title in the ALT tag for the thread nav icons.For Discussion

How important are ALT tags in your SEO strategy?
How can we get Small Business Resources, Articles, News & Weekly Newsletter | Small Business Brief to install vBSEO? :)Source:
Are ALT Tags Back? - Small Business Ideas Forum

Does Google Still Like ALT Tags?

Karen Thackston raises the question of whether Google has a renewed interest in ALT Tags.

She reports that she had a page ranked #17 for a search query existing only in the ALT tag.

Notes on VBSEO

vBSEO automatically inserts the thread title in the ALT tag for the thread nav icons.For Discussion

How important are ALT tags in your SEO strategy?
How can we get Small Business Resources, Articles, News & Weekly Newsletter | Small Business Brief to install vBSEO? :)Source:
Are ALT Tags Back? - Small Business Ideas Forum

WebmasterWorld.com: Search Engine Friendly Links Best Left to the Pros

Jim Morgan gives information regarding the complexity of achieving static, search engine friendly URLs with mod_rewrite.

He notes that it is one of the most widely asked questions on their forums due to the complexity.

He provides a general overview of the basics including internal and external processing, htaccess, httpd.conf, conf.d, and regular expressions.

What is to be learned?

Search Engine Friendly URLs are an extremely complex task that should only be attempted by advanced developers.Notes on vBSEO

The vBSEO development team has mastered the process of implementing search engine friendly URLs - but that is just one part of the total vBSEO solution.
The vBSEO solution takes many users less than 5 minutes to install and configure.
The result is a search engine optimized forum in the time it takes to microwave a tv dinner! This is a huge cost savings compared with the expense of attempting to implement a similar system.For Discussion

Do you think the difficultly in creating search engine friendly URLs has decreased their popularity despite the fact that most blogs and major websites realize their importance?Source:
Changing Dynamic URLs to Static URLs

"Local Featured Listings" Helps Small Businesses But Can Still Be Used in Forum Marketing

The basic idea: Allow small businesses to advertise on the results of Yahoo local searches. Generate sales leads via the web, telephone, or walk-ins!

Find out more here:
Yahoo! Search Marketing

For Discussion

vBulletin forum admins who target single or multiple geographic audiences might consider making use of this ad channel.Source:
Yahoo! Search blog: Delivering flowers, delivering babies

Google Adwords Advertisers Need to Use Exact Match to Get Exposure for less "Commercial" Keyword Phases

Danny discusses how Google Adwords is trying to improve ad relevancy for web searchers.

The impact will be less for terms identified as "commercial". However, advertisers targeting terms not identified as commercial (using broadmatch) will see a difference:

Less of their ads will be displayed.

For effected advertisers, they will have to rely more on identifying the right keyword phrase to target using exact match.

The overall number of Google Adwords will not be changed.

Impact to AdSense Publishers

No specific mention is made of AdSense. However, one might assume that the AdSense ads placed on publisher websites would be also be affected.Notes on vBSEO

SEO is only one component of SEM (Search Engine Marketing). Many forum admins have a full SEM strategic in place to boost their organic search results as well as drive traffic to their websites using AdWords or other Cost-Per-Click (CPC) advertising channels.
CPC and SEO work well together for new forums. CPC helps drive paid traffic to the site.

Once these visitors get started posting, they begin developing the content that will later get indexed in the engines and start driving traffic from the organic search results.

SEO is the most cost effective method of SEM. vBSEO replaces the need for expensive SEO consulting and is highly cost effective, with many forums seeing an immediate to short-term ROI.For Discussion

Do you create posts on your site with specific keywords included in order to "attract" AdSense ads that are more likely to encourage clickthroughs by your members?
What other AdSense strategies do you use?
Do you use any special AdWords advertising techniques to drive traffic to you forum, and convert members better?Source:
Google AdWords Broad Match To Act Differently For Commercial, Non-Commercial Terms

Everyone please welcome our new Moderator: Butcher!

He has been an active member of this site for quite a long time now, and has shown good initiative to support the members of vBhackers.com, thus we (the vBHackers.com Staff) have decided to reward him with a nice shiny mod tag!

Butcher will be…

I’ve released the Flash banner for underground.

Explode’s Flash banner will be released tomorrow.