Comments on: It’s the internal links, stupid…. http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/ Search Engine Optimization and Consulting | Search Marketing Solutions | Online Reputation Management Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:57:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: James Boyer http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/#comment-342 James Boyer Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:17:26 +0000 http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/#comment-342 ok, that thought did not get finished. the question was do you think that the fact that the other website has custom IDX from REW same as me, but has main nav on the search page as all the detailed results pages, where as REW for some reason did not do that when creating mine, is helping that competitors website valt ahead of mine as well as other very well established websites for most any search that site is going after??? Jim ok, that thought did not get finished. the question was do you think that the fact that the other website has custom IDX from REW same as me, but has main nav on the search page as all the detailed results pages, where as REW for some reason did not do that when creating mine, is helping that competitors website valt ahead of mine as well as other very well established websites for most any search that site is going after???

Jim

]]> By: James Boyer http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/#comment-341 James Boyer Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:14:37 +0000 http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/#comment-341 Hi Eric, Nice post. I am wondering since I have a REW custom IDX and so does one of my competitors if you think that the fact that the competitor has main navigation on search page as well all the detailed results pages? What do you think Eric? Hi Eric,

Nice post. I am wondering since I have a REW custom IDX and so does one of my competitors if you think that the fact that the competitor has main navigation on search page as well all the detailed results pages? What do you think Eric?

]]> By: Jonathan http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/#comment-134 Jonathan Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:44:06 +0000 http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/#comment-134 Great post, Eric! And thanks for the link to Jim Boykin's article. I learned several new things reading this article that I will definitely start implementing on my website. Thanks again for sharing your advise as well. Jonathan Great post, Eric! And thanks for the link to Jim Boykin’s article. I learned several new things reading this article that I will definitely start implementing on my website.

Thanks again for sharing your advise as well.

Jonathan

]]> By: admin http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/#comment-129 admin Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:32:06 +0000 http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/#comment-129 Using no follows as a way to move the internal link juice around is a good practice IMO. I try not to focus on what Matt says as opposed to trying to abide by the principles of Google's guidelines whilst getting MY job done (read: getting to the top for a long profitable run...) Knowing HOW to move the link juice around in a way to get you the most possible exposure requires experience...part of what I have done for some of my clients in the past. Pleased to meet you, Brad...cannot remember if we've talked before elsewhere (maybe REW--can't remmber anyway...welcome! Glad you found me! Best Eric Using no follows as a way to move the internal link juice around is a good practice IMO. I try not to focus on what Matt says as opposed to trying to abide by the principles of Google’s guidelines whilst getting MY job done (read: getting to the top for a long profitable run…)

Knowing HOW to move the link juice around in a way to get you the most possible exposure requires experience…part of what I have done for some of my clients in the past.

Pleased to meet you, Brad…cannot remember if we’ve talked before elsewhere (maybe REW–can’t remmber anyway…welcome! Glad you found me!

Best

Eric

]]> By: Brad Dixon http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/#comment-127 Brad Dixon Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:53:58 +0000 http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/#comment-127 Eric - great post, just stumbled across it. A couple months after this post, Matt Cutts acknowledged the use of the "no follow" attribute as a viable way to channel pagerank to your most desired pages. This post was on SEOmoz. What is your take on this? My SEO colleagues and I often debate about this practice but if Cutts said that it's a reasonable practice that won't be punished by Google - I'm tempted to give it a try... Eric - great post, just stumbled across it. A couple months after this post, Matt Cutts acknowledged the use of the “no follow” attribute as a viable way to channel pagerank to your most desired pages. This post was on SEOmoz. What is your take on this? My SEO colleagues and I often debate about this practice but if Cutts said that it’s a reasonable practice that won’t be punished by Google - I’m tempted to give it a try…

]]> By: Malok http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/#comment-5 Malok Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:50:23 +0000 http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/#comment-5 Great advice, Eric. People spend all their time trying to get EXTERNAL links - and then when you look at their site, they've gotten sloppy with their own link juice power between their pages. Instead of using .PDF files, convert it over to HTML, link back to your home page, etc, etc. Great advice, Eric. People spend all their time trying to get EXTERNAL links - and then when you look at their site, they’ve gotten sloppy with their own link juice power between their pages. Instead of using .PDF files, convert it over to HTML, link back to your home page, etc, etc.

]]> By: Jennifer Karlen http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/#comment-3 Jennifer Karlen Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:32:50 +0000 http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/#comment-3 Great insights and guidance, Eric. Sites that rise fast, typically fall fast. Planning for long term ranking is the ticket. No wonder you are #1 for Louisville real estate! :) Great insights and guidance, Eric. Sites that rise fast, typically fall fast. Planning for long term ranking is the ticket. No wonder you are #1 for Louisville real estate! :)

]]> By: Ryan Ward http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/#comment-2 Ryan Ward Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:23:33 +0000 http://www.ericonsearch.com/its-the-links-stupid/#comment-2 Hi Eric, I like your blog and I like this post. I am certainly NOT an SEO expert, but, I don't think that you have to necessarily be one to get the fundamentals correct. I have had some decent success with taking a common sense approach to optimizing my website and it seems to be working well. Thinking about what you said about internal linking opens up a can of worms that takes you into exactly you are trying to accomplish with your website and helping visitors find what they are looking for using the search engines as a vehicle to achieve that goal. Take my website for example, which is about Atlanta real estate. Atlanta is big. Too big for a single webpage. So I break it down into individual cities and then further into the segments that I want to talk about. All of it is about Atlanta real estate so it naturally should link back to that somehow and other parts relate to each other so they should be linked back together so everything flows, or, makes sense to users and SE's alike. If you want the SE's to act a certain way, you have to tell them how you want them to act. Internal linking is critical for this. It also helps to keep spiders spiraling through webpages as they follow links creating a picture to them that all is relevant and worthy of the regular index, not the suplemental index. Good post. Now I'm off to look through my website to see how I can make it talk to the SE's better! Hi Eric,

I like your blog and I like this post. I am certainly NOT an SEO expert, but, I don’t think that you have to necessarily be one to get the fundamentals correct. I have had some decent success with taking a common sense approach to optimizing my website and it seems to be working well. Thinking about what you said about internal linking opens up a can of worms that takes you into exactly you are trying to accomplish with your website and helping visitors find what they are looking for using the search engines as a vehicle to achieve that goal. Take my website for example, which is about Atlanta real estate. Atlanta is big. Too big for a single webpage. So I break it down into individual cities and then further into the segments that I want to talk about. All of it is about Atlanta real estate so it naturally should link back to that somehow and other parts relate to each other so they should be linked back together so everything flows, or, makes sense to users and SE’s alike. If you want the SE’s to act a certain way, you have to tell them how you want them to act. Internal linking is critical for this. It also helps to keep spiders spiraling through webpages as they follow links creating a picture to them that all is relevant and worthy of the regular index, not the suplemental index. Good post. Now I’m off to look through my website to see how I can make it talk to the SE’s better!

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