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Michael Gray

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Ok I’ve got some creative funk rattling around inside my head, so if you’ve got an SEO, SEM, or Social Media question drop it in the comments. Use you noodle before you ask a question, asking ‘whats the best way to spam google?’ is probably not going to get you an answer, mmkay.

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{ 17 comments }

Matt Cutts September 17, 2006 at 2:34 am

What country produces the best spammers, in your opinion?

Mike Empuria September 17, 2006 at 3:13 am

My wife has a website (www.wifestillwoman.com) that has an overall theme – a site for married women – but contains various categories e.g. fashion, intimacy, travel etc. How would you optimise a site like this? Would you optimise for the theme or the categories?

Thanks

Hawaii SEO September 17, 2006 at 5:21 am

(In your opinion) How does Google Smart Pricing work?

What landing page elements seem to trigger a favorable Google AdWords Quality Score? Internal links, External links, Keywords from the ad group in the page text, Text formatting, Types of form fields, etc…

Do you see a lower Quality Score and higher costs per click when you use AdWords to drive traffic to a website that also has AdSence ads on the landing page versus YPN, other affiliate ads or no ads on the landing page?

Does Smart Pricing punish publishers who have an above average click-through-rate on AdSense by reducing their % payout?

Thanks,
Dave.

Tuppy Glossop September 17, 2006 at 7:54 am

I’m curious if you’ve taken a look at Ultra Bookmarker (just squish it together to get the one word url) or any similar ways of automating social bookmarking?

The email promotion for it came over my desk at about the same time as I heard you on Webmaster FM (great show btw).

It’s not working well for me, and I’m curious if anyone else has had better luck with it? The people behind it have been very responsive to support requests; we just can’t get it working.

brian thibault September 17, 2006 at 2:06 pm

any insight about getting a site’s pages out of Google’s supplemental index?

thanks,
brian thibault

garrett September 17, 2006 at 2:21 pm

I would like to know about smart pricing also, how to avoid it when doing arbitradge. Would making a landing making a page off a domain not affected by it help?

Hawaii SEO September 17, 2006 at 5:07 pm

Do you have any recommendations for creating a protest website? How do you maximize visibility around your issue AND stay out of trouble?

If you’re targeting a highly controversial issue, politician, major corporation, union, etc, you would want to draw lots of attention to the issue but not yourself. (No one wants protesters outside their house) Is there a way to remain at least semi anonymous?

What are some do’s & don’ts? Can you use the person’s name or corporation’s trademark or brand name in the URL, and other places? How do you know where the line is?

What sorts of things can’t you say and how can these things be phrased or reworded in a way that you can say them? If they send a threatening email, can you post it on your website?

David Wilson September 17, 2006 at 8:12 pm

What do you see as the main obstacles that Social Media Optimization needs to overcome in order to become a more mainstream marketing strategy?

SoCal SEO September 17, 2006 at 9:49 pm

If you were teaching a intro/beginners seminar on seo and sem, what book(s)would you recommend as class text(s)?

What online resources would you suggest that are geared towards teaching seo/sem to beginners?

Thanks.

Jamie September 17, 2006 at 11:29 pm

Are there any SEO friendly CMS you recommend for building sites?

NitinK September 18, 2006 at 3:03 am

Here’s a potential discussion-starter to get the creative juices flowing (although it’s not exactly a question).
I’ve just added a post to the Software Abstractions Blog (blog.softwareabstractions.com) – a wish list of five enhancements I would love to see for the Google search Results Display page.

I would be interested to know – do you strongly agree/disagree with any of them?

tony rocks September 18, 2006 at 9:34 am

Mike,

Why are link exchange sites so popular? I thought those were a guaranteed blacklisting from google?! Or am I wrong? I thought is was good to have links related to your own in order to increase pr?

SEOsnafu September 18, 2006 at 11:43 am

Gaming SMO is a different approach that’s becoming more mainstream. I’ve seen alexaholic’s seth godin list, but wondered if there is a list of known social media sites not using nofollow.

Quality Nonsense September 18, 2006 at 4:53 pm

What on-site factors do you look for to increase conversion when driving traffic with PPC? Beyond the basics (clear call to action etc) how do you maximize conversion rates?

randfish September 18, 2006 at 9:27 pm

I’d love a full explanation of supplemental results – what does it mean if you go in, when should you be worried, why do they say you’re in supplemental on some datacenters and not others if it’s just one index?

Michael Gray September 18, 2006 at 10:59 pm

allright allright I’ve got enough to run with here stay tuned (hint hint)

Bamboo King October 8, 2006 at 12:56 am

SEO is a difficult lesson to me so far, i am learning.But i wonder which is better bettwen optimize the homepage through internet and do google ads? Just a discussion.

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