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Webmaster Consulting

• Ungrateful clients
  • Threats from prospective clients, lowball from clients, clients not understanding true amount of work they need

Traffic and Analytics

• Stumple-upon traffic and 2 second visits

Content

• To use mediocre content
  • Search engines may look at sentence structure - 10 words with certain numbers of nouns and adjectives.
• Deep site or multiple small sites
  • If original has age and authority, don't change
  • Lots of quality links, don't split
  • Mulgiple sites spread risk
• Wikipedia doing no follow, are links from wikipedia a waste
  • Do seem to deliver visitors
  • Link from wikipedia may help an article to not be supplemental
• Wire service info for a site

Search engines

• Do next gen search engines deliver traffic
  • Examples: http://www.mahalo.com, cha cha, hakia,
  • yuntis - university project

Domains

• Changing a site name and typo redirects without losing rank

Google

• Pagerank
  • Effect of increased page rank
    • Google's internal pagerank may differ from what is shown.
    • Others will think your site is better and pay more for links
    • Possible increased google crawl frequency (although this is probably more influenced by frequently changing content)
• Becoming an authority

Links

• Someone wants to buy a $5 a month link
  • Could be risky to your reputation if target is a bad neighborhood. Careful to make the link in-context.
  • Can be an effective strategy to get 20% of people to give you a link

Spiders

• Whole site scraped
  • Figure out how they are making money from the scraped content
  • Possible solutions: crawlwall, copyscape
  • Ban list for reaper ips
  • The scraping may be for personal research, not to repost scraped content
  • DT (whois.sc Domain Tools) spidering sites and making spiderable cache
• Attack of the robots, spiders, crawlers
• DT Tools Cache Outranking Site They Are Caching

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