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Originally Posted by jimmycooper
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Turn commenting OFF! There's no sense having any comments - 90% of the time they will NOT be RELEVANT to the content of the page and that ends up diluting the focus of your pages - not good SEO-wise.[/SIZE]
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PART II
POSTED BY JIMMY COOPER
Wow. Thank you so much. This is extremely helpful. I feel like I just found a pot of gold!
For the images, here are past weeks numbers for just the google.com/referral ones. I don't think the numbers are that bad, but not many conversions, so I definitely need to tweak it like you said.
google.com / referral 1,043 2.44 00:01:33 93.38% 31.64%
I have been proactive in trying to get image traffic. I created an entire section that uses large photos specifically for the image hits.
And up until December, I had been linking the images directly to the sponsors. I switched because I thought using text links were an easy way to add keyword rich text.
Good idea about turning the comments off. What's funny is that I had been getting annoyed with the quality of comments and posted this on my Q+A page just last week.
Why has my comment not been posted?
Probably because it was either poorly written, used an excessive amount of slang, or was simply in bad taste. If I feel that a comment does not add to the experience of viewing any particular page, it will not be accepted. Period. I am aware of the perception that posting comments and giving readers an opportunity to freely express their opinions is a vital component to the blogosphere, but I really don?t care. With that being said, well written and tasteful comments are more than welcome. Also note that more grammatical leeway will be given to a comment if it?s clear that English is not the first language of the writer. Particularly to those who are French and female.
lol.
Thanks again. You really answered some questions that have been seriously bugging me for awhile!
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GET UP IN THAT ASS, LARRY!
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I forget the exact amount of time that it took to write my first post with all the questions, but it must have taken at least an hour and I was extremely lucky to find someone who was willing to answer such in-depth questions in a public forum. When you factor in the multiple private messages, that entire 'step' in the SEO learning process probably took at least 1 day.
Now, I've only skimmed the posts, but it's likely that some of my questions back in January were still beginner level questions bc I know for a fact that I have repeated similar processes with more advanced questions several times since the above posts and am still regularly learning new things. The curve obviously slows when you have a larger base of knowledge, but the nature of SEO is not static, so you have to continually keep up.