| To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | studio74 | 1/21/13 3:28 AM | I've read the FAQs and searched the help center. My URL is: hppt://http://www.pullupbannersmelbourne.com.au ATT: Matt Cutts I would like to know why my website is nowhere to be found for key search words such as Pull Up Banners, Display Banners and a few m |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | Marcus Miller UK | 1/21/13 3:57 AM | Hi Peter I have had a very quick look and it would seem you have done lots of link building that is intended to manipulate the search results and subsequently breaks the guidelines: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6635 |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | I know nothing | 1/21/13 4:29 AM | I'm puzzled how you can blame Google for your poor management of your own website Peter. http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pullupbannersmelbourne.com.au%2F Keyword stuffed description tags: bow banners, flag banners, pul |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | Zack Williamson | 1/21/13 4:30 AM | Peter, Lets take another approach here. I'm going to tell you how you can recover your site before its lost forever. First thing's first, Marcus is right, you have a rather spammy backlink profile but we're only talking about hundreds, not hundreds o |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | Becky Sharpe | 1/21/13 4:40 AM | Your website is indexed - http://goo.gl/QUsgS Others have already pointed out where you have gone wrong and what can be done to remedy it. No-one can rely on Google to give them free advertising - it takes a lot of work and increasingly utilising exp |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | studio74 | 1/21/13 4:35 PM | Thank you for all your answers.I'm not sure what most of this means but I have taken all your point very seriously. I'm no SEO person so I will try to find out the best I can and try to fix all these issues. RegardsPeter |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | Lysis | 1/21/13 4:39 PM | Any post that has "Matt Cutts" in it should follow with "hot computer nerd." I'm personally pushing for an autoban feature that kills any website owner that does not comply with this guideline. You're just lucky you got in before the new rule. |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | seo101 | 1/21/13 6:15 PM | What is the relationship to http://www.quapromotions.com.au/ ?????? Duplicate site on another doamin name:http://www.pullupbannersaustralia.com.au/ Participating in blog network spam:http://www.nfsg.org/display-banners-are-eye-catching-for-your-bu |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | seo101 | 1/21/13 6:23 PM | and what about this one??????http://www.sydneydisplaybanners.com.au |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | Lysis | 1/21/13 6:35 PM | I want to have seo101's babies. |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | mundabit | 1/21/13 6:39 PM | Wonder if these are in the same stable: http://www.promotional-items.com.au http://www.australianpromo.com.au Suspect Becky is right. Not only for Google, for the way the web is heading and for building a sustainable business. Not a bad plan to rip |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | StevieD_Web | 1/21/13 7:22 PM | Lysis, ya changed your avatar..... why? |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | Ashley | 1/21/13 7:27 PM | I'm going to toss this out there, because it hasn't been said - Peter. You're an idiot if you built a business that relied on organic search traffic. Google is opaque and highly volatile (the algorithm updates hundreds of tines per year). To build a |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | Lysis | 1/21/13 8:50 PM | LOL Well, my friend who asked me to change to a non-pink something got laid off and I got slack for not being the duck. So, here I am, because I like the duck and I love Microsoft Word for it's HTML awesomeness. |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | gregorysmith | 1/22/13 12:04 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | acotis-jewellery | 1/22/13 8:18 AM | H, Before I start I am not an SEO person, but a business owner who also has been burnt. I have one bit of advice, if you decide to build a new site do not whatever any expert SEO company tells you, point the old site to the new site with a 301 Redi |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | Ashley | 1/22/13 8:31 AM | Consolidating multiple URLs with a 301 redirect is generally a GREAT idea. That is unless you've been building a bucketload of spammy links. If you do that - it also forwards the spam links. if links are not the problem though, a 301 is great advice |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | paisleyseo | 1/22/13 9:01 AM | a. your title tags sucks.. make a sentence.. describe what your company is.b. in the description don't use the word banner more than 3 times, again.. make it a proper sentence.c. Did you register with google wbemaster tools.. did you set your country |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | NDOL | 1/22/13 10:32 AM | Hey Peter, You're taking a bit of stick here... Have you ever employed someone (either as a member of staff or a contractor) who said they would help get your website to the top of search results. If the anser is yes then I would start by pointing m |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | mundabit | 1/22/13 2:19 PM | Ashley's answer covers the majority case, because most people in the SEO field are not in the SEO field. Many web designers claim to be, about every marketing outfit, vast numbers of "specialists". No real idea but a guess at the global number of com |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | Ashley | 1/22/13 2:48 PM | mundabit - that's a good summary of *most* of the reasons why I left SEO as a profession. |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | AdamZilko | 1/22/13 5:26 PM | I have to say, that I find it incredibly sad that someone comes to a Google forum, asking for help, not likely knowing what the heck they are doing, and they get people that say things such as, your title tags sucks You're an idiot if...Obviously not |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | mcgids n#l | 1/22/13 5:32 PM | ppl over here tend to get negative if they see websites built for search-engines. https://www.google.nl/#hl=nl&safe=off&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22In+order+for+a+business+to+be+successful+it+is+essential+that+the+company%2C+and+its+serv |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | mcgids n#l | 1/22/13 5:36 PM | also you are referring to matt cutts.. he is kinda holy-man in these forums. dont do that. |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | StevieD_Web | 1/22/13 6:06 PM | Larry, Sergey, Amit and Matt The faces of Google |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | seo101 | 1/22/13 7:21 PM | |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | AdamZilko | 1/22/13 7:54 PM | |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | Ashley | 1/22/13 10:02 PM | |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | Siru414 | 1/22/13 10:30 PM | |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | Ashley | 1/22/13 10:31 PM | |
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| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | seo101 | 1/22/13 10:42 PM | |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | Siru414 | 1/22/13 11:00 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
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| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | seo101 | 1/22/13 11:04 PM | |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | Siru414 | 1/22/13 11:09 PM | |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | seo101 | 1/22/13 11:16 PM | |
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| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | mcgids n#l | 1/23/13 3:15 AM | |
| Re: To Matt Cutts - Business about to close due to SEO | Ashley | 1/23/13 6:17 AM | |
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