Comments on: SEO and The Hesitant Webmaster Syndrome http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html Canada's Search and Social Media Authority Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:22:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Hostmonster http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-2234 Hostmonster Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:59:43 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-2234 Great article Sometimes you get lucky. Just the right formula and your on the first page. I'm starting to think SEO is bs. Everything i do is wrong Great article

Sometimes you get lucky. Just the right formula and your on the first page.

I’m starting to think SEO is bs. Everything i do is wrong

]]> By: webmaster http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-874 webmaster Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:45:04 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-874 thanx for SEO and The Hesitant Webmaster Syndrome documents.. thanx for SEO and The Hesitant Webmaster Syndrome documents..

]]> By: jansegers http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-872 jansegers Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:39:49 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-872 @Dev: "I know most brand reputation searches will go through the big three G,Y,M"; do you ? In the western world perhaps; but http://www.baidu.com and http://www.naver.com dominate a nice portion of the eastern world... The Korean naver isn't a problem to get into. The Chinese baidu is more difficult. And the Chinese market is the driving economic center of the world in this century. China is becoming more important then the EU, the UK and even the USA. Greetings Pieter Jansegers http://hi.baidu.com/jansegers NOTA BENE: most of my pages are about the French language and culture. France still is a great player in Europe and therefore of interest to the Chinese as well as to the Americans. Besites, establishing now a presence could lead to an advantage that can't easily be copied by anyone else... @Dev:
“I know most brand reputation searches will go through the big three G,Y,M”; do you ?

In the western world perhaps; but http://www.baidu.com and http://www.naver.com dominate a nice portion of the eastern world…

The Korean naver isn’t a problem to get into. The Chinese baidu is more difficult.

And the Chinese market is the driving economic center of the world in this century.

China is becoming more important then the EU, the UK and even the USA.

Greetings

Pieter Jansegers

http://hi.baidu.com/jansegers

NOTA BENE: most of my pages are about the French language and culture. France still is a great player in Europe and therefore of interest to the Chinese as well as to the Americans.

Besites, establishing now a presence could lead to an advantage that can’t easily be copied by anyone else…

]]> By: Dev Basu http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-868 Dev Basu Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:26:57 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-868 Hey Jan - I suppose its a question of taregeteing both targeting the lowest hanging fruit, while obtaining the best results from your effort. I suppose if you had a site that has content targeted to the chinese audience, or one that has translated content for the chinese audience, then Baidu is worthwhile going after. For the purposes of a name search, I know most brand reputation searches will go through the big three G,Y,M and therefore I concentrate on these only. --Dev Hey Jan - I suppose its a question of taregeteing both targeting the lowest hanging fruit, while obtaining the best results from your effort. I suppose if you had a site that has content targeted to the chinese audience, or one that has translated content for the chinese audience, then Baidu is worthwhile going after. For the purposes of a name search, I know most brand reputation searches will go through the big three G,Y,M and therefore I concentrate on these only. –Dev

]]> By: jansegers http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-873 jansegers Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:58:56 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-873 @Dev: Don't get me wrong, my search standard is google as well, but the difficulty to get any site into Baidu.com is a real challenge. For Google.com I'm dominating the search term "jansegers" with 9 out of the 10 first results referring to my pages. (27 of the first 30 result BTW) But I've only mentionned to obtain one mention in the top ten of Baidu... Any other open search engine, I have at least 3 mentions in the top ten (and more likely 7 or 8). @Dev:
Don’t get me wrong, my search standard is google as well, but the difficulty to get any site into Baidu.com is a real challenge.

For Google.com I’m dominating the search term “jansegers” with 9 out of the 10 first results referring to my pages. (27 of the first 30 result BTW)

But I’ve only mentionned to obtain one mention in the top ten of Baidu…

Any other open search engine, I have at least 3 mentions in the top ten (and more likely 7 or 8).

]]> By: Dev Basu http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-869 Dev Basu Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:17:44 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-869 @ Shana - I think the fear is the greatest when you're on your own as a one man or one woman operation. Things become much clearer when you let the client know to expect a dip in rankings temporarily, but better rankings in the future. Hence, I think a big part of this process is managing expectations. @Pieter - These tips aren't meant to get a site indexed by SE's or ranking for better terms off the bat. These are addon steps that enhance fundamental SEO best practices. Is there a particular reason why you consult Baidu instead of Google? I prefer to use Google as a benchmark of my success based on its intelligent algorithm, highly relevant search results, and because it is in fact the industry's standard search engine. @ Shana - I think the fear is the greatest when you’re on your own as a one man or one woman operation. Things become much clearer when you let the client know to expect a dip in rankings temporarily, but better rankings in the future. Hence, I think a big part of this process is managing expectations.

@Pieter - These tips aren’t meant to get a site indexed by SE’s or ranking for better terms off the bat. These are addon steps that enhance fundamental SEO best practices. Is there a particular reason why you consult Baidu instead of Google? I prefer to use Google as a benchmark of my success based on its intelligent algorithm, highly relevant search results, and because it is in fact the industry’s standard search engine.

]]> By: jansegers http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-866 jansegers Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:02:51 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-866 Although these tips are valuable, they don't get a new website into the search engines by their own. They improve however the results of the SEO company that ensures this. Anyway, my standard to now if any SEO is real good, is by consulting the greatest Chinese search engine and find out if my page is listing there: http://baidu.com Pieter Jansegers Although these tips are valuable, they don’t get a new website into the search engines by their own.

They improve however the results of the SEO company that ensures this.

Anyway, my standard to now if any SEO is real good, is by consulting the greatest Chinese search engine and find out if my page is listing there:

http://baidu.com

Pieter Jansegers

]]> By: SEO Pune http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-871 SEO Pune Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:58:48 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-871 Interesting post , do follow up . Interesting post , do follow up .

]]> By: Website Optimisation http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-870 Website Optimisation Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:38:00 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-870 To my experience the best way to protect existing rankings is to make changes gradually. My biggest fear is often changing content on a site that has been static for a long time and maintains rankings. Will this impact KW density? What will be the impact of changing headers? etc. Kaya Tugcu To my experience the best way to protect existing rankings is to make changes gradually. My biggest fear is often changing content on a site that has been static for a long time and maintains rankings. Will this impact KW density? What will be the impact of changing headers? etc. Kaya Tugcu

]]> By: Shana Albert http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-867 Shana Albert Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:00:03 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-hesitant-webmaster-syndrome.html#comment-867 Hey, Dev!! I know this feeling exactly. I became a Web Designer/Webmaster in 2001. And, up until recently I had this same fear.... it is terribly hard to get over. It feels like a gamble.... 1. Do you make changes and hope that you move up in the Serps and doing this take a chance that you possibly make a mistake and move further down instead. or, 2. Do you leave things how they are and hope that the Serps don't get bored of you and move you down. It is terribly scary for the Webmaster... especially, the Small Business Webmaster doing it all herself (or himself). Great post!! Shana Hey, Dev!!

I know this feeling exactly. I became a Web Designer/Webmaster in 2001. And, up until recently I had this same fear…. it is terribly hard to get over. It feels like a gamble….

1. Do you make changes and hope that you move up in the Serps and doing this take a chance that you possibly make a mistake and move further down instead. or,
2. Do you leave things how they are and hope that the Serps don’t get bored of you and move you down.

It is terribly scary for the Webmaster… especially, the Small Business Webmaster doing it all herself (or himself).

Great post!!

Shana

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