Comments on: SEO and The Hesitant Webmaster Syndrome

By: Hostmonster

Hostmonster — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:59:43 +0000

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

webmaster — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:45:04 +0000

thanx for SEO and The Hesitant Webmaster Syndrome documents..

By: jansegers

jansegers — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:39:49 +0000

@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: jansegers

jansegers — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:58:56 +0000

@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: jansegers

jansegers — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:02:51 +0000

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

SEO Pune — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:58:48 +0000

Interesting post , do follow up .

By: Website Optimisation

Website Optimisation — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:38:00 +0000

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

Shana Albert — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:00:03 +0000

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