Comments on: ezSEO Newlsetter #245

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:10:18 +0000

Soren
It may be true that standard navigation links have less of a benefit, but they certainly don’t hurt. GOogle actually likes a site that has clear text link based navigation menus, as it makes it easier for them to spider but more importantly easier for your visitors. Although a lot of people think SEO is all about “tricking” the search engines, a good rule of thumb is that anything that makes things easier for your visitors is generally a good SEO strategy.

By: Photo Soren - The Travelling Photographer

Photo Soren - The Travelling Photographer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:08:12 +0000

Thanks Andy (again, again) for explaining complicated matters. May I add that according to what I have been told or seen, ?standard links? on each page isn?t regarded as important by Google as the hypertext links in the text of an article etc. on an individual page. I have had plenty of menu links on my main stock photography site and my feeling is that they havn?t done any harm.

But on the other hand to add links to internal pages of my site from individual text sections should be a good addition, helpful for my visitors and accordingly (hopefully) valued by Google.

What do you go for?

Soren Breiting
Denmark

By: Joanna

Joanna — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:18:31 +0000

I may have solved the problem. Tried to copy @ paste your diagrams, no success either. Then I discovered that each of your diagrams has a link to its own page. You click on the link which takes you to the diagram page, and then you can print/copy that page. Maybe it’s best to leave out the links next time. Thanks

By: fly fishing colorado

fly fishing colorado — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:03:12 +0000

Alex, you can use server side includes SSI on regular web pages and I think on blog php pages if done correctly. On a blog you can use the or the type of commands to include links to pages for your privacy, tos and other legal stuff pages. The require command will stop the execution if there are syntax errors or other php programming problems with the pages or command. (Suggest the w3c php school on php programming. http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/DEfaULT.asP or general tab for all schools || http://www.w3schools.com/)

If you are blogging, there is a nifty plugin called included it available to assist with including about anything in a blog post or page. (thanks Andy for letting us know about it.)

The commands are the include include_once require or require_once that did not get picked up in my previous comment

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:10:15 +0000

Hi Lane,

Thanks for your comments. Yes, I’ve often heard that it’s the “bad guys” who are making all the money. :-S I’m sorry to hear that you’ve had the same experience, where a really good content site has been far less successful financially. I guess I’m going to have to invest more time, effort and money in promotion. My website topic is my passion and there’s no way I’d give it up, although unfortunately it is rather time consuming to not be bringing in as much income as I’d like. I’m looking into some new monetizing ideas now, so hopefully that will change. I’ll have to play around with Andy’s ideas too. I’d never heard of PR sculpting — yet another learning curve!