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101 Link Building strategies

August 22, 2006

Filed under: Links

A great post by Andy Hagans at SEO Book: 101 Ways to Build Link Popularity in 2006

Take special note of the section “71 Good Ways to Build Links”.


Clickthrough rates on SERPs

Filed under: Traffic generation

A somewhat overlooked post on Jim Boydkin’s blog: Click Rate for Top 10 Search Results:

Datamining of the AOL data apparently shows some clear figures for clickthrough rates on Top 10 positions:

Results in:
Total Searches:9,038,794
Total Clicks: 4,926,623

Click Rank1: 2,075,765
Click Rank2: 586,100 = 3.5x less
Click Rank3: 418,643 = 4.9x less
Click Rank4: 298,532 = 6.9x less
Click Rank5: 242,169 = 8.5x less
Click Rank6: 199,541 = 10.4x less
Click Rank7: 168,080 = 12.3x less
Click Rank8: 148,489 = 14.0x less
Click Rank9: 140,356 = 14.8x less
Click Rank10: 147,551 = 14.1x less

Click Rank1: 2,075,765
Click Rank2: 586,100 = 3.5x less than ^
Click Rank3: 418,643 = 1.4x less than ^
Click Rank4: 298,532 = 1.4x less than ^
Click Rank5: 242,169 = 1.2x less than ^
Click Rank6: 199,541 = 1.2x less than ^
Click Rank7: 168,080 = 1.2x less than ^
Click Rank8: 148,489 = 1.1x less than ^
Click Rank9: 140,356 = 1.05x less than ^
Click Rank10: 147,551 = 1.05x more than ^

Pharmaceuticals play a vital role in our day-to-day living. And hence their rising costs are destined to be our major concern. The ever growing prices of pharmaceutical products severely pinches one’s pocket, cause this is one area where there is no choice of take or leave. If a person is suffering from certain disease and the doctor prescribes him any medicines he must purchase it whether it suits his pocket or not. One is left with no choice but to pay the chemist. Hence there is a great need to regulate the prices of drugs, at least to watch that its price is not much above the cost incurred plus a marginal profit for the manufacturing company. As of now many market leaders are found to price their monopoly drugs at a very high rate. Even medicines or regular use are very costly. Drugs sold by prescription being much more expensive than those sold over the counter by the chemist. Hence, a person is often tempted to go for over the counter choice.
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Store

Big pharmaceutical players in the market also pay much attention to research and development of new medications possible. A big amount of money is invested in the R & D branch of the industry. Based on the market requirements and demands companies try hard to invent a suitable drug to cure any ailment. Millions are spend in this type of research. And once any company hopes to have created any new medicine it has to pass through many different stages to get the approval of the drug controlling authority, FDA. Only after it has approved and given its quality assurance any drug shall be sold to public. pharmaceuticals store. FDA governs the stages of research, development and manufacture that have been undergone for any new drug before being exposed to consumers.


Testing Google indexing

August 1, 2006

Filed under: Search Engine Optimization

Usually Google does a pretty good job at indexing. Traditionally Google was more interested in capturing as much information from the web as possible.

More recently, it seems as though Google’s policy may have changed - though any existing indexing concerns may be due to Google’s bad data push.

I’ve seen this issue really acutely on a relatively new forum I set up on a relatively established website. So far, Google hasn’t been in at all.

Bad data push, or something restrictive on the website?

Either way, I’m going to do a little experiment here - by listing a couple of the main forum boards, will that help with indexing?

Traditionally it would - but if not, it may well suggest that something new really is at play in terms of Google indexing, which would be a very interesting change indeed.

Here are the boards:

General Investing
Fund Management
Equities

Now let’s test the indexing…