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[EbakvakSEO77]

Hello friends.

My name is Ivan from Toronto, Canada. I am a copywriter for a SEO company located in Montreal, Quebec.

Me and my colleagues have run into a little dilemma and I was wondering if you could assist us with your expertise.

We are a search engine optimization company, and are currently working of a FAQ section of our site and by our very nature tend to ask more technical, advanced questions and are afraid of overlooking the obvious. Since SEO is quite a niche practice, I was wondering if you could give us a hand and ask a couple of questions.

SEO – Search Engine Optimization, what would be the questions you would ask if you came across that phrase. For Example:

- What is it?
- Who does do?
- and so on, anything that comes to your mind will be of great value to us.

We would greatly appreciate any questions on your part, no matter how small or big! Anything that can help us get that FAQ up there!

Of course, we will answer those questions in a timely manner.

Thank you, hope to hear from you!
Ivan.

PS.
I did not want to include the URL of the website since this would look like an ad =))))

[jcorkern]

The questions are simple. If you think back to when you were first introduced to SEO or the idea of it, what questions did you have?

I understand that as copywriters, you want great copy that is informative. But sometimes T.M.I. is not good for sales.

These tend to change some over time as more information (and some of it bad) fills the net.

I have always asked the sales rep's to make a note of questions that they get on initial and follow-up calls. This will show you a pattern in a very short time if you get regular calls.

This may sound kind of cold, but you do not want a really informative FAQ on the site as a SEO website can not close a SEO job. A SEO site is a lead generator, not a sales site. So i would focus on a very soft pitch with the FAQ's you choose. The object is to get the call or inquire.

This is to get them on the phone with sales.

Hope this helps.

[mcmario]

How do you remove deadlinks from yahoo index

[jcorkern]

yahoo will remove them soon, after they are crawled a few times and there is no page there, they will remove it from their index.

[mcmario]

I've been a SEO Specialist for 7 Years now and as of today, I've never heard heard yahoo is good in removing dead links from their index. We have provisions in google but yahoo is too very poor in the same. And I have experience in this case, where yahoo has not removed dead links for more than years of crawling. Are you sure about your statement and if yes, can you drop in any links where it says your statement is precise. I will get you links that exist in yahoo index though the pages are dead years together. Sigh!

Mc Mario

[jcorkern]

i also have been at this many years, and crawls from google, yahoo and any other L.P.E. are determined by the authority of the page. Spiders crawl pages more frequentl when a page is adding pages, content and making regular changes because they learn habbits of sites. Sites that are updated frequently get crawled more often. pages that get new links get crawled more often.

When a spider hits a 404 page, it does not remove it from the index the first trip. it may not remove it for 6 or 7 crawls. so, if you have a page that has been indexed a year and has had no new links show up, and the content or design has not changed for a year, then the crawl rate for that page is going to be not so frequent and it may take 6 weeks to 3 months for a spider to crawl it. now, with a 3 month interval between crawls, 4 crawls would take a year, and with the intervals being spread so far apart, it would not be unrealistic for the server to be down 2 of the 4 yearly crawls.

also, can you drop links validating your opinion is precise?

The Engineers at the search engines are not dummies, they think through this process when setting the algo's, and it is a way to protect from removing pages that were having temp. server problems.


Then, yahoo also slowed their crawl rate because of complaints of to heavy of a crawl rate back in august of this year. Yahoo! Search Blog: Weather Report -- Major Crawl Improvements

Want to get a page removed, post some links to it on CL. or digg.