SEM 2.0 Google Group

Any tool out there that simulates crawl?

2008-10-09T17:32:45Z

Hi,
I'm looking for a decent tool that will simulate google or other engine
crawl and will rate the site's crawlability (is that a word?) We recently
had a client's site re-designed and they lost a lot of their ranks. It's
done in PHP.
On another note, this site also gave us some very odd link results on Google

WARNING: AdWords Editor 6.5 Upgrade - Broken

2008-10-08T13:25:57Z

I was prompted to download and install the AdWords Editor 6.5 upgrade
this morning -- and now, despite a variety of efforts, I cannot use
AdWords Editor at all.

The new version generates an error message. I've un-installed and re-
installed (three times). I've been on hold for AdWords Support for a

Competitor keyword referral intelligence

2008-10-06T14:51:42Z

Are there any free tools to check keyword referrals for competitors'
sites? I know compete.com gives top 5, but it's usually brand name
terms (amazon, amazon shopping, amazon.com, etc).

Help needed from the members please.

2008-09-26T13:23:31Z

Dear Members,
I have a website in jewellery vertical, and the website is getting very good
traffic , good page views , but NO SALES.
I myself working in the SEM for the last four years. but this is first time
in my life , that i am finding myself helpless in the situation.
I have tested every thing , shoping carts are OK . I have also asked many of

Chrome Share Check

2008-09-24T20:49:28Z

Hi all,

Periodically we do little voluntary Analytics polls here to see what
real world marketers are seeing under the hood.

Over the past few weeks what are you all seeing for Chrome market
share, on a mainstream site with relatively ordinary visitors.

I'm seeing between 0.4% and 0.6%, currently, on such sites. Anyone

Duplicate Content / Hide URL parameters

2008-09-23T01:20:41Z

I felt that the earlier message I posted wasn't clear in what I was
asking so I am reposting:

Here's what I am trying to accomplish... I want to buy traffic to the
same landing page but depending on the parameter I choose I will be
showing a different second page upon submit. For example to show them

URL Parameters and Duplicate Content

2008-09-22T21:52:59Z

I know there's already posts about this so I am sorry if this exact
thing is already out there but I didn't see it. Would like to offer a
scenario I have and see what the best solution will be.

Let's say that I have a parameter that decides internally what happens
after the user completes the form that's on the following page. This

How long does Google take to find updates on pages?

2008-09-16T14:14:11Z

I uploaded a couple of pages onto my site and linked to them from the
homepage. At the time of upload, I didn't have title/meta tags on my
page (long story), and I went back and added title/meta tags about 3
hrs later. Google cached the version without title/meta tags, and
it's been about a week since and it still hasn't been updated in

Ranking tools

2008-09-15T12:46:33Z

Maybe a little off topic, but we are looking for a ranking-report tool
(seo/sem)
We have tested som trials, webposition gold and advanced webranking
looks good

Is there someone who have some good "rankingreport tools" suggestion?

Our challenge is that we need reports from Norwegian search engines,

Inventory-Based Ad Management Tools

2008-09-15T13:53:46Z

I'm currently working with a client which wants to automate management
of product ads based on inventory status.

Quite simply, they want to insure that when inventory for a SKU drops
to zero, any ads promoting that product are paused, and when inventory
is restored, the want to resume the ad.

Spanish Campaign in AdWords - Data Is Lost in Analytics (assigned to organic) Despite Auto-Tagging

2008-09-10T18:47:17Z

Long headline... sorry. I have an AdWords account with one campaign
where Spanish is set as the language. Unfortunately, the traffic that
comes from this campaign is not tracked properly in Google Analytics.
I'm using Auto-Tagging, and have verified that the landing page has no
redirects in place (301 or other). All other campaigns are tracking

Sorry for the Spam

2008-09-09T19:39:57Z

Sorry for the spam, a new site I signed up for (Tripit) spammed
everyone when I was importing in contacts.

Does location of landing page matter?

2008-09-08T22:01:57Z

At the place I currently work for all the marketing (landing) pages
are published on a different subdomain other than www. Let's say
abc.domain.com. So the question is when I am buying traffic to these
pages does all the relevance and page rank carry over from root
domain. For argument's sake let's say that domain.com is highly

AdWords 2.7

2008-08-27T03:31:20Z

Hi all,

Well, they've done it again. Google has released a significant (though
perhaps not *major*) change to the old Quality-Based Bidding routine.
Real time QS determinations, no more minimum bids (so keywords not
marked inactive for search), etc.

[link]

Review my new SEO course?

2008-08-25T21:07:06Z

Moderate me if this is inappropriate... most of you know me I
guess. :D

I've been working on a video training course to complement my "SEO
Fast Start" book for a while. Six months ago, Brad Fallon & Andy
Jenkins from Stompernet invited me to develop it as "Stomping the
Search Engines 2.0," using the same product name they used with an