http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/ User submitted comments to Practical Ecommerce's article entitled SEO Report Card: The Google Death Sentence en-us Copyright 2007 Confluence Publishing Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:23:37 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/rss/ Practical Ecommerce v2.0.1 Ecommerce kmurdock@practicalecommerce.com bgetting@practicalecommerce.com 60 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment3061 Not many shop sites have a gazillion dollars to get a PR9, I'm a little guy. Those PR9's are an exception brought about by lot's of money. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:23:37 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment3061 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment2246 Mike A, you are incorrect. Amazon.com has a PR9. Ebay 9, Gap 7 and my site DelightfulDeliveries.com, which competes in the same category as Gifts By Delivery, has a PR6. Sun, 20 May 2007 16:31:59 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment2246 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1223 If you did your research there aren't many shopping cart websites that can achieve a higher PageRank than that. Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:12:29 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1223 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1145 Along the lines with what Jestep was saying, Matt Cutts (works at Google) posted awhile back about the differences between hyphens and underscores from an SE's perspective: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/ Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:54:22 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1145 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1144 The difference between underscores and hyphens, using the phrase: search-engine vs. search_engine Hyphens are normally interpreted as a space. search-engine => (Ex: search engine, two words) Underscores are often interpreted as a non-space character. search_engine => (Ex: search_engine, one word with a non-space _ character in it.) If you use underscores instead of hyphens, there is a chance that a SE would interpret it is a single word and not as two words. Since the word search_engine doesn't mean anything, there would be less key phrase relevance in that aspect of the site. It probably makes very little difference, but may matter some. Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:18:08 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1144 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1140 I was wondering why underscores are worse than hyphens in the category page names. What is the difference? Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:15:08 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1140 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1118 Hi Mig, Which of "my" sites are you asking about? The home page of my company's site (Netconcepts.com), fluctuates between PR7 and PR8 (currently showing a PR7). Remember, PageRank is logarithmic, so that is orders of magnitude greater than a PR4. If you are referring to Practicalecommerce.com, that isn't my site, that is the magazine's and Netconcepts has not optimized it. Their site has a PR5 on its home page, but that PR, which is reported by Google's toolbar server, is months old and likely is an underreporting of the current true PageRank used by Google's ranking algo. I say that because of other indications of trust/authority for Practicalecommerce.com, such as, for example, the #7 ranking in Google for "ecommerce articles" (out of 14 million) and #37 ranking (out of 67 million) for "ecommerce". Now, back to Giftsbydelivery.com. The *site* does not have a PR4. Each *page* has its own PR. The home page is a PR4 -- which is *much* lower than a PR5 due to the logarithmic... Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:38:39 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1118 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1093 Most of your points are very good, but I don't see what's the problem if the site's PR is only 4. That's a great score if I look at your report card! Your site's PR is only 5 and for a site with so much quality content and so many good inbound links, this is rather low. How would you grade your site? I am really curious. Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:13:32 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1093