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timothy
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Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:00 am
Post subject: Does anyone know what this is?
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Thanks in advance for your SE advice to this interesting stumbling block.
I am a professional trade show magician http://www.magicrep.com
I am in the tweaking stage to find keywords related to my industry to enhance my spot on the web. I am #5 on yahoo for "Chicago Magician." Sometimes that changes. I just applied to google and will wait for that to show.
Question:
A keyword I want to optimize for is "Corporate Event Entertainment." If you type this in at YAHOO not google, you will notice a piano player ranks at #1. I don't get it because her sites appearance is pretty bad. Some of top enetrtainment agencies I work for are UNDER her. This puzzles me. What is she doing "right?"
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Now I noticed in her URL I see strange (%20) symbols between her keywords.
Is there something to the (%20) symbols? They are EVERYWHERE. Is this a new technique?
I appreciate any help from the pro's out there. I am eagerly awaiting anyone who can tell me why anyone would put those symbols (%20) there.
Thank you!
From the Windy City late Sunday nite.
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timothy
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Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:03 am
Post subject: one more question
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I forgot to ask if anyone knows of another service out there for a "google tool bar" for mac's. I have a mac and google won't let me download it. Any suggestions?
Thank you again!
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Debs
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Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:24 am
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For the Mac/Google toolbar, you can try a search on Google to see if it exists. Most I've seen indicate use for a certain browser, so I am not sure if there are special requirements for a Mac.
As far as the site you mention, she mentions the exact keyphrase "Corporate Event Entertainment" several times on her page that comes up #1; she also has a Google PR of 3 or 4, and some backlinks leading into her site. I don't have the Yahoo toolbar installed, so I don't know what her rank would show there.
It looks like she targeted the keyphrase and is working on building her links. She also used that exact keyphrase in the <title> portion of her <head> tags, which is an excellent idea.
The %20 thing you see is how some browsers/servers take blank spaces (as in between words) and convert it to coding the browsers/servers can understand. It isn't new, it isn't recommended, it's laziness or lack of knowledge actually.
She isn't high on Google for that keyphrase, maybe if she used dashes instead of blank spaces, she might be  I would think she could dominate however since only a little over 3000 sites are even targeting that phrase on Google (search in quotes). Granted, there are over 2 million using portions of the phrase, but not many on that exact phrase.
Hope this helps,
Debs
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timothy
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Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:34 am
Post subject: Thanks Debs
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I appreciate your help. I thought she was on to something. You are the best. I will look for the tool bar out there. I didn't know yahoo had one.
Off to optimize and thanks again. You are omnipotent on this board.
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Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:43 am
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