‘link’ searches for the word ‘link’. ‘Link:’ searches for links to your page.
I think he meant inside the page’s text (or body copy), not the search bar, John.
Actually, see here: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=512134 
Great. Thanks for this very informative information.
Thanks a lot for this great post.
Just want to comment on this :
From google webmaster guidelines :
Don’t use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate our Terms of Service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold™ that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google.
The rest of the post absolutely awesome!
Thanks for the sharing!
What Google hates about automated software is that it queries their servers and scrapes content from them which is a violation of Google’s TOS. It’s not the software that particularly bothers them so much as it is the abuse of their bandwidth and services that they don’t like. They also don’t hate one particular brand more then another and you can bet that they chose WPG to be singled out because of its popularity and name recognition.
So feel free to use software to give you tips and other useless info. But don’t use it query Google’s servers. If you do you may find your IP being blocked but your website will be completely unaffected.
what’s the problem of my web happen?
Befor a week nearlly all of my main keywordes are before 3 page in google search.(this circs continue about half an year)
But now all thing are no more.
all of my keywords are down to below 6 page.
And some of it had down to null.
I dont changer much of my web about this days!
And is there anybody can tell me what’s the problem?
Is there google have big changer in recently ?
Question 1: Hidden Text/Hidden DIVs
Hidden text/DIVs are only bad if you are using them to manipulate the SERPs. There are many practical uses of hidden text/DIVs that enhance a web page without being malicious.
Good uses of hidden text/DIVs: Dynamic menus, dynamic page content
Bad uses of hidden text/DIVs: Text that is present on the page but cannot be viewed by human beings at any time
What about hidden ‘Skip Navigation’ menus that are used to help users of screen-readers, mobile devices, etc to more easily navigate the page? For example:
#navskip {display:none !important;}
<div id="navskip">
<h3>Skip To:</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="#top">Top of Page</a></li>
<li><a href="#content">Content</a></li>
<li><a href="#nav">Main Navigation</a></li>
<li><a href="#footer">Footer</a></li>
</ul>
</div><!-- end navskip -->
Question 2: Content first in markup
Some say it’s better for main content to be coded first in the markup, and that it’s bad for main content to come after other stuff like navigation menus, ads, etc. Others (see quote below) say there’s little or no benefit from having content first in the source code. Does putting content first in the source code help or not?
Thanks.
Hiding skip links is fine, but for accessibility reasons I’d use position: absolute; left: -999em; instead of display: none; (oh, and one other thing - that’s a waste of a perfectly good heading).
And I already answered your second question (the answer is in the quotation you cited).
Good job,very nice article on SEO.
Your comment in the other thread is the reason for my question – I never heard of your theory before, and am looking for additional sources to validate it.
In that same thread you referred to this FAQs thread as a primary SEO resource. I read this entire thread – all 207 posts of it – and there’s nothing here regarding my question. Can you provide any sources to support your opinion that content order doesn’t matter?
Do you mean “doesn’t” or “does” matter? I’m in the camp that says it does matter since search engines read a page top-down in source-code order. Therefore having a lot of links at the end of the page (such as your menu) may mean those links never get crawled if there’s a lot of content above it (say over 100K for instance - this is just an example figure though).
That’s a great explanation of when it matters.
I meant it in the context of my earlier statement:
“some say there’s little or no benefit from having content first in the source code.”
Does putting content first in the source code help with SEO? I’ve always heard that it does. I’ve never heard that it does not until reading your opinion quoted earlier. I’m simply trying to verify the theory with additional sources based on fact and research.
Right here.
We seem to be experiencing a communications breakdown here. When I asked my original question I quoted you (Dan) as an example of a proponent for one side of the original debate; you replied re-quoting yourself for the answer; I rephrased my question; and you replied re-quoting yourself several more times. Re-Quoting my quote of your original post over and over again does not answer my question.
Your opinion is only one side of a 2-sided debate regarding 2 possible scenarios, and I quoted you in my original post as an example of one of the sides. Your answer focuses only on the “negative side” - a worse case scenario: you give an example of where it would hurt to have content first in source code order. My question focuses on the “positive side”: many people have claimed that it does help to have content first in source code order. I would like to know if it does indeed help, regardless of whether or not your worse-case scenario hurts.
In the other thread when someone else asked my same question, you referred to this thread as a reference for him to get the answer to his question. I read all 200+ posts in this thread and have found no answer to this question; that’s why I asked it here (yes, I STFW (search the fine web) before giving in to asking for help, per the guidelines outlined in “how to ask questions the smart way”). Then here in this thread you answered my question by referring back to your post in the other thread, which I’d quoted to begin with. Requoting your post in the other thread as a source to validate your claim, and continually referring back to the same post over and over again does not help in clarifying a question such as this; especially more so since I quoted the original source to begin with, which implies that I read it and am already familiar with it.
I’d be interested to hear an opinion from the SEO guru who started this thread, as well as any others who consider themselves SEO experts. That’s why I posted my question here to begin with, back on Dec 14 two weeks ago. If not, I’d really apprediate pointers to other SEO resources that validate/verify your claim. So far I’ve not found any.
I read your post thoroughly but it does not answer my question. Can you point me to any sources that support your opinion?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Check_your_facts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Common_knowledge
Articles should rely on reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy.
Self-published sources raise reliability concerns.
Claims of consensus must be sourced. The claim that all or most scientists, scholars, or ministers hold a certain view requires a reliable source. Without it, opinions should be identified as those of particular, named sources.
a basic part of citing good sources…even if you think you know something, you have to cite references anyway to help the reader check facts and look for more information.
etc
Please tell me one thing
“Minimize outbound links”
if I use nofollow tags in out going links, then is it ok to put outbound links in pages?
Why would you want to do that? It’s OK to have some outgoing links, as long as you don’t go overboard. That’s what stymiee means by “Minimize outbound links” here. And you don’t need to use rel=“nofollow” to do it either (and if everyone did use rel=“nofollow” on all their outbound links, then what would be the point of trying to get backlinks in the first place?).
thank you for the reply.
the problem is that, I have thousands of outgoing links in my site.
its a newspaper sites directory, on one page, there are like 500+ links too.
so in above case, should I use nofollow tag?
Actually, I’d break that site directory page into multiple pages, based on a category structure. Not only will it be better for your site’s SEO health, but it’ll also be easier for the site’s visitors to use (especially if a search feature and sitemap are provided).