SEO Stop Words (and say "Hi" while you're here)
Wow! We've gotten an incredible response to the new Going Natural 2.0 video we released last week, and I want to thank everyone who sent comments and feedback. Based on some of that excellent feedback, I'm pleased to announce our second video in the Going Natural 2 series: "Destroying Duplicate Content".
Now, last time, I showed you how you can increase the number of listings you have in the SERPs. This time, we're changing gears and I'm going to show you how you can avoid being BANNED from the search engines.
I think this is some KILLER stuff. In fact, maybe we should rename the series to "Going Medieval"… 
Anyway, we hope you love it.
If you haven't already, you can see the video here.
If you've already watched the new video, we mention "SEO Stop Words" – We've provided a list of them below.
| an | click | go | links | most | other | two | what |
| and | com | has | me | msie | page | us | when |
| any | copy | have | ie | net | reserved | use | where |
| are | copyright | he | if | netscape | ring | view | which |
| as | copyrights | help | in | new | since | visitors | who |
| at | do | home | inc | no | site | was | why |
| be | edu | homepage | is | not | text | we | will |
| been | find | how | it | of | than | we've | with |
| best viewed with | htm | you | http | on | that | web | www |
Special thanks to Jerry West, StomperNet Faculty Member for providing the resource above. Please Copy and Paste for your own use.
In Future Going Natural 2.0 Videos, we’re going to show you:
- How to Get # 1 in Google
- How to Double Your Conversion on your Current Web Site
- How we used Video to Generate Almost $1,000,000 of additional Sales in eCommerce
- How to Unravel the Mysteries to MASSIVE TRAFFIC almost instantly using the cutting edge techniques in Social Media and Social Marketing
So, subscribe at the top left, and keep an eye on your inbox for upcoming videos and an AWESOME ANNOUNCEMENT we'll be making right before Christmas! Don't miss out on getting first notice on all these upcoming vids, and our special holiday gift for you!
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Yap The word count was Brilliant! I have to go back and count all my pages I think can unlock a lot more pages.
Thanks for the review. I'm still trying to recover from all the flood of information from last year around this time.
Great videos.
I will attempt to put this info to good use.
Thanks
As you know a little bugy in places … but nonetheless excellent. Can’t wait for next release
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great video… it definitely proves your point!
is there another link to the vid? seems like its down
Well worth the read. Thanks for sharing this information. I got a chance to know about this.
The word count was Brilliant! I have to go back and count all my pages I think can unlock a lot more pages.
Great info and loved that
tip about internal links
I too agree with your post that always we should not stick only on the keywords and optimize our sites. We should also concentrate on many things so that Google does not spam our site. I think your video will give full insight about this.
You guys always deliver useful content. Awesome post. Very interesting and valuable videos. Keep posting more articles. Thanks for sharing useful info.
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I watched many stompernet videos and they are so great, I think they are must for every marketer, Andy helped my a lot.
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How did you do the animation?????
all the best,
This worked wonders on my website it fixed alot of problems I was having
Interesting video. I have found in the past that stop words can affect how my clients have been ranked for certain keyword rankings based on positioning. Determining the right structure of the content and working out the right format is always the key.
Brilliant Post. Your videos are very interesting and useful.
Hi I just watched the video and I was wondering if I'm using a templete that has no text only images won't that be considered duplicate content also?
Great post, sometime I tend to think that English is a funny language when I see things like this, but this is a very informative post,Thanks.
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I think the vdo is ok it's tell me a lot… now I understand what i have done wrong in the past…. I will recheck my website..
thanks again
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Thank for content I read it very useful to me.
Hi Andy, thanks for good video.
I still believe I can be successful but I'm steadily losing money on what I hoped would be at least a slightly profitable venture. I know I sound desparate; sorry, I am. If you have any advice I'd love to listen. Thanks.
Really interesting article thanks for sharing I was searching about google stop words very long
Thanks a lot
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Everything has been explained quite sequentially,a well explained post must say.
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Good posting. Love how the industry is constantly evolving and people are learning new things all the time.
It's really amazing thing when you work so called "SEO stuff" You will never get bored because there is always something new to do, something new to tweak and so…
Very informative post! Thanks for the time you spend.
I am very impressed at this SEO video that was awesome. Great job and keep up the great work in the future.
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Great video! I'm studying SEO about two years to optimize my online gaming web site and every day I'm learning something new. Thanks!
Hey, thanks for the great post and the link bro!
Great post man! I love StomperNet you guys always, and I mean always, deliver the best content and helpful resources. I have had a huge increase in organic visitors to my home page!
Stop words generally do not carry any importance in a search query phrase or their meaning is too general that including it would return unnecessary information in a momentous volume. So, in order to keep the search results most relevant, useful and sane, search algorithms filter stop words and afterwards generate search results.
I love to see so many people in one place.
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Good topic… There are often times we forget the little things like using “and”, “the”, and “by.” Very insightful tips… This approach will have you plugging in keywords in places they don’t belong….
Nice post and thanks for your great video. I like it very much and thanks for your sharing with us and nice teaching. Really nice blog.
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I think this is some KILLER stuff. In fact, maybe we should rename the series to Going Medieval.
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nice post and i like your videos
I am just starting out to apply SEO on my site. This is a very timely video. It's just what i needed as a beginner. Thanks for the many useful tips in the video. I'm sure it'll help me a lot on optimizing my site for the search engine. Thanks!
lovely video. is there anywhere i can see the going natural 1.0 videos? i never got around to watching them
I liked your videos.. I have looked for a discrete way to say that I have had trouble watching this video and so has someone else.. This video was one of the best explanations I have seen yet, explaining the risks of duplicate content… The content is fantastic, the support and range of services outstanding.I like to listen and hear things as they happen. Going back is always harder somehow..
Awesome information for someone who actually IS in the mortgage business and never thought about all those disclaimers!Thanks for sharing so much user info on the common SEO mistakes we website owners could have made normally. I'll implement all the practical guides you have provided.
Great post with nice video..SEO is still fairly new to me, less than a year, but I can see that it WILL get redundant in the future.I am glad to apply my ideas here…Sound's good…
The video was great. I thought I had heard it all but both of your videos had some new material for me. And another thing, the production of the videos was fantastic as well.Good information for sure. A real surprise on the accuracy of your psychology and typography aspects of the videos.
The word count was Brilliant! I have to go back and count all my pages I think can unlock alot more pages.Im really looking forward to you use of video in the upcoming posts.
Thanks for this great video! I'm starting to think that's why my site got banned in Google, I'll have to re-check everything. The word count was Brilliant! I have to go back and count all my pages I think can unlock alot more pages.
I liked your videos.. I have looked for a discrete way to say that I have had trouble watching this video and so has someone else.. This video was one of the best explanations I have seen yet, explaining the risks of duplicate content…
Nice post…Thanks for this great video! I'm starting to think that's why my site got banned in Google, I'll have to re-check everything. I can hardly wait to see the next one. Meanwhile, I'm going to be busy appling my newly learned knowledge – off to count words right now! Cindy
Thanks for this great video! I'm starting to think that's why my site got banned in Google, I'll have to re-check everything. I can hardly wait to see the next one. Meanwhile, I'm going to be busy appling my newly learned knowledge – off to count words right now! Cindy
As a matter of fact relating to the duplicate content issues, many writers don't take in consideration that stop words are actually removed by search engines like Google. Some SEO writers just reword slightly articles which are online already and although they seem to be original, after removing stop words end up to being exactly or very similar to other articles.
I too was concerned at what is being shown but in truth there is so much more inside StomperNet its well worth the membership fees. The content is fantastic, the support and range of services outstanding.
The video are very nice and useful to me and also others, "SEO Stop Words" are useful for future videos so I copied and pasted special thanks for your amazing ideas. Happy Christmas take cares have a nice day.
Andy….
Mind blowing animation….
The details that you have furnished with video is worth reading
This is brilliant. The word count is simply amazing and thanks for the great video, it is really inspiring and I learnt a lot.
The videos and the instructions are very professional and so clear that even a novice can grasp the concepts/instructions.
Thanks
Awesome information for someone who actually IS in the mortgage business and never thought about all those disclaimers!
Thanks!
Thanks for the informative video.
I've applied the technique taught in the video, i.e. to use image instead of text in same cases in order to avoid duplicated content. Say, I've 2 subdomains. Each has a page stating the privacy policy. On one subdomain, the privacy policy will be in text. on the other, I simply convert the text into a jpeg file. This really helps preventing the penalty from Google for duplicated content.
From the first time I got to know about stomperblog, it has never failed me in providing quality content.
Kudos to you once again for producing such a high quality video. I've learned a lot and benefited from it. Those pointers you'd mentioned about common SEO mistakes, I'm certainly going to clean up my sites.
Cheers!
Thanks for this great video! I'm starting to think that's why my site got banned in Google, I'll have to re-check everything.
One question though, if all people start putting the disclaimer image and alt text, wouldn't that be also duplicate content?
Thanks Andy,
I am glad that I came across your videos only on number two. Tomorrow I will watch the first on as its late now here in Spain.
I like to listen and hear things as they happen. Going back is always harder somehow!
Got here via Paul Colligan on twitter…
Hey Andy, Thanks for sharing the videos, very informative.
Thank Andy for all of your wealth of knowedge regarding E-Commerce. My wife and I have developed a website which has taken almost 5 month now with only one sale opportunity. We came across your information which I have tried to emulate to a degree. Still not seeing results as I thought that I would. I am trying to find the source of my concern. Not to successful in the testing portion of this fix yet.
Also, we want to start to do some videos. Would you be able to give some rather inexpensive ways to accomplish this task? Money is tight currently. Please suggest photoediting software that you might use for this also.
Thanks again for the valuable info.
Tim from Georgia
Hi Andy, from Perth, Western Australia.
I just finished watching your Destroying Dup.Content video and wanted to give you a big thumbs up!
Great video – educational, entertaining and worth taking the 24 mins to watch it all.
As a professional Search Engine Marketer myself, I like to keep up on the subject, and this video was one of the best explanations I have seen yet, explaining the risks of duplicate content.
In fact, I am sending the link to watch it to a web design firm we work closely with, so they can edjamakate their design people (who haven't got a clue about this stuff).
We consistently butt heads with them for breaking all the rules you talked about, and then have to deal with their clients getting upset with us (we do the SEO for their clients) when they site isn't properly ranking!
You guys at Stompernet are great. Love the videos and content you produce.
Looking forward to your future videos…
regards
Eran Malloch
WCR Internet Marketing
No B.S. Search Engine Marketing Blog
Perth, Western Australia.
Thanks for a great video. I have known of duplicate content problems for ages and can vouch for this problem. Some of my clinets would never accept the concept until i showed them this video.
As usuall Stomper delivers great ideas, but if a way that can easily be used and understood. – Love the Net Effect too.
Loved 'Double Content'.
Can you explain why the content container word count should be the same as template word count? What happens if I go above or below it.
Thanks for the best darn education I could ever hope for!
Hi Andy,
As you requested, I'm saying hi after viewing your SEO Stop Words blog.
I just received the Net Effect & Stomping the Search Engines stuff and I'm pretty psyched but very intimidated. Idon't know where to start although I'm feeling like I need to generate some keywords. I don't know how to start on that either.
Anyway, years ago (about
I bought Corey Rudl's "Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet." Although I didn't do everything, I did a lot andit made a little presence in my industry (Salsa Dance/Rhythm instruction).
Well, I just recently revamped my web site but didn't do anything spectacular (I've had to get a day job a couple of years ago so I don't have the time I used to) and business online is steadily declining and, after viewing a couple of your videos, I think I might have shot myself in the foot. I have a feeling, though, that this your program will be the cure for my sick site. Time will tell but I'm going to stick with it.
Oh, I'm getting married next week so I only have a couple fo days and then I'll have to restart at the end of October. Anything I could do right now (before this Sunday, Sep 5th) to make a difference while I'm away from my computer?
Thanks for anything you can suggest!
Mike
Its amazing that someone actually took all the things that has taken us years to assemble and finally put them in videos for training. Good information for sure. A real surprise on the accuracy of your psychology and typography aspects of the videos.
Great Job
~ Jared Ritchey
the list of stop words will really help us with out double glazing shop ecommerce sites. thanks.
There is nothing better on the Internet to boost your power to make money online.
Andy, you need to give a "how to" seminar on video editing!
Glen Woodfin
Hey Andy,
This is really good info, thanks for the great videos, I'm learning a great deal here. It's like catharsis, I know exactly why I've been failing now.
Thanks a lot!
Charlie.
Wow! it's a very long video. But, worth to watch every bit of it. Very educational and informative. Thanks for sharing so much user info on the common SEO mistakes we website owners could have made normally. I'll implement all the practical guides you have provided. Thanks, once again!
Thanks Dude and Hi
I'm lucky because this is all new to me so I don't have any preconceived ideas or baggage. Looking forward to becoming a real "wizard". Thank you sincerely for all your help so far!
Andy,
The list of stops words I use is a bit larger than this one. But I did add 7 new words to my list. Do you use a larger list than the one you put up here?
My complete list can be found at
http://www.bartgibby.com/SEOTools/general/stop_words.txt
It is compiled from many sources now:
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk
http://www.webuildpages.com
www-static.cc.gatech.edu
opensvn.csie.org
snowball.tartarus.org
tools.seobook.com
Personal Testing or BartGibby.com
and
http://stomperblog.com/2007/12/15/seo-stop-words-and-say-hi-while-youre-here/
Thank you!!
Cheers,
Bart Gibby, SEO Manager OrangeSoda, Inc.
Don & Andy,
THAT WAS AWESOME!!!… THANK YOU!….. I am new to internet marketing (see my two other posts in your forums) and don’t even have my first site up and running yet but I am absolutely thrilled with the stuff you guys are producing….. Kudos to you all….. Keep it coming…..
Thanks guys, you all are the best. And thanks so much for caring about all of “us” enough to release so much valuable content for free. You could just as easily be greedy and it all to yourselves but you don’t and that is what I love about you all the most.
Can you tell me what I need to do to join Stomper right away ?
Best regards,
Tracy
Hi!
I await with baited breath to learn more about your method of advertising. I am currently building and excellent site of unique dog and cat furniture, play places, and housing. Should be finished this week.
http://www.boydpetshoppe.com — Excited about publishing this interesting site.
Thanks Andy, at first i was un-aware of this things. But now it was all clear to me.
Wow! Thanks Andy very useful information, I've watch the video 5 times to make sure that i didn't miss something….
Thanks for the great information! I'm new to the ebiz scene and only recently designed and published my first site. The insight and knowledge and I've gained from watching your videos will definitely help my business succeed. Thanks again.
Hi!
really enjoy the content you guys feed!
Hey Andy,
Great series. Duplicate content video really clarified that issue. Do you have any words of wisdom for same issue with blogs?
Hey… you told me to say hi! Call to action I guess, because I rarely post comments but I have found you blog, site and videos to be VERY interesting. Great Job!
People should also keep in mind that they're denying a link juice that can get passed to pages by using images instead of graphics.
Do not make your entire template graphics! Each page on Andy's A2Armory site has "juice/pagerank" to pass around. By having keyword rich NAVIGATION TEXT he is passing a lot of link juice to those pages. That's why you'll notice he kept his navigation text and made most of the other stuff images.
It's a great tip, but I'm sure people will try and go too far with it and hurt themselves by turning their keyword rich navigation into image links.
So we know that the images don't pass juice right? Well most of us have some kind of footer links on every page that link to pages that we don't want to rank for such as privacy policy, about us, terms and conditions, etc. By making those links images we don't send any juice which means we send more juice to the other links on the page! It's an alternative to the latest strategy of using rel=nofollow on our links. More info on this can be seen at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-the-juice-is-loose
By randomizing the "Why Use My Product" and the testimonials on my website, and changing the disclaimer to an image, I've reduced my "template" content by an order of almost 300 words! Awesome tips – thanks!
I want to thank you for the excellent information in the videos!
Hi Andy,
Loved this video – I've already started making changes to my sites. Now I'm going back and rewatching video 1.
Denise Sanger
Hey Andy:
Great video. I have a couple questions. Any ideas on how to fix blogs – reduce temaplate lenght. Like on my blog:
http://www.hilaryshepherd.com/rantsnraves/
I have a ton of people in my blogroll. So that means I really need to make my posts extra long to avoid the duplicate content penalty. I want to start to migrate my blogroll into a couple links pages, but some of my high pr links don't want me to put them on an inner page…
The other thing I just did was upgrade to wordpress 2.3.1 and started tagging posts. I see this blog also does it. But say you tag a post with 10 different keywords. You now have 10 pages of duplicate content.
Any sugestions?
Craig Mullins
Will you post a video with more info on how to get an Authotity hub listing?
Where can I find a home page and sub-page template like yours?
Hi Andy,
Love your videos mate. I am building a new site and went back to video 2 for a refresher but it only runs for the intro. No hansome Medieval Knight to talk about how to get those great results.
I reran video 1 with no problems.
Have a great holiday and a terrific 2008
Pete
Hello,
Great content.
http://www.foreclosure-reference.com (mortgage-crisis and foreclosure solutions)
Great videos but one question. You said you must have a larger word count in the non-template part of your site. What if you have less words? If the word count is different lets say by 30 or so words would that work or does it definitely have to be more?
Keep up the great advice.
Thanks,
Mike
Fantastic content Andy. Gives me a great job for over the Christmas period.
Just one question, what do you use to produce the video's ? The quality is excellent !
Martin
Hi Andy,
thanks for the congrats.
I just received an eamil offer where the individual was promoting a one way links service.
They wanted $147 a month for this, and I was wondering…
In your video you stated that there isn't any preference that SE spiders give to internal or external links.
So if I want more links coming into my site, are external links any more important than my internal ones?
Thanks for all that you've shared,
Lewi
Andy,
Weve never met but we will someday. Thank you for taking time to teach. I have been watching the Physical Products seminar that you and Brad did with Ken McCarthy from Feb 2005. Great stuff. I do not have a site yet and have only been study eCommerce for less than a month but am learning tons. My brain is on info overload right now. I spent 4 hours today watching DVD #5 and made it through just 52 minutes of video because I was so busy taking notes and researching the techniques and tools that you guys poor out in those DVD's. THEN I found these latest videos you releaesed on StomperBlog. WOW. Thank you for taking time to put this stuff together. I am thrilled with the Physical Products seminar and hope that I can join StomperNet soon. Hope to see you at System 2008 if you will be there.
Oh, the videos were awesome. I understand what you presented and plan to use this info to make sure I do not have duplicate content as I launch my sites this Jan.
All the best to you and Brad and the rest of your staff.
Another Great Video!
I never did understand the duplicate content deal. You make it so clear and easy to understand. I now see why out of 900+ pages only 600 are indexed. I have a little bit of work to do but it is well worth it.
Thanks for the clear direction.
Now a question.
Are the sitelinks shown on google webmaster page under the links category the authority links you speak about?
Once they are listed where do you find them in google?
I have searched for the listing but can't find it anywhere in the serps.
Regards
AL
Hello Andy,
I have just watched your video and finished up with my mouth wide open in amazement. I would never have guessed about the template word count and duplicate content. I can see why I need to sort that out on my website now. A lot of work to do to fix it but I can see it makes perfect sense. Excellent!
I'll watch the rest of the videos now and during Christmas.
Beaman
Thank Andy. These videos are great although I have a different problem. You mentioned briefly in your video the ecommerce sites. I have one of these using the osCommerce software and I can’t get anywhere on Google natural listing. My site sells ink and toner cartridges for computer printers. To make it easy for my customers to find right cartridge for their printer I created categories as a printer brands and models and when one clicks on the printer model it shows cartridges that are used by this particular printer. My problem is that there can be twenty or more different printers using the same cartridges. There we have a duplicate content. Also there is not much to write about in each printer category to have a higher content than the template content. Do you have any suggestion how to solve this problem?
Hey, Thanks for making these video's. I'm brand new to seo and my wife has a webstore that she's building and these tips should help out alot!
Thanks!
Andy;
I can't thank you enough for your information. You are a true inspiration to me and my partner. We have worked on our site for two years …he writing and I designing and we were doing good (for two people not sure how to even get on a listing for google)but you have taken this to a new demention. We had achieved #1 on google and now we have a second listing …thank you! As always, you are the greatest …can't wait to put the second video to work for that insurance policy to stay on the search engines …"and by the way" …we would rather see you in the video …we believe that people connect through eye contact ..the window to your soul. Your the greatest!!
Great video Andy!
I've always considered duplicate content to be at the top of the list of things to avoid.
However, I must admit I am curious as to your comment regarding *off-site* duplicate content in that you mention it doesn't harm you site (if I'm recalling correctly anyway)…
From my experience off-site dupe is extremely bad too. Have you not found this the case? Would be great to hear your thoughts on this.
P.S. Fantastic video's btw. I used to do a lot of video editing and effects before I got in to IM. Video stuff is just so much fun and addictive!
Thanks again,
Mike
Andy,
To think I was blown away by the first set of videos…these put the first ones to shame! And the first ones were GREAT! I'm glad you'll be re-releasing them. I watched them all, but was still so new I did nothing else and was hugely disappointed when Stompernet proved to be waaaaay out of financial reach for me.
I'm thrilled to have the mystery of duplicate content cleared up. Discussions go on among writers constantly about whether you can put an article on your website after submitting it to the directories. Most say no way. I never understood that, as the reason we submit them is to hope they'll be picked up and used on someone's website.
After watching the second video, now I think I understand how the same article can appear on more than one website and not be considered dupe content…most everyone's site template will be different, so the spiders don't consider my article on Jane's site and my article on my own site as dupe content since the templates are different.
Did I get that right?
Thanks for an awesome education!
Honey
I would rather have you back as a real person and not the animated guy I did not notice your "fat" issue. It seems more believable when you did it.
(Reply from Andy Jenkins – Loose Clothing Joyce – thats the key to hiding my corpulence.
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Hi Andy,
I received a Webbizinsider email and nearly cancelled it, because I thought it was just another poor soul trying to sell a dead end useless money making system. However, it wasn't. It was your email and I decided to click the link.
I'm glad I did. You clarified the meaning of duplicate content. I was totally oblivious to the fact that this could occur within a website just because of the page templates.
Thank you very, very much. I've beefed up the text in the central areas of each page of my site. Prior to seeing your video I had a page with a mortgage calculator, which had no text in the central area. That's been rectified now.
One thing I was curious about, that's what are you getting out of giving away this information for free? Surely you can't be one of those rare white knights.
(Reply from Andy Jenkins – Thanks Brain – The whole concept of "Moving the Free Line" by giving away good information is simply a smart business move. The success of StomperNet is based, largely in part, on our ability to provide actionable, useful, and effective information to our customers. This is one way that we demonstrate that. Make sense? I talk about why we're doing this in the first video, in case you missed it)
Andy,
Will you marry me?
Stephanie
(Just don't tell my husband!)
(Reply from Andy Jenkins – Odd that my wife approved this post…
) I wonder if she's sending me a hint…)
Great content -well presented- love the video quality!
Best Regards
Paul Easton
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(Reply from Andy Jenkins – Thanks Paul – Glad you enjoyed it!)
Andy, please incorporate more of the big search-engine robot. He's my favorite! And to be honest, I feel a bit silly listening to a CG character for so long. How about a muppet?
Seriously though, thank you for sharing such juicy information. My faith in you is restored, as I also grew weary of all the hard selling you were doing. So now that your e-mails no longer go directly to my junk folder, I eagerly await the next video… hopefully with Big Robot!
(Reply from Andy Jenkins – Matt, glad to hear it. Now… a Muppet? Sorry for making you feel silly, but – according to our metrics, that silly little stunt of creating an animated character to open the video doubled how many people watched the entire video. Honestly, I had no idea that it would do that – I was just feeling creative and wanted to do something a little different. A least it wasn't a talking goose. I did think about animating a snake, but that would give my critics WAY too much ammo…)
Excellent stuff, really a treat, looking forward to upcoming vids!
Hey Andy,
Love the videos – very professional. Looking forward to future videos.
However, one observation on making the text an image file on your example site on the mortgage disclaimer. Why is that better to do than just placing that text on a separate page – linking to it – and then blocking that folder or file to that page in your robots.txt file? This will keep the search engine spiders from spidering that page and therefore will see no duplicate content as well.
Anyone have any thoughts, experience or observations on this?
I do love the videos and don't get me wrong – I think they are awesome with great info!
Chad
Andy, when you want to see if your pages are out of the index for duplicate content would google site: command be enough to see this? If the pages appear they are OK if they don't they're out ?
Andy, your two videos have earned me a No. 1 listing in Google out of 9,340 websites for my keyphrase in under 5 days.
Thanks,
Lewi
(Reply from Andy Jenkins – Lewi – that's AWESOME! Congrats!)
Hi Andy,
I think your advice is terrific and I have looked for a discrete way to say that I have had trouble watching this video and so has someone else. We both followed the advice and downloaded the adobe update but still the video struggles to play. I thought you should know. I am going to work through it again after breakfast simply because i know the advice is excellent.
Regards,
Niamh
Andy,
You looked pretty buff to me! Was that set in StomperKingdom????
I'm amazed at the content… and stunned by the quality of the videos! Keep up the great work.
Lee Kendrick
http://leekendrick.com/blog/
Andy – I am so busted for duplicate content. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I had played on giving Christmas presents on December 25th. Now it looks like I will be giving Google some presents this holiday season.
You Rock and I look forward to future videos.
Thanks for the great content!
Do you have a dedicated staff doing the videos, or can a one man hack create anything close using Camtasia?
Maybe one of your videos can be about how you create such good videos!
(Reply from Andy Jenkins – Dave, I used to be in the Film Business for 13 years before I opened my first eCommerce store. I'm doing the videos myself with some staff support – they're mostly busy servicing the current members. We'll eventually get around to creating a "How To" course on making video – just not in the first few months of 2008. Thanks for the post!)
so duplicate content off site is okay?
I stayed glued to my chair while watching this amazing and highly scientific SEO presentation.
I hardly believe you're doing this for FREE!.
If this is how information inside StomperNet member area is presented in plain, simple and direct way, then IT REALLY WORTH IT.
But waite extra value are you giving to these members if you realeasing this awesome quality information to the public free of charge?
May God reward you.
Joset
Kudos to you.
Hi Guys, A follow up on Pete's post. I'm a StomperNet member (so bound to be bias!).
But I agree the old video's aren't so slick as these and I too was concerned at what is being shown but in truth there is so much more inside StomperNet its well worth the membership fees. The content is fantastic, the support and range of services outstanding. Its not cheap but worth the money! I don't reckon you can get this level of service and expertise for your site anywhere else at the price!
So enjoy what Brad and Andy offer and remember the key is to take action, not just watch the videos!
Tim
All valid points to the video, so nothing else to say except Hi
Hi Andy,
Great clip but why did you put it instead of the first clip?
i wanted to watch the first clip again and it only shows the new one.
Why is that?
(Reply from Andy Jenkins – Eran, Check the play list in the lower right corner for the first video.)
Hi Andy,
I just viewed your video and was I blown away. As someone who is not as familiar
with making web pages as I would like to be, I found your video and it's content riveting.
Now don't get me wrong, I do know a little, but I leave most of the real technical stuff to my grandaughters who are wizzes at this and can also see better than me.
Thanks for sharing. I'll be back often and will tell my friends to visit too.
Steve Chesterfield
http://unimaxtelevision.com/stevec
What are you guys hinting at launching? Jeff Walker and Frank Kern just don't start blasting out emails over free stuff.
Hi Andy:
Thank you for sharing this information. I am quite intrigued and would love to learn more about internet marketing and related topics.
I have emailed our web designer to see if she can apply what is on your videos and keep you posted on any progress. As a continuation of working as tsunami Relief Coordinator for Saddleback church, we started a training center and handbag factory to provide jobs and hope for a better future for these tsunami survivors in Indonesia. We started with 12 and now we are supporting 150 in 1 year. We started a blog, http://www.laga-handbags.com/events/, your comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Wishing you much success and significance with your ventures.
Thanks, Andy.
I'm not arguing with your presentation, but you might consider showing in a future video how webmasters can use CSS to display the template data without physically duplicating it on each page. i.e., The entire problem can likely go away, since the spiders won't see the template text at all.
Best of success!
Andy, your visual representations are quite spectacular and clear to internalize and implement for both the new and older webmaster.
Your videos will surely benefit our visitors, ourselves and (choke…) even Google.
If Google would only help us too. If only THEY would help explain just as graphically and clearly as you are doing…
You actively reveal how to get the best from our sites, while promoting StomperNet
, and Google is promoting..well,…Google, who is, oddly, not helping us with our sites,
and yet we make bread-n-butter for them.
O.K. you win!
You are accomplishing REAL good in these videos for all of us, and without Googles
bazillion$ backing your efforts.
They "could" encourage us elves, (giving us similar power of knowledge) and thereby
boost their own profit$ even more astronomically by keeping us abreast of how
to IMPROVE our sites, instead of just electing to slap so many (WH) entrepreneurs down without a blink.
Because of our own un-intentional ignorance, and Google policy of keeping us in the dark
about the real inner working s of THEIR OWN bots, Google is effectively shooting both us,
and themselves, in the foot with all their secrecy.
But, Google is like the Wizard, in Oz.
Just pull back the curtain, and the Wiz is not so big and unfathomable as it wants to appear. (Maybe not even as EVIL
Thank you Andy for pulling back this magic curtain, and revealing in your videos some starkly important truths vitally needed for our web building success … and survival.
You have grabbed and held our interest.
You are practicing the art of injecting both comedy and drama for sure, but most importantly, you have mastered the art of
fun teaching with a flair!
Cecil B. would be proud.
I'm just wondering how many besides myself ran to their websites to check what their word count was on their site templates…
Hi, Andy,
I am glad to be led by OneSource newsletter to your video. You have an excellent experince with SEO.
If I build my site using Content Management System such as Joomla, it seems like I have no control to the title as mentioned in this video, what is your suggestion if my skill is only good enough to use CMS to develop my ecommerce site?
Andy !
The GN2 video was excellent and oh boy : what simple and great helping infos You gave us. Thanks and Merry Christmas from Munich
lovely video. is there anywhere i can see the going natural 1.0 videos? i never got around to watching them
(Reply from Andy Jenkins – Holly, I'm going to clean up the GN 1.0 Video and re-release them sometime after X-Mas.)
Thank you Andy for great videos, I've been waiting for this kind of great help for ages, but now I guess I found it. Too many good information we need to know, Hope we will see new videos from you
WOW Thanks Andy … mmmm very good likness and cool video .
This info is invaluable, a lot of what youare saying , has been around for a long time, we have possibly not been told before or have just forgotten, depends on wht expert you have listened to.
But this is great stuff for oldies and newby's alike to tweek up out pages.
Well done , look forward to the next installment
Cheers Theo AK NZ
Hi Andy, good video's for sure. I was a bit confused about the title tags, after removing the stop words, then what? Do you need totally different words in each title, or is a certain percentage of similarity acceptable to mother Google?
I'm still trying to recover from all the flood of information from last year around this time. The video did reiterate but helped reinforce a really important point which I'm implementing on my sites now!
I'm still working on it and not giving up!
Oh, and by the way, thanks!
I appreciate you and Brad, tons!
John
Brilliant videos – I have watched both of them and was able to take away two awesome strategies for our websites. Kudo's to you and the rest of the Stomper Team. I am strongly encouraging anyone who has a website to watch the videos.
Looking forward to the next release!!
- hope it is soon.
This video was way too cool.
Thanks for sharing this info for free.
Looking forward for the new videos.
Francesco
The hard work you do for us is incredible! I look forward to all of your teachings.
This was a video worth watching. I know not to use duplicate content, however I was not aware that the site template was included in the word count for duplicate content. I only looked at the "Content Container". Thanks for this brilliant video.
Great video Andy…you got me to subscribe and I'm eagerly awaiting more great content. You can thank Yaro for the referral.
Thanks,
Craig
Hi there,
Many thanks from France for your excellent work, I'm waiting for the next one !
Guys like you make Internet better.
Keep going !
Cheers
Wow – I didn't know that duplicate content was…. duplicate content! I always assumed it referred to posting the same article in multiple article directories, which didn't make sense to me anyway. Now I know that Google does like article directories. Great tip on the indented listings, too. Thanks!
Very Good Stuff and great Video.
What happen to Stomper Ultra?
The video was great. I thought I had heard it all but both of your videos had some new material for me. And another thing, the production of the videos was fantastic as well. Great team!
Thanks for the great vids!
This video is very information for beginners. Thanks for the great info.
With all the great free content coming out in the last few weeks from Andy and other big-wigs in IM, I'd say that 2008 is going to be the year of free high value content. I like it!
Thanks Andy,
I am glad that I came across your videos only on number two. Tomorrow I will watch the first on as its late now here in Spain.
I like to listen and hear things as they happen. Going back is always harder somehow!
Got here via Paul Colligan on twitter…
Best,
George
Being in the mortgage industry myself, that content really hits the spot. Thanks for the valuable information.
I love your video player by the way. I couldn't get it to work the first few days but now it works great.
Doug Kelly
Mortgage Sales Tips
My attention span is very short, but your videos keep my attention. They are very entertaining. I need to go back though and watch the first video again. When I was watching it last week, I went and checked google and to my surprise I was already on the first page with a double listing…..BUT still don't understand how it got there and how to keep it……..cuz today it's not a double listing anymore.)-: I didn't understand the "linking" part of the first video. I would like to say thank you for the videos!
I keep following your work; great stuff. A little more trickles through each time. There is such great opportunity; especially with people like you posting.
Thanks!
Kim
Andy, your videos are slick, professional and so clear that even a novice like myself can grasp the concepts/instructions. I've worked hard on my site for well over a year now and still am not getting traffic. I hope that something in your videos will help since, at this rate I'll have to give it up before long. I still believe I can be successful but I'm steadily losing money on what I hoped would be at least a slightly profitable venture. I know I sound desparate; sorry, I am. If you have any advice I'd love to listen. Thanks.
Awesome, Andy,
Great info and loved that
tip about internal links.
You'll get us all to the
top of Google yet!
Rich Davey
Awesome information for someone who actually IS in the mortgage business and never thought about all those disclaimers!
Thanks!
grrrrrreat videos!! super content AND production.
thanks a HEAP!! (just changed all my title tags from all being all the same…
)
p.s. sensible captcha your can *actually* real, nice
Great videos.
I will attempt to put this info to good use.
Thanks
Andy,
the video is inspiring again. Thanks for teaching us. You've got a great talent to teach and entertain simultaneously.
What software do you use to produce the videos?
Cheers,
Melanie
Andy,
I like very much your videos, I learned a lot and I enjoy your laughing.
Roger
Thanks for two great videos – I can hardly wait to see the next one. Meanwhile, I'm going to be busy appling my newly learned knowledge – off to count words right now! Cindy
Thanks for this great video! I'm starting to think that's why my site got banned in Google, I'll have to re-check everything.
One question though, if all people start putting the disclaimer image and alt text, wouldn't that be also duplicate content?
Thanks! You rock!
The Video was great… filled with top info..
How did you do the animation?????
all the best,
Leon
Andy,
I think your a hanome man so there is no reason for the CGI
The word count was Brilliant! I have to go back and count all my pages I think can unlock alot more pages.
Im really looking forward to you use of video in the upcoming posts. See you then!