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Optimizing Your Images For SEO
[2010-08-23] SEO is all too often focused on text based web page strategies, but the modern web is made up of more that just words on a page. So how do you ensure the media on your website is supporting your SEO?
Customize Your Navigation In WordPress 3.0
[2010-08-09] One of the coolest new features in WordPress 3.0 is the custom navigation menus built into the WordPress core.
Search Volume Can Be Misleading When Choosing Keywords
[2010-07-26] Keyword research is a funny thing. You can gain a lot of knowledge about what words people use when searching on the engines, but it tells very little about what a person wants when they search using a particular keyword or phrase.
Duplicate Content Can Seriously Damage Your Site Ranking
[2010-07-12] Article Spinning is an SEO practice that takes a piece of content and replaces words and phrases with synonyms to create multiple versions of the same article. This is normally done through the use of a program that understands synonyms, meanings, and grammar rules, so the end result appears to be a readable facsimile of the original content produced.
Disgus Adds Better 301 Migration Services
[2010-06-28] Disqus is used by a huge number of blogs thanks to its impressive set of discussion features, including threaded discussions, cache-friendliness, viral spread through Facebook connect and Twitter, email replies features and universal install-ability.
Do You Value SEO As Much As You Should?
[2010-06-14] Presumably anone who reads this blog really does not need to be convinced of the value of SEO, but chances are that all of you have run into situations where you are trying to explain to someone else of the value of SEO. This is often a very challenging activity. New data from a survey by The Info Tech Group provides some great additional tools for when you need to make this argument.
Discerning The Value Of Your Site Links
[2010-05-28] I spotted a pretty good post today at SEOmoz that described their personal opinion on link valuation.All Links are Not Created Equal: 10 Illustrations on Search Engines' Valuation of Links Rand doesn't specifically come out and say it, but I assume they are looking at these valuations from a Google perspective. Here is the top 10 and some comments:
What Does Google's New SERP Mean For Your Ranking?
[2010-05-10] Did you ever wonder why some SEO's out there have been pushing for websites to:
Which Directory Sites Matter Most?
[2010-04-26] Today's post is answer to a question from Curedream:
Understanding The Truth About Website Domainers
[2010-04-12] Firstly, I think domainers are geniuses. They are the only group of people that I know that can work as little as they do, and make as much as they do. Top level domainers are the TRUE optimizers, and saw the biggest gapping hole in the economics of the web ever created, and are now driving trucks of money through it.
Using SEO To Increase Your WordPress Site Ranking
[2010-03-29] After you've signed up for your free WordPress account it can be a little daunting trying to give your blog proper SEO optimization. Lucking there are so many free plugins and guides online that you can optimize your site in no time. Here are some simple steps you can take in the next 15 minutes.
Handling Archive Pages And Old Links
[2010-03-15] Today's post is another answer to a question-this time from Nathan Schubert, who wants to know what you should do with old links from directories and websites that still drive traffic if you've changed the content on your website.
You Could Be Hurting Your Site By Removing Article Links
[2010-03-01] There's a trend of editors in the SEO world uptight about linking out. A friend in the industry who guest blogs recently told me that he was told by his editor he couldn't promise links to contributors who participated in guest interviews. Others have been seeing the same, and writers I work with have seen their editors take forever about updating bios [with the attendant links] …
How To Add Links To Your Website
[2010-02-15] Most online entrepreneurs end up finding about SEO accidentally, but they usually follow the same pattern to link building. First, they build a website and wonder why it isn't getting found on search engines. Next, they read up on SEO, start with some metatags, and may get limited results. They may even add more content. At some point, they learn that Google, Bing, and Yahoo need to see links from other websites in order to give the website credibility and better rankings.
How Do Google Web Search And The Darwin Awareness Engine Stack Up?
[2010-01-25] I want to share this post I first wrote for the Darwin Awareness Engine blog last week to see what you think and what questions you might have. Google has been the dominant web search engine for years now for good reason. It is the default opening screen on my laptop and I use it multiple times every day. It brought the innovative concept of Page Rank to gauge popularity and provide us with useful, quality content.
Bounce Rates Can Be Good For Your Site
[2010-01-11] Most likely, you have all heard that high bounce rates are bad. Some people even believe that bounce rate affects your sites search engine rankings. Meaning higher bounce rate is bad for your organic rankings.
Creating Submenus For Your Main Site Links
[2009-12-14] If you're using WordPress as a CMS, you may have set up static pages for both a front page (e.g. "Home") and a page to list your latest blog posts (e.g. "Blog"). I did that today for a client site and immediately realized that in the site's main menu the Blog link would look a lot better if it had a submenu containing all the blog categories.
Using Negative Keywords To Better SEO Your Site
[2009-11-30] The first thing any Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaign should include is a good list of keywords. The second thing it should have is a list of negative keywords. This is because there is a lot of search traffic on engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo, and not all of it will be profitable for your site's business model.
Unlocking Your Potential Search Traffic With Keywords
[2009-11-18] Many of us in the online marketing community look at keywords as a synonym of a real key that "unlocks" traffic, however, I rather like to look at keywords as actual tools that gives your website the ability to open more than just doorways to additional traffic. Let me explain:
Developing Your Site For An Unfamiliar Audience
[2009-10-29] Do you ever think that SEO is "obvious"? "Common knowledge"? "Pretty easy, really"? In this video, "Scott" from Google asked 50 people on the street if they knew what a browser was. Watch this:
Making Your Images SEO Friendly For Google
[2009-10-12] There are several billion images indexed in Google Images. Are yours there? If you've been wondering what it takes to get your images ranking, then this article is for you. Here are some tips to help you increase the exposure of your images, and with a little luck, have them appearing at the top of the regular web search results.
Web Developers Rejoice Over Google's Chrome Frame For IE
[2009-09-28] Google announced on tuesday 22nd of September 2009 the test release of Google Chrome Frame which is a plugin for IE that will make it HTML5 compliant. The need came out of their effort to build the next communication tools (google wave) and they wanted to make life easier for their developers to accommodate IE that still has the lion share of the internet users.
Wordpress and How to Maximize Your Internal Link Strategy
[2009-09-14] While there are hundreds of thousands of posts on maximizing external links for your blog, like a red headed step child no one pays much attention to internal links. Internal links can be very powerful in helping you distribute the link equity that those external links bring, and they can decrease your bounce rate and increase your page views per visitor by sending your visitors to other pages.
Decreasing Development Time With SaaS And Cloud Computing
[2009-08-31] Here are several excerpts from an article by Doug Henschen, SaaS Makes Its Mark In Business Intelligence: Fast, flexible, and affordable - three words never used to describe a major business intelligence (BI) deployment. That's why BI software as a service (SaaS) stands to transform the market.
Restricting Access To Your Website Can Kill Your Business
[2009-08-17] Here's a classic case of cookie sniffing gone really terribly wrong. I allow 1st party cookies in Chrome, and the only restrictions I've made are to on 3rd party cookies. Here's what I get when I go to www.virgin-atlantic.com:
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