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Google Is Updating Its PageRank Again
2008-04-30 20:36:00 It looks like we are going through another Page Rank update. I’ve seen some blogs and websites move up in PR just in the last couple of days. SEOJ is now a PageRank 5 - woo hoo! Brick Marketing has gone up to a PR 4. But what does it all mean? Well, just a little bit of ... More About: Google , Pagerank
Are Your Search Engine Optimization Efforts Paying Off
2008-04-30 13:29:00 It seems there has been another Page Rank update over the last 24 hours with the usual chorus of ooh’s, aaah’s and oh-no’s. In the meantime search engine optimization consultants are busy calming their clients. Generally speaking, PageRank is not worth worrying about except perhaps when a new update is released. For many, it validates their search ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Search , Search Engine
Are Your Outbound Links Authoritative?
2008-04-29 19:26:00 Or do you even have any outbound links? Should you? Whether or not you have any outbound links depends a great deal on your editorial philosophy. Some old-style SEOs say that you shouldn’t. Others say that you should. I think it really matters on your goals and your style. If you do choose to include outbound links, ... More About: Links , Page , Rank
Search Engine Optimization For Small Businesses
2008-04-29 14:40:00 Small businesses will generally have to work harder on their search engine optimization strategies than some of the larger corporations simply due to branding. Many of these organizations rely less on organic search results and more on direct referrals. Take a brand like Coka Cola - most internet users will enter coke.com into their address bar. ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Search , Search Engine , Optimization , Small
SEO Or Social Media? Which Is More Important?
2008-04-29 01:00:00 It seems that social media marketing may be passing SEO in terms of importance for internet marketing professionals. But it remains to be seen if social media marketing will maintain its momentum. Jon Rognerud gives a list of top social marketing websites for those interested. The list includes: 1. Twitter *See more below ... More About: Social , Media , Viral Marketing
Blogging And Search Engine Optimization
2008-04-28 14:19:00 There are distinct differences when it comes to web pages and blogs, not just in the look or navigation, but in the search engine optimization strategies as well. Sure, both need the usual villains of content, keywords and links. However SEO outcomes for each can be quite different. Aside from the ease of creating multiple pages, ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Blogging , Search , Search Engine , Optimization
Why Display: None Isn?t The Panacea You Might Hope For
2008-04-28 02:52:00 A reader asked what I thought about the practice of using the display: none attribute in CSS to hide text. Generally speaking, hiding text on a web page is a method of keyword stuffing that search engines frown upon. You might get away with it in the short term, but don’t expect to be able ... More About: Display , Hope
Avoid Black Hat Tricks - A Search Engine Optimization Tip Revisited
2008-04-27 07:44:00 In a previous post, Search Engine Optimization Tips - Don?t Hide Your Name, I mentioned using you web site name, or domain name, in the header region of your web page. Several comments have looked at ways to place your site name in the header using techniques that hide it. The post title was ‘Don’t ... More About: Search Engines , Tricks , Search Engine
Why Updating Your Blogging Software Is Necessary
2008-04-26 17:51:00 Do you know what version of WordPress or Joomla you are using? It doesn’t matter what CSM, blogging software, or other website software that you use, every now and then it will be updated and you’ll need to get the latest version. I highly recommend that you always use the latest version for one simple ... More About: Software , Blogging , Blogging Software
Is Search Engine Optimization A Self Fulfilling Prophecy?
2008-04-26 13:26:00 Search engine optimization can be a strange business. Often the harder you work at it the harder it becomes yet we have often been told to work smarter, not harder. There is certainly some truth in the latter part of that statement. Getting started is always going to be the hard part, but then again, if ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Search , Search Engine , Optimization , Engine
Are You A SearchMonkey?
2008-04-25 18:59:00 Yahoo! has rolled out a limited beta of its new developer app called SearchMonkey. I like the general idea. The tool will allow webmasters and other developers the ability to add enhancements to their search engine results at Yahoo! These enhancements could lead to an increase in traffic and if you’re like most webmasters, you probably ...
How To Digg Your Keyword Research For Search Engine Optimization
2008-04-25 14:05:00 There are a lot of keyword research tools available at present but sometimes nothing beats checking out social sites to see what is humming with their users. Use some of those keywords in your search engine optimization strategies and you may strike gold if or when those keywords spike in the search results. In a strange ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Research , Search , Search Engine , Keyword
Why Your Blog Can Rank Only Once
2008-04-24 22:40:00 If Google, who for all intents and purposes owns and defines search, does not want a single web property ranking for the same keyword phrase more than once in order to maintain a diversity of search results for searchers, what do we make of blogs on a particular topic that have the potential to rank ... More About: Rank , Blog
Search Engine Optimization Tips - Don?t Hide Your Name
2008-04-24 15:21:00 Search engine optimization is all about getting the best recognition possible from the search engines. To do this, you need to feed as much relevant information to each of the search engines. One mistake that many web owners and web designers make is to hide their company name, their brand and some of their products inside ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Branding , Tips , Search , Search Engine
SEO Videos: Meta Tag SEO Tips
2008-04-23 22:22:00 Here the Search Engine Optimization Journal provides viewers with some useful SEO tips related to the Meta Tags of a web page. Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for weekly video tips and information! More About: Videos , Tips
SEO Checklist For Beginners
2008-04-23 19:05:00 Danny Dover wrote an interesting post at SEOmoz titled, “The Beginner’s Checklist For Small Business SEO.” I agree with a lot of his points, but one thing I’d like to add is that you don’t necessarily need to sign up for Google AdWords, as he suggests, to do your keyword research. Google AdWords has an ... More About: Keyword Research
Does PageRank Have Any Search Engine Optimization Value?
2008-04-23 08:21:00 PageRank is often maligned as been useless, out of date and not a true reflection of a pages real value. This is in the main quite true. However, there must be some value to PageRank and if there is, can it assist you in your search engine optimization strategies. My simple response is no, yes and ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Pagerank , Search , Page
Viewzi: What?s So Special About This Search Engine?
2008-04-22 20:10:00 It seems that there’s a new search engine startup every week. Everybody wants in on the search engine game, either to topple the king of search - Google - or just to make some money and capitalize on an ever-growing industry. Whatever the motives, there are some of the new startups that are worth trying, ... More About: Search Engines , Search , Search Engine , Special , Engine
Search Engine Optimization Is In Perpetual Motion
2008-04-22 15:13:00 I hear talk of ‘new’ search engine optimization techniques being better than any of the ‘old’ ones and often wonder what is meant by ‘new’. Search engine optimization techniques are constantly changing, but often it is only in the order of preference, or at the fringes. The ‘old’ team of content, keywords and links remain at ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Search Engine , Optimization , Engine
SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible by Jerri L. Ledford - Book Review
2008-04-21 22:48:00 SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible is said to be the ?holy grail? of online marketing. The book offers various information to help them begin their SEO efforts and to implement successful strategies. The book contains interviews from top executives at search engine marketing companies as well as information to make a ... More About: Book Review , Review
Is Social Media Another Aspect Of Search Engine Optimization?
2008-04-21 19:05:00 There’s no doubt that Internet marketing is changing. Rapidly. The onset of social media marketing has some SEOs running for cover. They just don’t want to deal with it. In a word, all we need is a little information management. The truth is, the two really go hand in hand. So says Danny Sullivan - and ... More About: Social , Media , Search Engine Optimization , Search , Search Engine
Top 5 Search Engine Optimization Skills
2008-04-21 15:25:00 So you think you can get into search engine optimization fairly easily. Perhaps you can. The top five skills required to be effective in this field, strangely enough, match the top five search engine optimization strategies to get good rankings. Content Creation They say content is king so you need to be a king maker. Being able ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Search , Search Engine , Optimization , Engine
A Cool Link Building Site You?ll Love
2008-04-20 20:25:00 These days you have to get creative with your link building. I mean, paid links will get you in trouble. Links from the same web site over and over again will eventually cease to provide you any new benefits. Setting up an off site blog was a great way to build inbound links for a ... More About: Building , Love , Link Building , Cool , Site
New Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 Now Devouring All Your Search Engine Optimization Work
2008-04-20 12:18:00 It’s old news now - well a week old anyway. How are your search engine optimization strategies holding up under Yahoo !’s new Slurp 3.0 web crawler. It seems that while in the test phase the new crawler did cause a few little hiccups in the way it picked up data from web sites. All is good ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Work , Search , Search Engine
Two New Search Developments You Can Benefit From
2008-04-19 17:54:00 Both Google and Live Search have added developments to their news Search Engine Optimization and search related tools that marketers can benefit from. First, Google: To access these new features, first search for a person’s name on Google News. If we have a recent quote, we’ll show it above the search results. Nice feature. So how can ... More About: Search Engines , Benefit
Search Engine Optimization: Inhouse Or Outsourced?
2008-04-19 13:27:00 As companies join the online world they need to decide whether their search engine optimization programs are developed ‘inhouse’ or through external agencies. There are many factors to consider when making a decision such as this particularly as your online experience could be severely affected by a poor decision. The size of your organization is one ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Search , Search Engine , Optimization , Engine
Should You Redirect Traffic To Your New Home Page?
2008-04-18 19:25:00 When you move your website to a new domain and set up a 301 redirect to send your old traffic to that new domain, do yourself a favor and don’t redirect all of your traffic to your new home page. That will definitely create a bad user experience. This is just one of the tips ... More About: Traffic , Home , Page , Home Page , Redirect
Develop Microsites As Part Of Your Search Engine Optimization Strategies
2008-04-18 13:47:00 Microsites have been around for many years, however they have generally been used for special events such as product releases or for special tasks such as secure checkouts. Microsites are gaining in popularity as the search engine optimization benefits become more apparent. What is a microsite? In simple terms, a microsite is a mini site that ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Search , Search Engine , Strategies , Optimization
Content: Can You Have Too Much?
2008-04-17 19:12:00 You hear a lot about content. It’s king. Understand? Well, cliches become cliches because there is an element of truth in them. But what exactly is meant by “content” and how much of it do you need? Do your web pages need to be 250 words or longer? Should they be shorter than 1,000? In a word, ... More About: Content
Article Submission As A Search Engine Optimization Option
More articles from this author:2008-04-17 12:23:00 Article submission can be a great means of obtaining free advertising and gaining good one way links back into your web site. One way links are considered one of the most important search engine optimization goals for any webmaster. To get the most mileage out of article submissions, you need to follow a fairly standard set ... More About: Search Engine Optimization , Article , Search , Search Engine , Optimization 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
