Search Engine Optimization

How to Quickly Screen an SEO Company in Less than a Minute

September 21, 2008 Advertising

What does a SEO Company Do? I know, it sounds like a simple question, but someone who doesn’t know what an SEO professional does is likely to get screwed by some con man looking to rip him off. Most people will do a few minutes of research and find out that people who help others [...]

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Google Brings the Smack Down with PR Changes

October 26, 2007 Google

There is a Buzz in the air, and it isn’t very good . . . It seems that in the past few days, Google has changed their PR algorithm, affecting major corporations, webmasters and bloggers alike. In this case, size just doesn’t matter . . . everyone from The Washington Post to Problogger to Engadget [...]

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Webmaster SEO Tip: Periodically Review All Pages on Your Websites

May 17, 2007 Search Engine Optimization

I’ve written in the past about the importance of periodic link reviews, but I wanted to discuss how important it also is to also keep your pages up to date. I was going through one of my websites and noticed that many pages hadn’t been updated in 4 years! Keep Your Websites Up To Date [...]

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Selected Useful Reads from the Problogger Group Writing Project (Filtered for your reading pleasure)

May 13, 2007 Blogging

It is hard to go very far without running into a site with entries in Darren Rowse’s latest group writing project; it was a huge hit with close to 900 entries. While it is great that people are linking to one another from this thing, it seems that many involved in the project are simply [...]

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Google Blogsearch Revealed: Learn the Secrets Behind Google’s Blogging Search Engine

April 18, 2007 Blog Design

In a guest assignment for Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger, Alister Cameron writes an incredible post detailing how Google Blogsearch ranks your blog posts. Using the Google Blogsearch patent application, Alister reveals some incredible information about the data Google uses to determine the quality of a blog or blog post. He mentions how it looks like Big [...]

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Cool Tools & Articles About: Wikipedia, Link Love, Site Popularity, Social Search Engines

April 7, 2007 Blogging

Here are some useful and very cool tools and resources for any webbie: Maki, author of the extremly cool blog (which I just discovered today) Dosh Dosh writes an extremly thorough article aka The Ultimate Guide on How to Get Your Website Listed in Wikipedia which really is what it says. If you’ve ever wondered [...]

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Increasing Search Engine Rank with Trusted Links

November 21, 2006 Marketing

Most SEO experts will likely agree that gaining inbound links is one of the most important steps in growing your website. The methods for gaining those links continue to evolve with time. In the old days, we used to email other webmasters and request reciprocal links. That faded as the ‘net grew and people started [...]

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Net News Linkfest

November 17, 2006 Blogging

Brian at SEOMoz tells us that meta-tags are making a comeback. Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have all agreed on a new xml sitemap protocol for their search engines. Visit Sitemaps.org for more info. Jaimie at SEO Egghead gives us 6 Questions To Weed Out Charlatan SEOs. I might add “What are social networks and how [...]

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Google Blogger Matt Cutts’ 21 SEO Tips

September 18, 2006 Google

I just learned about a great post from the SEO Black Hat Blog written by Jaimie at SEO Egghead, 21 Great SEO Tips From Google’s Matt Cutts. The post organizes 21 pearls of wisdom from Google SEO blogger, Matt Cutts. Topics include: – Using dashes instead of underscores in URLs – Avoiding hidden text OR [...]

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Useful Webmaster & SEO Tools

September 17, 2006 Blog Design

I figured that there is no more fitting way to kick off this site, Time For Blogging, then to share with you my favorite Webmaster & SEO Tools. Every webmaster has his own toolbox and these are some of my favorites: Color Wizard What better way to design your website then to color coordinate it. [...]

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