Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category
Monday, July 7th, 2008
In a clever post from Don Schindler, he compares his cluttered desk (which sounds oh-so-familiar) to the clutter of the web. If you know where what you're looking for is, its easy to find. But if you're just browsing, with just a general idea of what information you want, you'll ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Do you still use meta keyword tags on your sites and blog posts?
According to this 2007 article from Search Engine Land - most of the biggest search engines (read: google and msn live search) scan the full content of your pages to determine ranking in their results. Yahoo and ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Many people use Google PageRank as a key factor for how well their site is performing in Google. While its true that PageRank is the starting measurement for placement in Google, its important to pass that PageRank throughout your site. Stephan Spencer for MarketingProfs writes that appropriate use of the ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
I rely upon Google Alerts to help me keep an eye on a few key phrases (as well as my favorite bands, and news items). So when I saw the headline "SEO For Wordpress Blogs - A Free White Paper from Blizzard ..." appear in my Search Engine Optimization alert, ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
From WalletPop....
Can you imagine a media outlet, which lives and dies by readership and distribution of its articles, prohibiting you from linking to pages within its website??? I couldn't imagine it either, but it's true.
BusinessWeek.com has a user agreement which prohibits readers from "deep-linking," which essentially means you are not ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
Not all extensions are equal, half the domain extensions are worthless when it comes to SEO. If you are registering domain names then you ought to be aiming for any of the following in the order that they appear:
dot com
dot net
dot org
I prefer to run a dot ...
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Most online marketers are familiar with selecting key words for SEM buys - using a myriad of tools, some guess work, and more often than not, a pinch of fairy dust for good luck.
Enter a new way to select keywords: Social SEO. Social SEO is "a new approach to keyword ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
If you own or work with a search engine optimization company, or even if you're just hoping to better your search engine placement, then you are probably aware of the recent acquisition frenzy that took hold among the major search engines. Google paid $3.1 billion for DoubleClick, Microsoft paid $6 ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
PageRank is a measure of how important a website is on the web - its a proprietary number assigned by the search giant... Google.
According to Google...
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Wakefield, Mass.—The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, a nonprofit group, has formed an alliance with Microsoft Corp. to give people from MSN Search’s 20,000 affiliates access to SEMPO’s online educational program. Personnel from MSN affiliates will be able to take the SEMPO Institute’s Fundamentals of Search Marketing class. SEMPO Institute ...
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