Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category

Unofficial SEO Blog - Flashbacks from Search Engine Strategies San Jose

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Missed the Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose? You can check out full coverage of the event from the Unofficial SEO Blog in Full Coverage And Flashback!: Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2007

SEO for B2B Assets

Friday, August 17th, 2007

B2B companies spend a great deal of time building highly-technical, well designed documents. Then, they post them on their website as .PDF files, which are not easily searched or indexed. In Leveraging Existing Assets for B2B SEO from Search Engine Land, Galen Deyoung provides valuable suggestions on how to make ...

Search Engines and Magazine Readers - More Similar Than You May Think

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

In a recent post from Cyberrated, an interesting comparison was made between how a search engine reads a website, and a magazine reader uses a magazine. Think about how magazines are constructed: The Table Of Contents shows story titles, brief descriptions, and page numbers telling you where you can find a ...

What’s So Great about Wikipedia?

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

In a meeting recently, the discussion came up about Wikipedia, and their top ranking in Google Search engine for thousands of topics? How did they get there? And is there a way to beat them? Short answer for question #2 - most search engine optimization companies are saying no. They're settling ...

Site Maps - Design and Access

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Site maps are commonly used in search engine optimization programs to help site spiders see all of the pages of the site. Site maps can, and should, be designed to help people navigate your site. According to "The Right way To Think About Site Maps" from SearchEngineLand: An effective site map ...

Stuck in a Spider-Trap?

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Reading "When Ignorance Isn't Bliss, Part 2" from Search Engine World, author Christine Churchill brought up an interesting element of web design that can hurt your SEO ranking: Spider Traps. Here's what she had to say:

How Getting Listed by Web Directories Can Save the Day

Monday, July 16th, 2007

If a website is to be listed amongst the top search results of a search engine, and especially if the website has existed less than a year, it is a vital requirement for the website to be listed by the top web directories. Before proceeding further, one should know what ...

Social Media Optimization

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

You've been working on search engine optimization on your site or blog for a while - diligently reading about and implementing all of the "insider secrets" that float around. You've probably at least considered implementing search engine marketing, researching the keywords that you could use to drive traffic to your ...

Second Generation Search Engine Submissions

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

A Guide to What You Need to Know Search Engine submissions have evolved tremendously over the last decade. What started out as a simple "Submit URL" that accepted domains has become a registration process where the Search Engines interact with Webmasters providing valuable information and insight into registered Web sites. In ...

SEMPO Institute Sees Early Success

Friday, July 6th, 2007

The online training programs for search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) offered by SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, have gotten off to a fast start. The SEMPO Institute launched in January with its Fundamentals of Search Marketing course. It followed with Advanced SEO, launched in April, ...