Many of you likely read the “Decor my Eyes” horror story earlier this week. And I’m guessing most if not all of you read that and got upset. Gaming the search engines is for nefarious purposes is bad enough, but gaming the search engine by using nefarious tactics is even worse. So that’s why I’m thrilled to post the happy ending to this story.
Lately I’ve been talking a lot with a couple friends about SEO. Both are really smart guys who are trying to break in the web development biz. And naturally they want some help with SEO and getting friends to their site. And both have mentioned how hard it is to find good information on the [...]
So by now nearly everyone has heard of Bing, the new “decision engine” from Microsoft. It’s an obvious challenge to Google, and naturally SEOs and Promoters want to know the answer to the obvious first response “how do I optimize for it”. I will offer up some suggestions and theory.
According to SEOMoz, this is a list of the top 500 most important pages of the internet. But how do you get on the list? At first glance it looks like backlinks are a big factor, so what strategy should you take? Here is a new idea.
Thursday Google announced support for the “canonical tag” which is essentially a tag to tell Google and the other two search engines which version of a url you want crawled or indexed. In theory, this should help with duplicate content issues, but is this something you want to try?
So, you want to start a blog, and make sure it gets noticed by google? It’s actually easier than you think, and you can do it absolutely free. I’ll show you how to install wordpress and tweak it for good SEO, so it gets picked up by google, and you start getting more traffic to your blog!
So, are you thinking about hiring an SEO? As more and more small businesses look for opportunities to grow, the term SEO (Search Engine Optimization) always seems to come up. Someone has a story about some business who made millions off tweaking a meta tag, and people get very excited.
Bounce Rate is a web analytics term that defines how many people visit a page, and then leave that page without going anywhere else on your site. If someone lands on one of your pages and
Ok, maybe need is strong word, but you should definitely check out Chrome, Google’s new web browser. I’ve downloaded it myself and found it to be pretty slick.
Google has recently launched insight, a new keyword tool that looks very promising. You can track interest over time, regional information and more. This can give you even more dimensions into your keyword marketing plan.
Cuil is a startup who has created a search engine they say can spider more content faster and cheaper than Google. They have received a surprising amount of press, most likely because some of the founders of cuil are ex employees of Google. Should we be paying attention?
Last week, Google quietly released Knol, an online encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia. Immediately the SEO community started buzzing about it, and SEOs wondered how they can start utilizing it.
The question I’m asked frequently – “how can I optimize my flash site for SEO?” now will have a better answer. Generally I advise people on how to optimize flash but I still advise excessive use of flash. It looks like that may not be much of a problem soon.
No, this isn’t a joke headline, or something to entice you to click. Google has decided to open up (a little) of their algorithm. This is great news for some, and a surprising move by the world’s most popular search engine.
