Search Engine Optimization

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New Google Sitemaps Developments

Well, I suppose it is no longer “Google” sitemaps. While Google pioneered the protocol it has been adopted by the other major search engines as well. Just announced is the ability to finally allow search engines to auto-discover your sitemaps, ie you don’t have to submit it to them, just place a line in your […]

Is SEO Science or Marketing?

More or less everyone who practices SEO today used to do something else. Maybe they went from programming to SEO, design to SEO, marketing to SEO, business to SEO, or some other shift. It is simply too new of a field for someone to just start with it. It may be the previous life experience […]

Link Building Methodologies

New article published today, Link Building Methodologies. This is quite an opus on many different methods of building incoming links. In total it is around 5000 words and over 10 pages printed. This is yet another big SEO article, I’ve written a few recently. I have a few more to write and then I plan […]

The Digg Effect

My literature site made it to the frontpages of both Digg and Del.icio.us this weekend. I know there is always a lot of speculation about what that kind of exposure that can give you so I thought I’d sum things up for everyone. Let me say that I never actually saw my site on those […]

Google finally releases more link data

Back in October I posted about doing link research and I recommended using Yahoo Site Explorer for your link research since it was better than Google. Google since its inception, had never delivered full and accurate link information…. until now. As per a blog post at Google Webmaster Central they have vastly expanded their link […]

One More Reason to Hate SEO Contests

I think SEO contests are stupid. Honestly? What serious professional would waste their time trying to win a contest when you can use your link equity and abilities to rank your own sites to the point where they will earn you, every month, more than what the prize is worth? In general as such these […]

WebMythWorld Strikes Again!

I know it may seem like I rant on this issue a lot, but it frustrates me so much. Brett Tabke is the founder of WebmasterWorld, better known as WebMythWorld. A really crappy webmaster forum that has been riding the first mover advantage for years. It was the first major webmaster forum, and that head […]

Site-Wide Links

Site Wide Links For whatever reason I’ve noticed a lot of forum discussion recently on site wide links, cross linking multiple sites together, and or links from the same IP address. All of which are fairly overlapping issues. So I thought, why not blog about it? I also thought I would share a golden rule […]

Another Two Excellent Google Blog Posts

There was another excellent post at Google Webmaster Central today that tells all about duplicate content. It is so uncommon to get such straightforward information from Google that this is definitely worth a read. Additionally they answer the question about what TLD to use when targeting a specific country for search, I always intuitively thought […]

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