Search Engine Optimization

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Google Talks about Link Building

No sooner had I posted my last post then I caught this blog post at Google Webmaster Central. Basically they go into slight depth as to what kinds of links you should be getting and how you should be getting them. I mention it only in that it echoes what myself and others here at […]

SEO Article Updates

As part of my process of redesigning & rewriting this site I’ve updated two SEO articles today, and since updated articles don’t get front page billing I thought I’d mention them here. The first is Search Engine Optimization Fundamentals and is set to be the main launching point for all my other SEO articles. Most […]

Why .edu links shouldn’t (and aren’t) be given bonuses

Many people believe .edu links should give special bonuses, less people believe it now that Google has flat out said they don’t, but still some do. Check out these google results (though hurry, I did fill out a spam report so they may be removed). Notice that 4 of the top 5 results are spam, […]

Top 5 Worst SEO Mistakes

SitePoint published a pretty crappy article yesterday about the worst SEO mistakes. Not only does it mention some things that will not hurt you, it also fails to mention the most common and most hurtful SEO mistakes people regularly make. I wonder how many months the author has actually been doing SEO. So here is […]

PageRank: An Essay

It is my firm belief that most people, even many who would call themselves Search Engine Optimizers, do not “get” PageRank. They know that it is about your incoming links, but they do not understand what made it so revolutionary, or why it is so useful. It is my opinion that this lack of understanding […]

Links for your Homepage or Subpage?

In reading forums today I came across a topic I do not often see discussed and I thought it would make a good blog post. When doing link building do you work on links for your homepage alone, or your subpages? If you can get a link from one source, how do you decide which […]

Help! My Website is Gone from Google!

I sometimes am amazed at how easy some articles can be to write. I was reading a forum thread about yet another webmaster being dropped from Google and as I started responding I thought to myself that there was so much information I could say, I might as well write an article. So I sat […]

Doing Link Research

Researching links is an important activity that every webmaster must do. This encompasses not only researching who links to you, but also who links to your competitors, or where your competitors link, or even finding places where you can get new links. Google was the first search engine to provide a link search that would […]

Why a keyword rich domain helps

Keyword rich domains are often discussed. Some people say go for branding and make it unique, some people say go for SEO and use keywords, on the SEO side some people say use hyphens, others say don’t. It is a complicated issue. However one of the main reasons I often recommend keyword rich domains is […]

Google Webmaster Central

As of last Friday Google has renamed their sitemaps system to Google Webmaster Central. Matt Cutts did a video blog about it. Google sitemaps had always been a great system, but there was a lot of confusion about it. Most people seemed to think that all it was was a tool to submit an XML […]

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