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Google’s Educational SEO Quiz
21 Jan 2010I thought this was really cool. Google has taken all the most frequently asked questions from their Google Webmaster Forums, and created a quiz. The quiz is available to be taken until January 27 at 8:00 pm EST. After that time, they will post the correct answers.
Personally, I wish you could get the answers right [...]
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- Tags: Google, quiz, SEO, webmaster
Google Considering Site Speed As Ranking Factor
16 Nov 2009Rumor has it that Google is looking to add your site’s speed as a factor in its search algorithm (yet another reason to not use free web hosting). Recently at PubCon, a presenter from Google noted that there is hard lobbying from many employees at Google to add page load time to the search algorithm, [...]
Evil SEO – Steps To Not Follow
29 Oct 2009Make sure you use your SEO powers for good – not evil! Google is one of the greatest resources on the Internet, but that’s not to say they don’t have their own motives. Google’s greatest source of revenue is the billions of dollars they sell in advertisements each year based on their organic search listings. [...]
Top 10 Ways To Improve Internal Linking
12 Oct 2009An effective internal linking strategy is important for a few reasons: 1) It helps to increase page views and encourage readers to stay on your blog longer by providing enticing links to content that may interest them, and 2) it can help to improve the search engine rankings for your posts and pages.
In this article [...]
I asked 15 people how they would Google “headaches,” and you won’t believe the results. I thought I would get a few variations of searches, but I had no idea what kind of ideas would pop into my head after asking this simple question today. Truthfully, most people have no clue how to properly research [...]
WordPress SEO – Maximizing Internal Links
19 Sep 2009While there are hundreds of thousands of posts on maximizing external links for your blog, like a red headed step child no one pays much attention to internal links. Internal links can be very powerful in helping you distribute the link equity that those external links bring, and they can decrease your bounce rate and [...]
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- Tags: Blogs, link building, SEO, WordPress
Using Local SEO For Your Business
18 Sep 2009Increasingly, your customers find you first on the internet and then visit your store in real life. Besides general SEO to be sure they can find your web site, it’s vital your business shows up on search engine maps.
When people search the internet for local businesses and put a city or place name with a [...]
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- Tags: Google maps, local seo, SEO
How To Get Your Link Building Diploma!
16 Sep 2009Link building is not easy. And it’s not that intuitive until you do it. There are also many different techniques and methods that will have varied results. Below is how I recommend clients start and master link building.
I tell people that there are 4 Levels of Link Building Excellence. And it usually takes 4 years [...]
Is Your Site Search Engine Ready?
9 Sep 2009Before you can decide where to focus your SEO efforts, it’s important to assess how well your site is currently doing. By performing the following two tasks, you can quickly identify any problems with your site.
Is your site indexed?
This step doesn’t require much of an explanation. You can’t rank anywhere (1st page or last page) [...]
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- Tags: dmoz, Google, keywords, msn, SEO, yahoo directory
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