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Why Page Weight Could Wreck Your SEO Efforts read more...
Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:12:20 +0000
Obese web pages are frustrating for people with slow connections, but they could now have a direct impact on your business. Craig discusses why the Google site speed check could affect SEO.
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Goodbye SEO Software, Hello SEO Web Applications read more...Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:37:07 +0000The majority of tools available for managing SEO campaigns come in the form of desktop apps. Kristen explains why these tools would perform better as web apps, and lists a few services that are breaking new ground in this arena.
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Are Competitors Hijacking Your Trademarks in AdWords? read more...Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:47:07 +0000Alyssa wraps up her series on brainstorming with a step-by-step process for making sense of your brainstorm and moving into a plan of action.
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Bad Nested Code Could Hurt Your SE Rankings read more...Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:41:18 +0000Initial careless coding or later additions of plugins, widgets and scripts can dramatically affect a site's search engine rankings. Here are some tips to avoid such problems.
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Top SEO Books for the SEO Newbie read more...Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:59:42 +0000You asked for some reference books on SEO for beginners. You got it—in this post, Mihaela lists a sampling of books designed for people who don't know about SEO, but want to.
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SEO Fishing with an Empty Hook read more...Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:32:35 +0000In this article Mihaela reveals how titles with a high emotional marketing value are related to link baiting and how the emotional impact can influence your audience.
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On-page SEO – The Google Way read more...Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:06:08 +0000Mihaela recommends Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide for all DIY SEOs and newbies. In this article she highlights three important on-page SEO techniques described in this guide.
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SEO: What’s Hot and What’s Not read more...Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:13:58 +0000Mihaela discusses some SEO 2.0 techniques and the metrics that help you measure SEO success.
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Will Bing Change SEO? read more...Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:50:49 +0000Many worry that SEO techniques for Bing differ from SEO for Google. Mihaela suggests that not much will change, at least for the moment.
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Searchme Bings Better than Bing read more...Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:07:46 +0000Mihaela discovered a new search engine that presents search results in a visually appealing manner: Searchme.com beats Bing when it comes to functionality and interactivity, too.
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Obsessing with Google PageRank read more...Sun, 24 May 2009 14:12:48 +0000PageRanks are not the magic answer that will make your site rank higher in Google's search results. The numbers you see in the Google toolbar are irrelevant too. So if PageRanks don't matter, what does?
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More Google SEO Myths Exposed read more...Sat, 16 May 2009 10:52:10 +0000Did you know that every time you publish a web page Google assigns it a PageRank greater than zero and that your website template counts in the duplicate content calculation?
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The 10 Commandments of PageRank Sculpting read more...Wed, 06 May 2009 02:49:25 +0000At the recent SMX Sydney conference, Shayne learned a thing or two about how best to perform PageRank sculpting in order to optimize your site for Google. In this post, he shares some of this wisdom.
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How Google Determines the Relevance of a Page read more...Sun, 03 May 2009 16:23:37 +0000Google's ranking algorithm is a constantly evolving, closely guarded secret, but there are a few constant parameters that you can rely on. Mihaela lists a few tips on how to optimize a web page for better local rankings in Google.
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Keyword Research Essentials Part 2: How to Select the Right Keywords read more...Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:18:28 +0000Keyword relevancy is a two way street: Google tries to deliver the most relevant results for the users, companies want to "optimize themselves" with relevance. How should you approach keywords optimization? Mihaela offers a few possible answers.
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Beware of Becoming Search-dependent read more...Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:24:45 +0000At the Search Marketing Expo in Sydney this week, SEO guru Rand Fishkin cautioned against become too reliant upon just one traffic source. SitePoint's Shayne Tilley gives us the low-down.
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Keyword Research Essentials Part 1: Tools read more...Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:03:07 +0000In this post, Mihaela Lica lists some free research tools for finding the best keywords to help publishers and webmasters write the most effective and compelling SEO copy.
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How Google Really Wants You to Optimize Your Site read more...Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:28:14 +0000Google is "delighted" when sites are optimized for search -- the Googlebot goes all warm and fuzzy when you do all the work for it, as Mihaela explains in this short collection of SEO-related questions and answers.
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Mobile SEO Myths Exposed read more...Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:21:17 +0000Mobile SEO is dead, overstressing about “mobile design” is pointless, and .mobi domains are a waste of money. The phones of the future will be able to browse the Web smartly.
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Automated SEO – A Possible Future According to Yahoo! read more...Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:52:02 +0000Yahoo! will probably become the first search engine to perform automated search engine optimization. Is this approach to SEO ethical and why is a search engine planning to offer such a service anyway?
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The SEO Tool that Could Make SEO Software Unnecessary read more...Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:46:38 +0000Not every webmaster or site owner has the time and/or resources for in depth SEO. Even those that do would be well advised to employ Wall’s new toolbar for spot checks, SEO quality control, keyword research and of course, speed ranking checks.
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GetListed.org: Starter Tool for Local Search Marketing read more...Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:19:28 +0000With a business name and a zip code, GetListed.org quickly pulls in a set of results that detail the status of the local listing in Google, Yahoo, BOTW and Live. Does this service have real SEO potential, or is this just another cutesy startup doomed to fail?
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Twitter’s Little Known SEO Value read more...Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:16:10 +0000Twitter can affect positively your Alexa rankings by sending visitors to your pages. Usage data is a sign of quality for Google and all the other search engines. If you can make people come to your site via Twitter, then this is an SEO advantage you cannot afford to miss.
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Google’s Flash Indexing Disaster read more...Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:58:24 +0000On July 1st, Google announced that, using technology provided by Adobe, it had enhanced the Google Search Engine to index the text embedded within Flash movies. What followed was bad advice from Google, second-guessing by web developers, and finally a few straight answers.
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Ask.com: We’ve Got All The Answers read more...Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:52:33 +0000After my recent post about Ask.com’s recent layoffs and change in strategic direction, I had an interesting chat to Nicholas Graham, spokesperson for Ask.com. Graham clarified a few details amid plenty of speculation that Ask.com would be retiring its search functionality entirely.
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