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Rand Fishkin On Duplicate Content
Rand Fishkin hits another home run with the latest Whiteboard Friday video he did on duplicate content. Rand shows how you can protect your content to always rank the highest over someone who may copy, scrape or even syndicate.SEOmoz Whiteboard Frid...
Longer Searches Flat This Past Month
I found an interesting report on Hitwise that says that longer search queries were flat between October and September 2009. I really can not put a finger on why that would be, myself, but do find it interesting nonetheless. Does this mean you should...
Joost de Valk SEO Wordpress Video From WordCamp Netherlands
As many know I am a huge fan of Joost de Valk, known mostly as Yoast. He recently did another video at a WordCamp session in the Netherlands on SEO improvements for Wordpress. I highly suggest you follow his suggestions here. He is a guru as far as ...
SEO Metrics From Analytics Video
Happy Black Friday everyone. I hope everyone's traffic is through the roof like mine is today. Christmas shopping time is definitely here.Rand Fishkin released an excellent Whiteboard Friday video on what SEO Metrics you should be looking at in your...
On The Money Title Tags
I recently finished some testing on a site that has high page rank and ranks very well for several main keywords and phrases. I wanted to test changing the title tag of a few pages to see how it would effect the ranking. Now this was not rocket scie...
Matt Cutts Video On Titles & Snippets
Today is one of the better videos by Matt Cutts from Google in which he thoroughly explains how Google comes up with the snippets and titles for web pages. Listen closely and you can see how your content can be reflective how snippets used as well a...
How SEOs Know SEO By Rand Fishkin
The great Rand Fishkin has another gem with today's White Board Friday video. This should hit home with a few of you. My wife is down with the flu this week, so I have not been too active on the boards and such. So excuse this short post. Watch the ...
RIP Meta Keyword Tag
Yahoo has now officially confirmed what many of us have come to speculate already was in effect. They no longer give any relevance to the meta keyword tag. Google, Bing and Yahoo all now ignore the tag which affectionately over the years had been ca...
Rand Fishkin Interviews Bing Reps
Well, I have the flu and been on my back most of the day in and out of consciousness. So in lieu of a meaningful post I had planned, I give you the Whiteboard Friday from SEOMoz.Rand Fishkin from SEOMoz has posted an interview with with Eric, Rajesh,...
2009 Ranking Factors From SEOMoz
SEOMoz just released it's newest 2009 Ranking Factors a few days ago. I was going to include this in my weekly Saturday post, but thought it deserved it's own post instead. They survey the top SEO experts and compile answers to questions on each of t...
The Best Traffic Usually Never Comes Through The Front Door
This statement is hard to understand unless you see it in action. Unless you have an established brand or several bookmarking home page surfers, you best traffic will arrive to your site via an interior page from the SERPS or a naturally given backli...
Is Your Site Suffering From Keyword Cannibalization?
I looked at a site yesterday of a reader that was asking why some of his pages were not ranking better. The site had good backlinks, fairly good SEO, nice link juice flow and the home page was ranking very well for it's term. Taking a closer look at ...
Landing Page For Less Important Pages
Now that page rank sculpting is all but dead, we need to concentrate more on where exactly to flow the juice of the site. Let me again reiterate, that I am more concerned about a page getting the most juice possible than I am about page rank itself. ...
The Best Blog Post Ever?
OK, to say the best blog post ever is a little strong, but the latest offering by Rand Fishkin from SEOMoz, certainly ranks right up there. The post is entitled, Perfecting Keyword Targeting & On-Page Optimization and it clearly is one that should be...
Google On Crawling & Indexing
It has been a while since I pointed to the Google Webmaster blog, but recently they did a post on optimizing your crawling and indexing. The presentation below shows the best practices for crawling and indexing. In the slides you will see some real t...
More On The Long Tail
A few days ago I dedicated a post to the Long Tail. Today on SEOMoz, Dr. Pete takes it farther in a case study entitled How Much Do Rankings Matter? It really is an easy read and he has stats to back it up. I was going to save this link for my Saturd...
Things That Make You Go Hmm - Duplicate Navigation Links
I get some great questions from time to time via email from readers. One really made me go hmm this morning. The email asked if duplicate navigation links took away from page rank flow. Let me show you want he meant. There are sites that will have a ...
Anchor Text Density
Sometimes I really need to bookmark my bookmarks, I bookmark so many great things, I forget what I bookmarked. Anyways I wanted to post about anchor text density today. This article on Linking Strategy jogged my memory. While anchor text density is n...
Attacking On-Site Articles
When planning out my articles on my sites, I like to not only use the Google keyword tool, but answer sites like Answers and Yahoo Answers. I will start with my base keyword or phrase and drill down from there. I am looking for the questions people a...
Bahoo Or Ying? How This Affects You!
If you have not heard by now, Yahoo and Microsoft have teamed up with one another web search wise. Both will still be separate sites, but in short, Microsoft will now power Yahoo search while Yahoo will handle the premium search advertisers. Bing wil...
The Description Meta Tag Is For Descriptions
That title is about as simple as I can put it. I also like to call the description meta tag, my selling tag. Picture it as a 160 character Twitter post. Describe and sell the surfer on what they will find on that particular page. If it is the home pa...
Blogroll Links Only On Home Page
While page rank sculpting for the most part is dead, you can still prevent some bleeding of your blogroll links if you so choose. Yoast mentioned in the past that:Google and other search engines these days heavily discount site wide links, so you're ...
SEO Is Not Dead, Just Do Not Over Do It
There has been a ton of talk lately that SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is dead or on it's way out. Like I mentioned yesterday, you do not have to be an SEO guru to rank for a good niche site. However, if you are getting better at SEO, just do not ...
Linkshare Free SEO Web Seminar Next Thursday
On Thursday, June 11th, Linkshare will be offering a free seminar on SEO best practices. The seminar will be given by Victoria Edwards, SEO Internet Marketing Specialist at LinkShare. She will be sharing her SEO best practices, including ideas that m...
Matt Cutts On Google Deindexed Sites
Deindexed sites are common in the affiliate marketing world. This is not just for BANS sites as the common factors are usually site thinness or other major no nos that Google dislikes. While there is really no SURE FIRE way of getting it back in the ...
Matt Cutts WordCamp Slide Presentation
Google guru Matt Cutts gave a talk at WordCamp San Francisco 2009 recently and has posted the slide presentation on his blog. There will likely be a video of the talk released soon, but there is plenty of great information in the slide presentation a...
SEO Checklist Cheat Sheet
I came across one of the better SEO cheat sheets in PDF format this afternoon while reading a post on SEO Moz blog. This is a must have for newbies and veterans alike. Make sure to print it out for quick reference. On a related note, a new post has s...
Google Webmaster Tools Updated
Google webmaster tools has a fresh updated look. Rather than rehashing everything, I really suggest you read the review that Aaron Wall from SEO Book. He goes through all of the features of the new layout and does an excellent job explaining each fac...
In Search Of The Perfect Domain Name
I use to waste a ton of time looking for the perfect domain name. Perhaps you have too. I use to want it stuffed with my keywords thinking it would give me that extra edge in the SERPs. Domain names do have a role in rankings, but not enough in my ho...
Keyword Stuffing Is So 2007
The search engines are getting smarter by the day as is the surfer. Just 2 short years ago, you were able to give yourself a little boost in the rankings for mentioning your keyword several unnatural times in your content and bold it. I am sure we ha...
