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How to Select a PR Company That Knows SEO
If you want to know how good an online PR company is at dealing with SEO you type ‘online public relations’ into Google and make your choice from the first page. You already know that I know my SEO and it should not come as a surprise that Pamil...
SEO - Optimizing Graphic Images
The search engines take into consideration the entire content of a Web page. That’s why the image and sound files you display on a Web page should be related with its topic. The best way to define this is “harmony.” The search engines want ...
The Robots Meta Tag and Robots.txt File
The Robots, also known as Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders are programs that traverse the Web automatically to look for information of various types. Search engines use them to index web content and this is what we will discuss in the article belo...
Defining Snake Oil SEO Salesmen
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2009/02/16/snake-oil-seo-salesmen/';The funniest story today comes from Submitfrog.com – a company that proclaims itself the “genuine” Google PageRank increaser guru on the market. The company...
Traditional SEO Techniques: Page Titles
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2009/02/13/seo-tips-page-titles/';Introduction: Natural Language SEO On-site SEO includes: optimized content, well-formed HTML code and creating Web pages that are both usable and accessible, basica...
SEO Challenge 2009: Get a News Site Included in Google News
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2009/01/06/google-news/';Google News and Yahoo! News generate thousands of unique visits each day for a site. Many news publishers fail to understand these two channels, others simply don’t know h...
Don’t Pay for Google Sitemaps
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2008/12/08/google-sitemaps-scam/';$375 for a Google sitemap and a Yahoo! sitemap is an exorbitant price! Believe it or not, there are so called SEO companies ready to charge such a price and enough ...
How to Write Compelling SEO Copy
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2008/11/29/seo-content/';I could actually write a book only about this as it is the single most important element to getting your website found. Okay, I give up. Content is king Every time someone s...
Key Words Vs Keywords
A standard misconception is that SEO prepares a site to rank high for the keywords that have the most relevance. Yes, this is one of the reasons to do SEO. One of the less important reasons. The most important reason is to prepare the site for the pu...
Demystifying Accessibility Myths: The Alt Tag Attribute
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2008/05/31/alt-attributes/'; To understand the idea of web accessibility we first need to understand its purpose: to improve the accessibility of the websites for people using different devices, not...
SEO Book for WordPress 2.5 Available for Free Download
submit_url = 'http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2008/05/18/seo-wordpress-book/';The latest version of the SEO Book for WordPress 2.5 eBook is now available in pdf format for free. Feel free to download it and send me your questions, feedback and ...
Google’s Hypocrisy Knows No Borders
You all know that Google slapped bloggers and webmasters around the web in the face at its latest PR update. And you all heard that Google “hates” SEOs for trying to manipulate rankings. What you probably didn’t know is that Google OWNS an SEO ...
7 Reasons Why I Wouldn’t Recommend Content Management Systems
I was about to write a post about the advantages and disadvantages of managing as site trough a content management system (CMS). But on a second thought I decided to write this piece of literature, because CMS is certainly something I wouldn’t reco...
Accessibility Trends
Many webmasters still ignore the importance of a valid code for their websites. Web coders seem to disregard creating accessible web pages, according to the standards stipulated by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). While in the past Google’s...
10 Firefox Extensions that Make SEO Easy
A dream comes true for many SEO newbies. All the Firefox extensions for SEO make expensive SEO software history. I use a few of the extensions listed below. I hope you’ll find my list useful too. Because, take it from me: they will make your job e...
Cap Sud Dexia
Cap Sud Dexia is a financial product but it is also a keyword phrase that shows today just 108,000 results in google.com. It also happens to be an SEO challenge for me. I plan to beat the site that ranks now at nr. 1 for this keyword phrase. That is...
SEO Works in Mysterious Ways - A Look at SEO as a Dirty Business
In real life, presidential election campaigns are run behind closed doors and their actors often play dirty tricks on each other; for “All’s fair in love and war.” The final purpose of the game is political supremacy. Power. In SEM&...
An Open Letter to Google: Let Us Link
When Matt Cutts decided to call for reports on paid links the world of the link brokers started to shake. Google is ready to punish even the webmasters who buy links on related sites to increase the targeted traffic to their sites. Not quite fair fro...
The Women and the Men of SEO
When we browse the Web in the search for better online marketing channels or search engine optimization advice, we cannot ignore an unexpected reality: the number of women in SEO. Two or three years ago SEO was a geeky world and the strongest name w...
The Importance of Web Design and SEO for Online Success
Having a beautiful website no one can find is like having a store and keeping the doors locked. You know it is there, you’ve done a great job decorating it, the products are waiting for the customers, yet no one comes in. Web design focuses on...
The SEO Book of WordPress Blogs
The SEO Book of WordPress Blogs is finally ready. Thanks to the efforts and dedication of my dear friend Lillie Ammann, Writer & Editor, this book is now error free (as you all know I am not a native English speaker) and available to download (p...
Revealing AdSense Secrets
The expression 'make money with AdSense' has become, since many years back, a cliché. Thousands of so-called gurus are ready to sell expensive (or less expensive) ebooks that supposedly will teach you how to increase your AdSense revenue over night....
You Can Submit? No WAY!
This is exactly the kind of website I warned you against in my The Stuttering Fish'On SEO Quacks entry. This is exactly what you should never do with your website if you are serious about your SEO campaigns! Don't fall for their cheap search engine...
Boost Traffic, Increase ROI, Go Social!
A Comprehensible Approach to Social Bookmarking Networks To Digg or Not To Digg With a Google PageRank 8/10 digg.com is one of the hottest social bookmarking spots on the Web. Its history leaves more room for controversy than any other site of the ki...
