Recent Posts Tagged With 'SEO Basics'

• How to Spot and Fight Duplicate Content

  Posted on Monday January 5th, 2009 at 19:15 in google, SEO Basics, duplicate content

  Google may be like God, but Google is also imperfect.  So imperfect that Google spiders can’t differentiate between the original source of an article and some spam site that picks it up.  What can happen in this case is that your own site is dock...

• Why People Choose Black Hat vs. White Hat SEO

  Posted on Tuesday December 16th, 2008 at 20:20 in google, SEO Basics, black hat, search engine spiders

  In the world of SEO, Black hat is sort of like Darth Vader (hence, the black hat) and white are the rebels (not the stormtroopers, roll with me on this).  As we’ve seen time and time again in movies, the bad guys usually win initially, but in the ...

• The Page Rank of a Subdomain vs. a Folder

  Posted on Thursday December 11th, 2008 at 12:01 in google, SEO Basics, page rank, serps

  Recently, when setting up the SEO Wordsmith Marketplace, I had to decide between a subdomain and a folder: Subdomain: marketplace.seowordsmith.com Folder: www.seowordsmith.com/marketplace There are arguments for and against each proposition.  It can...

• The Age of a URL and SEO

  Posted on Monday December 8th, 2008 at 23:27 in google, SEO Basics, backlinks, meta, domain age

  Recently, I discovered that this blog’s URL goes back to 2006 when it was first registered.  Actually, I realized this right away, as references to the old site show up in Google results.  But I finally got around to checking the Wayback Machine ...