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Basics of SEO Web Content
Here’s a fascinating article about how web surfer’s read information online. The gist of it is: they read a site much differently than other types of media, so web content needs to be structured differently. The web is a mixture of the newspape...
Digg’s Effect on Page Rank
I’ve been reading posts lately about how to be successful with Digg, such as how to write title that will catch people’s attention. Most of these articles are aimed at making it to the front page of Digg. What these posts often don’t co...
The Page Rank of a Subdomain vs. a Folder
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...
Poor Quality SEO on Political Sites
Every SEO or marketing blog is most likely properly optimized. It drives me nuts when I see someone with title tags of a number, rather than a title. The SEO value aside, it just doesn’t look as nice – unless people like seeing the number of ...
When Does Google Update Page Rank?
If you’re asking that question – and almost every new website owner asks it – then you’re already thinking about page rank in the wrong way. The truth is that Google updates page rank every day. The rank that you see when you use a page ran...
Are Unrelated Inbound Links a Problem?
Question: A site links to mine that’s in another category. If my site is about sports and the linking site is a flower shop, will this hurt my authority in a niche because it comes from the site in an unrelated topic? Answer: No, it won’t. In...
