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A blog devoted to search engine optimization, search engine marketing, and web traffic, as written by an experienced web marketer and copywriter.

Page Rank Sculpting: When to Use Nofollow Links

Posted on Monday December 22nd, 2008 at 15:50 in page rank, wordpress plugins, increase page rank, dofollow, outbound links, seo web content

The dofollow movement, which I agree with, might make it seem like nofollow is the enemy and should never be used. Actually, nofollow can be useful for funneling page rank throughout a site. While I think dofollowing comments is a good way to inspi...
The Main Free SEO Tools Online

Posted on Wednesday December 3rd, 2008 at 09:20 in seo tools, wordpress plugins

There are hundreds of SEO tools posted online. Many of these are duplicates and some don’t work as well as others. I’m not going to point any fingers, but some SEO tools online flat out don’t work. Also, there’s so many of them that it ...
Do Blogs Create Duplicate Content? Using Smart Archives

Posted on Monday December 1st, 2008 at 21:04 in google, blogging, wordpress plugins, duplicate content, site indexing

The word on blogs is that they’re built for SEO. The trick to indexing your entire site is to link between pages on the site. If you create a new article post, you should think about linking to an older article that hasn’t gotten a lot of tra...