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The Secret to SEO Success

10. March 2008

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There’s a pretty good article over at Ask the SEO Guru entitled Squeezing The Juice Out Of The Low-Hanging Fruit. It basically lays out the White Hat way to SEO and admonishes about taking shortcuts. Taking the quick and easy way of backlinking with links that are not relevant will only lead to lower [...]

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Using Modifiers to Your Keywords to Improve Your Search Ranking

7. March 2008

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Search Engine Guide has a great article on how you can use modifiers or differentiators in your keyword phrases to set your web site apart from your competitors. In Using Differentiators in Keyphrases: What Every Search Engine Optimization Company Needs to Know, Scott Buresh describes how you can improve your search engine optimization by getting more [...]

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SEO and WordPress Categories

29. February 2008

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Pearsonified has an interesting post that we will hopefully be able to put into practice called What Every Blogger Needs to Know About Categories. It’s mainly about how to get better Search Engine Optimization with WordPress by changing how your posts are linked.

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The Big Word Project: Good for SEO?

28. February 2008

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Paddy Donnelly and Lee Munroe, two masters students from Northern Ireland, have developed an experiment to explore what different words mean to different people and they are going to make some money at the same time. The have created a new site called The Big Word Project which is selling words for $1 per letter. What’s [...]

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Go Directly to Google Jail (Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect…)

27. February 2008

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Two recent posts talk about how difficult it is (impossible?) to get included again in Google’s index once you have been penalized for using Black Hat techniques. Sebastian’s Pamphlets describes one such unfortunate schemer in You can’t escape from Google-Jail when… and Search Engine Roundtable similarly describes how bad links can hurt your site in Bad [...]

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Building More Links to Your Site

27. February 2008

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ProBlogger has some tips on how to build links to your website, in fact how to build 22,938 links! Here’s a summary: Pick a Niche and Own It With Quality Content Get Involved In The Community Get Press Social Networking Sites Directories, Craigslist, Wikipedia Give People An Incentive To Link to You

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Search Engine Optimization 101 – Page Rank

8. January 2008

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The whole point of Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is to improve your web site’s ranking; that is to move it up in the list of search results so that it is as close as possible to the top. Many users will look no farther than the first page of search results and some will [...]

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Search Engine Optimization 101 – Getting Indexed

5. January 2008

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Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the process of improving the use of keywords on your web site in order to increase the number of visitors from web searches using those keywords and phrases. The term SEO is used when referring to “organic” web searches as opposed to paid web search advertising. Organic search results [...]

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