How Often Should I Update my Web Pages?
February 5th, 2008 | 21 commentsJust about any SEO will tell you frequently updated content is very important in the on-page optimization of any Web Page. But, for the past few years I’ve seen results that say otherwise. I never put much thought into it until Jonathan mentioned it in his “Search Engine Myths Exposed” report. After being reminded of [...]
Slapped by Google for no Good Reason
January 24th, 2008 | 41 commentsOK, I’m sure there’s a good reason, but so far I haven’t found it. The penalty isn’t on this blog, it’s on the “Article Marketing Domination” sales page. What’s odd is that it’s still indexed and ranking for several keywords, but it’s completely dropped out of the SERPS for it’s two main keywords. I had [...]
An In-Depth robots.txt Guide
January 18th, 2008 | 10 commentsrobots.txt – What Is It and Why Should I Use It? The robots.txt file is a simple file contained within a sites remote folder (yoursite.com/robots.txt,) that contains instructions for web spiders (not just search engines) as to what files and/or folders the spider should not access. There are several reasons one may use a robots.txt [...]
The Best SEO Book I Never Paid For
January 14th, 2008 | 19 commentsI exchanged a few emails with Jonathan Leger Friday and we began talking about SEO. Jon mentioned a new product he had just released days ago called “Search Engine Myths Exposed.” After stating that we had some indifferences in our opinions when it comes to Google, I read Jon’s free report. After reading it I [...]
Do Authority Sites Really Need Your Help?
January 8th, 2008 | 7 commentsWe should all be writing content that helps our viewers by solving a problem, making something easier or just giving them something to think about. While doing this, linking to other useful Websites comes natural, as it should. That’s what the WWW is all about really. However, although we shouldn’t rely solely on traffic from [...]
6 Underutilized Ways to Increase SE Rankings
January 6th, 2008 | 26 commentsWe all want to rank higher in the Search Engines, right? In most cases that’s exactly the problem, we all want to rank higher. It’s because of this that in order to get front page results for competitive terms we must think “outside the box.” Of course the number one factor in SE ranking is [...]
Google Eliminates their Supplemental Index
December 20th, 2007 | 2 commentsI’ve been subscribed to the WebProNews newsletter for a long while now. Although 90% of their broadcasts are annoying promo’s, they do occasionally send out a good story and they’re always offering excellent video interviews with some of the bigger names in the industry. Today I received a mailing from them in regards to Google’s [...]
Does Your Site and/or Blog Need a Sitemap?
December 11th, 2007 | 14 commentsSome people use Sitemaps, while others don’t, including myself. When it comes down to it, it doesn’t hurt to have one, but do you really NEED one? The answer, in most cases, is no. First you have to realize what the purposes of a sitemap are: 1. User experience – Although I very rarely use [...]
Duplicate Content and How to Deal with It
December 4th, 2007 | 17 commentsAs bloggers we have a constant reminder of the Duplicate Content issue in the form of “splogs,” blogs that scrape our content, usually through our RSS feeds. Lately my blog has been duplicated by a particularly annoying splog, which has a title that spans about 30 lines. This title is picked up as an incoming [...]
“Competitive” Keywords I’ve Conquered with Little Traffic
November 14th, 2007 | 8 commentsWhen we all start out, we’re told to concentrate on keywords that aren’t too competitive. After all, what chances do you really have at conquering “competitive” keywords? Well, even then, I wasn’t too interested in conquering low-competition keywords, so I didn’t listen to that advice. I figured if I was going to do this I [...]
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