SEO Updates

Here’s an article by Matt Cutts (found through ProBlogger) that explain, in a few but informative words, why it’s best to use dashes rather than underscores in your URLs, at least when it comes to Google:
With underscores, Google’s programmer roots are showing. Lots of computer programming languages have stuff like _MAXINT, which may be different […]

It seems that it can, at least according to this entry I’ve found on Multinlingual Search:
Google chooses the language of the site through 4 main factors. The physical location of the webserver (IP number), the top level domain name - ‘ .de’ for instance, the meta language tag(s), where the incoming links come from and […]

This indeed was something that had me confused at first, and I know I’m not the only one in this case. It can thus be interesting to have a look at this post on Blog SEO about playing with robots.txt. While, as usually said, meta-tags and the likes don’t have as much importance as they […]

Google announced that the AdSense program now supports the use of 200 channels:
If you weren’t sure how you were going to track the performance of all of your new pages, your worries are over! We’ve increased the number of AdSense channels available to you, up to 200 active channels at any one time. Use your […]

Aaron Wall from SEO Book has released his free link analysis software. Going with the name of Back Link Analyzer, you can download it directly here.
What is this tool, may you ask? Aaron explains it all in the page linked hereabove. In a nutshell, however, Back Link Analyzer is a link analysis tool that shows […]

For anyone who could be interested by SEO techniques applied to blogs specifically, Darren Rowse at ProBlogger has started to put up an interesting series about Search Engine Optimization Tips for Blogs.
The series isn’t finished yet, and will very likely contain a few more articles before it’s declared “closed”. However, the ones that have published […]