SEO Updates

A thread currently going on the Searchenginewatch.com forums mentions having “to constantly review and change content and link up with credible link partners”. The emphasis here is to put on the word “change”. It’s not exactly changing content that one needs to do, but adding new content. One of the answers in the thread is […]

Here’s a very interesting article on seomoz.org about search engine ranking factors. I couldn’t believe it at first, to find such a wide and organized list—perhaphs a little too wide, alright. However, the various factors it lists are gathered according to their importance, which means you don’t have to follow them all scrupulously to see […]

BlogSEO has an interesting piece about how word of mouth advertising can also bring you visitors, and does wield some potential, conrary to what many may think.
In a nutshell, here’s what is advised:

Become a member of forums that are focused on the topic you are interested in. And post meaningful topics and replies there, of […]

A post by Bill Hartzer on Search Engine Guide caught my attention recently. It’s titled Does an Over-Optimization Penalty Exist?, and asks a few interesting questions about this “problem” (I’m putting the word between quotes, as by reading the source article, it looks like not everyone risks encoutering such a penalty in their own SEO). […]

Blog Business World has a somewhat long but nonetheless interesting article on how to optimize a Blogger blog so that it ranks well in the search engines results pages.
Some of these tips may seem evident at first, but I think that they’re worth a look no matter what: Blogger services can be easily overlooked, since […]

Found through BlogSEO, here’s a good article about how to optimize your Flash site for search engines. By essence, Flash is all about images and animations, and not about these text links that Google and others so much rely on.
Here are the points it develops. They’re of course more detailed in the article itself:

Use […]

The article isn’t extremely recent, as it dates back to July of this year, but I found it useful to mention something I had already seen on other sites, during my first attempts at researching SEO tactics more efifciently: domain name registration length. This is especially valid for Google, in fact.
Does the length of your […]

One thing I’ve learnt since I’ve started dabbling into SEO is that when it comes to domain names, cryptic and smart names aren’t a good choice, contrary to what a “newcomer” in this field may think. Instead, one should aim at transparency and efficiency. Here’s a little list of all the tips and tricks I’ve […]

This nifty tool was recently built and put online by one of the developers at Search Engine Roundtable, and after a few tries with it, I’ve found that it can indeed be very useful when looking to craft good keyword phrases.
The Dynamic Keyword Phrase Generator enables you to plug in your primary, secondary and […]