SEO Updates

If you are writing articles in order to generate traffic to your website, than you are also familiar with keywords. So, this is how this part of it works. You have your website up and it has a theme. You want to drive customers to the website. So, you write articles […]

It’s not good enough these days to simply get back links.  Back links to your site need to be from thematically related websites and more then that, thematically related PAGES and paragraphs and even sentences within pages.The modern search engine examines content surrounding outgoing links on a page to determine its value.  The content should […]

Your site might rank high on search engines, but it could probably go higher — there’s always room for improvement.
How can you achieve this? Try these tips:
Change the focus of your copy
Make the content as visitor-focused as possible. Visitors don’t want to know about you and your business as much as they want to […]

Stoney deGeyter of ISEdb.com says that the relatively new online market place is really “still coming into its own,” and that “the old brick and mortars might have some wisdom to dispense [regarding] how to run a successful business”:
Achieving top search engine placement is the B&M (brick and mortar) equivalent of choosing your store’s location. […]

David Pasternack has an interesting article on SEO Today about Yahoo Subscription Search and its implications for the way we all search, and do search engine optimization.
Currently in beta, Subscription Search will give people the ability to search subscription sites such as the Wall Street Journal, Consumer Reports, the New England Journal of Medicine […]

Here’s a guide that every person wanting to learn about search engine optimization should keep under the hand. Compiled by Rand of SEOmoz, the Beginner’s Guide To Search Engine Optimization is a treasure chest waiting to be opened. Providing “a complete overview of many of the processes, techniques and strategies used by professional search engine […]

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 […]

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). […]

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 […]

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 […]