SEO Updates

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 […]

Matt Cuts is reporting that the Jagger 2 google update is underway.
Read more about the update on the Webmaster World forums here.
Update(s):
Here are some reactions to this latest Jagger 2 update from the Webmaster World Forums (reg. req’d):
Pico_Train sez:

This update is stinking so far. 50% traffic gone.
This happened back in May. Completely kicked out from […]

I like Jim Boykin’s way of presenting his opinions, and the lattest in date is one that I thought I could share, given that it seems to me like both interesting and useful. Without much ado, it can simply be summarized as follows:
The main idea I’m trying to make is that by focusing on relevance […]

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 […]