SEO Updates

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This isn’t about SEO in general, but more focused on blogs and how to build (good) links networks and get some viewage along the road. Aaron Wall from SEOBook hands out a few pieces of advice, as well as links to posts and resources illustrating the point:
With blogs you can just whinge on about whatever, [...]

While browsing news from the past week, I found an article written by Cari Haus on WebProNews.com, titled “The Biggest SEO Scam of All”. Intrigued, I decided to read, and here’s what I found:

I spotted this press release on ArriveNet today; while said release is dated from June 28 (I’m a little slow to catch up with all I read at times), the advice it gives probably deserves some attention, as it’s easy to overlook some “details” that can indeed slow be a problem in terms of search [...]

Search Engine Optimization is a tricky business. You really have to stay on top of it; everything that applied last month (or even last week) may have have considerably less value today. For example, submitting to search systems. That SEO for Dummies book you have on your desk may have been written [...]