Wild SEO Claims
I was reading this post and thought, I have had almost the same experience. A client who had a site built by someone else proudly showed it to me and wondered why it wasn’t getting any help from the search engines. Their site used JavaScript for navigation, not Flash, but the idea was the same. […]
11 Best Practices for URLs
Here’s a good idea to help both your human visitors as well as the search engines spiders. Your page’s URL (Uniform Resource Identifier) is your pages address. It’s what you link to or what your visitors can type directly into their address bar to get to your page. It used to be that I didn’t […]
Lessons of Talk Like A Pirate Day
September 19 has been declared “International Talk Like A Pirate Day”. How do I know that? I read it on Matt Cutts blog. If you don’t know who Matt Cutts is, he is one of the first employees at Google. He also writes a blog that for us in the Search Engine Optimization business makes […]
The VP of Search
Sara Holoubek of Search Engine Watch has written a post about just how far SEO has come in a short time. Major companies are adding VP’s of Search, she says it’s “the hottest new title in town”. Well, if the big players are doing it shouldn’t small companies at least recognize that search is something […]
How Much Do I Charge For SEO?
With Search Engine Optimization (SEO) nothing is ever guaranteed, so my first rule of thumb is to be skeptical of anyone who does guarantee you specific results. That doesn’t necessarily mean they can’t do it, but they may just be talking about a specific search for your name or some other obscure search term that […]
Free Webmaster Tools
iWEBTOOL has free Webmaster tools including seo tools. It’s a very good way to find out how good your website ranks. On this site there are: Google PageRank Prediction Visual PageRank Backlink Checker All-in-One Lookup Link Popularity PageRank Checker Search Engine Position Website Speed Test Rank Checker Google Banned Checker I would recommend that you […]
Search Engine Changes?
Kim Roach is a staff writer and editor for the SiteProNews. She has a new article called “Recent Changes at Google, Yahoo, and MSN” where she talks about how to do well in the search engines. It’s a good read with some excellent advise, but I think the more things change the more they stay […]
Are Mod Rewrites Now The Biggest Security Risk?
I have always advised my clients using dynamic pages to use mod rewrites to make their pages more search engine friendly. It is almost always advised for pages with more than two parameters. Here’s a new article on Threadwatch about “One Of The Best SEO Tools [mod rewrite] Now The Biggest Security Risk.” If this […]
Search Engine Optimization
There are way too many tools here to mention them all, but this SEO Tools page has links to the best SEO Tools on the internet and these tools will help you to optimize your website and move your search engine position higher. Tools include: Alexa Tools Backlink Tools Code Validation Keyword Suggestion Tools Search […]
Can My Site Rank Well on all Four Major Engines?
StepForth Placement has some very good articles on their site about search engine optimization. This recent article By Jim Hedger, StepForth News Editor, StepForth Placement Inc. talks about how you can rank well on all of the major search engines, Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask. They give you a thumbnail breakdown on all of them […]
