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Fresh Content Will Bring Spiders and People Back For More
Fresh Content for RankingsFresh content will bring spiders (and people) back to your site more often. How often you update your website is extremely critical to your success on the web. First and foremost, search engines loves fresh content. Let's take two sites that cover the same topic. Site A who updates their site every... continue reading "Fresh Content Will Bring Spiders and People Back For More"»
Unique Information Will Help You Get Better Rankings
Unique Content equals Better RankingsUnique content will help you rank better in the search engines. So you have a website and you want to rank well in the search engines. Well, you need to think about what you customers need and then define your unique value proposition. First if you don't understand your customers you will never do... continue reading "Unique Information Will Help You Get Better Rankings"»
If Content is King, Linking is Queen
Linking is Queen - Content is KingIf Content is King then surely Linking is Queen. And we all know who really rules the kingdom. I came across a great article that built on the well known saying that content is king by saying that "Content is King, but Linking is Queen." Content and Linking go hand in hand if the site is going... continue reading "If Content is King, Linking is Queen"»
Full Content or Partial RSS Content Feeds
Full RSS FeedsShould everyone switch to full content RSS feeds? I recently read an article on devlounge that gave some reasons for having full content feeds. The main points are as follows:Full feeds provide a convenience for those that read feeds. As with any "feature" of a website, you should focus on... continue reading "Full Content or Partial RSS Content Feeds"»
You are Nothing without High-Quality Content
High Quality ContentYour webpages need high-quality content. Remember the dread of writing that 20 page research paper in high school? Although you don't need 20 single spaced, typed pages to get a good grade (or ranking) on the web, you do need two things:High-quality ContentAn Understanding of How People Read on... continue reading "You are Nothing without High-Quality Content"»
Why Your Tried-and-True Older Content is Losing You Traffic
Removing Dates in Google SERPsAround March of this year we saw decreased Google traffic coming to tried-and-true content that had brought us solid traffic for years. Things continued to decrease and we decided to investigate the cause. It appears that Google's use of dates in the SERPs had a markedly negative impact on our clickthrough... continue reading "Why Your Tried-and-True Older Content is Losing You Traffic"»
Creating Web Copy That Brings In Customers
Online Writing AdviceThe content on your website should always help pull in your visitors, not push them away. So, you've optimized your website for search engines, but have you optimized it for visitors as well? When a user arrives at your website from a search engine, they have typed in specific words that they are hoping... continue reading "Creating Web Copy That Brings In Customers"»
Who Else Wants to Build Links and Rank High in Google
Link BaitingWho Else Wants to Build Links and Rank Higher in Google Link Baiting has become common place to increase organic inbound links and rank higher in Google. There was a great article by Andy Hagan but he broke his site to pieces, so I had to do some digging to find it again. Here are some of the best from... continue reading "Who Else Wants to Build Links and Rank High in Google"»
White Hat vs. Black Hat - High Risk and Low Risk Tactics
White Hat and Black Hat TacticsAt a recent SMX Conference, Matt Cutts (head of Google Web Spam) gave great examples of Black Hat and White Hat tactics as either high risk or low risk. Here are some blackhat/whitehat tactics and their relative risk factors: TopicHigh Risk"Black Hat Tactics"Low Risk"White Hat Tactics"... continue reading "White Hat vs. Black Hat - High Risk and Low Risk Tactics"»
More on First Page Results on Google
First Page ResultsDo you know how to get first page results on Google? Apparently we do. Interestingly, after posting my article on the importance of getting listed on the first page of search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN and brand benefits associated with that first page ranking, I started noticing hits... continue reading "More on First Page Results on Google"»
Top 10 Key Search Factors in 2007
Top 10 Key Search FactorsThere is a great discussion going on over at SearchEngineWatch about the "Top 10 Key Search Factors in 2007." The initial proposed list looks like this (with my comments after the topic):Content - As we've mentioned before Content is King. However, with so many social networks (digg, reddit,... continue reading "Top 10 Key Search Factors in 2007"»
Basic Website Usability Tips
Website UsabilityHere is a good list of important basic design usability tips. I'm doing a massive cleanup of my bookmarks, and realized that tons of really good content just disappears off the web. So, I'm going to put the content where I know it won't disappear. Here are some great usability tips I grabbed from Jens... continue reading "Basic Website Usability Tips"»
All Business Owners Should Know these 10 Things Before Building a Website
Before You Begin10 things all business owners should know before they have a website built.I loved the article "10 things businesses should know before building a website" over at 456 Berea Street . Here are their top 10 with my comments added:Understand what you want. Too many businesses really don't... continue reading "All Business Owners Should Know these 10 Things Before Building a Website"»
Four Steps to a Better Ranking in the Search Engines
Better RankingsFour basic things you can do now to improve your search engine rankings on Google, Yahoo, and Bing. The single question I am asked more often than any other is, "How can I rank better in the search engines." While there are thousands of different things that people can do to rank well, we have found... continue reading "Four Steps to a Better Ranking in the Search Engines"»
Differences Between Natural Doorways and Bad Doorways
Doorway PagesDifferences between "natural doorway" pages and doorway pages that will get you banned from the search engines.Many people do not understand that you can have "multiple doorways" into your website. Not everyone is going to "come in" through the "front" homepage.... continue reading "Differences Between Natural Doorways and Bad Doorways"»
Is Your Website Search Engine Friendly?
Search Engine Friendly WebsitesIf your website isn't search engine friendly, your website is not earning you enough money. Far too many web designers are actually graphic designers claiming to be website designers. Unfortunately, they know nothing (ok... maybe next to nothing) about how search engines work and what is necessary... continue reading "Is Your Website Search Engine Friendly?"»
SEO and Forget It
Google's Sandbox - SEOIn this "fast-food", "fast-paced", "broadband" era, many people don't realize that it takes time to get out of the sandbox before they can move up on the search engines. I don't know if it is just the fast-paced time that we live in, or if people have just forgotten that patience is a virtue,... continue reading "SEO and Forget It"»
How to add a live RSS feed to Firefox
RSS FeedIf you are a dedicated Firefox user, you will have noticed the built-in "Latest Headlines". My wife thought that it was interesting that I was looking at the BBC live feed instead of CNN or the such. So I figured I would change it over to a CNN feed instead. While doing so, I figured I would let... continue reading "How to add a live RSS feed to Firefox"»
Blogs a New Way of Doing the Same Old Thing
Blogs - Information SuperhighwayBlogs or web logs are great, cost efficient ways of providing up-to-date information for clients and search engines.Lately it seems that Blogs have become the craze of the Internet. Everyone has one: dentists, artists, CEOs, poor starving college students, everyone. Blogs are a wonderful way to quickly... continue reading "Blogs a New Way of Doing the Same Old Thing"»
Website Credibility in 10 Easy Steps
Web Site CredibilityCredibility is difficult to build and extremely easy to lose. These 10 steps will help you maintain your credibility. Stanford released the following 10 points for increasing credibility after a 3-year, 4,500 person study .Make it easy to verify the accuracy of the information on your site. - The web... continue reading "Website Credibility in 10 Easy Steps"»
Is your search engine placement like a billboard in the woods?
Placing in the First Three PagesMost search engine users will abandon or change their search if they do not find what they are looking for in the first three pages of results. Interesting statistics for people using search engines show that most people expect their results in the first three pages. 90% of search engine users will... continue reading "Is your search engine placement like a billboard in the woods?"»
First Page Search Engine Results
Be First Page in the Search EnginesBeing on the first page of the search engine results, like Google, Yahoo, and MSN, not only will improve your ROI but will increase your brand image. According to a new study more than half of search engine users will click on the very first page of results. 62% of search engine users click on a result... continue reading "First Page Search Engine Results"»
What really is Search Engine Optimization?
Customer OptimizationSearch Engine Optimization (SEO) is not merely validating HTML, keywords, alt tags, and descriptions. SEO is all about "Customer Optimization". Too many people do not understand what SEO (Search Engine Optimization) really is and what it is not. Even "Professionals" disagree.... continue reading "What really is Search Engine Optimization?"»
RSS Feed Consistency
RSS Feed Icon ConsistencyRSS feeds are becoming more consistent from browser to browser (Firefox and Internet Explorer) and should make RSS marketing in the future easier than ever before. Every internet marketer out there should be standing up and doing the happy dance. RSS has won another victory through Microsoft adopting... continue reading "RSS Feed Consistency"»
Realign Your Website Instead of Redesigning it
Don't Redesign, RealignRealigning your website to your strategy is more beneficial than redesigning. It is absolutely essential to understand the concept of realigning your website to your strategy or realigning your strategy to your goals to stay competitive in the online market. I read a post recently... continue reading "Realign Your Website Instead of Redesigning it"»
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