Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Fatal Mistakes for Search Engine Optimizaton ( SEO )

Matt McGee, SEO Manager at Marchex in Seattle has published a nice article at Search Engine Land on 20 fatal mistakes to avoid when attempting search engine optimization . I won't go into the details but here is the list. Read the complete SEO "Don'ts": 20 Fatal Mistakes You Must Avoid To Succeed article here.

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Marketing with Zvents - SEO and Shopping in One

Leverage event search engine Zvents to market product releases, store openings, sales, and other things to do in stores such as fashion shows, how to classes, and social events.

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Learn How to do a press release yourself

If you are involved in on line marketing and you are constantly trying to drive people to your site, no doubt Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is something that concerns you. Doing Press Release can help a lot. Here is a video and some information about how to format a release good enough to be picked up by AP or Google News

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Friday, June 22, 2007

The No. 1 SEO Tip for first page of Google

What is the best way to get out of the Google sandbox-Is it writing articles and submitting them to free article directories?Or, are you better off writing blog posts to compliment your web site. We look at the options!



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SEO vs. Social Bookmarking vs. Social SEO Bookmarking

Websites are needing more and more ways to increase traffic to their websites. Even though the time and money spent online is increasing, so to is the bulk of websites for which people can spend said time and money.



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Matt Cutts, MySpace, SEO, Youtube, and the Algorithm March

Good SEO information from Matt Cutts (Google) and a great almost topic related video.



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Thursday, June 21, 2007

How to SEO Your Site in Less Than 60 Minutes

Fantastic write-up with easy steps that anyone can apply to their website.



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The No. 1 SEO Tip for first page of Google

What is the best way to get out of the Google sandbox-Is it writing articles and submitting them to free article directories?Or, are you better off writing blog posts to compliment your web site. We look at the options!



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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Organic SEO or Site Optimization Defined Hard Work Pays Off

Let us start with the Wiki definition for Organic SEO. "Organic SEO" refers to the manual type of page optimization vs. automatic submittal and page alteration. Basically it is SEO completely by someone "in person" as opposed to a submitter program, or page generator for example. Loosely it also refers to the "honorability"



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msplinks.com kills MySpace link SEO karma

MySpace is rewriting all external links as 302 redirects (not just in comments anymore), which effectively removes all SEO karma. "MySpace profiles and blog posts are now worthless for SEO purposes." Bad news for the spammers, terrible news for everyone else too.



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Google + SEO = the new "AOL Keyword" ?

Many of us remember the TV, radio, and even print ads back in the "AOL era" that left us with an AOL Keyword for finding their site. Over time, and as AOL became less important, TV/radio/print ads gave you a domain name instead. Increasingly, some big companys are telling us what to search Google for to find them.



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Monday, June 18, 2007

Anatomy Of A Top Ranking Web page - SEO

Optimizing web pages for high rankings in the search engines involved two main processes. Firstly there is the on-page factors which include what keywords you place where on the page itself. The second, and more important process is getting the off-page factors right - incoming links.



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How To Make A Corporate Website Search Engine Friendly

Why do you have to optimize corporate websites? Will search engine optimization be useful in corporate websites? What are the advantages of SEO for corporate websites? There are many benefits that SEO could give to corporate websites. Here are some of them:



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Sunday, June 17, 2007

A Guide to Drive Traffic to Your Website for Free

When you or client have absolutely no budget for SEO or Internet advertising use this guide.



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My Favorite Firefox Extensions

A listing with brief descriptions of useful Firefox extensions for Web development and SEO, including Firebug, Web Developer Toolbar, ColorZilla, Link Counter, del.icio.us Bookmarks, Download Statusbar, HTML Validator, MeasureIt, Save As Image, and SearchStatus.



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Friday, June 15, 2007

Google Analytics Quitely Gets Another Update

The new version now includes: Hourly reporting, Clickable URLs, Cross Segmentation by Network Location, Increased number of data rows per page, Bounce Rate increase/decrease, AdWords Integration and a few other bits and pieces.



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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Lookout Google, Yahoo Gots the Blues

Yahoo is testing a new blue browser embedded search toolbar in its search engine results to challenge the Google, Ask and MSN interfaces. Screenshots included.



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Yahoo Keyword Meta Relevence Test

Meta Keyword relevance test - Test on how Yahoo is looking at the meta keyword relevancy



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Print Design vs. Web Design - Part 1

"Print Design vs. Web Design - Part 1" by Andy MacDonaldInternet Marketing, Web Design, Programming, Search Engine Optimization, & SEO Articles brought to you by www.Site-Reference.com



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Easy Search Engine Optimisation in Wordpress

How to quickly and easily optimise a Wordpress blog for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).



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Which traffic sources should you target? | Website Search Engine Marketing

Recently I’ve read about otherwise sane Internet Marketers (also called SEO’s) targeting Digg comments at an attempt to direct traffic to a particular website. The first thing that came to mind was that running a campaign specifically to garner traffic from the comments of a techie social media site is probably not going to have a great ROI



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The Power of using webmaster forums to boost traffic

Ok you should all know by now that webmaster forums are a useful place to get information about SEO, Marketing,Traffic etc., but did you know that a lot of people are interested in 1:1 exchanges of stumbles, tags on delicious etc ..,I put a post on most of the webmaster forums around in the appropriate section stating that you want to start a 1:1



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ViralTag Backlink Meme

According to SEO expert, when building backlink, we need to do it Wide and Deep. This is one of the good link building strategies. Let us do this together to make your blog more popular with search engines and thus results in more direct referrals as well as improving your search engine ranking.



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Site needs traffic because Search Engines are not picking up your Flash?

Then submit your Flash based website for free at FlashSEO.net!HOW DOES IT WORK?Search engines will Index our pages, direct traffic to your new auto created page on our site, and then we direct the traffic to your website automatically.Free Services:Search Engine Optimization for Adobe Flash Sites and Directory



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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

How to Find The Best Software Tools to Help you With MySpace - Free Article

Social Networking sites like those of MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube are the latest trend out there. Ebay and Google are no longer the sites that get the most visits on a daily basis. Using the features on a site like MySpace can be daunting though. MySpace has shut down several US based third party developers of MySpace Bots.



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Newsletter Keywords

The density of your keywords on your eNewsletter is critical for quality SEO results. Learn how to go about this the right way with mobileStorm’s Internet Marketing Manager Shavkat Karimov by clicking here.



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Google is Killing Previous Analytics Version on July 18th

It’s been known for a while that eventually the older version of Analytics would be phased out but I hadn’t seen a particular date yet. I just logged in and got this message: "Please note that the previous Google Analytics interface will no longer be accessible as of July 18th.". See the screenshot!



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Google for Icons - Icon Search Engine

Very usefulfor those developing applications for desktop or web.



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Monday, June 11, 2007

Do-it-yourself Search Engine Tools

Link Popularity Checker Shows inbound links for Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, Alltheweb & Hotbot.



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TrustRank - building trust around a website

PageRank is overrated, its time for the TrustRank or why its worth paying 299$ for Yahoo! Directory listing.



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SEO techniques an SEO company will use on your site

A list of some of the techniques a SEO company will use on your site. Makes for a useful list if you do your own promotions.



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New MSN Search Engine: How Good is it? - SEO

If you have an online business or you just use Internet as one of your marketing tools, you know that how important are the search engines in your quest to get more targeted visitors to your website. The changes in search engine field can have unexpected outcome for your online endeavors. That's why it is important to be well-informed on impending



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How Do I Improve My Web Site Conversion Rate? Part 1 - SEO

Question 1.What do you mean by conversion? Do you mean getting someone to answer the simplest call to action such as "read more here" or actually selling a product or service?



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Thursday, June 7, 2007

New Google Talk Gadget, no need to download Google Talk Client to use GTalk

Now that Google has launched the Google Talk Gadget, you can connect to Google Talk without having to leave open your Gmail account or to download the Google Talk Client. Its presented in an easy to use and intuitive package with a better interface than available on Gmail.



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Google Audio Ads

Google introduced Audio ads as another venue for the adwords branch.



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Google launches YouTube's money machine

YouTube has updated their embedded video player to include new features that I think make a lot of sense for Google. The most interesting feature is it gives users quick, uninterrupted access to related videos this feature could be YouTube's much needed money maker.



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Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Google Updates Its Webmaster Guidelines...More Info for the SEO

Google is now providing more information in its webmaster guidelines about the naughty things you shouldn't do seo-wise. Topics now covered in detail include cloaking, paid text links, duplicate content, automated queries, doorway pages, and several other interesting SEO tactics. Good article (and quick too.)



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Blog SEO: List of Free Sites to Submit your URL or RSS Feed

Some quick places to get your blog listed, either by its Web address or URL feed.



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How to Use Overture/Yahoo To Get Website Visitors

Overture or now known as Yahoo because of Yahoo’s takeover, was the original inventor of the use of the P4P or Pay for Performance. Overture saw that the internet was fast becoming the easiest and most convenient way to shop, and advertising was going to hit at an all time high because of the many businesses in the arena..



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Ask Relaunches as Search Takes a Turn

Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine behind Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, launched a new design of its search page Tuesday called Ask3D. It finds multimedia content like images, videos and music and presents those alongside traditional text-based results in a three-paned web interface.



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Complete SEO guide for Wordpress

This is a complete SEO guide for wordpress, from start to finish. Once you follow this guide, your wordpress blog will be LOVED by search engines!



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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

How to Find The Best Software Tools to Help you With MySpace - Free Article

Social Networking sites like those of MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube are the latest trend out there. Ebay and Google are no longer the sites that get the most visits on a daily basis. Using the features on a site like MySpace can be daunting though. MySpace has shut down several US based third party developers of MySpace Bots.



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Keyword Density, Too much or too less ?

This article shows you how to make good and proper keyword density, and some simple guide in achieving good SEO for your website.



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Beyond Hits! -- SEO

Your Website visitor reports are a goldmine of information. If you don't review these on a regular basis, you can't fully evaluate the return on your Web investment. And, you could miss critical clues as to how user-friendly your site is, how effectively your message reaches your visitors, and what unmet needs they may have.



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What is The Google Sandbox Effect? plus articles and information on SEO

In the age of fair competition you may find it hard to believe that a search engine may hinder the appearance of a new website. This is what is currently believed to be happening on more web servers today.



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What is The Google Sandbox Effect? plus articles and information on SEO

In the age of fair competition you may find it hard to believe that a search engine may hinder the appearance of a new website. This is what is currently believed to be happening on more web servers today. Some programmers have viewed Google as uncomfortable to rank newer websites until they have proven their viability to exist for more than a peri



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Free Pro Blog Hosting For A Year

Nice little contest being sponserd by a small hosting company offering to give away free pro blog hosting with SEO for a year winners are drawn every 2 weeks. Check it out



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55 Essential Articles Every Serious Blogger Should Read

55 essential articles on blogging, relating to: building meaningful content, increasing traffic, retaining readers, linkbaiting, SEO, social networks, building a community, monetization, and more.



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SEO Resources

Google Toolbar Buttons - Allows you to add quick links to SEO tools and RSS feeds to the Google toolbar. They only works with the new beta Internet Explorer version of the Google Toolbar.



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Saturday, June 2, 2007

New webmaster forum now open

doobdee.net has been online for quite a while now which is a good place for SEO and general webmaster tips aswell as a repository for scripts created by the owner. Now the community forums are open and they promise to be a big hit! DoobDee has gathered together a brilliant back room staff to help members and give good advise in all webmaster areas.



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Ultimate list of Wordpress resources

A list about Wordpress themes, plugins, generators, SEO..



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The Only List of Wordpress SEO Plugins You'll Ever Need

This is the full list of Wordpress Plugins that I use to optimize my Wordpress blog. These plugins always came up on people's lists when I was researching on how to SEO Wordpress.



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22 Keyword Ad Searches Banned By Google

Student term paper ads now banned by Google. Did you know there are 21 other terms banned?



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