Sunday, February 27, 2011
TweetShare Paid links have been a hot topic now for a while, but more so this week now that JC Penney’s rankings were destroyed because of a whistle blower at the New York Times. Do I believe that paid links are effective? Yes, clearly. Do I support them for the use of manipulating keyword rankings? [...]
TweetShare I’ve been thinking about this for the past couple weeks and haven’t come up with a solid answer. The question is: Can Google (or any of the search engines) suspect strong SEO efforts whether it be absolute perfect onsite optimization or perfect link building? Do they care? Will they adjust the ranking they give [...]
TweetShare Although I don’t discourage comment linking as you can see from my comparison between comment linking and comment spamming, I had an interesting change happen to one of my websites while practicing this link building strategy. I may be making several assumptions in this post, but I believe the overall takeaway will be valuable. [...]
TweetShare Disclaimer: This article reflects my opinion, not actual SEO practices or Search Engine processes. For those who may not know, when you go to somebody’s blog, you are usually able to leave a comment at the bottom. This comment space is used to add to the conversation and give your two cents of knowledge. [...]
TweetShare Every so often I have a coworker ask how I find ideas for new websites. The advice I give them isn’t necessarily a secret, but getting started can be a challenge when you’ve never done it before. Here’s my advice: What’s your area of expertise? Whether you love hunting, auto racing or even stuffing [...]
TweetShare I guess a simple way to determine if SEO is worth it to your business is to find out if people are searching online for your products or services. If they’re not, then you may want to look at other forms of marketing like billboards, commercials or magazines. If you are a local business [...]
TweetShare What is a Robots.txt File? Well you see, when a search engine’s bot (automated robot that crawls the web) comes to your website, one of the first things it will look at is the robots.txt file that is located on your root domain (ie: yahoo.com/robots.txt) From there it will read this simple file to [...]
TweetShare Building your website using WordPress will save you a massive amount of time, as well as frustration. I’ve played around with other content management systems (CMS) like Drupal and Joomla and neither are as simple as WordPress. Since it is so widely used, there are thousands of themes (prebuilt websites) and plugins to help [...]
TweetShare If you own a business, it’s a no-brainer that you’d want to be found by local people wanting your services. More people every day are using the search engines to search for local stores and products. Having a good position for a local search could do your company wonders. Here is a in-depth tutorial [...]
TweetShare If you’re looking to go after a particular keyword and are debating on whether you want to focus on onsite optimization or offsite optimization then slap yourself, because you need to do both. You cannot focus too much on only one aspect of SEO. If you focus to much on your link profile then [...]
