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October 9, 2006 As with all things in the website world, the idea, practice, and importance of link popularity is always changing. The rule used to simply be, «get as many links as you can from anywhere at all.» This is no longer so. After that rule, it became, «make sure the site linking to […]
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October 10, 2006 Google goes through yet another growth spurt with it’s recent acquisition of YouTube. Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of Google, justifies the $1.65 billion payment with «Our companies share similar values; we both always put our users first and are committed to innovating to improve their experience. Together, we are natural partners […]
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October 9, 2006 Google filed for a patent recently that would allow for algorithmic ranking, along with the efforts of human editing. This would mean that the build of the work in determining ranking and results would rest with a computer, but would be helped with the integration of editorial opinion. You can read the […]
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October 9, 2006 A lot of times people ask me where I get my information or where they should start reading to learn more about SEO. I usually reply with a half cocky/half joking «read my blog, it has all you need to know.» Obviously this is not the truth, as no one person can […]
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October 18, 2006 The following is a link to a post at SEOMoz. Rand started to compile information for on-page optimization efforts, and provided all of us with this invaluable information. Rand’s List of Search Engine Ranking Factors RSS feed for comments on this post. The URI to TrackBack this entry is: http://www.seo-factor.com/Blog/bblog/trackback.php/42/ Leave a […]
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October 9, 2006 There are a bunch of them. I would like to share some of my favorites. First, though, I would like to say a thing. All tools are not 100%. Nothing is. Tools for SEO are online and rely on information given by different sources. For example, there are tools that check link […]
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October 6, 2006 We have discussed meta tags and the such. Now we will discuss the content that is on your homepage. The content is in part how the search engines know what your site is all about. They can’t see pictures, so naturally they will have to read your site. I do want to […]
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October 9, 2006 In my position as a consultant on SEO, I seem to be getting an increase in the amount of customers asking why their designer had not considered the changes I suggest. Some of these questions are usually followed by «that jerk. I’ve been dealing with his crap for too long.» So are […]
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October 7, 2006 I recently read forum post on the three signs of a nightmare client, and was thinking, “wow, I get a lot of problems from customers wanting too much for too little.” I thought it would be a good idea to talk about time and return. It starts with the submission. Google is […]
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October 7, 2006 We shall now go into the actual code of your site. «Code» is used loosely here as HTML is actually a mark-up language, but we aren’t here to talk that. HTML is the language used to create your website. Even if you have a software that makes a site in a strictly […]