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October 9, 2006 In creating a website we try to desperately to make something aesthetically pleasing, and there are so many methods to that madness. But the prettier the page, often means the more code we have to implement. More code equals less SEO friendly. Some things, in fact, will create a page that is […]
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October 9, 2006 When optimizing a site, we are faced with many daunting tasks. It’s hard enough to generally optimize a page for «the search engines.» But when we say «the search engine,» what are we talking about. Obviously Google, Yahoo!, and MSN carry many differences, so optimizing for one would not necessarily yield results […]
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October 9, 2006 I seem to be in a real «talk about marketing» mood this week. To continue with this theme, I want to take a small amount of time to discuss marketing on forums. Forums, in my opinion, can provide some of the best information. You can ask a question (which is rare because […]
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October 9, 2006 Optimizing a website is only part of the SEO / SEM process. Once a site is optimized for the search engines, you still have to consider «old-fashioned» ways of marketing your product or service. Before the Internet, we used magazines, billboards, T.V. commercials and endorsements, among other creative ways to advertise. The […]
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October 6, 2006 I know there is a lot on this blog, but it just started and I want to get a lot of the basics on here so we can start to get into the good stuff. I’m also gonna try to categorize the basics so that we can reference them as needed. So […]
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October 9, 2006 After reading my last post on CSS and SEO, a buddy of mine asked for a more detailed reason on what exactly about CSS will reduce the amount of code. I figure, «hey, I got a blog. Might as well explain it here.» Do yourself a favor and read the original post, […]
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October 9, 2006 Link popularity is a very important aspect of SEO and website promotion. It not only brings traffic to your site, but also helps the validity of your website’s importance in the eyes of Google and other search engines. There is, however, a big no no in the industry. Link farms. Before reading […]
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October 7, 2006 One of the terms used a great deal in the SEO industry is «PageRank.» PageRank is basically Google’s way of telling how «important» a page is. It is often thought that a good PageRank will inherently mean a good ranking. This is not so…sorta. Google’s PageRank is determined primarily on quality inbound […]
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October 9, 2006 I promise I will write something good and original today. But first, I wanted to give props to Andy Hagans and Aaron Wall of SEO Book for an incredible list of 101 Ways To Build Link Popularity In 2006. This list is a bit to get through, but I found things that […]
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October 6, 2006 I was very recently asked by a friend about alt tags in reference to using them to increase keyword relevancy. I answered, and she wanted to know if it was bad to stuff them with keywords (really funny that she should use the word ‘stuffing.’ You’ll see later), and if so, how […]