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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 […]
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October 9, 2006 Often times we get so caught up in marketing our site and making it aesthetically pleasing, we forget one of, if not THE most important part of SEO. Content. The search engines can not see pictures, so the only way to tell them what your site is all about is to provide […]
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October 9, 2006 Blogging is an ever-growing method of networking on the Internet. This one, for example, was created to help beginners that I work with in consulting on search engine optimization. It since has grown out of that, but that was the original intent. A great deal of companies are using blogs as an […]
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October 7, 2006 I just read an incredible article on keyword analyzing, and it inspired me to want to share a little about the way I conduct business with my potential clients, and how we should explore all likely options. One of the first thing I discuss with a potential client is what expectations they […]
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October 9, 2006 Sometimes I get so caught up in describing some of the complexities of SEO, I neglect the simple things. So today I think I will discuss internal links. Internal links are any links on a page that lead to another page of the same site. The idea of internal linking in reference […]
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October 7, 2006 SEO is a sticky subject sometimes. Many people have been burned by people claiming to be SEO Specialists, and are aprehensive to give another one a shot. There are plenty of resources out there on what a «shady SEO» is, even Google has a bit to say about it here, so I’m […]
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October 9, 2006 I’m really not sure where this information is coming from, but I’m getting a lot of clients asking me about poison words. This is an excellent example of a Google Myth. There are no such things as poison words. There are ‘stop’ words, but these don’t even have anything to do with […]
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October 7, 2006 In the creation of a site, many people make use of frames. Frames are a way of making one page that will stay static, but a chunk of which will be used to call information from other pages. The use of frames is often because it is a person’s first site, or […]