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November 2, 2006 To continue with my recent rants on alt tags, their importance, and proper use, I wanted to further my stance on this subject with Google backing me. Google has been, and continues to work on «Google Accessible,» a Google search engine built specifically for the seeing impaired. It will rely a lot […]
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November 3, 2006 I can’t express how many times the ‘SEO / Flash’ subject has come up. It’s a very valid issue, and carries a lot of debate. The problem with Flash is the inability for the SE’s to read the text in the movie or animation. Well, there is a way to make this […]
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November 10, 2006 It’s Veteran’s Day, so we will be taking thing a little light out of respect and reflection. I’m just gonna give a little week in review on some highlights in the SEO news. Marketing Pilgrim announced Ben Wills as the winner of the article-writing contest that both myself and Aaron took part […]
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November 22, 2006 In light of the coming holiday, I thought it would be fun to show some of the similarities between SEO and cooking a turkey. 1. You usually wait until it’s crunch time to get started, then run around frantically getting all your priorities and methods in place. 2. You spend more time […]
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November 16, 2006 Yahoo! Google, and MSN will agree on the Sitemap protocol previously supported by Google alone. We all know what a sitemap is, and how it helps your site getting indexed. If not read here. The protocol is basically an XML file uploaded to your root directory, mapping your site and giving a […]
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November 9, 2006 In continuing introductions to the SEO Factor team, we will showcase Aaron Smith. He is versed in SEO, but handles a lot of the logic and landing page layout for optimal marketing and conversion for us. I am the SEO Specialist, he is the layout guy….we fight a lot. Alysson is the […]
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November 3, 2006 I often speak of the importance of content on a site for SEO. In these talks, the question of placing a certain term on a site a certain amount of times to prove relevancy comes up. This usually sparks in interesting conversation that I will share here… On-Page-Optimization. First things first. The […]
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October 9, 2006 Sitemaps are becoming ever important to a website’s success. Generally speaking, a sitemap is just that, a map of your site. Today I will shed a bit of light on what a sitemap is for, and what it should include. At a minimum, your sitemap should link to ever major page or […]
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December 1, 2006 Well, I’m back from vacation and getting back into the swing of things. Over the large feast, a friend of the family asked about link popularity and what the best method of gaining quality links would be. I offered the advice of link baiting. Link baiting is the method of providing relevant […]
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February 6, 2007 Ok, so we all know how important IBL’s are for ranking in Google. I’ve gone over the importance and what factors are taken into account, but one of the most frustrating thing was the idea that you never really had an idea at how many links you were getting credit for from […]