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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 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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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 […]

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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 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 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 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 […]