Archive for May, 2010
The single most important thing to understand when it comes to SEO or search engine optimization, is that search engines are organic beings. This meaning that, like living beings, they will always be in a state of evolution and change.
Many people, to their site?s detriment, think that SEO is all about learning some savvy (and expensive) techniques. And while these tricks and techniques may yield some results at first, one thing for sure is that they wont for long. Just like anti-virus software developers who are constantly ...
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We previously talked about the basics of SEO contests. These are races to the pole position for a certain previously unknown keyword on a search engine results page (SERP) through a set duration of usually two to three months. Whoever is in top position as per the latest viewing of the Google, Yahoo!, or MSN search results for the keyword/s is declared the winner.
Of course, experienced and novice SEOs alike would be doing all sorts of optimizations and tweaks for their sites or blogs to come out as number one, but in reality whoever wins or loses the top ...
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We have read about SEO contests springing up every now and then, usually with big prizes like laptop computers, thousands of dollars, webhosting businesses, and the like. The basic premise is that the organizers would invent a search term or keyword that's non-existent in the search engine databases, such as "V7ndotcom elursrebmem," which actually stands for "v7n.com members rule" ("members rule" is reversed to read as "elursrebmem").
Google Trends results for "elursrebmem". Notice the lack of results prior to the contest in 2006.
The SEO contest would then be a race to the top of the ...
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Why www.blog-news.com (hyphenated) and not www.blognews.com (non-hyphenated)?
The current main search engine (Google) doesn't recognize the individual words from the above non-hyphenated domain names, so they would not help future optimization plans. The hyphenated domain http://www.blog-news.com is seen by
Google as-
www blog news com since Google treats . (dots) and - (hyphens) as a space. We say "google can parse those keywords out of the domain name".
Note a domain with a single keyword (i.e www.keyword.tld) will have the single keyword recognized since Google sees the two dots (in the example above) as spaces. So when choosing a ...
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