Archive for the 'Google Rank' Category
We've been talking about RSS feeds and what it can do for your website. We know that incorporating RSS feeds into your site results in more frequent visits from search engine spiders and thus leads to faster indexing.
Have you realized however that by syndicating your RSS feeds successfully you can achieve the same results? How so?
If you have subscribers when a search engine spider crawls your subscriber's site (assuming that your subscriber incorporated YOUR feed into his own website) the feeds will of course contain a link back to your website. Once the ...
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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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When Google unveiled its newer (better?) search engine everyone in the SEO world, or more accurately in the IT world, got all excited. Maybe it’s the caffeine in Google Caffeine or maybe its just simply because it was something from the big G.
So what exactly is Google caffeine?
Google caffeine is Google’s biggest and baddest change in search algorithm. The key to this change is that it is an actual change in the formula and not just minor tweaks. Parts of the entire search infrastructure was, according to Google, completely rewritten. The results? A search engine that will "push the ...
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It speaks to the importance of the internet, specifically search, that it is not only businesses but even small towns that are very concerned about SEO. A town of 8,000 people in Normandy, France has decided to change its name because it doesn't place well in SERPs. (Believe me they don't. I've searched them in all major search engines and unless you add the word "town" to their name you won't find them in the first page.) The reason for the town's problem is not that their name is that their name is actually a highly competitive term - Eu. ...
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In the previous post, I had a short introduction on short tail and long tail keywords. I differentiated the two kinds. Now the big question is this: which kind is better to use for your blog?
I have to be honest with you – there is no clear cut answer to this question. It would be so easy to just pick one and justify my choice. However, the fact of the matter is that both kinds of keywords have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Let’s look ...
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The more seasoned “SEO enthusiasts” out there would know what I am talking about. You see, there is more to keywords than you might actually think. In fact, the world of keywords can be divided into two main parts – long tail keywords and short tail keywords.
More often than not, we are initially exposed to short tail keywords. That’s where it all began after all. However, there has been a strong movement promoting the use of long tail keywords over short tail keywords. ...
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As promised, here is another post on how you can best use keywords to boost your SEO efforts for your blog. Let me ask you, how do you come up with post titles? Do you like coming up with a cryptic and catchy title? Or do you think about other things?
Uniquely interesting titles are good. When they are outrageous and cryptic, they do tend to get more clicks as human readers would wonder what the post might be about. However, if you focus solely on this consideration, your post might not even make it to ...
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While we’re on the subject of PageRank, let’s delve a little bit more on this topic. I mentioned in the last post that PageRank is not everything. But what if you rely on paid posting for income? PageRank really matters then. More so, it does give a person a certain satisfaction when his blog has a PageRank. Believe me, I know this based on experience. So while PageRank is not the end all be all of SEO, it does carry a certain weight. ...
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So we’ve taken a look at content and links. Are there any more SEO tips that are quick and easy to implement? Of course!
PageRank is NOT everything
In spite of the fact that a lot of people pay attention to PageRank, you should not fall prey to the temptation of focusing solely on it. Trust me, I have been there, I have done that. It really is satisfying to see the green mark go up in your Google Toolbar but having a high PR does ...
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