No Follow Or Do Follow?
Link popularity is the fundamental concept of how major search engines rank sites in their SERP. This led to the abuse of this concept by the so-called link spammers in which blog comments are mostly...
View ArticleTraffic, Traction and Popularity through Search Engine Optimization
Many clients often argue that SEO is only one of the many methods in driving traffic to your website. Any methods such as pay-per-click advertising, email marketing, contextual advertising, or banner...
View ArticleSearch Engine Crawlability Factors
Before a website can rank well in the search engine result pages, it has to be indexed by the search engine spiders. A search engine spider (robot) will visit one of your pages and look for links on...
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Firefox Search Status Toolbar Shows Compete Ranking
For those webmasters and SEO specialists who use Firefox browsers, Compete Ranking has been incorporated into the Search Status toolbar which is a really useful Firefox extension. 2007-05-15: ver 1.19...
View ArticleSEO is Usability
Google’s algorithm for ranking websites rely heavily on a site’s link popularity which are essentially both the quality and quantity of inbound links pointing to the site. However over the years,...
View ArticleSEO Tips from Stephen Noton
I recently interviewed one of the most experienced Internet marketing experts, Stephen Noton, who has 11 years of experience on consulting and training individuals and businesses across different...
View ArticleInhouse SEO Tips
Your SEO team is to do in-house SEO for a large organization’s website. Often the major obstacles are not the technical issues, but the company’s culture and bureaucracy. Successful SEO requires buy-in...
View ArticleGoogle, Yahoo and Bing Search Algorithms Revised
Stephen Noton re-posted the major factors of search engine algorithms for Google, Yahoo and Bing. He originally reviewed the SEO algorithms in 2006, but ever since then the algorithms of the top three...
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Keyword Stuffing
Keyword stuffing is a black hat SEO technique used by webmasters to boost a website’s organic search engine ranking. Webmasters “stuff keywords” by ensuring the same keywords appear on a webpage...
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Submit Sites to Google, Yahoo, Bing Local Business Search
If you own local business stores with physical addresses, submit your business websites to Google’s, Yahoo’s and Bing’s local business listings. Search engine users find local businesses through Google...
View ArticleSEO Glossary
Search engine optimization (SEO) is an important technique for webmasters are responsible to create and manage websites. The basic SEO glossary is a reference for webmasters and SEO beginners to...
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Google vs Bing Search Algorithms
I previously revised Google’s, Yahoo’s, and Bing’s search engine ranking factors from Canadian SEO guru Stephen Noton’s 2006 findings. Google, Yahoo, and Bing search algorithms With Bing-Yahoo Search...
View ArticleOptimize SEO META Tags, Page Title, Description, Keywords, Robots
SEO glossary provides definitions for the common SEO META tags that are found within the opening HEAD tag and closing HEAD tag of web pages: Page title tags META description tags META keywords tags...
View ArticleSchema.org, Microdata Markup Standards for Webmasters
Schema.org offers a shared collection of schemas (or html tags) that webmasters can use to markup web pages. Websites’ pages are often generated dynamically into HTML from structured data that are...
View ArticleIIS Log Files Format, Search Engine Spider in Internet Information Services
Websites’ log files contain both user and search engine spider information for webmasters and SEO professionals to analyze. Log files also have information that web analytics tools (e.g. Google...
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