Google Ends Automated Polling Tools
In a move that has single handedly put the SEO gossip community into a tizzy, Google has banned automated traffic from extracting results from their search engine.
Establishing Your Company Brand Through SEO
Some companies have the misfortunate of unsatisfied customers who just love to post online in a very negative tone. Whether there post is in your comments section of your site or on a review site, some of these posts can be powerful enough to hit the top ten spots on Google for your keywords or for your company. This can be a disaster for a company who is not prepared, but by taking a few quick steps, you can make sure that you have any situations like this that arise completely under control. Read the rest of this entry
How To Deal With HotLinking
Whether you’re building up a website or a blog, you’re going to need to use pictures. Some of those pictures may in fact be yours and hosted on your own site, but a lot of people seem to find it easier to link to the picture rather than uploading it directly. Read the rest of this entry
How Latent Semantic Indexing Works
When you’re planning out a new website, the first thing that you do before you launch is some simple keyword research, right? You want to make sure you’ve got your primary keywords and the similar long tail versions that you need to account for as well. By doing this type of research you’ll be able to grasp how competitive the number one spot is for all of your terms and figure out exactly how much effort you’ll need to put into ranking them. But focusing all your attention on just using these keywords is not enough.
Keyword Density Explained
Keyword density refers to the percentage of a keyword or keyword phrase on a given page. While article writers figure out keyword density based solely in comparison to the content of the article, for SEO purpose, you need to take into account the entire HTML source code of the specific page. Search engine robots crawl through the source code of your web page, reading every line regardless of whether it’s relevant to the actual body of content or not, so figuring out your keyword density from your source code is by far your most accurate representation of that figure. Read the rest of this entry
The Dangers of Google Knol
Taking a look back, shortly after YouTube was purchased by Google, their results seemed to instantly flood the search engine results page. Makes it kind of suspicious as it looks like Google is giving more weight to their in house material.
Is Yahoo! Site Directory Worth It?
You’re building up a reputable site and you’re looking for new places to gain authoritative links from when you come across the Yahoo! Site Directory. Sounds perfect. Yahoo! host it so clearly it’s got to have some pull, and it definitely does. But what bites you is the cost. $299 to SUBMIT a site to their directory. That doesn’t mean that they’ll actually accept your site. If your site is of adult content, then double that price. Plus, it’s an annually reoccurring price to boot!
What Is PageRank Sculpting?
Call it whatever you like: PageRank Hording, PageRank Siloing, or it’s latest name, PageRank Sculpting. The truth of the matter is, it’s all the same thing. The idea behind it is that, instead of allowing all your site links and outbound links to be dofollow, you cut off the unnecessary ones by using a nofollow tag.
