SEO Tips

We’ve all been hearing about long-tail keywords for some time now.
An interesting study was recently done by Chitika which indicates that 3 word keywords are the most popular to drive SEO search traffic.
Here’s a full breakdown of organic search volume by query length:

3 Words — 26%
2 Words — 19%
4 Words — 17%
1 Word — 14%

There are a lot of sports bloggers in the blogosphere.  Most write about their favorite team, fantasy sports, or make their opinions known on a subject for which they feel very passionate.  But, few know how to get sports fans to actually find their sites in the first place.  Eric Garguolo gives us some tips [...]

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No Follow links may not be of value in terms of search engine optimization at Google, but that’s only half the battle as Matt Cutts explains.

Google’s Matt Cutts talks about the importance, or lack of importance, in putting tags on your blog posts. Is it really worth the time?
I might have just saved you some time on your blogging.

Now, excuse me, I have to add some tags to this post.

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It’s January 2010 and one of the best places to purchase a link is with the Best of the Web directory.  Yes, I know you’ve been reading all about SEO online and most stories say that buying directories is just a little bit better than a kick to [...]

Google is beginning to roll out its new search engine Caffeine and it will be completed at some time in 2010.  Caffeine could have a major impact on search engine results going forward.
In August, soem SEO companies began testing Caffeine and the results seemed to show the following:

Caffeine is faster.  Hence, its name.  Get Clickz [...]

This video gives a great overview of how to optimize a WordPress blog for the search engines.  It’s a lot of information in 12 minutes, but worth a listen.

Sometimes things come along in your business where expenses are difficult to justify, but then once you have purchased them, you realize just how valuable that purchase was.
Such is the case with SEO Moz.  At $799 per year, it’s tough for a blogger to justify that cost.  Sure, you can understand it if you are [...]

There was a time when sites were criticized for using FLASH on the home page as Google and the other search engines couldn’t read the sites.  It may have been neat to watch, but if the site doesn’t get indexed, what’s the point?
No longer.  Google has improved its ability to index FLASH content in the [...]

It’s been long suspected that Google does not use meta tags in its search engine rankings, but now it has been officially confirmed by Matt Cutts of Google.
Google confirms that some search engines may be using meta tags for search engine rankings, but it is not one of them.  Cutts goes on to say that [...]

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If you have a new web site, a good way to get it “on the board” in terms of search is to submit to directories.  Now, this isn’t, of course, as valuable as it once was, but its a quick and easy way to get some inbound links.
Bob Bentz, publisher of the GetClickz blog, gives [...]

What makes for a good directory?
And, with Google’s assertion that it doesn’t want anybody to pay for links, what about buying a link in the Yahoo Directory or on veteran sites like Best of the Web?
Matt Cutts, Google’s guru of SEO, said recently that the key to a directory’s value is that it isn’t just [...]

If you like to write, like I do, your blog or your e-commerce web site has a much better chance to do well than if you don’t. 
Article marketing is such an important part of search engine optimization.  It creates links and gets click-throughs to your business.
The first thing you have to do is to write [...]

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When it comes to search engine optimization, directories can still be of help.  That is, the good directories
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Best of the Web is certainly one of the good directories that carries significant link juice for SEO.  If you only get listed in one [...]

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One directory that still carries a lot of link value is Best of the Web.  Placing a paid link on Best of the Web is one of the first things that we do when we bring up a new internet site.
If you do business [...]

You may or may not have heard that Google has removed the recommendation in its webmasters guidelines section to submit to directories. This started a panic as people thought that having links in directories no longer held any weight. They thought this would have a knock on effect on their SEO results. In this article [...]