Archive for SEO

Keywords for Mobile Search

Google recently revealed that 1:7 searches are being performed on mobile phones, and that number is supposed to keep going up. More and more people are searching on the go, especially if they are searching for local information.

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Before You Worry About More Traffic

You build a website with the goal of it getting seen, right? There is very little use on the internet for a site that sees little to no traffic. However, so many web site designers are more interested in the traffic numbers than what those numbers are actually saying. Before you start counting up the [...]

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Search Operator Basics for SEO

Imagine if there was a way to tell Google exactly what you were looking for, in Google’s own language. You could do specific searches and find what you’re looking for, instead of Google’s best guess at what you’re looking for.

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Why the Wrong Page is Ranking First in the Search Results (and How You Can Fix It)

You’ve used every ethical SEO tactic you know, put in hours of work, and what felt like forever, your page is finally ranking for one of your top keyword choices. Hurray!

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SEO Ethics

With almost everything in life, there is a right way and a wrong way to accomplish your search engine goals. Easier isn’t always better, and using techniques that are meant to mislead search engines (and site users) are always wrong.

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Using Q&A Sites for SEO

Question and answer websites, where users can ask questions that are then answered by other users, are extremely popular ways to get information, opinions and advice from other internet users around the world. They can also be excellent for SEO purposes.

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Using Google Adwords: Keyword Tool

If your going to use SEO on your website, you need to know what keywords are, and how to use them. And then, you need to know where to find them. Sure, you could spend hours thinking up every possible combination of keywords possible for your chosen topic, and then research them all individually, but [...]

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Making the Most of Your Crawl Budget

Search engines don’t index every page of your site every time they crawl through your pages, unless you have a very small site. The size of your crawl budget is determined by the quality of your site. For Google, PageRank has the most significant effect, followed by the amount of organic search traffic.

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SEO Predictions for 2011

Happy New Year! The beginning of a new year means that every tech and SEO blog is writing down their predictions for what will happen in the next twelve months. One of the most interesting things about these posts is how much they can vary, with everyone having their own ideas for what SEO has [...]

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Redirecting Your Web Traffic: 301 vs. 302 Redirects

When you move your content from one page to another (when setting up a new website to replace the old, for example), one of the worst things you can do is to completely abandon your old site. This is especially true if your old site has good traffic or search engine rankings.

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