When most people sit down to do SEO on an established site, chances are pretty good that a lot of the content was created simply to add content. And while some might have been designed with SEO in mind, chances are good – especially on larger sites – that there is a lot of content that [...]
Read more →With the economy tumbling like it has been lately, many people are looking for ways to cut corners, and one of those ways is to hire the lowest bidder. In fact, one company I read via CNN.com today is a new job site (Jobaphiles, primarily Boston jobs) that caters to employers wanting to hire based on who will do [...]
Read more →So you have your cool little niche blog on your out-of-the-zip-file WordPress or MovableType… and now you want to turn that side hobby into your day job. Even when you are a new blogger – or even an older one that just never quite got around to doing all that much after doing the initial [...]
Read more →Being a top AdSense expert, I inevitably get many emails from publishers who have gotten their AdSense account suspended and then I get the sob story about how they won’t be able to pay their mortgage, they will have to let all their employees, etc etc. Trust me, I have heard it all! But regardless [...]
Read more →We have all had that money maker website that ranks really well but are desperately afraid to touch anything on it, incase whatever it is about the site that Google’s secret sauce is so in love with gets destroyed in the process. But unfortunately, Google doesn’t necessarily like it either when a site hasn’t been [...]
Read more →Talk about 404 pages has suddenly hit the blogs over the past day because of the new way that the Google beta toolbar is handling 404 errors. Now, instead of showing a default server 404 erorr page, Google will instead show a few different options to try and find the site, whether it is heading [...]
Read more →Have you ever thought about your robots.txt file, beyond how the various crawlers interact with it? Chances are that if you have one, you probably haven’t looked at it in since the day you created it. Well, it is time you take a fresh look at it and see how it looks not just to [...]
Read more →If you are like me, you will inadvertantly be surfing along, click a link, then watch as everything grinds to a halt because that link you just clicked was actually linked to a PDF file. And worse, your Adobe Acrobat or Reader takes its sweet time as it loads all the extranous features, checks for [...]
Read more →Every so often, someone comes up with the idea that Google should offer a service that would allow webmasters to pay a fee to get specific information on ranking issues on a website, primarily for those sites that the owners feel should be ranking much better than it actually is. Because oftentimes, webmasters – particularly [...]
Read more →We have all been a newbie SEO at one time or another. But if you are new to the industry… or just need a refresher that you aren’t making a cardinal newbie error when it comes to your site’s optimization, here are some of the top and most frequent mistakes and how to fix them. [...]
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