Archive for the ‘ SEO ’ Category
SEO & Internet Marketing Conference in 2012
Share There are a ton of SEO, SEM, and Internet Marketing conferences all over North America, sometimes even one in Central America. I listed some exciting new events coming through for 2012: Affiliate Summit West 2012 Location: Las Vegas, NV, United States Date: 01/08/2012 – 01/10/2012 Check it out: http://www.affiliatesummit.com/ About Affiliate Summit West 2012 [...]
Top 10 Yahoo Searches in 2011
Share Top 10 Searches on Yahoo! -iPhone -Casey Anthony -Kim Kardashian -Katy Perry -Jennifer Lopez -Lindsay Lohan -“American Idol” -Jennifer Aniston -Japan Earthquake -Osama bin Laden
gTLDs and SEO Impact
Share In June of 2011, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the world’s domain name system announced that Starting January 2012, established public and private organizations can apply for the rights to the gTLD(s) of their choice – both branded (e.g. .nike) and non-branded (e.g. .shoes). Price For $185,000 per application, [...]
Google’s Freshness Update in Search Results
Share Google just rolled out a new algorithm update designed to pick and select which queries demand fresher results impacts about 35% of searches. Where their Caffeine architecture allows Google to quickly crawl the mass and complex contents of the Web, this latest update is meant to select which queries require the most recent results. [...]
Happy Halloween
Share Have a Spooky Halloween!! Google is also displaying a cool video to wish all the search engine users a “Happy Halloween”! www.google.com
Best and Worst SEO Practices
Share 1. Keywords in title tag This is one of the most important places to have a keyword because what is written inside the title tag shows in search results as your page title. The title tag must be short (6 or 7 words at most) and the the keyword must be near the beginning. [...]
Google Updates Spam Reporting Page
Share Last night, Matt Cutts from Google tweeted they have “released the biggest refresh of our spam report form in, oh, say 10 years.” they break it down by type of “spam”: Paid links – This page is selling or buying links. Copyright and other legal issues – This page should be removed under applicable [...]
Google+ Cheat Sheet
Share With Google+ recently reached million members, and as Google releases more invites to its social network, more people are trying to learn the ins-and-outs of the Google+ ecosystem. That’s why I was excited when I stumbled across a Google+ cheat sheet, whose origin we’ve traced to Google+ user Simon Laustsen. The cheat sheet includes [...]
rel=canonical Tag in HTTP Header
Share on June 17, 2011, Google announced their support for rel=”canonical” HTTP headers. This can come in handy if you see duplication of content across different file types. It basically allows webmasters to assign a file a rel=canonical tag that references an HTML document as the real (canonical) URL. This tag will be very helpful [...]
Google PR Update on June 27, 2011 Confirmed
Share I just quickly checked some sites that I have managed or optimized before, 80% of them received a higher PR score on most of the web pages, 15% remains at the same level, and 5% got a step back. This is the first major Google PR update after the Panda update of their natural [...]
