In Part 1 and Part 2 of How to Optimize for Google I discussed general website optimization, links, and Google webmaster tools. In Part 3 we will look at a number of other considerations which play a role in successful rankings in Google, and also touch on some tactics which are best avoided.
Completing Optimization: Other [...]
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Want Free Search Engine Traffic? Choose the Correct Keywords!
If content is king, make your keywords your servants! It’s pretty simple; good keywords bring lots of traffic, bad ones don’t. If you want that free search engine traffic, the first thing you need to do is to find out what exactly it is that people [...]
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Optimizing for top Google rankings includes a number of factors. In Part 1 of 3 we discussed onsite optimization. In Part 2 we will touch on incoming links as well as using Google Webmaster Tools.
LINKS
Links are very important in today’s Google rankings, but just how many links you need will depend on both the competitiveness [...]
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In today’s online world search engine rankings can make your business succeed, and while rankings in Yahoo and MSN are very valuable, their combined market value is still less than that of Google. This makes achieving top rankings in Google that much more important.
In this three-part series on How to Optimize for Google we will [...]
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Grab a cup of coffee sit back and relax to this lyrical marketer rap about the do’s and don’ts of website development. The recent "Design Coding" video is great and this time instead of reading about SEO you can listen to the mellow flow from the SEO Rapper!
The SEO Rapper - Lyrical Marketing
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WordPress "Code is Poetry"
On Saturday, March 29, 2008, WordPress 2.5 was released and this release took me by surprise. If you use WordPress then you realize how often plugins are updated and the core itself is so frequent you might as well look to the source before you reuse any code from a previous project [...]
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Google’s paid clicks controversy doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon, with advertisers joining the chorus of critics who say the search giant has given them the "Google slap."
For the uninformed, the "Google slap" is something of a double-whammy that appears to be the result of a change to the AdWords algorithm. According to a [...]
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You’ve decided to build a website. Great! Your first step is to determine its structure - the pages you want to include and the information you want provide to visitors. But how to begin?
Your first instinct may be to make your site different from everyone else’s. After all, trying to differentiate your business is what [...]
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As we prepare to release our SAI 25: World’s Most Valuable Startups list, we’re running through some final valuation numbers. One company that is a shoo-in for the list is Craigslist (yes, it has been around a while, but we’re defining "start-up" as private companies founded in recent memory that has yet to go public [...]
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List of reasons pretty comprehensive
Twhirl’s service will remain free to users, so onlookers need not look to their wallets. Loic Le Meur presumably did a little digging, however, as the Twitter client has been acquired by his video chat company, Seesmic.
Twhirl’s price remains unknown, but on all other subjects, Le Meur has been extremely forthcoming. [...]
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