26 SEO Myths & Misconceptions
There are a lot of myths and misconceptions that swirl around the SEO industry. There are a lot of traps and pitfalls that you can fall into. As a professional SEO, I hear these wild optimization ideas tossed around all the time by clients and/or …
Running Baseline Assessments for SEO
Running baseline assessments are tremendously important to the start of any SEO campaign. These baseline metrics give you a starting point from which to measure your SEO success or failure.
To put it another way, lets imagine that you went on a diet but forgot …
Trimming and Finalizing Your Keyword List
We’ve finally come to it! Time to learn about Trimming & Finalizing Your SEO Keyword List! This is the point where you will take your huge list of keywords and trim it down to about 10 or 15 that you will target in your …
Gathering Keyword Data For Your SEO Keyword List
In my last article, I talked about Using Keyword Research Tools to help you find potential keywords for your SEO campaign. In this article, I’d like to talk about Gathering Keyword Data for your SEO Keyword List.
Using Keyword Research Data to Help You …
Using Keyword Research Tools for SEO
In my last article, I spoke about Expanding Your Keyword List. In this article, I will detail some really great Keyword Research Tools that will help you understand more about your bucket list of SEO keywords.
How Are Keyword Research Tools Useful?
Keyword research Tools …
Removing 404-Errors from Google’s Index
Everyone has seen them, and it is likely that nearly every webmaster has experienced the dreaded 404-Error page. These pages often result from moving to a new URL without making sure any redirection is specified for the old URL (which stays in the SERPs).
If …
Canonical URL Links to Combat Duplicate Content
Google, Yahoo, and MSN have just announced a new tag to combat duplicate content. They now support Canonical URL Links, which is a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL.
Canonical URL Links will help if your …
Expanding the Keyword List
In my previous post, I explained the best practices for Keyword Brainstorming. Today, I want to discuss the best ways to expand our keyword list.
We already have a very nice list keyword list to begin our SEO campaign, but are there any keywords …
Keyword Brainstorming for SEO
When beginning a new SEO campaign it is always a good idea to start with a keyword brainstorming session. Keywords (also called key phrases or key terms) are the short, descriptive phrases that you want to be found for in the search engines.
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SEO Stop Words
SEO Stop Words are extremely common words that most search engines skip over in order to save disk space, or to speed up indexing.
How Stop Words Hurt SEO
These filtered words can hinder your SEO efforts, especially if used frequently in your site’s Titles. …
Title Tag Optimization for SEO
Don’t let other people tell you that title tag optimization is just some Marxist propaganda! Having a well-optimized title tag can help your SEO efforts in many ways.
It is well-known around the SEO community that title tag optimization is far and away the best …
