5 Ways Google Search Plus Your World Impacts SEO
I discuss the SEO impact of Google’s Search Plus Your World which places heavy emphasis on Google+ and personalization of search results. There will be many far-reaching effects on both the Social and SEO games. I cover the top 5 things you will need to watch out for with Search Plus Your World in relation to SEO.
Link Building for Flash Websites
Based on a request I received earlier this week, I’ve decided to outline some tips and strategies for link building for Flash-based websites as well as some of the complexities involved in doing SEO for Flash sites. Flash websites can be very tough to optimize, but these link building tactics should go a long way in helping you as an SEO.
Google’s Farmer/Panda Algorithm Update & How It Affects You
Learn about Google’s recent “Farmer/Panda” Algorithm update, release on 2-24. This change in the algorithm – which will impact 12% of U.S. sites – is meant to improve the quality of Google’s results by removing low-quality sites from first-page search results.
In the last several …
Contest: Write a Creative Caption and Win Free Business Cards
Today, I’ve decided to take a lighthearted approach to writing this post as opposed to all that heavy-handed, 1400-word SEO and Social Media crap! Who needs that stuff anyway?
I’m going to have a fun little contest – at potentially my own expense – and …
Is Social Media Becoming a Discipline of SEO?
Questions that continue to come up in conversations with some of my clients is, “So what recommendations do you have in regards to our social media?” or even “How should we utilize social media?”
It’s just then that one part of me thinks to myself, …
Ultimate Guide to Link Building
In Search Engine Optimization, things that are happening OFF of your site can be just as important (if not more so) than things happening ON your website. As I’ve said before, there are many things that go into an SEO campaign. However, most campaigns boil …
You Have 5 Bullets in Your SEO Gun…
Here is a question that was posed to me recently by a client:
“If I only had five bullets in my (theoretical SEO) gun, what do I fire at with those 5 shots?”
Almost by accident, this client forced me to be tactical on the …
Finding Quality Directories Helps Build Quality Links
Today, I got my site listed in the SEO Directory for the site AllTop, which is basically an online “magazine rack” of popular topics in various different industries.
This is a high-quality directory to be in, and is a good testament to how finding the …
The Anatomy of an Optimized Hyperlink
Creating hyperlinks is one thing. Optimizing them is a whole different story. With the way the internet is structured, with webcrawlers crawling from link to link, you would think that the idea of optimizing your hyperlinks would be a more widespread practice. Sadly, this is …
How NOT to Ask for a Link
In today’s SEO world, everyone knows how important getting “quality” inbound links is. However, many people simply do not know how to go about asking for links. I’ll be the first to tell you, building links is HARD!
I recently had a comment left on …
