Fresh and relevant content is becoming more and more important to SEO and establishing rankings, both for money terms and in the long tail. It may be easy to tell people "generate fresh content on a daily basis," but in the long run, writing an article or blog post everyday can be tiring and troublesome, especially when an SEO manager has multiple things to do and reports to digest. Some of us turn to copywriters to...
One very overlooked part of the entire SEO mix is making sure that your site does not have broken outbound (or internal) links which either link to error pages, or do not work at all. Furthermore, if your site delivers error pages or links to non-existent pages or files on your server, then search engines like Google are going to consider your site as being "under construction", therefore not being useful or relevant to the...
After launching Daily SEO Tip, I wrote an article about how to turn your site into a link magnet, which makes it easier to not only attract links - but also will boost the response return on your push oriented link building strategies. Today I would like to follow up with a very simple networking tip, and apply it to SEO and link building. Whether your website is a business oriented site or a vertical...
A lot of site owners and SEO's are familiar with keyword research tools such as Wordtracker, Keyword Discovery, and the free tools from Yahoo and Google. These keyword tools are an excellent way to not only find keywords which are relevant to you products and the usage popularity of these terms, but you can also forecast a bit with expected traffic and conversions for PPC and maybe even SEO. It is easy to become dependent on...
Today's tip is going to be short, sweet and open ended. To really dig into SEO, get your hands dirty, and ultimately understand the working of organic search engine optimization; you must read SEO blogs and participate in forums for at least 1 hour per day. My favorite SEO blogs are (I'm only gonna name four cause I want people to add their fav's in the comments): Search Engine Roundtable Small Business SEM SEO Book SEO...
Today's Daily SEO Tip is a step by step guide to keeping a site organic ranking when changing IP address due to moving hosting or in order to obtain a country specific IP address. Today's tip was contributed by Ran at Conversion Counts. Enjoy :) One of my clients recently had to change their website's IP address after 6 years [sweating icon]. The client rightfully was concerned what will happen to their organic ranking in...
Today's post was contributed in part by Mr. I from Blogging With Success. The best thing about WordPress is that it's open source and can be extended with the help of plugins, which are made by creative third party developers. In this post, we have listed 6 best SEO plugins that make managing meta information, links and almost everything related to SEO very easy. Out of the box, Wordpress is already very user friendly and...
Launching a new blog is a lot of fun, and so is building links to it. I have written about blog directories in the past, and used to own one, and honestly have been very shocked about how bad the quality has gotten with some of the blogosphere's first directories. That being said, here is a round up of some of the top resources for listing your blog. Submitting your blog to an established human edited...
Online videos are 53 times more likely to appear on the front page of search results than regular pages, according to Business Week and a study of the front page rankings of 40 of the most popular keywords in Google (thanks to Monica Wright for this stat). Google Universal loves videos, and not only from YouTube, but also from DailyMotion, Truveo and MetaCafe. So be sure to optimize your video files and upload...
Today's Daily SEO Tip was contributed in part by Gerald Weber. This is a very simple yet effective SEO tip for local businesses & regional brick and mortar stores, especially if you're looking to rebrand or start a business from the ground up. Make sure to make and brand your business name with your main keywords in it if possible. This is important for communicating what your business does along with achieving organic search results...
