You don't use MSN / Live.com search, do you? So you might be probably totally unaware of its little handy advanced operator that shows who the domain links out to: LinkFromDomain:domain.com - use it obtain valuable information that you can use in multiple ways. Use it to see if you have an opportunity to get a link there too (if sites it links to are of the same type of yours); Research the site partners; Discover the...
Knowing most linked-to pages of a site is a must if you want to gain value by getting internal links from those most powerful pages. 2 tools allow you to find pages with most links back: 1. Find most powerful pages linked to externally: SEOmoz's "Top Pages on Domain" - this tool returns the list of subpages sorting them by the number of domains linking back to them (many thanks to Richard Baxter...
Google hates duplicate content, not only the one that involves content plagiarism but also absolutely innocent one, when identical content occurs due to the site broken information architecture or CMS. The worst part of that is that you might be totally unaware of the issue because this may be about "partial duplication", e.g. identical titles. So, here are two simple ways to find identical titles throughout your site: 1. Crawl your site with Xenu and sort...
What I am noticing quite often is that pages entered from the feed reader or email newsletter have additional (tracking) URL parameters, e.g. While few sites (e.g. StumbleUpon) can recognize these URLs and attach reviews and votes to the base version, plenty of popular social bookmarking and voting sites (like Digg and Sphinn) will accept both URLs as separate and this will result in duplicate submissions. This may also result in "ugly" versions being linked to and...
Today's tip is by Craig Sumsky of Cutting Edge DJs. I found this a good refreshing tip on how to network with people from "neighboring" niches for mutual benefit. I own a DJ company in Philadelphia. I added a blog to my website in late 2007 and began my quest for SEO sometime in mid 2008. One of the greatest stumbling blocks I found was that many of the folks in my...
Google cache is an awesome way to analyze the page. With it you can see:
If the page elements are correctly ordered;
How effectively you use H-headings (H1 - H2 tags);
How images are interpreted;
If links are visible;
Unlinked content versus linked content proportion, etc
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This Friday tip was provided by our reader SEOdart. Social media optimization is an important step to making your content viral. Offer your visitors an easy way to share your posts throughout all popular social bookmarking and networking sites. A few most useful Wordpress plugins that unite multiple social media sites and offer your readers one-click submission include: Share this; Add to any; Social bookmarking reloaded (note from the editor: I have no idea...
News is a great way to build links and awareness. If you've got some interesting news related to your business to share, you can create a press release using paid services like PRweb or you can do it on cheap or even for free (note: the first option doesn't actually substitute the latter one as you can do both or either of them depending on your money and time resources). While how to that...
Have you ever seen exact copies of your content on other sites with no link back to the original? If you have a blog with no more than 200 visits a day, your answer is most likely to be "yes" (or you just never noticed it).
Going after each thief demanding to remove the stolen content is both time-consuming and depressing. Why not try to force them to link back?
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I have already posted a couple of articles on how instructional content may help in your promotion. A good well-compiled and to-the-point tutorial may be a much better viral piece than any sensational article you may come up with. People willingly search, bookmark and share guides, tutorials and how-tos. And even if links don't come on their own, you can find plenty of opportunities to build them. So, my first tip: create instructional...
