Here are some critical, but simple strategies to use when optimizing your or your client’s site in local search results. I (surprisingly) don’t see this discussed very often, which is why I feel it would make a great tip for everyone here at Daily SEO Tip. While there are great tips for listing your address in Google Places, including what not to do, this focuses more on the organic results side...
SEOgadget anchor text tool is a new tool powered by SEOmoz's Linkscape that (as the name suggests) allows to analyze the page or domain anchor text. The public version of the tool is free and reports top 10 anchor texts and image links to a page, domain or subdomain. To start, just provide up to 5 URLs and choose one of the 6 options: Phrases to page; Phrases to domain; Phrases to subdomain; Terms to page; Terms to domain; Terns...
I have received many emails like this: We'll submit your website to 100 social bookmarking websites for just $35. That's right, 100 valuable, permanent one-way links on high PR authority websites for just $35! Where do I start to pull this apart? Perhaps the fact that one does not submit a "website" to social bookmarking websites. One submits a URL that represents a specific piece of content. This more than just technically...
Imagine the old days with the traditional yellow pages. Now imagine that you could add a photo, video or coupon to your traditional yellow pages ad. Now let’s take that one step further and imagine you could change your photos, videos or coupons in the traditional yellow pages…anytime you wanted! I think the traditional yellow page gods are turning over in their graves. Such preposterous imagination was unheard...
Many of you know that I am heavily into various SEO, social media and productivity tools. Therefore I often get requests from people to point them to various tools based on their needs. Someone once asked me about a tool that could generate the list of domains for several related search queries. I wasn't aware of a standalone tool like that, so I decided to develop it. The utility I have come up...
We have decided it is time to give this site some more customized look. A great design is being developed now but we lack a logo. So here's the deal: Create a logo draft; Send it to me at seosmarty@gmail.com Win the contest! The concept is up to you: we are open to various ideas! In exchange you'll get featured on both DailySEOTip and SearchEngineJournal.com - which means plenty of exposure and your career boost: a blogroll link,...
This article was by Christopher Holland who works for nbat Digital - a multimedia design agency based in Kent. If you plan to start guest blogging, do join My Blog Guest: the forum that connects bloggers to guest posters. As the Internet has grown so much in the last decade, it has become vital for small and large businesses to gain an online presence. This can be achieved by search engine optimisation, with the...
*The guest post is by Hugo Guzman who is the Vice President of SEO & Social Media at Zeta Interactive. He can be reached via email at hguzman@zetainteractive.com or via Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/hugoguzman* I was speaking with a prospective client today that shared what they thought was their most pressing SEO issue for one of the larger sites in their network. Basically, they explained that in the...
*The following tip was shared by Eric Gesinski who runs a Tulsa SEO company* Note from Ann: please don't spam :) Only comment when you have anything worth saying! One of the most well-known methods of off-site linking for SEO is blog commenting. However, to really get a solid boost in SEO, there's one detail that is not always mentioned when this SEO tactic is shared: most blogs are nofollow. That is, they have...
*The guest tip is by Umair Asif* There are times when we would like Google and other search engines to completely remove a URL from search engine results. These would be incidents like accidentally leaving personal information on the web page or website being bombarded with spammers, etc. In these critical moments, webmasters can take several actions to remove the URL of a page but with so many alternatives, it sometimes...
