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Ann Smarty
Pagination can cause some serious indexing and ranking problems, yet it is sometimes hard (if not impossible) to avoid. For large database-driven sites and web catalogs it creates duplicate content problems (with multiple pages within one category / tag having one and the same title tags), as well content discovery issues (with the crawl not willing to go deep to the site and thus discovering product pages listed on pages 10-20 or deeper).
There's...
*The following guest tip was provided by Umair Asif*
Links are an important part of SEO strategy. While, most of us are already aware of its significance, it sometimes gets difficult to acquire a list of high quality websites related to our industry. Tweaking Google directory listings may resolve this problem.
By default, Google directory offers listings based on Page Rank, but these groupings may not include every major website. For example,...
Note from Ann: I'd like this post not to turn into another "PR algorithm" one. Instead, I'd love us to discuss how many of us still use this information and how we do that. So please, share your opinion in the comments!
*The following tip was shared by Eric Gesinski who does Tulsa Website Design and SEO*
One area of SEO that is limited to one search engine but gets plenty of...
Two weeks ago our good friend Eric wrote a nice tip "how to get a jump start on SEO for a new site" - one of the points discussed there was buying an already established domain for your new site. The point was debated in the comments - they say the tactic no more works, they say Google is great at spotting when the domain changes the owner and devalues all...
*The following tip was shared by Eric Gesinski who does Oklahoma SEO*
If you're serious about doing SEO, you need to make sure you follow the rules to stay in the good graces of the current primary search engine. Google has several guidelines on how sites should be constructed. Follow these to keep your SEO performing well. Ignore them at your own peril.
The main reason to follow Google's major guidelines are to...
It may be not a frequent situation but it may happen so that you need to remove a page from Google SERPs really fast. What's the best way to do that?
Try this:
Exclude the page in Robots.txt + remove the pages using the URL removal tool in Webmaster Tools.
Return 410 status code for the page (to show the page is gone for ever);
Don't do this:
There is an interesting discussion taking place at WebmasterWorld forums that discusses how the word "specialist" can be treated by search engines. The thing is that if you start optimizing for it (e.g. including it in the title tags, anchor text, etc), this may look suspicious to search engines because of "cialis" embedded into it.
It is actually sounds quite probable - and even if that's just a suspicion, rumor or just good old...
*The following tip was shared by Eric Gesinski who does SEO in Tulsa, OK*
There are two quick tricks to getting a jump start on SEO for a new site. They work better than they should (in many people's opinion), but nevertheless - they do work.
1) Buy a domain containing your primary keyword(s).
By purchasing a domain with your primary keywords (if it's available), the search engines will...
*The guest tip was provided by Gaurav Sharma*
Google Analytics classifies traffic from Google Images as referral traffic. Websites which get a lot of traffic from Google Images are not able to analyze the keywords they get the traffic from. There is a way to force GA to treat Google Images as a search engine. Below is how GA code will look like:
The following guest tip was provided by Umair Asif.
While Google Adwords Keyword Tool is a great resource to evaluate the number of searches for a keyword, I assume that a majority of webmasters do not realize how easy it is to inadvertently distort calculating the amount of traffic for a keyword. The reason for this posting is to clear a common misconception regarding the amount of searches for a given ...
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