Mar 23 2009

Analyze Your Site with Google “Text Only” Cache

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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SEO : Power of Keywords, Links and Content

Tonight's SEO Tip has been provided by Kalai Ganesan of The Picky and may be useful for first time publishers and newbies. Enjoy :) Improving your search engine rankings is the first step to get traffic, the more traffic better profits. Optimizing your website for SEO is important. Search engine optimization simple is how you organize your site content more useful in a particular category. Here are some important steps for site to get notified by...

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Crawl Your Site for Broken Links, Errors and Duplicate Content

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...

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Add Breadcrumbs as a Secondary Navigation Aid

Breadcrumbs use a single line of text to show a page's location in the site hierarchy. They are very helpful both for SEO and enhanced usability: From SEO perspective, breadcrumbs allow for "reversed" crawling (for example, when a deep page gets a lot of link juice from social voting sites, breadcrumbs help to spread it to higher levels); From usability point of view, breadcrumbs help users to  understand where they are in relation to the...

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Test Your Page Title with PPC

The problem with crafting a good page title is not only about the multiple roles it plays in your web page performance (it influences rankings, determines the click-through, calls to action, etc, etc). The problem also is that it is very hard to test. We know that no matter how good you are at the theory, you can never be sure until you try - and that's why testing and experimentation is of ultimate importance. However...

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Dig into Your Search Referrals for Content Ideas and SEO

Today's tip has something to do with my tip on increasing your search ranking by exploring your current positions and search referrals and then interlinking potentially powerful pages. Friday SEO tip is provided by Alexander Villamizar of Latam SEO. Keep an eye on keywords people are using to get to your site.  When I check that list for my site, I might find that there are some visits for a keyword that...

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Are You Making the Most of Your Page H1 Tag?

Despite the fact that it is still unconfirmed and unclear how much heading tags affect the actual search algorithm, H1 tag is most likely to matter a lot (I believe many SEOs will testify for that relying on their experience). Therefore it is really essential to use it correctly. So today I am offering an essential checklist for you to proofread your global H1 tag usage: H1 tag should be present on each page: heading...

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Forget about Keyword Density

I know, this is a well-discussed topic but believe it or not I have to deal with this misconception daily. People still try to repeat the keyword phrase a set number of times to make sure a search bot will understand it. Here's the news, search engines have become much smarter now - they don't need that much effort from your part to understand you. Why is the concept of keyword density so dangerous? First of all,...

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Use Keywords in Your Business Name for Local SEO

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...

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How to SEO Your Title Tags for Blogger and WordPress

Today's Daily SEO Tip is a guest post by Saptarshi from SEO Kolkata. Most bloggers are satisfied with the default structure of the blog but if you would like to improve yours a little the easiest way is to do it by optimizing the title tag. The default title structure in most common blog platforms is "Blog Title - Post Title". What this means is that your most relevant keywords that are in your...

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