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 describing this tool possible uses):
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...
Sometimes when you're on the prowl looking to acquire links via link trades, buying links or contributing optimized content to a blog in return for a link or two, you can run into some sites which may seem like you've struck link gold .. but these opportunities may prove too good to be true.
Case in point, you may find some site owners who are more or less giving away good links on sites with...
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...
SEO is a young industry and to some extent based on the assumptions. The only tactics that are officially confirmed are: create awesome content, use clean code, make your site for people, not for search engines. Much of what you read besides that should be considered before implementing.
It makes me sad when I am told that after reading my post (that retells someone else's internal anchor text experiment) a webmaster went ahead and...
Friday SEO tip is provided by Fabio Ricotta who works for the Brazilian company MestreSEO. Follow Fabio on Twitter.
1. You can access your domain with and without www. Eg.: mysite.com and www.mysite.com return the same content. This is a common problem and you can solve it by using this code in your .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^mysite.com [L]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [r=301,L]
Replace mysite.com and www.mysite.com...
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...
