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Archive for February, 2009

February 27, 2009

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 [...]

February 26, 2009

Read SEO Blogs and Participate in Forums

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 [...]

February 25, 2009

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 [...]

February 24, 2009

Change Hosts or IPs Without Losing SEO Ranking

Today’s Daily SEO Tip is a step by step guide to keeping a site organic ranking when changing IP address due to moving hosting or in order to obtain a country specific IP address. Today’s tip was contributed by Ran at Conversion Counts. Enjoy
One of my clients recently had to change their website’s [...]

February 23, 2009

How to Control Your Site External Anchor Text

That’s a frequent question I get from my clients. Really, apart from taking care of internal anchor text and adding links with proper text yourself, is there any way to control the anchor text of naturally acquired external in-links? Let’s find a few ways together:
Get a domain name containing your keyword:
Putting aside all debates about [...]

February 20, 2009

Website Usability Equals Better SEO

Today’s SEO tip is very short but it is a really good reminder for us, SEOs, that website success is not primarily about search bots - make it for people in the first place.
The SEO tip is provided by Scott of Usable.co.nz
Make your website as easy-to-use as possible for humans.
For example:

use a simple navigation [...]

February 19, 2009

6 Useful Wordpress SEO Plugins

Today’s post was contributed in part by Mr. I from Blogging With Success.
The best thing about WordPress is that it’s open source and can be extended with the help of plugins, which are made by creative third party developers.
In this post, we have listed 6 best SEO plugins that make managing meta information, links and [...]

February 18, 2009

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 [...]

February 17, 2009

Blog Directory Links : List Your Blog

Launching a new blog is a lot of fun, and so is building links to it. I have written about blog directories in the past, and used to own one, and honestly have been very shocked about how bad the quality has gotten with some of the blogosphere’s first directories. That being said, here is [...]

February 16, 2009

How to Use Google Wildcard Operator for Link Building and Baiting

Google treats a wildcard * as a placeholder for one or more words. Although rarely used, this search operator offers a goldmine of great opportunities. This short SEO tip will showcase how you can use Google’s wildcard operator to search for backlink opportunities and link baiting inspiration:
Link Building Wildcard Search Queries:
One of the first things [...]

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