Mar 31 2009

Video SEO : Easier & More Powerful than You Think

When I talk SEO with clients or businesses, sometimes I notice a pullback or negative reaction when discussing video seo, or viral video marketing, as a way to enhance search presence in the Google, Yahoo and Microsoft search results. A lot of businesses have a 1990's mindset that video production is an expensive and time consuming process. Recent changes in the costs of equipment, production and online video sharing sites such as YouTube or Facebook however, have changed the landscape extensively.

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Use This Bing Advanced Operator to Research Links-Out

You don't use MSN / Live.com search, do you? So you might be probably totally unaware of its little handy advanced operator that shows who the domain links out to: LinkFromDomain:domain.com - use it obtain valuable information that you can use in multiple ways. Use it to see if you have an opportunity to get a link there too (if sites it links to are of the same type of yours); Research the site partners; Discover the...

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Identify Site’s Most Linked-to Pages

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...

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Quickly Find Your Site Duplicate Content Issues

Google hates duplicate content, not only the one that involves content plagiarism but also absolutely innocent one, when identical content occurs due to the site broken information architecture or CMS. The worst part of that is that you might be totally unaware of the issue because this may be about "partial duplication", e.g. identical titles. So, here are two simple ways to find identical titles throughout your site: 1. Crawl your site with Xenu and sort...

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Make Sure Your URLs Are Link- and Social-Bookmarking-Friendly

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...

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Exchange Knowledge For Mutual SEO Benefit

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...

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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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Encourage Your Readers to Share Your Posts

This Friday tip was provided by our reader SEOdart. Social media optimization is an important step to making your content viral. Offer your visitors an easy way to share your posts throughout all popular social bookmarking and networking sites. A few most useful Wordpress plugins that unite multiple social media sites and offer your readers one-click submission include: Share this; Add to any; Social bookmarking reloaded (note from the editor: I have no idea...

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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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Get a Search Engine Journal Laptop Sticker

Are you going to SES NY? If so, and if you like Daily SEO Tip and Search Engine Journal, please hit me up for a free I...

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