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Archive for January, 2010

January 28, 2010

Sticky-Wiki Dos and Don’ts: How to Improve your Chances of Maintaining an Incoming Link on Wikipedia

*This blog post was written by a guest blogger that specializes in Boston SEO services.*
Imagine how much traffic you could get with a longstanding link to your site from Wikipedia.  This would be incredibly valuable for your company profile and reputation.  Only problem is, Wikipedia definitions can and are constantly [...]

January 27, 2010

Don’t Use Number of Indexed Pages as a Primary Success Metric

*The guest post is by Hugo Guzman who is the Vice President of SEO & Social Media at Zeta Interactive. He can be reached via email at hguzman@zetainteractive.com or via Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/hugoguzman*
I was speaking with a prospective client today that shared what they thought was their most pressing SEO issue [...]

January 25, 2010

How to Find Blogs Using “Dofollow” Links in Comments

*The following tip was shared by Eric Gesinski who runs a Tulsa SEO company*
Note from Ann: please don’t spam Only comment when you have anything worth saying!
One of the most well-known methods of off-site linking for SEO is blog commenting. However, to really get a solid boost in SEO, there’s one detail that [...]

January 18, 2010

6 (Effective and Not) Ways to Remove the Page from Search Engine Results

*The guest tip is by Umair Asif*
There are times when we would like Google and other search engines to completely remove a URL from search engine results. These would be incidents like accidentally leaving personal information on the web page or website being bombarded with spammers, etc. In these critical moments, [...]

January 11, 2010

Possible Help with Pagination Issue: Rel=”Next”

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 [...]

January 7, 2010

High Quality Link Building Using Dmoz / Google Directory

*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 [...]

January 6, 2010

Google PageRank: How Much Have Things Changed?

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 [...]

January 4, 2010

Games with Dropped / Expired Domains Still Work

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, [...]

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