*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 edited and changed by anyone with a computer and internet access (brainpower is not a requirement, unfortunately.)
Luckily, there are some tips that can help you retain an incoming link on Wikipedia.
Here are the Wiki link retention dos and don’ts:
*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 for one of the larger sites in their network. Basically, they explained that in the...
*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 is not always mentioned when this SEO tactic is shared: most blogs are nofollow. That is, they have...
*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, webmasters can take several actions to remove the URL of a page but with so many alternatives, it sometimes...
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 willing to go deep to the site and thus discovering product pages listed on pages 10-20 or deeper).
There's...
*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 directory offers listings based on Page Rank, but these groupings may not include every major website. For example,...
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 and SEO*
One area of SEO that is limited to one search engine but gets plenty of...
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, they say Google is great at spotting when the domain changes the owner and devalues all...