Dec 10 2009

Make Static Content Fresh by Aggregating Social Media

The following tip was provided by C. Maund-Anderson of CanadianVirtual.ca SEO Blog. A great way to make static content fresh is to aggregate social media. Using a social media profile that you update regularly, build an RSS feed or widget out to your static page. Make sure that the time stamp from the feed gets published onto your site or page, and your newly published content is accessible by the Search Engines. See how aggregated Tweets get picked up: The Tweet: The SERPs:

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Google AdWords Quality Score Explained in Simple Words

*The following tip was shared by Eric Gesinski who does Tulsa SEO and PPC work* A major part of Google AdWords that should be paid attention to is the Quality Score. This is a ranking between 1 and 10, 1 being worst, 10 being best. It's not on by default in the settings. To have it show in your AdWords display, inside your keywords tab go to "Filters and views" and select "Customize...

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Get Only Relevant Traffic from Image Search: Block Non-Content Images

More and more people are searching for images over the Internet. This results into tons of untargeted traffic that means more spam, more pain for servers and no benefit at all. The thing is most popular search engines (including Google) is text-based. It won't know that your image is about flowers if you call it apple.jpg, use "apple" in the alt text or just tell something about apples in the text located near the image. Therefore there...

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Getting Front Page Listings in Google Maps

*The following tip was shared by Eric Gesinski who does Tulsa pay per click advertising* Google made a recent revision on AdWords, and some changes are more visible than others. One of the major changes was adding the ability to post ads that can have a full address, phone number, and a visible "pin" on Google Maps, just like Google Local. (Note: yes, the customization for addresses in AdWords Campaign settings has been available for...

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ALLINTITLE vs INTITLE Google Advanced Search Operators

I am getting more and more questions concerning this: what's the difference between ALLINTITLE vs INTITLE Google search operators? Thus I decided to go ahead and publish the answer online to direct people to the post. So:

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Back to Basics: Fixing Canonicalization Issue

*The following tip was  shared by Eric Gesinski from Tulsa SEO* Editor's note: While this issue is well discussed in SEO circles, the post serves as a good reminder - don't miss it! One element to SEO that web designers sometimes miss is a big one: canonicalization. While you may know about it, you have to realize the impact it has on SEO is a major one. This is an issue that is...

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Share Your Favorite WordPress Security Tips!

No matter how awesome content on your blog is, how properly SEOed your site may be or how much work you put into promoting it, one day all your efforts may fall short all at once because your Wordpress-run blog has been hacked. What may follow is quite a depressining time actually: Your website might lose credibility and trust; Google may put that "This site may harm your computer" notice on your site SERPs...

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Cool Tip to Make Sense of Neglected (Parked) Domains: Creative WordPress Uses

It is often that we park a domain due some reason (for example, to secure your (brand) name like I did with annsmarty.com domain) and you just don't know what to do with it. Thus the domain just remains neglected while it could work as an additional link juice help. Years in Internet marketing have taught me one important thing (actually more than one but this one really counts for this post): you should...

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Want Google to Figure Your Error Pages Faster? Try 410 Status Code

Dealing with error pages that might keep Googlebot wondering what to do (and wasting Googlebot's time is never a good idea for your site Google crawl rate) is a too often-discussed issue. That's why we return to it again and again and again trying to share some tips and clarifications. The problem is, we can't do without them because error pages always pop up during the...

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Get More Exposure by Being Re-Tweeted by RT Bots

There's one tiny but cool Twitter hack I had some success with, so decided to share: give your Tweets more exposure with auto-retweet Twitter bots. How do auto-RT bots work? These are scripts that publish things a Twitter users tweet about to their own profile, thus collecting information on a specific topic. Why can getting retweeted by such a bot be a good idea? Many of those bots have a lot of followers and are also...

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