"Nofollow" attribute is being used by more and more people now. It is a good idea to spot other people's tactics on how they are using it on their web pages.
There are a few FireFox plugins that allow you to instantly see 'nofollowed' links as you browse. I am sure, most of you are well aware of those addons but I found it necessary to remind you of them:
1. Search Status highlights links using 'nofollow' (Right-link the tool icon in the status bar and choose 'Highlight Nofollow Links'). What I like about the tool is that you don't have to reload the page once the plugin is activated:
Going local is the most effective way to build links. People are most likely to be interested to cover local event or start-up and link back. Thus, when starting a new link building campaign, make sure you've made the most of your local blogs, forums and newspapers.
Twitter is a great tool to find folks covering local events. By going local on Twitter you will both build long-lasting relationships with local bloggers and journalists and get...
Friday's SEO tip is by Alexander Villamizar of LatamSEO.com
Not long ago I read the post called "Website Usability Equals Better SEO" and here's a quick tip to improve your site usability!
By using click recording software, you can learn a lot about your site usability and user behavior: which elements of the site attract more clicks and if the users do what you want them to do.
Long tail keywords (those that consist of your core term and several modifiers) are able of sending huge amounts of traffic. Besides, the top rankings for them are not hard to achieve.
The only trick is to spot the correct ones. There are plenty of methods (which also depend on the niche) but I am going to speak about identifying long tail keywords based on your current rankings and Google search referrals.
Two tools you will need...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
