Daily SEO Tip

*The following is the guest post by Emily Thompson*
The Google Local Listing has grown in importance more and more in recent time. In many instances, the local 7-pack, consisting on local listings, is appearing at the top of a search results page, above even organic listings. This placement creates huge opportunities for [...]

*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 [...]

*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 [...]

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 [...]

Today’s tip was submitted by Umair Asif
Google has already started integrating local search results into the main page of regional search engines. Few US users may have noticed it, but it has huge implications for webmasters and SEO experts outside the United States. Here is how it may look for someone searching [...]

It may be not  a frequent situation but it may happen so that you need to remove a page from Google SERPs really fast. What’s the best way to do that?
Try this:

Exclude the page in Robots.txt + remove the pages using the URL removal tool in Webmaster Tools.
Return 410 status code for the page (to [...]

The following guest tip was provided by Umair Asif.
While Google Adwords Keyword Tool is a great resource to evaluate the number of searches for a keyword, I assume that a majority of webmasters do not realize how easy it is to inadvertently distort calculating the amount of traffic for a keyword. The [...]

This question is being asked so often that I just decided to go ahead and write a post about that:

You notice Google report a 404 page on your site;
You go to your site and fix the error (delete the link to the non-existent page or just fix the broken URL);
Your Google Webmaster Tools account is [...]

The following guest tip is provided by Bill Sebald
I like this trick and use it each time in my keyword research. I came up with it after discovering the great AutoPagerize user script for Greasemonkey. It stimulates a lot of ideas quickly. In keyword research, where creativity is still [...]

My favorite Google advanced search option is its date range allowing to sort search results by most recent ones. So this time I am sharing my really quick (and useful) tip on how to make the most of it:
1. Keep it always on your Google (home) page: “Keep Your Google Search Dates” - Greasemonkey script [...]