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August 24, 2009

Using Symbols to Make Page Title Stand Out in SERPs

Getting your page to top 10 results in Google is one thing but getting people to click through is yet another story. It is easier if you are #1 of course - but if you are somewhere in the middle, catching surfers’ eye is quite hard.
One way is to make your title short and concise, [...]

March 26, 2009

Quickly Find Your Site Duplicate Content Issues

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 [...]

March 3, 2009

Test Your Page Title with PPC

The problem with crafting a good page title is not only about the multiple roles it plays in your web page performance (it influences rankings, determines the click-through, calls to action, etc, etc). The problem also is that it is very hard to test.
We know that no matter how good you are at the theory, [...]

February 23, 2009

How to Control Your Site External Anchor Text

That’s a frequent question I get from my clients. Really, apart from taking care of internal anchor text and adding links with proper text yourself, is there any way to control the anchor text of naturally acquired external in-links? Let’s find a few ways together:
Get a domain name containing your keyword:
Putting aside all debates about [...]

February 18, 2009

Forget about Keyword Density

I know, this is a well-discussed topic but believe it or not I have to deal with this misconception daily. People still try to repeat the keyword phrase a set number of times to make sure a search bot will understand it. Here’s the news, search engines have become much smarter now - they don’t [...]

February 11, 2009

Target Several Keywords Without Stuffing Your Page Title

Ok, so today I am giving my first SEO tip and I made my best to start with something both basic and useful.
Creating a good title is real art. Especially if you need to target several key phrases on one page:

You don’t want to stuff the title with your core term repeating it twice (or [...]

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