Archive for 'Search Engine Optimization'

2011 Average Costs of SEO

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Near the end of December 2011, SEOmoz ran a survey on their blog asking consultants and agencies of all sizes and geographies to contribute their pricing models and cost structures. I’m pleased ...

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SEO Spend Still Increasing for Businesses | Chart

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SEO Spend Still Increasing for Businesses | Chart
New numbers from Marketing Sherpa’s latest email marketing benchmark survey from Feb 2011 shows 62% of businesses increasing their SEO budget, and 64% increasing their website development budgets. Get ready for some ...

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How to Become a Link Magnet | SES NY

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SES NY

Today I sat in the 2nd row of a wonderfully informative lecture partially given by SEOmoz founder Rand Fishkin on attracting links. Please read on for some really great information.

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Using Twitter as a Sitemap

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Using Twitter as a Sitemap

Here’s a great post I found on how it is now believed that Twitter is definitely crawled by Google, and not just for real-time search, but by posting links in twitter, ...

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Video SEO | The Best Way to Get Your Video Indexed in Google

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Video SEO | The Best Way to Get Your Video Indexed in Google

So, you have a great site, and put out informative videos. When a search is ...

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SEO Basics – Tip 1

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From SEO Design Solutions:

Co-Occurrence

All parts of your website should accentuate your relevance. Of the most important are the first occurrence of a keyword in the title, url (www.example.com/buy-trucks-online.html), and the h1 (your main header tag) ...

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20 SEO Tips for 2010 – Tip 6

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Manage Outbound Links - Try to cap outbound links per page to fewer than 50 links for larger pages (10 for top level pages that need more ranking factor).

20 SEO Tips for 2010 – Tip 5

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Naming Conventions – Use proper naming conventions (subject or keyword first, then plural variation, modifier, then tag line).

20 SEO Tips for 2010 – Tip 4

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Dynamic URL’s – If pages are dynamically created, try to remove or rewrite as many parameters in the URL as possible or use URL / Mod rewrite.

20 SEO Tips for 2010 – Tip 3

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Orphaned Pages and Dead Ends – check for orphaned pages to determine if pages are linked sufficiently to ensure crawling.

20 SEO Tips for 2010 – Tip 2

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Indexation and Crawl Frequency – See how many pages are crawled in a site to determine crawl frequency.

  • If you have a home page that is crawled regularly and your internal pages are ...

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20 SEO Tips for 2010 – Tip 1

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  1. Canonical Issues - check canonical issues to make sure there is a preferred default page or domain preference (http:// or www).

Internal Linking in SEO | How to be effective

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Internal Linking in SEO | How to be effective

Many of us in the SEO game have pondered this, especially in recent times. The best answer lies in what we BELIEVE to ...

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SEO in Facebook | What’s new?

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It’s been about 2 weeks since Facebook announced that it will be changing the way in which it handles internal search. Basically, the new algorithms will be sensitive to a keyword search in Note ...

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Index Pages and Root Directory | Duplicate Content?

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duplicate-contentIf you are reading this, chances are you’ve come across this same dilemma. While checking your sitemap, you realize ...

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