2013
Bad Site Design Won t Get Your Site Penalized by Google
The difference between a Google Penalty and having your search engine rankings go down. Seems as though there are a lot of people out there that don t know the difference, and in this blog post I clear this up.
Google to Start Showing Your Company Logo Soon in Search Results
Companies and brands who have verified their publisher status (similar to Google Authorship) will start to see their company logo or brand logo show up in the Google Search Results.
2012
How Dating is Just Like Search Engine Marketing
Follow these best practices in both dating and search engine marketing, and soon you ll be spending your time with Mr or Mrs Right!
How to Find Buyers for Your Domain Name
For those who like to do affiliate marketing, buying domains is a familiar subject. You never know what set of keywords will be the next big thing, so you buy several domains with several different combinations of keywords. Many affiliate marketers buy tons, and tons of these types of domains, and work to get those domains ranked in the search engi
Why Exact Match Domain Names are Good (or Bad) for SEO
Is an Exact Match Domain Name good or bad for your search engine optimization strategy? Bill Hartzer, Director of Search Engine Optimization at Standing Dog, considers whether or not acquiring an Exact Match Domain Name is right for you and your business.
The WordPress Setting That Could Be Destroying Your SEO
Did you know that one small, easy-to-miss blog setting in WordPress has the power to virtually kill any and all search engine optimization efforts of all of your blog posts? That’s right, those carefully crafted title tags and keyword-filled meta descriptions can be rendered useless if you forget to check one thing: time.
How To: Remove Paid Links Without Hurting Rankings
When it comes to search engine rankings, we all know that one of the major search engine ranking factors is how many links you have to your website. Especially text links that include the keywords your trying to rank for in the anchor text. So, if you want to rank well for “red widgetsâ€, then having lots of links with “red widgets†in the a
The Art of Writing Effective Title Tags
One of the most basic SEO practices that can go a very long way in helping your site gain in Search Engine Rankings and add validity is the Title Tags. Here is how to write an effective title tag.
What Google Search Plus Your World Means to Your SEO Strageg
On January 10th, 2012, Google s search results underwent what some are calling a radical transformation. Google has begun integrating content that has been shared privately and combined it with public content in the search results. Here is what Google Search Plus Your World means for search engine optimization.
2011
The Meta Description Tag is Key for SEO
When it comes to building websites and optimizing your website for the search engines (search engine optimization), the importance of the meta description tag sometimes is not really clear for a lot of people nowadays. The meta description tag plays a key role in search engine optimization, because it is often used in the actual search result listi
How to Boost your Website Domain Authority
For Search Engine Optimization, in order to show the search engines (mainly Google), that your website is quot;worthy quot; of ranking well in their search results, you need to boost your domain authority. When you are creating a website and adding links to direct people to your site, you must consider the type of domains directing people there an
Why Social Validation is the New Search Engine Optimization
You probably have heard me preach it before: if at all possible, for search engine optimization purposes, your web site should include a blog or other section. Here is why your SEO Strategy must include social validation.
2010
Search Engine Optimization Tip: Keywords in URLs
Here is why it is important for search engine optimization to include your keywords in your filenames and in your URLs.
Search Engine Optimization - How you can Identify Search Engine Ranking Problems with Your Website
I often speak to individuals who declare that they are struggling from poor search engine rankings. Regardless of what you do, you simply can t discover your web site in Google–and sometimes it’s not just the keywords the websites is targeting, the website can t be discovered for the company’s name. In any situation, the website is definitely suffe
Search Engine Optimization: Why Alt Tags are Key
For this particular search engine optimization tip, let us review your image Alt Tags and putting keywords in your Alt Tags.
Will Your Facebook Store Help with Search Engine Optimization
Ask an Expert is an occasional feature where we ask ecommerce experts questions from online merchants. For this installment, we address a question about the search engine implications from selling on Facebook. The question comes from Brian M. Almashie, vice president of ecommerce for Shopwildplanet.com, a retailer for Wild Planet toys.
Do Product Videos Help with Search Engine Optimization?
Having videos of your products will help your ecommerce sales. Visitors to your site will watch the videos, and it will presumably help their buying decisions. But what about the search engines? How will posting a product video on your website help with search engine optimization?
Search Engine Optimization Tip: Who Owns Your Domain?
For this search engine optimization tip, let us talk about the Whois and the data that it contains.
Search Engine Optimization: Adding Content to your Web Site
For this search engine optimization tip, lets talk more about content and adding content to your web site.
Search Engine Optimization Tip: Add a Breadcrumb Trail
A breadcrumb trail, put simply, is a set of links on your page that lets users get back to where they came from or go to pages that are higher in the architecture of your site. For more information about what exactly breadcrumb trail navigation is, take a look here or here. Let us look at an example.
Search Engine Optimization Tip: Check Your 404 Errors
Check your website server log files for 404 errors. Google Analytics is not enough. In fact, you will not find 404 errors by looking at Google Analytics, or even in Google Webmaster Tools.
Why Your Business Should Invest In Keyword Rich Domains
One of the best kept secrets of the search engine optimization and search engine marketing industry is the expired domain name auctions that exist out there. If someone does not renew their domain name, it is frequently put up for auction on by the registrar itself, like Godaddy. If you do not renew your domain name at Godaddy.com, then there is a
Search Engine Optimization: Is Social Sharing the Next Link Building?
From a search engine’s perspective, the theory here is that most likely you are sharing something with your friends because you like it. You like that URL enough that you want to share it with everyone who is following you. That is now a link.
Search Engine Optimization and Network Marketing: How to Get More Leads
So, what can you do if you are a network marketer and want to bring in more network marketing leads? What if you have already spent money on a multi level marketing œprogram and want to get more people in your network?
Search Engine Optimization: Should You Optimize for LeapFish
So, if you are optimizing your web site for search engines, using the latest search engine optimization tips and search engine optimization best practices, should you optimize your web site for the LeapFish search engine?
