Fix Those Broken Links Before They Break You
One of the things that can put a hamper real quick in whether or not your site is a long-term success are the links. Broken links can kill you quickly. If you have enough broken links you will lose some authority and when that happens you'll just end up losing PageRank, traffic, and who knows what else. It is critical that you fix your broken links before they fix you. There are plenty of link checkers online that you can use to check your links to make sure you don't have any broken. Some SEO tools include a link checker. But there is a free link checker that you use to check your internal site links. The W3 link checker not only CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
What The Bachelor Can Teach Us About SEO
If you've been watching The Bachelor then you know last night was the final show before the final show. And the whole world watched as The Bachelor threw the biggest zinger in everyone's direction. And that got me thinking (because zingers tend to hurt when they bop your head). The Bachelor can teach us a thing or two, or three or four, about search engine optimization. Here are ten things I learned just by getting bopped: Don't pop the question too soon - You know at some point you'll have to have a call to action, but if you get there too soon you might end up with untargeted traffic while your true love goes walking off into the wind. Don't fall in love with two end CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Embedded Press Releases: The Next Stage For SEO?
Press release distribution online has a mixed bag of success and failures. If you do it right it can pay off big time. If you do it wrong then you've just got a very expensive article online that nobody reads. So how do you do it right? First, your press release has to convey something about your company that is newsworthy. That's the No. 1 rule. And it has to be something interesting. Online press releases, however, have one advantage that traditional press releases don't have. You can optimize them for the search engines. And that's a huge advantage. It's a subtle way to encourage other websites to run your press release just as you wrote it. And PRLeap has made that process even easier by recently CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
What’s More Important, Links Or On-Page Factors?
It's the same old debate experts, business owners and marketers have always had. Are links more important than on-page search engine optimization? Or is on-page SEO King Supreme? Talk to two SEOs and you'll get two different answers. Talk to ten and you're just as likely to get ten different answers as dividing them down the middle. We'll tell you what we think. Links are important, of course. And you can't do without on-page optimization. Both are important. But that doesn't really help us, does it? Let's break it down. Before you can even think about links, you need to get your on-page optimization completed properly. Otherwise, links are irrelevant. Yes, you can rank your website with good inbound anchor text even if your on-page is mediocre, but CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Why Updating Your Website Is Important
This morning I write a post about why PageRank falls. Hopefully you read it. I'll wait if you want to read it now and come back. One of the reasons that PageRank can fall is lack is updating on the website. This can happen for both blogs and static websites, but it typically happens more often for static websites because webmasters can go a long time without updating them. It's important to update your website for a number of reasons. The more often you update your website the more often search engine spiders will return to crawl your site and index its pages Websites that get regular new content receive more traffic over time Every new page you add to your website is another page CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Why PageRank Drops
Have you seen your Google PageRank rise to a PR4 or PR5 then suddenly drop without notice? If so then you might be wondering why. There are several reasons why your PageRank might drop and not all of them have anything to do with blackhat search engine optimization practices. Obviously, if you get caught buying or selling links then that could cause your PageRank to fall. Some websites have completely fallen off the PageRank radar for this practice. But it's not the only reason your PageRank might fall. To fully understand and appreciate Google's PageRank model, you need to understand what it was implemented for in the first place. Initially, Google wanted a way to test websites for their authority and so the PageRank system was CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Journal is Written by SEO Expert:
Nick Stamoulis
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