Keyword Placement: Where Is The Best Place To Stick It? (Poke It? Cram It? … Uhm)
I have said plenty of times that keyword placement is more important than keyword density. But where exactly is the best place to stick your, uh, keyword? Well, I can tell you now, it isn't in the gutter (where you're thinking). No, the best place to stick your keyword is your page headline. To be more specific, right at the beginning of the headline. And notice, I did say headline. Not title. The difference between your page headline and title is academic, but important. The title is a meta tag, title tag. It goes under the hood. And while the mechanics under the hood are important, the decoration above the hood is far more important. Because, unlike an automobile, the fancy adornment at the top actually produces CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Spellmeleon Assists Savvy Search Marketers
A good amount of the time Matt Cutts shares some really useful stuff. Like Tuesday. While there are some really good tidbits in that blog post, I'd like to focus on just one thing that has probably been talked about to death over the years but that is still worth a good discussion now and then. The issue is misspelled words. I really like the feature he calls "Spellmeleon". If you misspell a word in your search query Google will ask if you meant such-and-such and then give you some results based on that. But Spellmeleon actually provides a better service. With Spellmeleon you still get the "did you mean ..." but you also get results for your original query, indicating that Google will honor CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Why SEO Has Its Limitations
Every now and then we like to talk about how SEO has limitations. It isn't everything. You can have the very best optimized site in your niche and still not close any sales. You can achieve No. 1 rankings for a dozen keywords related to your niche and not make any money. A bit worthless that would be, wouldn't it? Of course, I'm a big believer in search engine optimization. It's not much better to have a site that really sells, but can only achieve page 100 rankings. If people can't find your website, what good is it that it can close sales? Still, SEO. Important, right? Yes, it is. But it doesn't solve every problem. Here are some additional things to consider as you plan your CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Will Mobile SEO Be The Next Growth Phase For The Industry?
Mobile SEO could very well be the next big stage in search engine optimization. While it is unclear at this point whether optimizing web pages for mobile phones will be any different than optimizing them for PCs and laptops, we can say that it is possible. A report from Nielsen shows that Internet use from mobile phones has grown 74% in the last two years. Both iPhones and smartphones have seen incredible increases in the last year or so and it is projected that Android, an open source operating system for cell phones, will grow by 900% this next year. While all of this is merely academic at this point, keep in mind that web-based SEO developed in response to Google's entrance into CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Will The Google Trends Gadget Optimize Your Website?
Google recently announced that webmasters can put a Google Trends gadget on their website. Google Trends is one of Google's coolest tools that allows webmasters to see what the trending searches are over time. And just in you're wondering, the gadget is customizable so that you can show your visitors what the trending search topics are for your industry. Why would you want to do that? Well, you might want to do if you want your visitors to know what other people are searching for related to their interest in your niche. But don't expect it to help you with the search engine optimization efforts of your website. The information returned and output in the gadget is wrapped in an iframe and iframe's might CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Boston SEO Meetup – May Event Recap
Guest Post By: Brian Hawkins, the assistant organizer of BostonSEO.org Meetup and affiliate marketing manager with Pingo a global prepaid calling card service. SEO & affiliate marketing is ALIVE in Boston!! BostonSEO.org held its monthly internet marketing networking event on May 4, 2009 with a packed room of about 90 attended from its 600 plus members. The room had lively chatter about SEO strategies and enjoyed the goodies from the food sponsor, Michelle from Arlington Chamber of Commerce and organizer of the eBiz Symposium. Which will be holding its next event on October, 23rd, 2009. Search Engine Optimization Journal readers may recall that Nick Stamoulis from Brick Marketing was the guest speaker on search engine optimization at last years EbizSymposium.com The guest speaker for CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Does Theme Matter For SEO?
If you have a blog or a CMS and you are concerned about search engine optimization, and you should be, then it bears restating that your theme is as essential to your SEO as any other aspect of your content. It matters for the same reason that your web design matters for SEO when you design a site using HTML. Because the code is vitally important to crawlability issues. One reason is because code-to-text ratios determine how quickly the search engines can crawl your content and find the information they need to rank your site. Too much code and the search engines may not find enough meat in your content to rank at all. Plus, code can slow down your site and if your website is CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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