Paid Links: Google’s New Competitive Spy Policy Could Kill You
Gone are the days when you built your website and waited for the search engines to crawl them and index them. In those early days of the Internet you could expect the content on your website and the meta tags to be the most important criteria the search engines used to judge where you should fall in the rankings. Not so any more. Google introduced the idea of off page factors. Now, those factors are the most important part of the picture. Unfortunately, there's a lot of counterfeiting going on. All SEO boils down to two things: Keywords Links Ideally, these would be equally weighted. But they're not. If you don't have inbound links, you're dead in the water. For that reason, everybody who wants to be somebody is CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Meta Tags: Do They Count?
I witnessed an argument in a forum the other day between two SEOs. They were discussing meta tags. One of them said he had a "special trick" for ensuring that he got high ranks in the search engines and it involved the use of meta tags. The other guy argued that meta tags don't matter. It was an interesting discussion. First, let me say that any time someone says they have a "special trick," I get skeptical. SEO is not about special tricks. It isn't rocket science. Anyone can do it. The problem with most website owners is they don't have the time to do it. But if they did, they'd have no problem doing it because it really isn't that hard. That's not to say that CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How You Can Profit From Typosquatting
For those of you who don't know, typosquatting is the act of using typos or misspellings in domain names to draw visitors to a bogus site in hopes of garnering a profit from click-through ads or other revenue generating practices, legitimate or illegitimate. I'm not going to get into that argument, but I do want to bring out a sneaky method of ensuring traffic for your website. Interestingly, this practice can also prove useful in punching a dent in typosquatting. If you own a domain name that could easily be misspelled or you have reason to believe will rise in popularity enough that typosquatters will seek to profit from it, then you could purchase the domain names of misspellings of that domain name and redirect those CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
SEO Techniques For The Blogging Handicapped
Here's a quick SEO technique for your blog: SEO Your Blog Post Title Choose a keyword for your post. Make that keyword, or keyword phrase, the first part of your post title. For instance, for this post assume my keyword is "SEO." I can write a thousand different titles for that keyword but I want to ensure the search engines realize its value as a keyword. That's why I put it up front. There are several ways you can do this. The first way is as I did above: Craft a phrase that grabs the reader's attention and utilizes the keyword in the pole position Another method is to drop the keyword followed by a colon and a catchy phrase, like so: SEO: Break Your Crutches And You'll Be Crawling Another CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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