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Twitter and SEO

March 25th, 2010

You may have noticed Twitter results showing up with surprising frequency on search engine results pages (SERPs). Social media networks are becoming highly trusted for relevant, real time content, and you can boost your rankings with a little attention to this practice. What many people don’t understand is that one a name is taken, it’s [...]

 
 

Video Rankings – How to Push Up to the Top

February 12th, 2010

Videos now show in rankings on Google and other search engines. How do you manage to push your video up the ranks? Many people don’t realize that YouTube remains ahead of Yahoo! in the No. 2 spot behind Google, when it comes to search, according to comScore. Some videos rank well on Google but not [...]

 
 

Avoiding Overlinking

December 15th, 2009

Can you link too much? really? Yes, you can. There is a very real danger to stuffing your sites with links. There are just a lot of negatives that pile up after a certain point. What IS too many links? It depends. If you own a well aged authority site and can get natural links [...]

 
 

How to Get an Indented Listing in Google

September 22nd, 2009

Some years ago, Google started filtering for duplicate content, which put an end to companies that lobbied to fill the entire front page of the SERPs with links to their site. Google tries to give a sampling of the best sites, which means that you’ll normally only appear once on the first page. In certain [...]

 
 

Duplicate Content Filters

September 17th, 2009

Duplicate content filtering is designed to prevent the irritating happenstance of  the same content being presented to users in all or most of the top 10 positions in search results. A common mistake when trying to deal with duplicate content filtering is thinking that there is only one main duplicate filter. This is incorrect; there [...]

 
 

Title Formats

July 22nd, 2009

  Using the right title for your web pages is very important! They are taken into account by the ranking algorithms of search engines, and they are what the web surfers see first in the search results. Using the right format is imperative! News titles aren’t as good for SEO in the long run – [...]

 
 

Watching your SERPs Positions – When to Worry

July 5th, 2009

We all know things change. We all know all search engines are not exactly alike. Number one in Yahoo may be number two in Google, and fourth on Bing. What about when you plummet from number one or two to page two or four or six? When do you start to panic? When we spend [...]

 
 

How Important is Tracking Your SE Rankings?

June 13th, 2009

Tracking your search engine rankings is very important – it’s how you know what works and what doesn’t, and where your competitors are. As a webmaster, tracking your rankings on Google, Yahoo, and MSN may not be that big a deal, but if you want to suceed you will remember there are many more search [...]

 
 

Content Over Keyword Stuffing

May 22nd, 2009

  Optimizing for Google is the topic of most of our blog posts, and there are a few questions that arise from time to time as Google changes algorithms, and shifts focus to keep people from gaming the system and to make sure the most relevant results reach the top. The number one question is [...]

 
 

Indented Listings and How to Get Them

May 7th, 2009

Google won’t normally list your website twice… in fact, Google normally shows only one page from every site in the top results. However, it is possible to get two listings if you game it just right. Showing up twice in the SERPs can give you website added punch. Having an indented listing in Google’s search [...]

 
 
 
 

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