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Thank you Tad Chef
Just did my first guest post ever!
And to do it at SEO 2.0!
Too excited to say anything except for a humungous
Thank You
to Tad
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There is an ongoing argument about whether SEO is dead or not. Some even talk about SEO 2.0.
I don’t really care; I just want the Web to be easier to navigate and safer to use, and for this to happen we need to pay attention to Web standards.
If you’re a blogger, does the product you [...]
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Tags: All things WordPress, Google, SEO
Sites that use embedded video are finding that oftentimes the page is not appearing in search results, even though it is getting a lot of traffic from users that know about it.
Mark Yoshitake, YouTube and Google Partnerships, and Erick Hachenburg, Metacafe at the Searchnomics 2007 conference suggest:
Upload content to YouTube, then re-embed using YouTube embeds
Write [...]
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Search Engine Friendly Design
More from Searchnomics 2007, Shashi Thakur, Member of Technical Staff, Google Inc., and Paul O’Brien, Marketing Director for Zvents discuss the things you should, and the things you should not worry about when it comes to search engine friendly design.
Stuff to worry about
Include unique, useful content, preferably HTML
Include relevant and organic links
Think accessibility – it [...]
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Among the many sessions at the recent Searchnomics conference, Barbara Coll, WebMama CEO, along with Reid Spice of iCrossing discussed tools for search engine marketing.
Whereas Reid spoke about the advantages of using automated systems, specifically iCrossing’s proprietary system, Coll spoke about the importance of “hand managing” PPC (pay per click) campaigns, and offered a list of [...]
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Microsoft has released a developer toolbar for Microsoft Internet Explorer which may be useful to SEO folk for ad-hoc analysis of individual pages.
For example, it allows the details of the commonly used description and keywords meta tags without having to troll through the raw html source code.
Tooltips are used to allow the all of the [...]
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A common question, with a simple answer:
Google can only crawl and index Web sites that the Googlebot can see.
The very next question is: How do I know whether the Googlebot can see my site?
From Google’s Webmaster Guidelines*, pay particular attention to the first technical recommendation:
Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, [...]
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If you want a successful blog, you need traffic. If you want traffic you need to understand how search engines relate to you as well as your competitors.
Although many of these sites require that you have your own URL, e.g. blogwell.com instead of blogwell.wordpress.com, all of them offer lots of other useful information. Best of [...]
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When you link to a specific blog post (permalink), the person you link to, links back to you….tracks back to your story or post.
This is typically represented by a trackback list, found at the bottom of the post you linked to, with the most recent link to that post appearing at the top.
Pings are little messages, [...]
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I was recently given the opportunity to speak with Adam Lasnik, Google’s Search Evangelist about search engine optimization, and it started me thinking about title tags and meta description tags; specifically, just how important is it to get the words right?
When you search on Google, the two most obvious things that come back are the [...]
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