CategorySearch Engine Optimization

30th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

Search Engine Optimization FAQs

SEO – Seven Most Often Asked Questions is a good article with some FAQs that people often ask about Search Engine Optimization complete with answers that should help anyone wanting to optimize their sites for Search Engines. The first FAQ is: ‘Please help! My website has been banned! I cannot ...more
Search Engine Optimization
28th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

To Outward Link or not to Outward link….

There is a good article from Wayne Hurlbert at SEO Chat about the pros and cons of outward bound links in terms of SEO on your blog. “Few topics in search engine optimization (SEO) cause as many heated disputes as the concept of linking out to other sites. Whenever the subject ...more
Search Engine Optimization
28th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

Google traffic dropped dramatically for many sites

There is an interesting thread over at Webmaster World’s forums that indicates that a significant number of web masters have noticed a drastic reduction in referals from Google in the past few days. Some are reporting decreases in in Google visitors from numbers like 2000 to 350 or 30,000 to ...more
Search Engine Optimization
27th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

Do forum signature links help PageRank and SERPS?

One of the tips I’ve seen given in many SEO articles is that if you add your blog’s URL as a signature in your messages left in forums that you’ll increase your Search Engine Ranking. It makes sense, especially if you use the keywords you’re targeting – however Search Engine ...more
Blog Promotion
26th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

Getting your blog to the top of the Search Engines

Search Engine News Journal has posted 10 great tips to get your blog ranked at the top of the Search Engines. I really like their approach because they acknowledge that it takes time to get your blog high up the rankings. I also like this tip about ‘titles’: ‘Create a ...more
Search Engine Optimization
26th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

Blog Referal Statistics as an SEO Tool

SEO Scoop suggests that your blog’s log files (or stats package – especially key word referrers) are a great tool for optimizing your site for search engines. This is good news because one of the most useful SEO tools that you have at your disposal is right at your fingertips! ...more
Search Engine Optimization
25th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

More Search Engine Optimization tips for your Blog

There is a lot of articles out there about how to optimize your blog for search engines – Google in-particularly – but this one has some pretty handy tips on SEO and promoting your blog. The key one really is to find ways to get others to link to your ...more
Blog Promotion
25th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

Getting Indexed Through Google AdSense

One of the theories that often goes around forums that discuss the use of Adsense is that site that use it get indexed faster and higher than sites that don’t. The theory goes that if you use Adsense – Google will want your site to be more successful (and therefore ...more
Adsense
24th of September 2004 Darren Rowse

Search Engines, Directories and RSS Agregators to Submit your Blog to

Most Search Engines, Directories and News Aggregators will not find your blog on their own – well not quickly anyway – many need a little help and have ways of suggesting sites to be added to their databases. Big List of Blog Search Engines is just what it says – ...more
Blog Promotion