I was pondering this question the other day as I wrote an article explaining the ins and outs of Technorati, Alexa and PR ranking. It caused my head to spin a bit. I’m not the most technologically savvy person around. I tend to learn – begrudgingly – on an as-need basis. But, to achieve blogging success, I’m learning to get over myself.
Particularly as an SEO writer, I’m delving deeper and deeper into technology I really have no interest in – but is vital to my online success.
So my…
Do you ever find that you don’t know or remember how you starting ranking well for certain keywords and keyphrases? Have you ever wished you had a guide of how you succeeded in one area of SEO so that you could follow the exact same steps on a current project?
I certainly have. In fact, I’m going through this right now.
You see, I have a site in the political niche that currently enjoys just under 5,000 unique visits per day. The site is about two years old, and has, I believe,…
During the past few months a lot of my time has been spent looking at search results and finding ways to clean up the way my sites/pages look in the SERPs. The reason for this is mainly because in one case I had two different sites ranking #1 and #2 for the same search terms, yet the #2 result was getting a much higher click through rate.
The reason for this, I believe, is that the title for the site that ranked #1 was completely unrelated to the domain name. In…
If you’re constantly surfing the web looking for solid blog SEO content like me, you’ll notice a plethora of information and “top lists” on virtually every related source. Most of these lists are highly recommended, but in my opinion there are a few vital changes you can make that are not usually not listed.
1. H1 Tags for Titles
I cannot express enough how well this has worked on several of the projects I am intimately involved in. One of the major projects I work on is a wiki site with…
We should all know that outbound links to fresh, original, relevant content on other blogs or websites are vital when it comes to providing users with quality content. But often times we overlook the importance of good internal linking strategy within our own domains.
I’ve put together what I believe to be a fairly solid list of tips to use when linking to your own content via a new post or page. Of course, this list is compiled of methods I’ve used with a decent level of success, so I provide…
As most of you know, Google updates the PageRank of websites all the time (some say a daily basis) however this figure is only released every few months to webmasters, most notably on Google’s Toolbar.
Courtney Tuttle posted about this update this morning*. PageRank is not something I check a lot if I’m honest but I checked out the PR of websites I did know the PR of earlier today and nothing seemed to have changed. However, I checked again an hour or so again and noticed some websites getting a PR…
