Category Archives: SEO

In SEO, we often talk about title tags. I’d like to propose that title tags and headers serve exactly the same purpose. Before getting all up in arms, here’s my reasoning.

What does a page’s title tag do? What’s its purpose? It describes the page. What about the H1? What it its purpose? To describe the page…  Since they serve the same purpose, why are they so unevenly weighted in SEO? Let’s explore it.

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So, PageRank is dead, right? Oh no, it’s definitely alive and well. It’s not being used as a factor to determine a page’s ranking anymore, but it’s certainly not ignored. Let me explain.

Google would never trash PageRank – it’s what made Google great! Before Google, the other search engines simply relied on what you say about yourself to rank you, usually in the form of how many times a given keyword is repeated on a page. Google innovated and started basing rankings not only on what sites said about themselves, but also what others said about the site – or its popularity. This popularity came in the form of links. Read On

In achieving success in the world of online business, SEO plays a very important role. SEO makes it possible for a website to rank on the top list in the search engine results page. A website at the top of the list will, of course, be visited by more people who are looking for the related information or products. It also works hand in hand in the online reputation management realm for a company or individual. Significant amounts of money are lost everyday because of misleading and erroneous information in search engine results. Read On

In the graph of ranking metrics that SEOmoz puts out, the largest slice of the pie (24%) is called “Trust and Authority of the Host Domain”. This means that just under ¼ of how you rank is determined by your site’s trust and authority. Why would the #1 most important factor in ranking be your site’s trust?

How much does Google spend each day to combat spam and other low-quality sites? I don’t know if I can quantify it without some help from the Big G, but I do know they have a whole team dedicated to fighting Spam, which is headed by Matt Cutts. That’s a whole team of overhead and salaries, potentially all over the world. With millions of dollars spent every year to combat spam, doesn’t it make sense to reward trust and authority as the largest part of the algorithm? This serves to naturally boost those with high trust and keep down those with spammy profiles. Read On

This isn’t exactly groundbreaking news, as I read about it a week or two ago from other sources, but today was the first day that Google’s new experimental feature that allows for “streaming search results” started to display for my personal use.

Basically, as you start typing in your keyword in the search bar, the search results below will change dynamically (or stream) as you continue to type. Kind of cool, right? Read On

I’d like to tell you about my experience with on-site SEO changes. We have had thousands of clients in the past to whom we have recommended keyword changes on their sites. Some implemented their changes right away, and some held off for a while. We monitored the performance of these campaigns and found a massive difference in the keyword rankings at the end of the campaign.

After 6 months, over 85% of the clients who implemented their on-site changes were ranked on the first page. Conversely, very few of the clients who didn’t implement found first-page rankings. This would lead us to believe that on-site factors would be the most important search ranking factor, right?

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Since the information highway has no end in sight, it is more important than ever to take proactive steps to manage your company’s online reputation. The enormity of the web is a blessing and curse–it gives you the tools to monitor your reputation, but it also gives the same tools to anybody who wants to disparage your business.

Knowing how to use social networks and search engines can help silence unprovoked dissent. Despite the breadth of the internet, only one or two negative pieces of feedback will hurt your company’s image, which scares off prospective customers. Follow a few simple steps to ensure that your business’s online reputation attracts clients and generates revenue.

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Unreadable links are one of the largest stumbling blocks to search engines in finding your content and allowing your site’s popularity to flow to all of your pages. I am continually surprised at how complicated some programmers make their code. Today I’d like to concentrate on JavaScript links.
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