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SEO 101: Fix Your Title Tags

August 13, 2010

The Title tag is THE most important SEO element on your site. Read that again, I’ll wait… Ok. Now to explain. The Title tag is at the top of the html code for each page on your site. It is the words between <title> and </title>. You can see it at the top of your [...]

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SEO 101: Easily Get Links To Your Site

July 30, 2010

This is something that I can’t believe I haven’t heard other people talk about yet, but it’s so simple and easy to implement! When you’re surfing the net, catching up on the news, reading your favourite blogs, etc – if they have a comment section, take an extra 2 minutes and comment on what you [...]

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SEO 101: What is PageRank?

July 27, 2010

In writing my SEO 101 series, I noticed I throw around the term PageRank a lot (with good reason). Then it hit me that, as this is SEO 101, I should probably explain what that is PageRank was coined by the founders of Google to describe the algorythm they use to… well… rank pages. PageRank [...]

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SEO 101: The Importance of Links

July 26, 2010

One of the most important factors in getting your pages ranked higher in the search engines is the number and quality of incoming links. The value of links to your page is related to the PageRank of the page that links to your page. The higher the PageRank, the higher the value. However, the increase [...]

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SEO 101: Overcome Green Bar Addiction

July 22, 2010

I was recently surprised to find out that people still pay a lot of attention to the “green bar” – you know, the PageRank indicator on the Google toolbar. This person was worried that they were doing a whole lot of linking, but their green bar showed they were a PageRank Zero. Just don’t worry [...]

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SEO 101: Google Sitesearch: What Pages Are Indexed?

July 16, 2010

Having spoken with quite a few people who are struggling with the basics of SEO, I figured I’d do a series for the people who might find it useful. This series won’t be in any particular teaching order, I’ll just write them as I think of them, or as people ask questions. Jump in at [...]

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The Death of NoFollow

May 10, 2008

One of the central pillars of SEO until now has been the html “nofollow” tag. It is used to direct “link juice” to flow where you want it to. Many people in SEO (including myself) are liberal users of this tag. It ties in with the whole PageRank debate and whether PageRank is relevant anymore. [...]

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Google Page Rank Update

May 2, 2008

Google has been fairly sloppy in updating its Page Rank in the last two years or so, leading many to believe the Page Rank bar (that little green bar that you’d see if Google Toolbar was enabled) was broken. It seems that they have now updated the PR bar again after only two months. If [...]

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Web 2.0 is Here to Stay

April 8, 2008

I just read an excellent article by Jack Humphrey. Click here for the full article (a new window will open up). It’s a brilliant “State of the Web” address that is well worth the read. Jack talks about how the internet is constantly evolving (well duh! but apparently some people just don’t get it) and [...]

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SandBoxed!

November 10, 2006

Interesting fact – my Mike, Russ and Monty site has been sandboxed by Google. It has gone through the honeymoon period, but I did something wrong and Google doesn’t like me at the moment My thought is that I either (or all) was too aggressive too soon in getting links, or I was inconsistent with [...]

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