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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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5 Killer Articles to Increase Your Presence Online

May 18, 2009

For today’s article, I decided to take a break from my usual format and point you in the direction of 5 recent articles that I think will greatly help you improve your presence online: 8 Essential Apps For Your Facebook Page If you have a facebook page (see my previous post for why you should [...]

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How to Be NoFollow Free

May 12, 2008

In writing the Death of NoFollow post, I came across a great post by Dixon Jones on how to go about removing the automatic nofollowing of comments in WordPress. Going noFollow free in the comments raises several issues, the chief of which is spam. That ugly thing where low-life types try to take advantage of [...]

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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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RSS – List Building of the Future

April 30, 2008

I have been hearing a lot of talk recently about building email lists. For a long time, building email lists was “THE” way to market online. Then they died off a bit in the general conversations. But they are now making a comeback to being “one of the best ways to market”. But why is [...]

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