SEO

New Apartment

Post is about nothing, so you can skip it if you want. Just a status update.
Sorry for no posting, it isn’t due to being lazy or not motivated. I moved this weekend, so I’ve been without solid internet for almost a week. It took longer than I thought to get moved the the net set [...]

Diminishing Marginal Utility of Links

It is important to understand that search engines note the IP from which a website is hosted when reviewing a link. This is done in large part to detect link manipulation patterns. Too many links from a single IP is an indicator that all those sites have the same owner. To help prevent link farms, [...]

What Would You Like?

Alright guys. So there are some really nice SEO tools on the market, including some really nice Firefox Addons and Wordpress plugins.
Is there anything you would LOVE to see? Doesn’t have to be huge, but any improvement to these tools or a small tool you wish you had? I’m not making any promises, but we’re [...]

Let’s Discuss PageRank

Google is in the middle of an SEO pagerank update, so let’s discuss PageRank a little. I’ve discussed it briefly in my post about PageRank basics, but I want to give you a better idea about PageRank and how much it matters. PageRank matters the most when you’re getting backlinks, but is not the biggest [...]

Optimize Brian’s Threaded Comments for SEO

I’m a big fan of Brian’s threaded comments and so are several other bloggers. The plugin is designed to allow you to directly respond in a thread to specific people who leave a comment. Its a great way for you and your visitors to interact in your comments. This increases comments, which is great for [...]

Semantics for SEO

Semantics is the study of meaning and relationships and plays a role in SEO. Google makes its money from being successful at crawling, indexing, and ranking data. One important aspect of this procedure is being able to understand content in a manner that is more complex than keyword density. One way of doing this is [...]

Dominate Your Competition, Not Google

Check out the Search Engine Optimization guide. So far I’ve talked about SEO basics, on site SEO, SEO design, keyword selection and keyword research, and about identifying long tails. Now it’s time to step it up into big boy SEO; dominating SERPS.
Dominating SERPS is about one thing: Beat EVERYONE in your way. Look at #1, [...]

A Word About Link Farms

During my time interacting with those in the MMO niche, I’ve been know to directly disagree with advice and wisdom provided by other bloggers, even if they’re big named bloggers (like Vic). And this has saved my as several times from being caught in some crappy situations. I want to briefly discuss the concept of [...]

MMO Friends

During my months being active in the MMO community, I’ve met and gotten to know several bloggers. I’ve learn about several other great bloggers, even if I don’t communicate with them directly. This week Griz made a post about the need for us to all support each other. There is a solid core group of [...]

Similar Posts For SEO Success

It’s no secret that a related post plugin will make your site stickier while also improving your site’s SEO by internally linking to other posts. Today I installed a new related post plugin called Similar Posts. I really like it, so I thought I’d talk about it and share why I think it is useful.
(The [...]

BANS Duplicate Content & No 404 Pages

So I just switched a domain over to BANS and noticed that dead URL’s return a 200 status code instead of a 404. It is hardcoded into BANS to return the main index page content with a status code of 200 if a page is not found. Well, this is a problem in terms of [...]

SEO Footprints

If you’re serious about SEO, Internet Marketing, or Making Money Online; you need to spend some time learning about footprints, how to not leave them, and how to detect them. I’m making this post because recently I discovered someone’s entire network by discovering a couple of footprints they were leaving. And since I don’t like [...]

Search Engine Optimization Guide

Guide to basic SEO. Archive of post from SEO Zombie that covers SEO basics.

The Dark Side This Month

A couple of post from the darkside that I thought were worth sharing.

Blackhat Ethics
Blackhat Tools
Future of SEO

Geotagging, Local Search, & SEO?

I don’t think there is any doubt that Google is moving toward both localized and personalized search. They’re getting more accurate and sophisticated. Recently I made a post about the power of a local listening, and how it can be used to gain prime real estate in the search results. Its no secret I’m targeting [...]

Reasons .info BANS May Fail

A fair number of people have had issues with .info domains recently and .info BANS sites in particular. I recently wrote an article about how .info domains are different. Check it out, it gives a little insight on what I think some of the issues are.
Well, I saw a post today that I thought applied [...]

Free Keyword Research Tools

(I made a video recently on this, but the sound on it was horrible)
Keywords are the words users enter when performing a search. Understanding how people search and what phrases they use to search is an important part of SEO. There are services that track search data and use the data to provide estimations of [...]

SEO Template | Free SEO Friendly Templates

I was working on a non-blog site earlier, so I grabbed a couple of templates off of open source web design, which is an awesome site. Well I selected a couple of good ones and made a couple of tweaks to them to improve their SEO. I thought I’d upload them here to share.
Features of [...]

Increase Comments - Sneaky Experiment

A simple experiment to increase my site’s exposure and comments. Its a little sneaky, but I’m curious what effect it’ll have.

SEO for Firefox Tutorial

Made a quick video showing how SEO for Firefox works to help those who were having a hard time with the add on. It a quick and simple video. I hope it helps.

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