SEO

Today you’re going to see 17 advanced SEO tips and techniques. In fact: These are the same tips that I’ve used to grow my site to 186,081 visitors per month. Let’s dive right in. Use Title Tag Powerups Stop “Pogosticking”, Get Higher Rankings Delete Zombie Pages Do An Industry Study Use a “Feeler” Email Optimize [...]

There have been many articles on backlinking over the years. I have heard positive and negative remarks about it. In fact, even today as I do some more fact checking, I found so many regurgitated articles on the Pros & Cons of Backlinking. I understand why a website owner might get confused!Backlinking is the “link [...]

What is Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI)? Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is one way that search engines analyze your content and ascertains that it is on topic and not spam. Search engine algorithms determine this by taking all words in your article and determining how relevant they are to each other. Ergo, if your article is [...]

I learned a tough lesson today. I have spent a lot of time working on the optimization of my website. I’ve set <meta> titles and descriptions to many of my pages and posts. I use the WordPress SEO plugin, by Joost de Valk. I’ve worked diligently with Google Webmaster and Bing Webmaster. I’ve added analytics [...]

I recently came across a web page that really surprised the heck out of me. I get it; I really do… but is it worth risking traffic to your website?I was reading an article on LiberalLogic.com, today. As the page loaded, a yellow banner opened at the top of the page. It says,“Firefox users we [...]

You are making great strides on putting together your website. You have made the decision to either work with a professional web designer (I hope)  or you have chosen to Do-It-Yourself (Good luck!). Now you are scratching your head, trying to decide what would be effective pages on your website. Where should you start first? [...]

Backlinking is probably the most important factor taken in to account when assessing your web pages for search engine rankings. Last week, I wrote about keywords and keyword phrasing being important to search engines. Check out the article, “Have You Overused SEO in Your Website?” In that article, I stated the importance of creating keywords [...]

Are you overusing SEO to boost your website content? Recently, I found this headline on one of the Site Promotion websites I visit periodically. It said, “Google Plans to Penalize Sites That Overuse SEO.” That’s definitely an eye catcher especially when you have worked so hard to get your website listed at the top of [...]

As a web designer, I do my best to make my websites hit the top of the search engine results. Let me tell you, it is a battle, especially when the rules are always changing! It used to be that all you had to do was input a “title”, “keywords”, and a “description” in your [...]