Search Engine Optimization | Website Design, SEO

Is Google Updating Faster Then Ever?

The normal title I use for this site is “web design and SEO” which I’ve been using for quite some time now. I decided to change the title to “website design and internet marketing” earlier today… about 8 hours ago. Previous to that my title was “web design and SEO” but now [...]

Google Pagerank Update Pissing Off Lots Of People

So Google updated it’s pagerank about a week and a half ago and a lot of people are pissed to the point where they are taking action against Google. I mean to the point where they are disallowing the googlebot to even index their sites. Vlad is one of them. He’s using [...]

Do It Yourself SEO. On Page Website Optimization for Higher Search Rankings

If you are the Do It Yourself type you’ll be interested in what Top 5 On Page factors affect your search engine rankings.
On Page optimization includes anything directly in your html that you can change to boost your search engine rankings.
The Top 5 On Page SEO Factors
Title Tag
Your title tags are super important and the [...]

Article Marketing – Article Submitter – Article Submission

Are you writing articles and submitting them to article directories in hopes they (your links) get picked up by webmasters and search engines? Have you paid for article submission services? Have you ever wanted to submit your articles to a bunch of article sites for free?
Check out Article Submitter, another piece of [...]

Directory Submission – Directory Submitter

Ahh the good ol’ directory submission services out there. Charging a hundred dollars to submit your link to 100, 200, 250, 300, 350 of the top directory sites around. Directories can be a good way to get your site some one way backlinks but having another company do it can be costly [...]

Social Poster – Post to Multiple Social Bookmarking Sites at Once

Social bookmarking is big in SEO and if you aren’t spamming the social bookmark sites with your links then your missing out! Haha! But seriously SEO’s are using social bookmarking to secretly bookmark their own sites along with real sites of course. This gives you a little more exposure and might even [...]

Search Traffic from Long Tail Keywords

Most web traffic comes from people searching long tail keywords or key phrases. When people search google they usually type in more then 2 keywords looking for specific information. You can see how people find your site by going over to Hittail and signing up, put your info in and sit back and [...]

Google Pagerank Update – Complete?

So I first saw Google updating it’s pagerank and posted about it on the 19th of Sept. That was more then a month ago and now it looks like the dust is finally settling. For the past month I’ve seen my sites go back and forth between the old pagerank and the new [...]

Google updating it’s pagerank?

Well I just saw the first signs that google is updating it’s pagerank. A new site I started awhile back is now displaying a pagerank of 4. It was a zero before that. It looks like google is getting ready for it’s next pagerank update. There updates usually take a few [...]

Gaining One-Way Inbound Links Through Link Exchanges

In the old days webmasters could freely exchange links with other webmasters without worrying about being penalized by search engines. In the old days I mean 2005 and earlier. Things change quickly on the web and the search engines are catching on faster and faster to webmasters trying to artificially boost their search engine rankings.
Old [...]

SEO and Domain Age

Google’s patent application 20050071741 displays how they rank sites on historical data. Meaning that they pay attention to when your domain was registered and how long it’s been registered for. Older domains have an advantage in Google’s serps over newer domains. If you have a domain name and plan to be around for awhile then [...]

Alexa Rankings are Useless

Did you know you can artificially boost your Alexa traffic ranking by simply installing the Alexa toolbar and visiting your sites over and over? Yes, it’s true. Because of this fact I don’t trust Alexa rankings at all. I never really thought Alexa was worth a damn even back in 2001 when I first personally [...]

Get Your Site Cached By Google Without any Backlinks

I’ve registered totally new domain names for new sites I am starting and I’ve tried to make sure no search engines see them in their new stage when they don’t have content. The reason I don’t want the search engine spiders to see them is that I want to have content up first so when [...]

Free Ping Service

Ping 52 update service sites simultaneously to increase your blogs popularity. Pingoat allows you to do just that. Or if you have a wordpress blog you can set up pinging automatically every time you post under Options > Writing under Update Services at the bottom. Simply list each service you want to [...]

Check Live PageRank

Stumbled across this tool and thought it was cool. It shows you your current pagerank and what your future pagerank might be. As many seo professionals know pagerank is quite a mystifying thing and it’s nice to see your actual pagerank and how it ranks across a few of Google’s different servers. I don’t want [...]

Making Your Visitors and Search Engines Happy

In the quest for the perfect website sometimes we overlook the obvious and forget about aspects of the web that make it enjoyable. We get caught up into what’s cool or what our competitor’s site has that we lose sight of usability and ultimate visitor happiness. Ultimately less is more on the web and by [...]

Google Pagerank Update

Well Google is updating it’s pagerank again. I saw the first glimpses of it yesterday with some new sites going from 0’s to 4’s. Whenever they first start to update their pagerank it usually takes a week or two for everything to settle. So sites will jump back and forth between the new and old [...]