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. ...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Top Article Directories

Update Feb. 1st 2009 ** Please note this post is somewhat old.  Things change fast on the net.  As of Feb. 1st 2009 the best article repository or directory you can submit your articles to is http://www.ezinearticles.com – I've removed all other article...

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. ...

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...

A Guide to SEO Resources and Discussion Groups

Finding the right SEO tools and resources can be challenging – but we’re here to make it a little easier on you. SEO forums and newsgroups can be very confusing to a person with no SEO experience. These forums and newsgroups are just so heavily populated that they can...

Designing for Search Engines.

When you design a website, it's easy to focus on what your visitors are going to see. What you have to realise, though, is that you're going to have another kind of visitor with a completely different agenda: they're not going to be looking at your pretty logo and...

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