As a critical off-page SEO factor backlinks are huge. You need a good quantity of quality and relevant backlinks. They need to be permanent and as far as possible unique. Its no good if a competitor just copies what you have done – all the effort spent in creating your advantage will be lost. Watch this 3 minute video in which Matt Cutts explains a few things on how & why Google displays certain results from the ‘link:’ operator. Where you can see what Google sees ( in backlink terms) and how the ‘Big G’ evaluates these.
This requires that you get your mind around your site’s subject matter and the products you may be offering. Targeting requires your understanding of this. You must identify not only the type of traffic or visitors you desire on your site, but also the kind of traffic or visitors you don’t.
Here a quick way to create a massive bout of SEO juice. It often referred to as pinging, basically it means you are alerting update services that you have made an update or addition to a website. The “ping” notifies them and all being well should trigger a reaction that may include checking out this update, adding it to an index and effectively boosting your SEO Juice.
Lets talk about keyword research for your website. If you will target the wrong keywords with your SEO campaign you will lose the battle even before it begins. Nowadays you cannot expect to rank for broad match highly competitive keywords like “weight loss” or “build muscle” – the sites that are on the first page of Google (and that should be your primary goal) are several years old and have tens or even hundred of thousands backlinks, it is almost impossible to outrank them with a brand new website in a short period of time.
Alternatively, it would be easy to rank on the first place for the phrase “cool and stupid shoe widgetization” but can you imagine anyone searching for that ?
I thought as SEO is such a talked &written about topic I would do a series on its history. Where it started and how it progressed to where it is now. This is part 3 of 3.
I thought as SEO is such a talked &written about topic I thought I would do a series on its history. Where it started and how it progressed to where it is now. This is part 2.
I thought as SEO is such a talked &written about topic I thought I would do a series on its history. Where it started and how it progressed to where it is now.
Every page on your website has a link network, this network of links is made up of both internal and external links so what is it about them the Google uses to calculate the actual pagerank.
At a high level , there are 3 factors that your link network will influence in respect to page rank [...]
I have been getting quite a bit of spam lately to my blog in the form of (attempted) track backs and ping backs from spammers. They are simply just keyword stuffed renditions of nothing. Anyway I came across this short video which explains how Google views website spamming and because it was front of mind, [...]
