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The Canonical Tag Can Save You from the Duplicate Content Monster How the very useful rel="canonical" tag solves many common SEO problems that exist around duplicate content issues.   |
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August 25, 2009
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10 Common SEO Mistakes Especially in larger organizations, it's common that SEO doesn't get the credit it deserves for driving traffic to a Web site. Unfortunately, this can often lead to uninformed senior managers making decisions that are catastrophic from an SEO perspective. |
Search Engine Watch
October 11, 2010
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Your Evil Twin: Identifying and Managing Duplicate Content Duplicate content can keep you out of the SERPs. A host of tools can help you identify and manage duplicate content. |
Search Engine Watch
August 11, 2009
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The 60 Minute SEO Site Audit Site audits are one of the most important tasks for an SEO professional, and sometimes you need to do one quickly. Here's how you can complete an SEO audit for your web site in one hour or less. |
Search Engine Watch
August 26, 2008
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SEO Success -- Guess What...Content Works! Fixing problems and implementing some search engine-friendly practices can have an immediate effect on a site's search engine rankings. But no search engine optimization technique works better than creating quality content. |
Search Engine Watch
January 11, 2010
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Article Marketing 101 How to establish credibility and drive traffic back to your Web site with article marketing and submission, and how to avoid getting flagged as duplicate content. |
Search Engine Watch
November 10, 2009
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SEO Site Review: Beadsbug.com Mark offers tips for improving Web sites using basic search engine optimization tactics, including title tags, resolving duplicate content, link building, and much more. |
Search Engine Watch
June 18, 2008
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4 SEO Tips for Higher Search Rankings Search engine optimization is tough, and the rules for ranking vary from site to site. Authority, domain age, penalty factors, and freshness all play an important role in your Web site's ranking. Is your site ready for greatness? |
Search Engine Watch
November 11, 2008
Carrie Hill |
Six Things You Might Be Doing Wrong (And How to Fix Them)! When you look at what is and isn't working for a small business Web site, you'll find that the most frequent issues fall within six categories. Some are flaws in site architecture, while others are the result of poor planning or marketing discipline. All are fixable, if you know what to look for. |
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'Googlewashing' Makes Your Site Invisible A growing number of content-based businesses face a serious new threat to their publishing rights and search rankings. |
Search Engine Watch
September 29, 2010
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A Short Synopsis of Advanced SEO in Late 2010 Far from making search engine optimization irrelevant, Google Instant (and big changes like May Day and Caffeine) are fueling new growth, renewed interest, and in some cases, a big change in SEO strategy. |
Search Engine Watch
February 24, 2009
Mark Jackson |
International SEO Challenges and Tips Here are a few challenges that companies with an international Web presence face, and some advice for how to create an optimal Web presence that can do well in international search engines. |
Search Engine Watch
January 6, 2009
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There's No Shortcut to Good SEO...Or Is There? If search engines want all SEOs to operate in an ethical manner, they should show us that they're penalizing the Web sites that abuse their guidelines, and reward those who follow their guidelines. |
Search Engine Watch
September 28, 2009
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International SEO 101, Part 1 International SEO, otherwise known as global SEO or multilingual SEO, is an important component to an effective global Internet marketing strategy. |
Search Engine Watch
June 8, 2010
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Crawl, Index, Rank, Repeat: A Tactical SEO Framework (Part 2) A framework for SEO strategy that captures the three primary elements of search engine optimization. Part two in a three-part series. |
Search Engine Watch
April 8, 2009
Eric Enge |
Operating Web Sites in Multiple Countries Setting up Web sites for multiple countries is a common problem for multinational businesses that want to have separate sites for each country where they do business. There's a real risk that the search engines will see them as duplicate content. |
Search Engine Watch
December 2, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Link Building, Circa 2008 SEO isn't as easy as it was in years past. At one time, optimization meant dropping some keywords in your meta keywords tag, using your most important key phrases a dozen or so times on a page, and exchanging links with anyone who had a Web site. |
Search Engine Watch
January 17, 2007
Eric Enge |
An Introduction to SEO Best Practices Best practices for search engine optimization are constantly evolving, and are starting to look more like conventional business plans. |
Bank Technology News
September 2008
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Check Duplication Vexation Allowing check conversion to electronic form has created the perfect storm of opportunity for duplicate postings. |
Search Engine Watch
November 8, 2010
Josh McCoy |
Diversifying Your SEO Imagine your site as you would your investment portfolio. Spreading your assets evenly is extremely important to long-term growth. |
Search Engine Watch
December 2, 2010
Mathieu Burgerhout |
Best Solution for Duplicate Content Issues A clever solution to get every product indexed, in the right language, and show visitors from specific countries the right stock. |
Search Engine Watch
April 28, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
Worthless Shady Criminals: A Defense Of SEO SEO has developed a bad reputation, despite having a lot to offer. In this article, a look at why we've arrived at this sorry state of affairs and how everyone needs to reassess the need for search engine optimization. |
Search Engine Watch
September 24, 2008
Eric Enge |
Use Care When Choosing an SEO Agency It's important to beware of instant SEO experts who know a few things about what's going on, but don't get the whole picture. Don't hire an SEO or begin SEO work on your own without validating that it's the right course of action. |
Search Engine Watch
September 26, 2008
Chris Boggs |
Common Problems with 404 Error Pages Misconfigured 404 error pages can affect your search engine rankings. The last thing you need in the Google index is an error page, but even worse are multiple URLs that were mistyped being returned as "OK." |
Search Engine Watch
January 9, 2011
Eric Enge |
6 Ways to Sculpt Your Site's Link Equity Want to see a significant impact on rankings and traffic? Here are a few ways you can use link equity to help pages rank for particular search queries. |
Search Engine Watch
March 16, 2011
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Global Strategies For Google's Panda Update How to prepare your international sites for Google's latest algorithm update. |
Search Engine Watch
November 20, 2009
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SEO Tools -- Worth the Time and Money? An overview of some free and paid tools that executives and non-SEO trained individuals can gain value from when evaluating internal or outsourced search engine optimization efforts. |
Search Engine Watch
November 30, 2010
Eric Enge |
Search Engine Optimization in an Increasingly Social World SEO is changing rapidly, in part due to the increasingly social nature of the web. A look at what's driving these changes and some of the implications of how they impact our behavior. |
Search Engine Watch
February 15, 2005
Grant Crowell |
Avoiding Search Engine Woes with Multiple Domains and Websites Operating multiple sites using numerous domains may trigger search engine spam penalties if you're not careful with implementation. |
Search Engine Watch
April 25, 2011
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3 Use Cases for SEO Tools If you want to improve your SEO campaign, especially if you have a large website, it may be worth your time to investigate what modern SEO tools can do to make you more efficient and help you attain better results. |
Search Engine Watch
September 30, 2009
Bill Hunt |
Less Common Problems of International SEO Before you jump into buying domains and negotiations with multiple hosting providers, make sure the basics are covered, free options are leveraged, and think out of the box for less traditional approaches to these problems. |
Search Engine Watch
June 1, 2010
Eric Enge |
Search Engine Optimization is Unfair To avoid injustices in the world of SEO, you must consistently invest in arming yourself with knowledge about SEO. Here's how to get the traffic and deserve it, too. |
Search Engine Watch
April 6, 2011
Simon Heseltine |
The SEO Industry Needs Some Reputation Management Scammers and spammers have helped turn SEO from a three-letter acronym into a four-letter word. It's time to clear the good name of SEO and convince the public that SEO isn't all dirty schemes cooked up by crooks and liars. |
Search Engine Watch
May 4, 2011
Simon Heseltine |
User-Generated URLs: SEO CMS Lessons Learned from Kate Middleton's Jelly Bean Avoid a PR nightmare by protecting your website before someone maliciously decides to put a campaign together that generates links to an incorrect form of your website's URL. |
Search Engine Watch
October 7, 2010
Mathieu Burgerhout |
Why You Should Prevent Certain Pages From Being Indexed All pages are not created equal. Having fewer "unimportant" pages of your site indexed will put more emphasis on your "money" pages. |
Search Engine Watch
July 8, 2009
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Are 5 Sites Better than One? What's better, having one big site covering five niche topics, or five niche sites that somewhat compete against each other? Having multiple sites is not a bad thing, if you've set them up correctly. |
Search Engine Watch
May 11, 2009
Joshua Palau |
Why Settle for Best Practices? Part 2 As a marketer, you can't take SEO for granted when working with an agency. They may be following best practices to build a search-friendly site, but don't assume they're implementing a full-blown search engine optimization strategy. |
Searcher
November 2011
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The Goodness in the Evil of SEO - Why Search Engine Optimization Matters to Information Professionals Some information professionals view SEO with some reservation or even actual contempt due to the rampant SEO techniques that reduce the quality of search results by driving traffic to sites that take advantage of trending searches rather than useful information. |
Search Engine Watch
August 28, 2009
Chris Boggs |
Common SEO Problems of E-commerce Sites All sites must address technical infrastructure, content and linking strategies. For large e-commerce sites, some problems in these areas are magnified due to the size and complexity of their sites. |
Search Engine Watch
March 31, 2009
Mark Jackson |
3 Keys to a Successful Web Presence A sound organic search strategy should be the core of every business's marketing efforts, but being found is just the beginning. |
Search Engine Watch
March 28, 2011
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SEO Training: The Cornerstone of Successful Enterprise SEO Campaigns Which members of your internal team need training, and what that training needs to cover in order to successfully scale SEO across an enterprise-level organization. |
Search Engine Watch
February 23, 2010
Mark Jackson |
Focus on the User How do you make sure that your Web site is user friendly? Here are some tips to avoid setting yourself up for search engine optimization disaster. |
Search Engine Watch
January 12, 2011
Simon Heseltine |
Stop Making the 6 Biggest SEO Mistakes Have you fallen victim to these search engine optimization pitfalls in the past? If so, it's time to correct them. Now. |
Searcher
October 2001
Gary Price |
Web Search Engines FAQs: Questions, Answers, and Issues The Web search world changes on what sometimes seems like an hourly basis. What follows are a few selected tips and resources for some of the most well-known of engines... |
Search Engine Watch
August 15, 2008
William Flaiz |
The Evolution of SEO SEO has not simply shed its dubious roots; it has become a legitimate, reputable component of a proper client marketing mix. |
Search Engine Watch
January 26, 2010
Eric Enge |
Is SEO Dying? How will it Evolve? While change is constant, publishers use SEO as a means for obtaining new customers from search engines. As long as search is around, there will be a need for people who know how to make that happen. |
Search Engine Watch
February 11, 2009
Eric Enge |
Getting Buy-In Is A Crucial First Step in Enterprise SEO Because of their size and complexity, large organizations face some big challenges to planning and implementing an SEO strategy. |
Search Engine Watch
February 13, 2011
Mark Jackson |
10 Types of Helpful SEO Content Forget algorithms. The biggest influence on search rankings is content. Content in all of its forms is what will drive you to success. |
Search Engine Watch
March 23, 2010
Eric Enge |
SEO Mythbusters: 3 Rotten Ideas Three outdated search engine optimization tactics you should avoid at all costs. |
Search Engine Watch
March 21, 2011
Josh McCoy |
The Slippery Slope of SEO Recent algorithmic updates didn't just hurt the bad guys and clean up the SERPs. Many other sites felt the wrath of Google's tweaks. So, how do you adjust fire and move on from here? |
