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Search Engine Watch November 4, 2010 John Lynch |
Deconstructing Link Value Factors Links are the primary driver of domain authority and the key to ranking quality content. An outline of the factors that affect the value of a link. |
Search Engine Watch April 22, 2010 John Lynch |
Analyzing the 9 Most Common Link Building Strategies A detailed breakdown of all link major link building tactics, an analysis of costs and benefits, and the risks of incurring a penalty from a search engine. |
Search Engine Watch December 29, 2008 Ron Jones |
SEO Site Structure 101, Part 2 Search engines love sites that provide a great user experience. So as you consider your site structure please do not leave this out. You will reap great dividends by doing so. |
Search Engine Watch May 20, 2010 John Lynch |
Powerful SEO Content: Understanding Breadth of Coverage More credible pages leads to more authority and greater opportunities to rank for competitive terms. Here are four ways to demonstrate breadth of coverage to search engines. |
Entrepreneur September 2005 Catherine Seda |
The Missing Link? Want more people to visit your website? A link-building campaign could be just the thing to help you draw in shoppers. |
Search Engine Watch July 15, 2010 Mathieu Burgerhout |
International Link Building -- the Best of the Whole World Solutions for targeting relevant, local link partners on country-specific, multilingual, or international websites. |
Search Engine Watch November 1, 2010 Ray "Catfish" Comstock |
The Importance of Localized Content - Local SEO Takes Center Stage How to create content and link connectivity that sends the right signals to the search engines, telling them your site is relevant for users in those geographies. |
Search Engine Watch December 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Site On Google? The outcry from webmasters about Google's recent ranking algorithm change has been unprecedented. This article takes a Q&A-style approach to examine many of the issues and questions that have arisen from the change. |
Search Engine Watch January 27, 2011 Peter van der Graaf |
Local Search: Your Address is the New Link A look at some of the changes local search results are bringing to SEO -- especially link building. |
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. |
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 September 9, 2010 John Lynch |
Creating an Effective Keyword Portfolio Means Understanding the Search Landscape This quick guide will give webmasters and SEMs the power and ability to understand the likelihood of ranking for a keyword using a competitive analysis. |
Search Engine Watch October 21, 2004 Grant Crowell |
Retaining Traffic after a Web Site Redesign Your site gets great traffic from search engines, and yet it needs a new design. How can you freshen up a site without risking a decline in rankings and a loss of traffic from search engines? |
Search Engine Watch February 2, 2009 Ron Jones |
Link Building 101, Part 1 The concept of getting backlinks to a page internally is sometimes overshadowed by trying to acquire backlinks from external pages. Why not use the same concept and apply it to your internal linking structure and reap the rewards? |
Search Engine Watch February 7, 2007 Eric Enge |
Think Like a Search Engineer Knowing when you are taking risks, or making the decision to avoid them, can help scale your search engine marketing strategy to new heights. |
Search Engine Watch August 3, 2005 Marcela De Vivo |
Coping with Search Engine Penalties Search engine penalties are present and pervasive, and are a primary method used by search engines to control webmasters. Unless webmasters understand what they are and what to do about them, their websites could easily trigger a penalty, losing traffic and revenue. |
Search Engine Watch February 9, 2011 Simon Heseltine |
Is Syndication Killing Your Rankings? An 8 Point SEO Inspection Syndicating stories can get more people reading your content, but it can also result in other sites ranking higher in the SERPs for your content. Follow these steps to make sure you aren't giving search engines mixed signals. |
Search Engine Watch May 10, 2006 Anne Kennedy |
Curbing SEOs Who've Gone Wild When it comes to optimizing your website for search engines, when is "enough" enough? And why is overoptimization a problem? |
Search Engine Watch July 21, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Brand Promotion Online -- Signals for Today's SEO Well, you may have heard it mentioned that Google wants to rank brand Web sites. It isn't so much that Google only wants to rank big brands. But they do like all of the signals that these big brands carry. |
Search Engine Watch September 29, 2010 Ralph Tegtmeier |
On-Site Linking Architecture: Your Hidden SEO Goldmine (or Nemesis) - Part 1 If you haven't conducted a comprehensive analysis of your on-site linking structure, you may actually be losing search engine rankings, traffic, and sales due to a non-optimal on-site linking structure -- without even being aware of the fact! |
Search Engine Watch October 8, 2010 Frank Watson |
Geo-Targeting Redirects: Cloaking or Better User Experience? Seems like Google still hasn't realized that some user experiences can be improved by particular redirects. |
Searcher November 2011 Rushton & Funke |
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 July 27, 2009 Ron Jones |
Link Building Tactics 101, Part 1 Link building is one of the most important elements to obtaining high rankings in the major search engines. It involves ongoing effort and a long-term strategy to ensure a Web site continues enjoying success in organic search results. |
Search Engine Watch July 27, 2010 Eric Enge |
12 Ways Your SEO Mileage May Vary If you've spent time analyzing search results for a variety of queries, you've likely seen results you can't easily explain. Here's why this happens. |
Search Engine Watch June 2, 2009 Eric Enge |
SEO Challenges of Restructuring a Site It's one thing to make simple changes, where a page on the new site corresponds exactly to every page on your old site. But it's much tougher when you're making more fundamental changes to the layout, organization, and content of your site. |
Search Engine Watch March 27, 2011 Dave Davies |
Improve Your Organic Rankings With Google Places, Part 2 A step-by-step guide to help you better understand how to enter/edit the information for your Places page and send good SEO signals to Google to improve your rankings. |
AFP eWire October 20, 2008 Lynch & Habig |
Online Fundraising: Is Your Website Google-friendly? If you're trying to figure out what sure-fire steps you can take to bolster your fundraising efforts in the coming weeks and months, have you considered search engine optimization? |
Search Engine Watch December 1, 2009 Eric Enge |
Four New Signals in Search Search engines are trying to improve search quality by looking at signals such as load time, click data, Web references, and social media. |
Search Engine Watch January 6, 2009 Mark Jackson |
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 November 11, 2003 Elizabeth Osmeloski |
The Art of Advanced Link Building Advanced link building strategies are critical for achieving high rankings in search engines, according to two noted experts and representatives from Google and Teoma. |
Entrepreneur April 2010 Nicholas Chilenko |
It's In the Way That They Use It Website design and usability are critical to converting eyeballs to sales for small business. |
Search Engine Watch February 3, 2009 Carrie Hill |
Users and Search Engines Want the Same Things Optimizing your site for users is just as important as optimizing your site for search engines. While those are two very different things, you can often serve both audiences by being smart with your Web site development. |
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 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. |
Entrepreneur September 2006 Amanda Kooser |
Think Links The road to link popularity. |
Search Engine Watch May 27, 2008 Mark Jackson |
It Pays to Link Consistently You have control over the internal links on your site, so be sure you're taking advantage of that when creating them. Taking a look at your Web site's consistency in internal linking and the use of your domain name can make a big difference in your site's organic search engine rankings. |
Search Engine Watch July 13, 2010 Eric Enge |
The Death of Natural Linking Social media will become a big ranking factor. The next question for SEOs to answer: how do you balance your investment in link building with your investment in social media? |
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 June 15, 2010 Kristi Hines |
Competitor Research - Focusing on Companies, Keywords, and Broken Links Tips on researching keyword advertising competitors, how to convince webmasters to link to your client's site, and some useful tools you can use. |
Search Engine Watch March 27, 2011 Peter van der Graaf |
Old Black Hat SEO Tricks Still Work This article is all about unethical SEO. Hopefully you don't have any practical use for it. Search Engine Watch assumes no responsibility when you end up being banned from Google! |
AFP eWire December 1, 2008 Lynch & Habig |
Helpful Tips on Search Engine Advertising You're hoping to get a flood of visitors (a.k.a. prospective donors) to your brand new website, and jumpstart your online fundraising program. Have you thought of buying search engine ads? |
Search Engine Watch February 27, 2011 Mark Jackson |
The Difference Between Black Hat SEO and Bad SEO The safest way to build up trust/links for your website is to create good, unique, resourceful/helpful content, promote via social channels, and try to win links the "white hat" way. |
Search Engine Watch September 3, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google: Can The Marcia Brady Of Search Stay Sweet? Does search dominance by Google mean that the company is destined to be hated, in the way that Microsoft endures a poor reputation due to its dominance of operating systems, office software and browsers? Such a fate is not preordained. |
Search Engine Watch January 23, 2009 Chris Boggs |
A Linking Strategy Is About More Than Just Quality Content Some SEOs seem to think that all you need to do to get good links is to build quality content, but improving the quality and quantity of your inbound links doesn't rest on the shoulders of good content alone. |
Search Engine Watch March 24, 2005 Fredrick Marckini |
Why Quality Content is Key For Search Engines Why did the subject of 'content' find its way onto the agenda of a search engine marketing conference? Because the law of search engine marketing is clear: less content, lower rankings. But what are the characteristics of good content? |
Search Engine Watch August 26, 2008 Mark Jackson |
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 July 22, 2008 Carrie Hill |
Why Links are Like Shoes The man with no links cried until he met the man with no SEO. This week you'll find out why all SEOs should want to be the Zappos of link building. |
Search Engine Watch September 4, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Optimization Firm Sold For $95 Million Search engine optimization is sometimes labeled a cottage industry, but plenty of companies take an industrial approach to generating traffic for clients. Case in point is Website Results, which was purchased by Internet advertising company 24/7 Media in a $95 million stock deal. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2007 Skip Weber |
Is Your Site Seen? Commercial real estate professionals must always be ready to provide clients and colleagues with up-to-date information, and there is no better way to accomplish this than the Web. These 10 tips can improve your company's visibility online. |
Search Engine Watch September 11, 2009 Chris Boggs |
When to Run Away from an SEO Company There are some tactics that should raise a red flag if your SEO company tries to sell them to you. Others are so outdated and worthless, that they should send you packing out the door. |