Posted June 8th, 2008 by John
When SEO was in its infancy, on-page factors such as keyword density and meta tags were the end all and be all of ranking. However, once search engines overcame that hurdle they focused on incoming links, well at least Google did and everybody else soon followed. Now all it took was buying links from any [...]
Posted June 2nd, 2008 by John
I just read a great article detailing how classic SEO is dead. Personally I agree and disagree with the statement. Classic SEO, involving on-page factors, crawling, as well as link campaigns are still highly relevant in search rankings, however they are not the end all and be all anymore. Search engines have integrated image search, [...]
Posted May 19th, 2008 by John
I have come across some interesting news concerning the registration of Canadiandomain names (.ca). The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) will be implementing privacy changes to the dot-ca (.ca) WHOIS, effective June 10, 2008. Fot those who are not familiar with the WHOIS service, it’s a public tool that allows users to search information about [...]
Tags: domains
Posted August 15th, 2007 by John
Well for years now, actually since the Big Daddy update, webmasters and SEOs have been pondering and discussing amongst themselves and the community whether Google has been penalizing or discounting links to a site because it is a reciprocal link. There is no need to wait any longer though…according to the new Google Webmaster Guidelines [...]
Tags: Google, reciprocal link
Posted August 9th, 2007 by John
An interesting article I came across was Aaron’s blog post, “How to Estimate the Length & Value of the Long Tail for Your Target Market’s Keywords“. It was an interesting read about How do you determine how much value there is in the head of a keyword space compared to the tail of the same [...]
Posted May 19th, 2007 by John
There has finally been an enhancement to the standardized sitemap protocol developed by Google, Yahoo and MSN – Autodiscovery. Autodiscovery gives siteowners the ability to easily share their sitemaps with all search engines at once, avoiding the overhead of manually submitting them to each search engine. The protocol works as follows. Add the following line [...]
Tags: Google, MSN, sitemaps, Yahoo
Posted April 13th, 2007 by John
With the help of numerous SEO gurus, including Danny Sullivan, Eric Ward and Rand Fishkin, there is a Search Engine Ranking Factors List. It’s hard to criticize anything that these SEO’s have to say since the many of them introduced the world to SEO. Without further ado, here are the Top 10 Positive Factors: Keyword [...]