Please read this article in full before you go off and purchase search engine optimization software.
I hope the following proves to be sound search engine optimization information. Of anything on this site, I would love to hear from you if this article has provided quality search engine optimization help. Please email me.
I was cleaning up some content and decided to pull this material out of another article and into it’s own post.
For this article, the following phrases will be used as an example: designer argyle socks, plaid socks, paisley socks. Of the three phrases, “designer argyle socks” will be the primary phrase used for optimization.
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Raven Tools provides four resources to assist users with managing the Raven toolset.
Raven provides two quick walkthroughs of their system via a slideshow and a video (embedded below). These are helpful for potential buyers as well. They cover all the basics and give you an idea of what Raven Tools can accomplish.
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Raven SEO Tools provides a comprehensive set of SEO tools to help analyze, maintain and build your website’s SEO program.
This is the first post in a long-term series about using the Raven toolset to perform SEO tasks in order to build traffic to your website. Along the way I hope to discuss a [...]
I am currently working on three new series that I hope to be posting concurrently. My ultimate goal is to turn one of these series into an ebook. I thought it would best for my own practice as well as for my readers that I do this transparently. It will help with my own accountability [...]
It is funny how things happen.
As I have gotten back to blogging again, I have been cleaning up notebooks, and to do lists. Sorting through old posts, cleaning up pages and deleting RSS feeds I dont want to read anymore.
In the middle of all that I came across the name Andy Hagans. A [...]
Andy Jenkins and Brad Fallon have recently created a new video discussing natural search engine results.
Within the video they talk about the Golden Triangle. The Golden Triangle is a heat map of a Google Search Engine Results page. The triangle is the area in which most people looked and/or clicked. See image below:
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Google recently renamed their Sitemaps website to Webmaster Central. The original sitemaps functionality still exists but they have now added a lot of functionality to it.
Here’s the key functionality:
Diagnostic Web Crawl – errors Google found while crawling your site Mobile Errors – if your site has a mobile version, errors found crawling that [...]
Seomoz has posted a list of the top ten obscure SEO myths.
My favorite is number six:
Search Engines were Invented by a Furry Amphibian Named “Smarmy Pete
What kills me is Rand’s comment:
I can’t tell you how many phone calls I get on this subject. Just yesterday, I had three emails asking [...]
SEOMoz is a helpful resource about search engine optimization. The SEOMoz blog, of all the SEO blogs, is probably the most accessible to beginners. It is clearly written and well thought through. While it may take beginners a while to get used to some of the SEO lingo, I found that the learning curve [...]
As beginning Webmasters first stumble upon the concepts of search engine optimization, they have to deal with fascination (read: obsession) and disillusionment (read: anger). The best way to deal with either is to first read the most sane information about the subject. Enter the Beginners’s Guide to SEO offered by SEOmoz.org.
This [...]
There is an excellent thread started at Cre8asiteFourms about SEO Myths. The first post lists the myths. Some are no-brainers, others did raise an eyebrow. The rest of the responses discuss whether or not each point is a myth. Very worthwhile and educational.
via cre8pc
Robin Good extracts what he feels are the top ten SEO factors. He pulls these factors from an article listing about 100+ items that affect Google ranking.
Robin’s Top Ten are:
Keyword in URL and domain name Keyword in title tag Freshness of Pages Freshness – Amount of Content Change Frequency of Updates [...]
Splutweb provides free tools for internet marketing and website promotion. Some of the tools are basic and are limited in helpfulness. Others provided essential automated services that truly help a website owner. Here is a list of the tools provided and a brief description of each. All these tools are available if users register. [...]
Here are the nuggets from Aaron Wall’s interview with Jim Boykin, founder of WeBuildPages.
Recommended SEO Reading:
Search Engine Fast Start by Dan Thies
this is free for subscribing to the SEO Labs Newsletter.
Google Secrets by Dan Sisson
$70
SEO Book by Aaron Wall
$80
Organic SEO is a new website that explains the basics of SEO. It is set up as a wiki to ensure easy reading.
This is an excellent resource for an individual just learning about SEO. Most of the articles are brief and still need to be filled out, but they still provide [...]
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