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Keyword Stuffing is Good - Google Refuses to Penalize
2008-08-21 08:00:00
I have a 2-page website that I created for the sole purpose of having something to link to from my SEOmoz profile page. My site doesn't really do anything or provide any useful information, but I use it to experiment on sometimes. Over the past 3 months, I've written several YOUmoz posts that include links to my site with the anchor text World's Greatest SEO. I chose this phrase because it amuses
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New Widget for Custom 404 Error Pages from Google
2008-08-20 01:28:00
Google Toolbar 5 for IE (and soon for Firefox) has a useful feature that adds custom 404 error pages. If a site doesn't customize the error page and you click on a broken link or mistype the web address, Google Toolbar shows a list of suggestions: the site's homepage and some searches that could help you locate the right page. Google implemented a similar error page for google.com and now you
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New Website Optimizer from Google
2008-08-20 01:27:00
Google rolled out new features today for Website Optimizer , a tool that helps digital marketers and others test and improve the performance of Web pages. Tom Leung, business product manager for Google Website Optimizer, described the changes today at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, CA. Using Website Optimizer, businesses or individuals can set up different versions of
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Flash and SEO
2008-07-21 20:34:00
<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> I know, I know. Google's indexing Flash and Flash developers can rejoice now that their content is SEO -friendly. Sorry - I don't buy it for a second. Flash contentis fundamentally different from HTML on webpage URLs, and being able to parse links in the Flash code and text snippets does not make


Good White Hat Cloaking
2008-06-30 22:09:00
A quote from Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index. Google's Guidelines on Cloaking: Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index. There are two critical pieces in that sentence - "may" and "user ag
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Watch Websites Traffic stats at Google Trends
2008-06-25 00:50:00
If you have been following the tech news lately you probably know that Google decided to extend its Trends .htm">Google Trends to website traffic as well. That is, you can now use the tool to gather traffic data about any website on the web. The search community was divided regarding the accuracy and usefulness of yet another tool for this purpose. Personally I am liking it. As you can see from the image
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Edit Google Docs while offline
2008-06-23 22:19:00
Google promoted on the homepage the offline support for Google Docs: "Get your documents whenever, wherever". If you have the Gears plug-in for Internet Explorer and Firefox, you can backup your documents, spreadsheets and presentations on your computer and view them offline in your browser. The documents can be edited and the changes are sent to Google's servers when you go back online.
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Watch Traffic stats at Google Trends
2008-06-23 03:11:00
Google Trends no longer displays only information about searches, now you can use it to compare the daily unique visitors for two or more sites. To see the actual numbers, you need to log in using a Google account. It's interesting to find the sources that are used by Google to estimate the traffic of a web site. According to the help page, "Trends for Websites combines information from a
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Google Search Results Skip Flash Intros
2008-06-19 02:50:00
There was a time when many web sites were designed in Flash and included a short animation on the homepage, to impress you before viewing the actual content. Unfortunately, the intro was a time waster. "Splash pages were an early sin of abusive Web design. Luckily, almost all professional websites have removed this usability barrier. However, we're now seeing the rise of Flash intros that ha
Read more: Google , Google Search , Intros , Search

Blue Hat Technique #19 - Keyword Spinning
2008-05-20 01:02:00
Holy cripes! It’s been awhile since I’ve sat down and written a Blue Hat Technique. It just so happens I need this one for the next SEO Empire post. I’m like blah blah talking about Keyword Spinning then I realized you guys have no fuckin’ clue what I’m yammering about. So I figure nows a good time to fix all that and luckily this one is really really easy but like all Blue Hat Technique


Get More Twitter Followers...
2008-05-15 00:08:00
Darren Rowse recently wrote a series of posts about increasing your Twitter presence, in which he mainly talks about how to use Twitter by adding value in order to increase your Twitter following. While Darren made several good points, I want to give you my perspective on it, which is somewhat different. Continue reading about How to get more twitter followers in seo updates


Most Important SEO Factor: Title Tag
2008-05-12 23:19:00
Welcome to the video post on SEO Daily Updates (there is a category just for them now). On this video we are going to talk about the most important SEO factor: the Title Tag. If you are using WordPress you can use this code to create an optimal title tag (just paste it in the header): <?php if (is_home () ) { bloginfo(‘name’); } elseif ( is_category() ) { single_cat_title(); echo ' - ' ;


Observation on Digg Shout
2008-05-11 23:50:00
I've been shout-neutered, folks, and it ain't cool. Let me explain. Yesterday I submitted a story to Digg . I didn't expect it to get on the home page, but I had an "Oh well, what the hell" mentality about it. My plan was to do the usual--shout it once and call it a day. After I submit a link to Digg, I typically shout the story to my friends in about three waves. You can only send a sh
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Check list for SEO Beginners
2008-04-23 02:23:00
For the last three months I have been hard at work learning SEO by optimizing a local small business website. The business is called Giggly Wiggly Preschool and is located in the Seattle suburb Issaquah, Washington. This Issaquah Preschool was the preschool I attended many years ago so I am happy I was given the chance to give back to it. Optimizing for local search is a great way to learn SEO
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Get Popular in Digg...
2008-04-22 03:05:00
The guys from Invesp.com just released a special report titled “Breaking the Digg Code.” It is a small PDF with 21 pages, but packed with information about how to get your stories popular on Digg. In fact the tagline is: a step by step instruction to getting on the first page of Digg in four weeks or less. I scanned through the report and the information seems to be solid. They have a nice ste


Google displaying Domain Age directly on search results
2008-04-21 01:37:00
Google shows a special OneBox when you search for "whois", followed by a domain name: for example, [whois google.com]. The OneBox shows the date when a certain domain was created and date when it will expire. It seems that the only provider of information for this OneBox is Domain Tools. Google launched a similar feature four years ago, but it was removed really fast because it scraped
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Alexa Rankings changed drastically Blogs lose Ranks
2008-04-18 04:02:00
Alexa have announced it has overhauled its ranking system. You can see their announcement here via TechCrunch. They have ditched their toolbar as the sole source of their rankings and are now pulling in data from other sources too. This means that the skew towards tech sites (as their readers are more likely to use the toolbar) has been addressed (or at least they’ve tried to address
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Google Launches Another “G-Killer”
2007-12-18 02:32:00
Have you seen that new Wikipedia-Killer launched by Google ? After how Gmail Killed Hotmail, Orkut killed Myspace, Google Base Killed Ebay, and Google Answers killed . . .umm . . . . itself, I’m sure Jimmy Wales is just crappin’ his paints at the awesome killpower of Google in new markets. Didn’t Google Checkout kill someone too? :rollseyes: And what’s up with that name, “Knol”? Googl
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Can you Become a Better Blogger by Watching TV
2007-12-18 02:21:00
Watching TV might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of blogging, or being a successful blogger, but my friend Ben over at bloggingexperiment.com has written a great series of articles about becoming a better blogger, which are all based around popular TV shows. The latest in his series is The Simpsons: Lessons on Blogging. Definitely worth a read, so check it out. Then
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SEO Three Corner Stones
2008-09-17 01:01:00
With Will out of the office for a week or so, I was let out of the office to attend a sales meeting. In the normal course of events Will does our sales meetings and I stay in the office looking after the troops. At sales meetings Will likes to talk in terms of the following diagram, which he normally scribbles on a scrap of paper. I think it is quite a nice way of explaining the SEO process
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Short your big url with the help of Cligs without losing the SEO Benefit
2008-09-16 01:07:00
Today, I got the heads up from @pierrefar about his new url shortening tool Cli.gs. URL shortening tools have become really popular, especially on Twitter, where posts/ tweets need to be 140 characters or less. To be honest, I would have been impressed it Cli.gs was just plain url shortening service (maybe just because I like the name), but Cli.gs has a lot more to offer than just URL
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Time to Roll Your Own Black Hole
2008-09-12 01:41:00
As promised, today we’ll go over some more of the trends in Black holes and what steps you can take to create or take advantage of their growing dominance in the SERPs. First, the micro niche site is dying. Why build a site dedicated to (for example) bee-keeping, set theory, Jainism, or even Salvia Divinorum when right off the bat you’re conceding 43% of your Google traffic to a black hole?


Black Hole SEO
2008-09-09 01:34:00
Black Hole SEO employs a technique that causes the normal laws of Google Physics to break down. Link juice flows into a massive body, but can never escape. When employed on a massive body, it tends to dominate the SERPs. A black hole site is created when an tier 1 authority site ceases to link out to other sites. If a reference is needed, the information is rewritten and a reference page is
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Best ways to use Google Chrome
2008-09-05 01:23:00
Here are some not-so-obvious things you can do in Google Chrome , the minimalistic browser launched on Tuesday. 1. Show the list of recently visited pages from the current tab: right-click on the "Back" button. This also works for the "Forward" button. 2. Undo closing a tab: press Ctrl+Shift+T or open a new tab and check the "Recently closed tabs" section. 3. Focu


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