SEO Tips for Bloggers from Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss recently shared some tips on how one can make his or her blog posts popular.
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SEO, short of Search Engine Optimization, is a process that can help improve the ranking of your website in the organic search results of Google and other search engines. Higher ranking means more visitors.
Search Engine Optimization Tips for Bloggers – Matt Cutts
Matt Cutts of Google shared some SEO tips that may help improve the ranking of your blog in Google and other search engines.
SEO Tip: Add Execute Bios and Press Releases in PDF Format
People don’t just search for text. Google provides alternate search methods including image and document searches. Artist sites, often rich in images, allow an opportunity to index digital assets in search engines.
Build an SEO Optimized HTML Sitemap for your Website
You may call it the index page or table of contents for your site but Sitemaps are probably the most important tool to help search engines discover your internal web pages.
Writing Headlines for Social Sites & Search Engines
For search engines, the title tags should include highly relevant keywords and these may not always make a very attractive headline. So put the attractive headline in the H1 tags while the boring but search friendly headline could go in the title tag.
Notes from the Google Webmaster Conference
SEO Tips and best practices that were discussed at the Google Webmaster Search Conference. Adam Lasnik from the Google Webspam team was there as well.
Site Clinic: An SEO Checklist for your Website
An SEO Checklist for your Website. These Search Engine Optimization tips are easy to achieve but can dramatically help increase traffic from Google to your website and also improve user experience at the same time.
Should Your Blog be in a Sub-Directory, Sub-Domain or a Separate Web Domain
Should I put my blog in a sub-directory, a subdomain or on its own domain? For SEO purposes, none of these things really matter, so it’s more of a business/branding decision.
Microsoft and Yahoo Explain Google Better Than Google
Yahoo and Microsoft Live get the perfect descriptions for Google but interestingly, Google search incorrectly describes ‘Google’ as a place for searching catalogs online.
Check Google PageRank of an Entire Website Using Sitemaps
Check the Google PageRank of an entire site quickly, right in your browser. You can upload the XML sitemap of your blog and find the PageRank of all pages online.
How to Get People Link to your Old Web Pages
Rand Fishkin shares some good techniques on how to get search traffic and more inbound links to your own web pages.
Training Presentation for Building Google Friendly Sites
The webmaster team at Google has put together this 20 minute video presentation with tips on how to improve your site’s presence on Google and how to deal with common issues like duplicate content, fluctuating PageRank, image search, etc.
Link Building 101: How to Get People To Link To your Website?
If you are in an industry that has a successful professional association, working with that association is a fantastic way to get high-authority links.
Hide Text From Search Engines by Converting it to an Image
Hide Text will convert text into images that will not get indexed by search engines.
Get Alerts When Your Website Hits the First Page of Google
If your web pages do not appear on the first page of Google, your presence is almost invisible on the Internet because most users are too lazy to scroll beyond the front pages. Learn how to track your website position in search results via Email.
Hollywood Film Promotes Google Search in the Trailer
Sony Pictures has put up an interesting promo for their upcoming film – 2012. Instead of promoting the movie’s official site in the trailer, they just show a simple message that says Google Search: 2012.
InLinks – Text-Link-Ads That Are Tough to Detect
The company behind Text-Link-Ads.com service has launched a new program InLinks.com that too a marketplace for buying and selling Google PageRank text links but could be slightly tough to detect.
Should You Use Alt or Title Attribute to Describe Images
These ALT and TITLE attributes in IMG image tags are important as they impact search rankings but confusing as well because we don’t know whether to use TITLE or ALT or both of them when describing images.
Improve SEO with PDF Files: Get Google to Read Your PDFs
The text and links inside PDF documents are indexed by Google (just like HTML files) and often rank high in search results so PDF files may be a good source of traffic to your website.
Text Links from .edu or .gov Domains Are Not Special to Google
A popular belief among the SEO community is that links from .edu or US gov domains carry lot of weight in the eyes of search engines and hence, if any of these trusted sites link to your own site, your natural rankings in Google will get a boost.