How to Get People to Read your Old Content

26 jul 2010

Lisa offers some excellent tips on how you can revive your old content that’s lying hidden in the archives of your blogs. She suggest that you ‘repurpose’ your best content in the form of downloadable ebook, presentations, etc. Excerpts: Tie it together as an eBook We’re starting to see a lot more of this lately.

Do Not Use Nofollow with your Internal Links

23 jul 2010

Matt Cutts has unequivocally advised that web publishers drop rel=nofollow when linking to any of their internal pages.

How Image-only Sites Can Rank in Google

20 jul 2010

Google relies heavily on text and incoming links to determine the ranking of web pages in search results. However the story is very different in the case of photo blogs or photo news sites that have an awesome collection of pictures but very little text.

Create a Video Sitemap for your WordPress Site

15 jul 2010

Create a Video Sitemap (XML) and add it to Google Webmaster tools to improve the performance of your site in video search results.

SEO Tips for Webmasters

31 may 2010

Found some useful SEO tips on sej.com. Favorites so far: 1. Don’t be obsessed with PageRank. It is just one isty bitsy part of the ranking algorithm. A site with lower PR can actually outrank one with a higher PR.

Google Experts Answer your SEO Questions

21 may 2010

If are looking for SEO tips to improve your Google search ranking, or need answers to common SEO issues, this interview with the Google search quality team should help.

Writing Headlines for Search Engines

20 may 2010

Gone are the days when editors and journalist would write witty and clever headlines to attract “human readers.” The headlines are now boring than ever before as the main goal is catch the attention of the “search bots” – that will anyway bring in more “human readers” to your articles.

Asking Google to Remove Webpages from Search Results

06 may 2010

Google webmaster central tools includes a useful URL removal tool that lets you request Google to remove certain web pages from their search index.

Will Sitemaps Boost your Google Ranking?

22 apr 2010

SEL breaks some common myths around SEO. A site map isn’t for people. A good (HTML, not XML) site map is designed as much for human consumption as it is for spiders.

Google Ignores Meta Keywords Tag

19 apr 2010

It’s official now. Google completely ignores keyword meta tags so, as far as Google rankings are concerned, it won’t hurt if you completely remove them from your web pages. <meta name="keywords" content="google, seo, keywords"> That said, we don’t know if other search engines like Bing, etc.