Robots.txt or Rel=Nofollow for Blocking Web Pages from Indexing
Q: Confusion about robots.txt vs rel=nofollow. I don’t want to pass PageRank to my Privacy Policy.
SEO
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.
Outbound Links on Webpages Are Good for SEO, Can Boost Rankings
Relevant Outbound links to authority / quality websites on your blog / website can boost your organic rankings in Google and other search engines.
Know the Daily Page Views for any Wikipedia Article
Wikipedia Traffic statistics is a gold mine for content creators and SEO crowd because traffic on individual Wikipedia articles is often directly proportional to the popularity of that term on the Internet.
Google Webmaster Guidelines, Text Link Ads and Lynx
The Google Webmaster Guidelines document recommends using a text web browser called Lynx to help people visualize how Google spiders will see their websites.
Use Google Alerts to Get Quality Inbound Links for your Website – Eric Ward
Link Building expert Eric Ward suggests a technique that uses Google Alerts to build links on the Internet for your websites. Using this method, you may get inbound links from sites like .edu or .gov which are ranked very high in Google.
Add a BlogRoll in Blogger and Pass PageRank Juice to Your Google Reader Subscriptions
Pass Google PageRank to your Google Reader subscriptsion via BlogRoll in Blogger. You add blogs to your Blog List by entering blog or feed URLs directly, or by importing subscriptions from Google Reader.
Google Images Prefers Showing Fresh Pictures In Search Results
We have no clue how Google decides the ranking of pictures in Google Images but they are probably giving more preference to fresh content in image search results.
Did Google Penalize Your Website Rankings or PageRank ? Read This
Google has confirmed that they decrease the toolbar PageRank of sites that sell links and pass PageRank without using rel=nofollow.
Buy an Old Web Domain for Backlinks, History/Age
Search engines love to find things that search engine optimizers have a difficult time in manipulating — such as domain age — because they feel like this helps them to keep their index/rankings pure.
SEO Tricks from Marshall Simmonds of About.com / New York Times
If Marshall Simmonds had written an SEO Training Manual for the guides at about.com, it would be something like this: Customize content for each page.
SEO Tricks from Matt Cutts at WordPress – No Black Hat SEO
The SEO and spam king at Google, Matt Cutts, gave a good talk on optimizing your WordPress blog for the search engines (especially Google) – he was speaking at the two day WordCamp 2007 conference.
How to Get a New Website on Search Engines Quickly
You have just launched a website and probably waiting for organic search traffic to hit your server logs.
Don’t Rely on Traffic from Search Engines, Write Premium Content
Usability guru Jakob Nielson is not in favor of writing content for search traffic: If you’re an expert who wants to live from adding to the world’s knowledge, you must go beyond the mainstream Web model of single page visits driven by search traffic.