Should Your Cross-Link Your Own Websites

25 jan 2010

If you have multiple websites, you can cross-link your websites but make sure these sites have related content. Also, you should avoid cross-linking a large number of sites as that might send a wrong signal to the search engines.

How to Get on the First Page of Google

28 dec 2009

Steve from The Strauss Groups shares how you can put your product on the first page of Google search results: The answer is video. It has to be search engine optimized video.

Most Important SEO Tips from Pubcon

27 dec 2009

Chris V shares some of the most import SEO tips from Pubcon. Favorites: 1. Glossary pages are good content for SEO 2. Use footer links sparingly and only link to your most important pages.

SEO Basics: Creating a Google Friendly Website

26 nov 2009

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tips for small businesses and new web masters. These simple but effective SEO tips will help make your website search engine optimized especially for Google, the grand-daddy of the Internet.

Optimize Images for SEO

16 nov 2009

Peter Linsley of Google Images shares some simple yet important image optimization tips that might help you get more traffic from image search engines: Users prefer large, high-quality images (high-resolution, in-focus).

Search Queries with High Abandonment Rates

15 nov 2009

Rand says that you should look at your search query logs and try to figure out queries that have high abandonment rates. Look at competing pages and try to rework your own content so that people stay longer.

Improve Web Page Load Time for Better Search Ranks

12 nov 2009

Rand Fish from the Pubcon conference: Web Page Load Time can Positively Influence Rankings Maile Ohye actually mentioned this at SMX East in New York, but Matt Cutts repeated it again today.

Should You Hire an SEO? Probably Not

11 oct 2009

Should you company hire an SEO? If you are writing good content, probably not? Derek argues that "it’s not your job to create content for Google. it’s their job to find the best of the web for their results.

Checklist for Image Search Optimization

06 oct 2009

The WebCEO site offers some good tips on Image SEO. Excerpts: If the image constitutes a link, its anchor text is quite powerful in terms of optimization for high image-search rankings.

Best Sites to Get Incoming Links for your Website

30 sep 2009

The Office Live blog offers some good advice on where businesses can go to gain some incoming link juice. Excerpts. Social networking sites in your industry. Unless you’re targeting a particular demographic, you can waste a lot of time pursuing links from such sites as YouTube and Facebook, says Osmeloski.