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Robots.txt

by slayerment UR10 50 weeks 6 days ago

The Robots.txt file can be a great way to make the most out of your link equity and keep the search engines on the most popular and relevant pages.

Broken Links

by oldsarge UR6 1 year 6 weeks ago

Broken links can hurt a web site's rankings as they can confuse a search engine and interfere with the overall link architecture.

Submitting a site over and over does nothing

by slayerment UR10 1 year 6 weeks ago

I don't know why, but it seems like it always comes up again that submitting a site to search engines again and again will actually help it get indexed quicker, or help it rank better.

Site Submission

by slayerment UR10 1 year 6 weeks ago

Submitting a site to search engines can be a first step for a lot of new web sites. The search engines eventually crawl the site within a few weeks.

Flash

by slayerment UR10 1 year 6 weeks ago

There are usually two different contexts of Flash on a web site:

1. Full Flash web site
2. Flash banner

Allow me to hit on both:

1. Full Flash Web Site

One keyword topic per page

by slayerment UR10 1 year 6 weeks ago

It is generally a good idea to try to win one keyword phrase with one page.

Digg

by slayerment UR10 1 year 7 weeks ago

Getting a site dugg on Digg can be a great way to boost traffic temporarily as the Digg web site usually provides a considerable amount of traffic to your niche.

Yahoo Directory Link

by Charles UR8 1 year 8 weeks ago

A link from the Yahoo directory is just about the best link money can buy. For the fee of $300 a year you will receive a link back to your website in the appropriate category.

Show the search engines your web site ASAP

by Charles UR8 1 year 8 weeks ago

Because of the large time that it may take for a new site to start ranking (sandbox) it is important to let the search engines know about your web site as soon as possible (especially Google).

The payoff for title tags can be huge

by Charles UR8 1 year 8 weeks ago

One of the easiest and most beneficial things you can do for SEO is make sure your title tags greatly match the keywords you are going for and the page that it is representing.

PageRank and Anchor Text

by ExplEngineer UR6 1 year 9 weeks ago

Some people believe that the actual anchor text used to link to a web site will actually help with PageRank.

Hidden Text

by slayerment UR10 1 year 10 weeks ago

Hidden text is a popular blackhat SEO technique where text is hidden from users.

Match your title tags and H1 tags

by slayerment UR10 1 year 10 weeks ago

I have noticed that matching your title tags with your H1 tags works very well with all search engines. It also makes a lot of logical sense IMO.

Strong Tags

by shaykai UR9 1 year 10 weeks ago

META Description Tag

by shaykai UR9 1 year 10 weeks ago

While the META description tag is supposedly outdated and not worth much value anymore it can still help on the CTR as it does show up as the description for a page in the SERPs.