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Industry

by slayerment UR10 50 weeks 5 days ago

The industry that a site is targeting is a very important factor in search rankings that is often overlooked.

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.

Link Page Order

by slayerment UR10 1 year 3 weeks ago

Links that are placed higher on a page (hierarchy-wise) are considered to be more useful to the user and therefore most likely weighted more than links that appear lower down on a page.

301 Redirect

by lawless101 UR7 1 year 4 weeks ago

301 redirects are a way to show search engines (and users) that a page has permanently been moved from one location to another. Redirects can be handled at the page level or at the domain level.

Hosting

by slayerment UR10 1 year 6 weeks ago

Although it may sound pretty obvious, having a good host is very important for SEO. If the search engine can't access your page, well then there is nothing for it to index.

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

Guaranteed Top Ten Search Engine Ranking

by slayerment UR10 1 year 6 weeks ago

Top 10 Guarantee

Can somebody really guarantee a top ten search engine ranking? My honest answer is in most cases YES. Find that strange? Read on…

Sitemap

by slayerment UR10 1 year 6 weeks ago

A sitemap is a great way to show the search engines the structure and organization of a web site.

Internal Link Structure

by slayerment UR10 1 year 6 weeks ago

The internal link structure of a web site can greatly help search engines understand the more important and less important areas of a 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.

URL Rewrite

by Brad UR6 1 year 7 weeks ago

Using a URL rewrite on a web site's URLs can be a very useful thing for SEO.

Stop blogging on other people's domain names!

by slayerment UR10 1 year 7 weeks ago

I see it all the time and it really makes no sense to me - people set up a blog on Blogger, Wordpress or some other domain that offers a free blogging service.