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Another question I saw recently: how do I build incoming links to my site?
So why are incoming links important?
Because they are the search engines’ way of assessing how good your site is. And if they think your site is good they’ll send you lots of visitors.
The logic goes that if lots of sites (particularly good [...]
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I’m often amazed when I look at the source code of web pages, because creating a page that’s optimised for the search engines is so straightforward – yet so seldom done.
I’ve said repeatedly: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is not a black art, so don’t let anyone tell you it is.
All you need to know about [...]
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When you first start working online the amount of jargon and acronyms you see can be extremely off-putting.
Which is no different from starting any new type of activity, by the way, but for people who may be a bit nervous of technology it can be enough to keep you from getting started.
So let’s de-mystify one [...]
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Here’s a question I saw in a forum this week: is it better to have a good page rank or lots of visitors to your site.
The person in question had a site which was focused on design and design services, so my opening response was that what they really wanted was lots of visitors who [...]
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Here’s a list of the top 10 SEO activities I do for a new site. I…:
Complete my META tags for each page of my site. I complete all available META tags and I complete them individually for each page.
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I just saw an interesting question in a forum: how does a blog help with SEO? Here’s the answer I offered:
An active (and that’s important) blog is attractive to a search engine for three primary reasons:
It’s updated with new information regularly
Through the mechanism of tags and categories (or labels on blogger), its content is well [...]
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I’ve written a couple of times before (here and here) on whether or not to pay attention to the ‘no follow’ attribute when making comments on blogs. And both of those posts link to excellent posts by Jack Humphrey on the subject.
But I thought I’d scout around the web and bring you some differing [...]
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I saw another excellent rant by Jack Humphrey today on the question of No Follow.
Do you still look for No Follow blogs to comment on or link to? If you do you’re wasting time and losing traffic.
I’ve written many times now, here and here for starters, on why it’s important to write for people, not [...]
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Note: I re-read this article recently and found it needed updating, so I’ve added the update at the end.
I got a question from a friend the other day on how to set up the All-in-One-SEO plugin for Wordpress. I figured that if she needed to know maybe others do too, so here’s how I replied:
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