How Affiliate Programs Affect SEO
When calculating your site’s ranking in search results, search engines consider several factors, one being the quantity and quality of the links pointing to your site. If you have an affiliate program chances are you have a lot of links from you affiliate sites pointing to yours. The question is how do this affiliate links [...]
The Google Webmaster Tools Quick Start Guide
Major search engine Google recently added a new “Quick Start Guide” to its Webmaster Tools section. It provides an easy, graphical introduction to this area of their web site, which offers useful search and traffic data to webmasters. There is no need to register or log in to a Google account before viewing the guide; it can be accessed by anyone.
Yahoo Tests Delicious Integration for Search
The major search engine and portal Yahoo.com is in the process of conducting tests aimed at the integration of Delicious (Del.icio.us) social bookmarking data into their search results. This lets searchers know how many Delicious users have bookmarked a particular web page. At present, it only occasionally becomes visible in Yahoo search results. These tests [...]
SEO on a Limited Budget
If you are a small business with a small budget you still need to exercise a little SEO. Here are a few things you can do that won’t break the bank, but will still provide results.
First and foremost start with some keyword research. This helps you clarify which terms will generate the best traffic for [...]
Wordpress Plugins for SEO Purposes
Many people that have blogs today run them using WordPress. WordPress fortunately has a few plugins that can help optimize your blog for search engines. Here is a little more information about five those plugins.
1. SEO Title Tag allows you to optimize the title tags in your WordPress blog. Since title tags are quite important [...]
Wiki Search Goes Live
A new, open-source search engine based upon the “wiki” concept has been introduced. It applies some of the same techniques and processes used in Wiki sites like Wikipedia or Wiktionary to a search engine. It went live on January 7th, 2008.
Like any search engine, Wikia search lets users enter one or more words and returns [...]
How Long Should an SEO Campaign Take?
One cannot expect to complete any effective SEO campaign in a matter of days, but the length individual campaigns should take varies depending upon the type and size of the web site in question. There is also a difference between the time it will take to complete the SEO work and how long it takes [...]
SEO Defined: 10 Basic Definitions You Need to Know
There are a number of words and acronyms involved in search engine optimization (SEO) which are not considered self-explanatory. It is helpful to know what they mean before reading articles or forum messages about SEO. Read on to learn about some of their definitions…
Keyword Density: Webpages are more likely to receive a high ranking in [...]