October 2008

Is getting distracted an art? I don’t know about you, but after a few years of dealing with all kinds of distractions I am pretty certain that there is such a thing as the art of distraction. It’s simple really. The latest buzz in the SEO world is about the new tool that SEOMoz is [...]

If you have been reading SEO news lately, you have probably heard webmasters complaining about getting penalized for duplicate content. Search engines do frown upon duplicate content. The reason is, it is a short-cut to add content to your site, and it adds no value for the searcher. But how serious is the penalty for [...]

One of the most interesting aspects of SEO industry is the fact that there are so many self-proclaimed experts who claim to know everything about search engines. Some of the consultants swear on their parents’ graves about the effectiveness of some of their techniques. Now here is the thing. Nobody knows for sure what works [...]

Here is a heads up that we are launching a newsletter campaign that will include tips and hacks for small businesses and those new to SEO. We will be launching that shortly, so stay tuned. In the meantime, don’t forget to let us know what topics you want to hear about.

I love search engine optimization. Don’t get me wrong. But it’s amazing how we find ways to create new business for ourselves. Dynamic URLs are being used on many sites these days. If you are running a WordPress blog, there is a good chance that you are using the mod_rewrite syntax to optimize your URLs. [...]

There are a few things that are certain. Death, taxes, and the fact that web designers just don’t get search engines (actually, a select few do). These days a lot of folks build websites that are cool, colorful, and Web 2.0ish, but not optimized for search engines. Leaving SEO to your web designer is like [...]

Search engine optimization is now being used by more companies to take advantage of the so-called “free traffic” on search engines. So the obvious general terms are becoming super competitive. It’s not to say that you can’t get ranked for broad terms, but the conversion won’t be that great even if you manage to rank [...]

That’s what I wanted to believe when I started with search engine optimization. I knew that you could block bots with htaccess but I thought the more bots get the my page the better. But the truth is you should always protect your website against content scrapers. One way to access your website’s content is [...]

I have seen and read many SEO books in my short SEO career. The books by Peter Kent, Aaron Wall, and Bill Hunt. But until now, I had never read a book that was so focused on the practical side of things rather the theory side. There is no question in my mind that Aaron [...]

Folks keep asking me about my favorite SEO tools that I use to get my job done. It’s true that I have a subscription to Wordtracker. Who doesn’t. But to tell you the truth, I use a dozen of free tools out there to complement what I get with WordTracker and SEO-Elite. One of my [...]