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Have you read those standard beginner SEO books that still suggest having an XML sitemap and alt tags could get a site to the top of the search engines? There are plenty of those books around. I am a firm believer that every little thing that you do counts. But to pretend having a XML [...]

The history of StumbleUpon is quite interesting. It certainly has had its ups and downs. The service is rising again and is responsible for driving a ton of traffic to websites around the Internet. As the below infographic published on StumbleUpon suggests, the site has had a few very good months when it comes to [...]

People are obsessed with Google slaps these days. If you are a webmaster and are in it to make a living, there is a good chance you will have to deal with site slaps from time to time. That is just part of the business. Of course, some of these penalties are manual whereas others [...]

See that small note right at the bottom of ESPN ads? What does it say? Talk about playing with fire

Text link ads have been around forever it seems. I am not really talking about the company as it you probably can’t even find them on Google anymore. But selling links to others on the Internet is nothing new. Now, Google started to go crazy on us a while back and penalize sites that were [...]

Many folks spends hours a day to optimize their campaigns for Google and Yahoo by improving their title tags, and writing better content, but unless you know about the top negative organic search factors, you are not going to be able to avoid the pitfalls in the way. Here are the top 5 negative search [...]

A lot of people come to believe that you can compete with any site on the Internet for that top stop on Google no matter when you have started your website as long as you pay a good SEO professional to get the job done. The truth of the matter is even the best SEOs [...]

In a shocking turn of events, Microsoft bought Google today with a tempting $500 per share offer which left the search world staggered to say the least. Microsoft was involved in a messy back and forth fight with Yahoo! over the acquisition of the company, but they finally got it right by buying what matters. [...]

I did this experiment the other day to figure out how long it would take for a site to get indexed on Google. I basically went to 1&1.com and registered a brand new domain. Then I put a blog on it, and wrote an article about Amazon Kindle. Then I submitted it to Digg. Once [...]

I remember when I started my journey into the world of search engine optimization. I was a few years younger (not giving up my age that easilyJ) and probably naïve a little bit. I had read a few SEO books, and I felt quite confident about my ability to concoct and implement SEO strategies for [...]