We often hear that making a site dynamic and allowing users to be active within a web site is a good thing. Not only for the sake of good content, but also to make your web site more appealing through …
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If you read my earlier post detailing 7 of my top 13 SEO Myths, then you are probably ripe for my final 6 SEO Myths. I probably could have turned this into a top 100 SEO Myths, but for the sake …
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It never ceases to amaze me the amount of misinformation that gets floated around about SEO and how to optimize your web site for search engine success. It usually starts with either a few uninformed people spreading outdated information or …
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A couple of months back, we announced the launch of Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine and a couple weeks ago followed it up with a primer on SEO for Bing. So far I have been fairly impressed with Bing. Results are …
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If you haven’t noticed yet Google Paid ads that show up when you do a Google Search are now appearing much closer to the organic listings. Why did Google do this? Well probably for a few reasons.
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It’s a bit early since Bing was launched, in terms of figuring out how to SEO your site. After all, like Google, Microsoft isn’t exactly going to publish white papers and big how-to manuals that may expose their algorithm. Like …
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A fairly common question I hear from people is whether it is better to create web pages in a subdomain, such as ‘seo.techwyse.com’ or in a subfolder such as ‘techwyse.com/seo/’. Webmasters, in many cases are not clear on why to choose …
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It has been rumoured for a little while now that Google was working on developing an operating system, perhaps to compete with Microsoft’s well-known Windows OS or even the freely distributed Linux open source OS. Yesterday officially in Google’s blog, …
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In Google’s recent Webmaster Tools Update, they have added a neat feature that allows you to tell Google about your domain change, if you are planning to move your website from one domain to another. This has prompted me to write …
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On Wednesday, Google announced that Google Suggest is set to roll out new features. If you haven’t noticed lately, Google has a feature called Google Suggest, which dynamically lists suggested search terms as you type them. The new features for …
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We all know that inbound linking from other web properties is a factor in getting good search engine rankings. Link building is tedious, boring and in general not all that exciting. We do it however, because we want people to …
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A couple of weeks ago, Google announced an update to their site links feature in search results. Site links have historically shown up in the first result of a search query, such as what you can see in this image, 2 …
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Last month, Matt Cutts announced a resolution to the canonical url issues facing many web sites today, which involves placing a link element within the head tags of a web page. Before I get into this fix, let’s examine this …
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For those of you that are looking to build a new site with SEO or Organic rankings in mind this blog is pointed at you. Firstly, a reminder of what exactly is “The Long Tail”. The Long Tail is a …
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