All Entries in the "SEO Help" Category
Title Tags – Make the First Word Count
Meta Tags can be so confusing when tending to your website’s SEO. So I thought I’d give a few tips on writing your site’s Title Tag. You might think that would be the easiest one, because most people put their business name as their Title Tag. But that’s actually, in most cases, the least beneficial [...]
Is Your Site Speed Hurting Your Google Ranking?
Did you know that the speed of your website can affect your Google ranking? Website speed has been a factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since last year. Google says it’s not the most important factor, out of around 200 different ranking factors. But since it is a factor, it is worth paying at least a [...]
Counting Social Signals from Google and Bing
Just a quick link to share from the Search Engine Land blog. It’s a fabulous article that gives a lot of extremely helpful information on whether or not and how social signals are impacting website page ranks at Google and Bing. What Social Signals Do Google & Bing Really Count? Read that article to find [...]
Does Google Page Rank Still Matter?
I’ve talked about this before at OBJ but like a good wine, good SEO talk never goes out of style. Google Page Rank is worth talking about from time to time, even if it might not be as important as it was once perceived to be. As a refresher and simply put, Google’s Page Rank [...]
Comments, Links and SEO
In my last post called Link Party Anyone? I talked about joining link parties to help generate some traffic to your blog. I thought it was important that I now talk about Link Parties and SEO, and what link parties can’t do for your own blog or website’s SEO. And additionally, I’ll talk about comments [...]
Backlinks In
I just added a new link to our Backlinks Checkers resource page. Thought I’d share that link with you in case you’d like to try it out. Backlinks are very important for your site’s link popularity and placement in the SERP’s (Search Engine Results Pages), so it’s always a good idea to keep a watchful [...]
Comment Luv
There’s a neat plugin for all you self-hosted WordPress users out there that is great to use for your blog comments. It’s called Comment Luv. It lets your blog commenters link back not just to their main blog URL, but to their latest blog post or article. Their blog feed is fetched from their site [...]
Add Meta Tags to Your Blogger Blog
A lot of people are blogging these days for business. They might be using their blog as a means of establishing a web presence, and it’s a great free way to do that. Or they may be using their blog as a marketing tool, advertising sales, specials, new products and services and the like. Many [...]
Bye Bye Page Rank
I just read an article that I thought I would share with you. The content describes how Google is doing away with Page Rank from Webmaster Tools. For anyone interested, follow the link below for more information. So Long Google Page Rank
Page Rank Explained
For those of you who are confused by what “Page Rank” means, I have found a great website that explains it quite well. It should help take a bit of the mystery out of it, for anyone who is scratching their head on the subject. Page Rank Explained
SEO Tune-Up for Your Website
I just found two great online tools that can help you make some SEO improvements to your website. And by doing that, you’re increasing your site’s potential for increased traffic. So take a peek and see if these tools can help you and your website. Spider Simulator This website will crawl your site from the [...]
What’s a Google Page Rank and Why Should You Care?
Many people do not understand much about Google, the Search Engines in general, or Search Engine Optimization. One particular area of confusion tends to be with Google’s Page Rank system. So I thought I’d give you the in-a-nutshell explanation of what Google’s Page Rank is. Basically, a Google Page Rank is the numeric value assigned [...]
More Reader Questions
Received more questions from readers today, so thought I’d answer those here for the benefit of all our readers. Jacki of Hearthside Collection wanted to know how important internal site links are, and whether button links or text links are better on a website. It is VERY important to have internal links on your site; [...]
Reader Question on SEO and Blogger Vs. WordPress
Cathy of Cathy’s Creations wrote to ask me two questions. She wanted to know how a person who is not a “techie” goes about doing SEO on their site. She also wanted to know if Blogger or WordPress is the better blog host, and if one gets crawled by the SE’s better? Here are my [...]
The True Test of Your Google Results
Many newbies to eStores falsely believe that they can test their site’s results in Google by simply going to Google, typing in their website name, and when they see their website in one of the top spots in the results, they think they’ve achieved a great spot in Google’s index. But this isn’t quite how [...]
