Determining if your business model is in line with Google
In every SEO campaign, various Google tools undeniably takes on a huge chunk on the project’s implementation and execution. But this does not mean that the tools that Google offers when it comes to SEO is free for all. Contrary to this popular belief, Google actually has a lot of strict rules and regulations that you have to follow in order to use their tools. One wrong move can possibly have you banned from doing business again with the famous search engine. This is the main reason why determining if your own business model is in accordance to what Google sees as acceptable is an important thing to consider. One of the main pet peeves that Google has is towards affiliates, especially those in AdWords.
Reasons why journalists will write about your website
The author of this article is speaking from his own personal experience after his website had been featured in the New York Times which is a great feat for someone who is considered as a small business owner who owns a little known website. He gives out different reasons why journalists will write about your website and the reasons are as follows: the need to create a list, the need for a seasonal story, making a follow up on a big story, writing about a competitor, writing about a particular group, citing an example for a nationwide trend, example to illustrate federal legislation, the need for expert comment and featuring an award winning person.
Tools for Google Caffeine
In this blog post, different tools that you can use for Caffeine are give out. These tools include: Google Caffeine Bookmarklet, Plug Caffeine into Firefox Extension, Ranking Checker, Google vs. Google Caffeine and Google.ie and Google.de vs. Caffeine.
Knowing the basics of SEO before trying out the fancy stuff
Most newbies in SEO will want to try on the fancy stuff at first before learning the basics. This is a kind of thing wherein you leap first before you learn but you always have to keep in mind that sticking to the basics is important especially if you’re just starting out with SEO. This article gives out different tips that you can use in order to master the basics first before you turn it up a notch. The following tips given out are: avoiding JavaScript or Flash navigation, keeping your site’s architecture as flat as possible, staying away from the parameter’s URL, using internal links and treating sitemaps as your friends.
IYP SEO Rankings Report for 2009
The Internet Yellow Pages (IYP) is a common source for SEO rankings and the author tried to lift the top ranking SEO sites for 2009 in this article. His methodology for extracting the results are as follows: searching Google, querying in a specific format, each of the top 10 ranking was in reverse order and the points for each site are added up. The results of this ranking test yielded the following sites in the top 5: Superpages, Citysearch, Yelp, Yahoo Local and InsiderPages.
Are search engines spying on SEOs?
One of the most controversial issues to bombard SEOs is the possibility that search engines are spying on SEOs by lurking in SEO forums. In these SEO forums, the SEO practitioners can initiate link buying or link exchange with other people. Spam is also being monitored in these forums.
Headlining your Social Media campaigns and articles
It all starts with your title or headline. More often than not, if you have a headline which is truly eye catching and easy to read, you will have an easier time attracting and luring people to go into your site. In this article, there is a total of 102 proven ideas that you can use for this purpose.
Link baiting 101
Link baiting is probably the most famous and most used link building technique. Compared to other link building techniques, link baiting is probably the most ethical and accepted way of gathering links for your website. In this article, links to 45 link baiting resources are given out in hopes that people will have an easier time doing this process.
Steps in creating an authority blog
In this article, a total of 10 steps are given out as a guide in building an authority blog. The steps are as follows: creating a winning difference, teaching people, having a pillar content, using headlines and hooks, making friends, putting money in your list, never neglecting SEO, giving Google a helping hand, investing in a high quality blog theme and looking after your followers.
