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Link Building: The Definitive SEO Guide
The purpose of this document is to (a) identify the various types of links (b) calculate their impact on search engine rankings and (c) provide an overview of the various metrics and link types to create a protocol for SEO best practices.
Link Building Tips: The Definitive SEO Guide to Link Metrics
39 Tools for Marketing Your Small Business Online
Thousands of free online marketing tools clamor for attention, with new ones popping up every week it seems. You know you should be doing more to reach out to your customers, but just researching which tools to use can be a vast time investment, even if they don’t require a big financial outlay.
Below is a compiled list of the most popular (or most useful) low-cost or free small business marketing tools. You might be using some of them already, but you’re sure to find a couple that will round out your small business marketing toolkit nicely. And, if you’re just starting out marketing a new business online, this list may help point you in the right direction.
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20 SEO Tips for 2010
Below are 20 SEO Tips for 2010 as a stocking stuffer from SEO Design Solutions to kick off the new year in style. It’s no secret that SEO involves granular changes across multiple metrics to optimize a site, yet each layer of the respective SEO onion has its place in the hierarchy of relevance which you can use to fine-tune rankings and results.
The Best Google Street View Fails, Wins, And WTF’s
Long Sunday afternoons were just made for relaxing and enjoying the aftershocks of technology. On Monday, we can all get back to inventing something new.
For today, let’s enjoy some Google Street View victories, disasters, NSFW almosts, and of course ,some awkward oopsies. Let’s go.
Why 301 Redirect (Permanent Redirection) Is Important?
Domain Aliases: Domain Aliases allows you to point more than one domain name to a single web site. Using Domain aliases may have a negative impact on your site. You may lose traffic from visitors who follow a search engine link. To avoid this you can use 301 redirect where the search engine spider will transfer all your credits from the old page to the new page.
WWW vs Non WWW: Though the www and non www version of your site leads to the same page and have the same content technically both are different sub domains.
For eg. Take the URL’s http://example.com and http://www.example.com. Search engines treat this as different sub
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10 Features That Will Make Twitter Better
Twitter’s popularity has skyrocketed in the recent months. Usage statistics states that most people who use Twitter interact with the application via the web rather than a third-party client such as TweetDeck or twitterfeed.
Twitter’s web interface is simple and intuitive but lacks a few features that can make it much better. In this article, you’ll read about 10 excellent user interface features that can enhance the Twitter web experience.
1. Enable grouping of friends and followers
Figure 1 shows tabs that you can use to quickly see tweets in a particular group.
Beginners Guide to SEO
By Abi Andrews
Most people realise Google is currently the number 1 search engine in the world so it makes sense to build websites to rank highly on it. What most people don’t understand is that the position at which a website is listed on Google is not random. When you type in a search string, google ranks each relevant site based on Google Algorithm, which in essence calculates a score based on a “secret” points system, and list sites according to the highest score.
I get asked all the time, how can I improve my website ranking? Well, at the very least you should follow these tips. There is no short cut, you have to read and learn. There is also no guarantee where you will rank on Google, no matter what you do to improve your ranking, but there are some basic things you can do to your site, to at least help positioning.
Here is an informative article on the basics of search engine optimization techniques. This is a basic SEO and not a conclusive guide, but should give you some ideas to get you started.
1. Keywords / Keyword Phrases
12 Free SEO Tools You Must Use
Effective SEO strategies require a lot of effort and time. Although in the search engines market exist very advanced tools that cost a lot, there are many free SEO tools which can help the novice and advanced SEO marketer to save valuable time.
Here is a list of free and proven for their effectiveness SEO online instruments:
1) http://www.alexaranking.com – It displays multiple domains instead of one. Therefore, you can have instant traffic results from Alexa Rankings instead of typing and search each time separately.
2) http://www.xml-sitemaps.com – Sitemaps are extremely important for websites because they help search engines crawl and index them. This is a free xml sitemap generator.
4 Indispensable “SEO TOOLS” for Competitive Research
When you’re tired of playing childish games like leap-frog and tidily-winks in the SERPs (search engine result pages) with your competition and are ready to change the subject from recess to biology and literally dissect their SEO game. You’ll need to break out some real SEO tools for a stint of competitive research.
SEO Tips for Link Building and Directory Submissions
Today’s SEO tip is about using citation and search modifiers to find creative solutions for link building. Citation (a websites footprint or popularity matrix) is a prominent principle used by search engine algorithms to assess importance.
SEO Tips to Find and Qualify Directories