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 | April 10, 2013What do you do when you accidentally provide the search engines with a bad URL? Read More >> |
 | April 10, 2013I am wondering if numbers in URLs negatively affect SEO. Read More >> |
 | December 5, 2012As part of my SEO for 2013 and beyond series, I promised to provide more in-depth information about the "SEO killers" I mentioned last time. Today I'm delving into duplicate content as it relates to SEO. Read More >> |
 | November 14, 2012There's a lot of talk lately of Google having finally killed SEO through their Panda and Penguin algorithms, which continue to ensnare more and more websites with every new update. So is SEO really (finally) dead?
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 | September 19, 2012Does moving from an HTML site to a WordPress site have any big SEO issues? Read More >> |
 | August 22, 2012Shopping Cart Redirects Read More >> |
 | August 8, 2012In some of my recent reviews of websites that have recently lost Google traffic, I've found a common thread: lots of low-quality content pages. But the interesting thing is that this wasn't the sort of low-quality content created by some scammy SEO in an attempt to boost search engine rankings.
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 | June 13, 2012I recently did a site audit for a client who was wondering why they were having a hard time showing up in Google. When I read through the information they sent me and took a quick look at their website, it was obvious to me what the problem was: They simply didn't deserve to be there. Let me explain... Read More >> |
 | September 21, 2011Recently I had a conversation with an SEO expert who claimed that the most important thing we need to do for SEO on our website is URL rewriting. Our old CMS system still uses parameters in the URL ("?pageid="). Read More >> |
 | September 21, 2011Do you change URLs for SEO purposes if they're not currently using keywords but are being indexed fine? Read More >> |
 | July 13, 2011Wildcard Subdomains & SEO Read More >> |
 | June 1, 2011Do you think the hashtag in a URL affects the site's SEO or link building in any way? Read More >> |
 | May 4, 2011Parameters vs. Anchors Read More >> |
 | March 23, 2011If your company wants people to actually understand what you do when they come to your website, how does playing with the spinning balls further this goal? Read More >> |
 | March 2, 2011By now you've surely heard of the recent Google algorithm changes dubbed the "Farmer Update." This article highlights some of the interesting things I noticed that made me go hmmm...with the small set of sites I've looked at so far. Read More >> |
 | January 19, 2011Non-nefarious Cloaking Read More >>
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 | December 15, 2010When a client hires an outside SEO consultant during the design and development of a new website, it's often not looked upon kindly by the development team. Chances are the team has had bad experiences with an SEO who forced them to design for search engines and not for people. Read More >> |
 | November 3, 2010We are moving our site to a new CMS and have a few questions regarding URLs and our sitemap. Read More >> |
 | November 3, 2010If I add to a page of my website a widget that enables my blog to show on that page, do search engines recognize the blog content delivered via this widget? Read More >> |
 | July 14, 2010ASP to WordPress Read More >> |
| March 24, 2010Duplicate content has been and always will be a natural part of the Web. It's nothing to be afraid of. Read More >> |
| January 20, 2010When you begin optimizing a website, does it have to go down while creating meta tags – title, description, keyword? OR do we need to back up the website first? Read More >> |
| January 20, 2010Is an XML sitemap mandatory if you have a CMS? Read More >> |
| January 6, 2010I've been SEO'ing websites long before the 21st century began. Sometimes I feel I've been touting the same SEO processes and procedures for the past 10 years. Read More >> |
| November 11, 2009This morning I woke up to someone having submitted a pile of SEO questions using our newsletter question form. At first I thought, "Yikes, that's kind of pushy to think I have time to answer all those questions!" But then I remembered that this was a newsletter week and I still had no idea what I was going to write about. Read More >> |
| March 4, 2009I run an apartment search website. The sites search results pages are dynamic and pulled from the database. If these dynamic pages also have dynamic page titles, will they be search engine relevant? Read More >> |
| March 4, 2009We have a travel website where people can enquire about beautiful small hotels we offer. Even though each hotel has a unique URL with unique content, the categories pages have a duplication problem. Read More >> |
| February 18, 2009Forum moderator Jonathan Hochman posted about Google's new method for specifying canonical URLs, which the other major search engines have also agreed to use. Read More >> |
| February 4, 2009I have a new website selling children's eco friendly toys. The site was designed to enable customers to search for toys by age, by type of toy, by brand, and by country of manufacture. A given toy description would be in each of these categories as well as in multiple age categories and multiple toy types (i.e., in puzzles and wooden puzzles). Read More >> |
| May 14, 2008If you're a true techie geek, you will like this High Rankings forum thread where member "doughayman" notices some weirdness in his server logs. With some probing, forum moderator and all-around server wizard "Randy" helps diagnose the problem, and all is well again. Read More >> |
| April 23, 2008Forum member "Christopher" is looking for help to improve his checkout conversions. Read More >> |
| January 2, 2008A lot of my clients pull data/products from semi-public databases to populate their websites, similar to how real estate agents show listings of homes on their sites. I've been ensuring that each client has unique valuable and professionally edited content whenever possible on the rest of the site, but I’m afraid that if I make the portions of the site that use the semi-public data accessible to the search engines, they will find duplicate information on other sites and my client site(s) would not be indexed. Read More >> |
| November 14, 2007My company is considering building some new sites where content is loaded from a database. We plan on using static URLs no matter what, but we are wondering if it matters whether the content comes from static, unique HTML files, or if the HTML page is served from a database. Read More >> |
| September 25, 2007I submitted our website sitemap to Google a while back, but I was reading a
forum this morning where somebody was saying you have to submit every page
to Google. What is the real procedure and are sitemaps important? Read More >> |
| May 9, 2007What if you have 2 identical websites with the
same Meta tags and same content, but one is “100% HTML web design (clean
code, CSS design)” and the other is “100% Joomla, fully loaded with SEO
options”? Read More >> |
| February 21, 2007"Johking" is looking for a PHP calendar he can add to his website. Read More >> |
| January 3, 2007Our web site has been around for many years and we are switching over to a content management system coded in JSP, but with extensions ending in .do as opposed to what we currently have, .asp. Read More >> |
| January 3, 2007I don’t understand how search engines list dynamic sites. For example, this site has a whole bunch of products. Every single product page calls up the same url: www.example.com/products.php. Read More >> |
| December 13, 2006I have a client whose web site has been created in Cold Fusion. I am not all
that familiar with these types of pages but right now most of their page
text and metas are being pulled from another document and are not actually
part of the “live site code.” Read More >> |
