 | June 5, 2013How to Structure Site Navigation Links for Browsing and Indexing Read More >> |
 | May 22, 2013Canonical Tag Questions Read More >> |
 | April 10, 2013If an established business adds a new and somewhat different product line to their website, do you have any advice for the best way to get noticed by the search engines on the new pages for the new content as quickly as possible?
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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 >> |
 | February 13, 2013With the introduction of the Panda filter by Google (originally dubbed "Farmer") in February 2011, one commonality of sites that were hit was what I called merry-go-round sites.
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 | January 16, 2013In my "18 SEO Killers" article from the end of last year, I mentioned footer links as a potential SEO problem. I know this confused many people because I didn't explain what I meant by them. This article takes an in-depth look at footer abuses. 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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 | December 14, 2011I know that incoming links are important in search engine rankings, but do the search engines consider anchors the same way as an incoming link? Read More >> |
 | September 21, 2011I was wondering if you had any advice about which option is better SEO wise…buying a domain for a microsite or adding the information to your website as additional content?
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 | January 5, 2011Going live with a redesigned website without considering the SEO implications is like being ensnared in a nasty trap that you cannot escape from. Read More >> |
 | 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 >> |
 | July 28, 2010What would be the best way for me to transition old pages off our website, while keeping up our SEO? They have a lot of links to other pages, some not related to our business.
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| 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 >> |
| December 16, 2009You need to address a number of SEO tactics before you get too deep into your website redesign. The reason you need to keep SEO front and center during this time is twofold: so that you do not lose your previous traffic, but also so that you can gain additional targeted search engine visitors when the new site goes live. Read More >> |
| June 10, 2009There was big news last week from the SMX Advanced conference, which we've been discussing at the forum, regarding the use of PageRank sculpting. Read More >> |
| May 27, 2009Do you think a positioning video has value on a website, or does it interfere with the structure and architecture of the website?
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| 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 >> |
| March 4, 2009Forum member Convergent7 has a website that uses a subdomain along with the main domain. He/she wonders if it would be better to combine them into one. 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 >> |
| February 4, 2009I've been researching absolute vs. relative links and there seem to be two camps -- one that advocates absolute as better for SEO purposes and the other that says that absolute links won't improve your rank. My site is set up with relative links, so is it worth the effort to change them to absolute? Read More >> |
| October 22, 2008Forum member "bobmeetin" explains how a business he's evaluating has a main website plus 4 subdomains and seems like one big organizational mess. Read More >> |
| August 27, 2008Forum member "don h" discusses a website problem that's been plaguing him for ages. 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 >> |
| January 16, 2008I have plain html pages that describe the various health-related products that I recommend. If one of my readers wishes to purchase a product, they click on an "order now" button, which takes them to the desired product at my shopping cart.
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| January 2, 2008Forum member "ronfrank" is new to SEO and is having trouble figuring out how to categorize his site based on keyword phrases. Read More >> |
| November 28, 2007I am in the process of changing all my URLs from things like news123.html to
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| November 28, 2007For those looking for some advanced SEO info, we have a ton of it in our
“Technobabble” area of the forum. There’s tons of
great info on dynamic sites, as well as mountains of technical info on
redirects, mod_rewrites, etc. Read More >> |
| September 26, 2007I am a small business owner with a circa 2003 website that needs an overhaul
both in terms of SEO optimization and visual appeal. I have no time or
talent to do this and want to hire a company.
I have received a reply from one company that said the problem with my
website is that it was written in FrontPage. They implied that that was a
problem both from a design perspective and for SEO. Do you agree? And if
so, does my website need to be recreated in HTML? Read More >> |
| September 26, 2007Forum member "rolf" told the community of a website design company that
created a brand-new site completely in Flash for a client, even though the
client expressed an interest in having the website found in the search
engines. 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 >> |
| July 11, 2007Last night was our third SEMNE event (Search Engine Marketing New England), and we were humbled to have Dan Crow, director of crawl systems at Google, spilling the beans about how to get your site into Google. He talked for a half hour or so, and then proceeded to answer audience questions for at least another hour. As I sat there listening to him (yes, I actually listened to this one!), I was struck by what an awesome opportunity it was for everyone in that room to be provided with such important information — straight from Google. It was clear that the 100 or so people in the room agreed. In fact, at 7:30 on the dot, everyone spontaneously stopped their networking activities and simply took their seats without being asked to. These folks definitely came to hear Google! Read More >> |
| April 25, 2007Forum moderator "qwerty" informs members of the new search engine site map
protocol, which allows you to direct search engines to your site map page,
via your robots.txt file. Read More >> |
| March 21, 2007I recently had an inquiry from someone who was looking for some possible SEO consulting with me. He was in the process of a redesign and wanted to be
sure not to make any mistakes along the way, which is super-smart! The time
to be looking at SEO is definitely in the beginning stage of any design or
redesign project. Read More >> |
| March 21, 2007Are Sites Created with CSS Better than Those Created with Tables? Read More >> |
| January 31, 2007I work for a nonprofit retreat center for which our main offerings are (you guessed it) retreat programs. Until recently, whenever we sent out email flyers about our programs, we had the link go directly to the program’s unique page on our website. Our marketing director has been trying to make a case for sending the clicker to the landing page that would then direct the clicker to a list of programs, including the one on which he or she clicked. Read More >> |
| January 31, 2007I am surprised to see that your own website still has both the www and non-www version in place — no redirect to get the “link juice” from the non-www version. Do you consider this a not so important issue? Both versions have good PR. 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 >> |
| January 3, 2007I am continually frustrated with web sites that provide a link, but when I click on it, it takes me OFF their site and onto another. Read More >> |
| December 13, 2006In the scheme of things, do you think it is important to add outbound links
from a web site? Read More >> |
| December 13, 2006I’ve been told that adding a site map to our website increases the chance of
search engines linking to other pages in our site. Any truth to this? Read More >> |
| December 13, 2006At the beginning of October we regenerated our entire site and
ran into a very strange problem. All of a sudden all our search results were
showing up under one of our old domain names. Read More >> |
| November 29, 2006As you know there are a lot of so-called SEO/SEM experts/gurus claiming all sorts of things. The analogy to me is like "quack" doctors compared to the genuine article. Are there 6 or a dozen questions that would expose those purporting to be experts? Read More >> |
| September 27, 2006My friend and fellow High Rankings® Seminar speaker Matt Bailey writes
today's guest article. Read More >> |
| August 2, 2006Do you know if repeating keywords in the URL will help increase rankings
within search engine results? If so does it have a big impact? Read More >> |
