Search Engine Optimizing: Keywords on Steroids

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Search Engine Optimizing: Keywords on Steroids

By Pat Marcello on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 | View Comments

When you're performing a little search engine optimizing, the first thing you do is what? Keyword research, of course! In fact, even if you're not optimizing for the search engines and only searching for a niche, keyword research is STILL the number one, most important thing you can do. If you choose a niche that [...]

Rel="NoFollow" No Longer Works?

By Pat Marcello on Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | View Comments

I was over at SEO Book, reading Aaron Wall’s post from June 16, entitled “Expert SEO Testing: Usually Worthless,” and was surprised to learn that rel=”nofollow” no longer works. Matt Cutts, Google’s spokesperson, admitted that was true at the recent SMX Conference. So, Wall linked to Danny Sullivan’s post “Google Loses “Backwards Compatibility” On Paid [...]

SEO: Search Status for Firefox

By Pat Marcello on Monday, June 8th, 2009 | View Comments

I have a few cool plugins for Firefox, but one of my favorites is “Search Status.” Here are some things it does: It provides not just Google Page Rank, like the Google Toolbar does, but Alexa ranking of any page you land on as well. And these ranks sit in your lower toolbar and you [...]

Google's New Wonder Wheel

By Pat Marcello on Monday, June 1st, 2009 | View Comments

Have you been to Google lately? (Who hasn’t, right?) Everyone seems to be talking about the new search item they call the “Wonder Wheel.” It puts me in mind of a couple of tools online. One is Personal Brain, which is mind-mapping software, and the other is Visual Thesaurus that will help you to brainstorm [...]

SEO: Why Use Sitemaps?

By Pat Marcello on Thursday, May 28th, 2009 | View Comments

Yesterday, I advocated the idea that you should always use a sitemap on your blog to be sure that all your permalink pages are indexed. But what is a sitemap and why is it so important? A sitemap gives search spiders information about your website. It tells the bots what pages are on your site, [...]

WordPress Permalinks: What's the Best Choice?

By Pat Marcello on Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 | View Comments

I can tell you what the wrong choice in terms of SEO is and that’s keeping the “http://yourblogdomain.com/?postnumber” that is the WordPress default. It doesn’t tell folks or search spiders anything about the post, except what number the post is. Your SEO-friendly permalink will include your keyword rich title as well as the post number, [...]

SEO: How Valuable Is Your Social Content?

By Pat Marcello on Friday, May 15th, 2009 | View Comments

Do you love social media as much as I do? I mean, you have to know I enjoy Twitter. I write about it often enough. But I also love Ning, where I have set up various sites, HubPages, and MyBlogLog, just to name a few. Why do I love them? Primarily because to me, they’re [...]

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