SEO: How Many Keywords Do You Have?

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SEO: How Many Keywords Do You Have?

By Pat Marcello on Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 | 5 Comments

If you’ve been a webmaster for a while, I’m guessing that you have lists and lists of keywords that you use for SEO purposes, right? I mean, they’re always changing, and you have to get them all on the first page, right? Image via Wikipedia Wrong! Don’t ever try to do that! If you do, [...]

SEO Tips to Consider

By Pat Marcello on Monday, November 1st, 2010 | 6 Comments

As you know, last week, I spent some time in London at the proSEO conference put on by Distilled.co.uk and SEOMoz.org — two well-respected organizations in the search space. As I mentioned, it was pretty amazing, but do you want to know some SEO tips that I heard that are somewhat contrary to what we’ve [...]

Search Engine Optimizing: Keywords on Steroids

By Pat Marcello on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 | 7 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 | No 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 | 3 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 | No 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 | 4 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, [...]

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