There is one important factor to remember whenever you are involved in improving the organic rankings of a website, and that factor is time. One of the most common questions I receive as an SEO is “How long till I start to see results?� This article is dedicated to anyone who has ever asked that...

25 tips to help you gain top visibility in the search engines: Tip 1. Enjoy better rankings by writing higher quality content. Did you know Google is literally rewarding well-written content the benefit of "true relevancy." All I mean to say here, is that just by becoming a better "writer" and creat...

Shortly before Marty caused a ruckus with his avatar theory post, I had embarked upon an experiment of my own. I’d been taking careful note of the “popularity” of the hot chick avatars/personas that had been sweeping the social networks. I wanted to test that out for myself and see...

Many bloggers will not tell you this but I will. How to target keywords and get big traffic. Want to be successful with blogging? Build Traffic With Keywords! Ok for past few months I have been trying to get exposure for my new technology blog! Yes I am tech guy who is very experienced in Networking...

Companies that take their search engine visibility for granted or that ride the technical SEO loophole/manipulation train often get a hard smack back to reality when their online sales disappear. Orders start to slip or fall off the map altogether and the IT team red alert phone rings off the hook w...

You work hard to create content that will inspire your users and describe exactly what it is your site is about. Unfortunately for you that unique content that you've poured your blood, sweat and tears into is now being stolen, scraped and copied at this very moment. It sucks, doesn't......

A question came in to my inbox today, which I thought I would share on my blog: “How important do you think it is to have a .com domain name? My favoured .com domain names appear to be taken. I know I need to find out more about 'search engine optimisation', but if I were to by an equivalent ....

It’s a near nightmare situation really. A client sends an email on Friday saying, “We’re launching a new web site on Monday, can you take a look at it to make sure our site optimization is ok?”. The Account Manager asks for a URL and upon receiving, clicks to find a “pr...

At the exact same time (both at 10:50 am PST) Google announced it's spider (Googlebot) was now indexing a variety of forms Matt Cutts jumped in on his blog with his perspective where raised a great point that hadn't occured to me. Essentially this new spider function will allow the indexing of form-...

A little over a week ago, I asked for an open discussion for dealing with the jerks who hack into sites to deface them, to install malware, or to surreptitiously insert hidden links to bad neighborhoods. (And if anyone wants to argue semantics of hacking vs. cracking again, take it up with Google th...