Google Rankings are based on finding the “most relevant” websites for keyword searches. Shared Hosting plans have many features – disk space, bandwidth and programming languages supported – that will determine whether your website will interest visitors.
If your market niche requires text, images and applications that are best created using a specific programming language, it [...]
January 25, 2011 – 7:49 am
Getting your business listings to the top of Google Maps and local search results is a challenge in its own right. I’ve done my share of optimizations for Google Maps and the trick is to create a kick ass listing that shames the rest of them while making it appear and look natural. Trust me, [...]
January 14, 2011 – 12:59 am
Something every webmaster wants to know is how competitive their keyword terms are in the bigger scheme of things. Especially if you spend hundreds if not thousands with Google’s Adwords advertising tool.
Let’s say you are building a niche site on the topic of “personal loans.” With a keyword this competitive it would be very hard [...]
November 22, 2010 – 2:17 am
When one is looking at a blog as a potential candidate for writing a guest post for, there are many things that they must do in order to ensure that the site is a good fit.
Most, for example, check and make sure that a site has a decent PageRank, that it has a good amount [...]
October 25, 2010 – 6:57 am
Though Google’s recent introduction of Google Instant has been largely well-received by users, it is already causing headaches and heartburn for SEOs who are trying to figure out the ways in which the new feature will change the playing field.
The new feature, which works by showing the results of a search as the user types [...]
October 10, 2010 – 1:28 pm
One of the great things about Firefox is how extensible it is. Its enormous add-on library includes themes, persona’s, search packs and, most importantly, extensions that add features and tools to the browser.
If you do a great deal of work in SEO or are just starting out, this can be a tremendous time saver as [...]
September 24, 2010 – 9:00 pm
Google and Bing both are such large sites, first and eleventh respectively according to Alexa, that they attract a complete cross-section of the Web. However when you compare Bing’s audience to Google’s audience, you see some anomalies come up.
Bing’s Audience is Older: Bing’s audience, compared to the Web at large, [...]
September 24, 2010 – 6:54 am
So: you’ve come up with some great content that you think has link bait potential. You’ve targeted your keywords to maximize your chances of getting rich anchor text. You’ve submitted it to the usual suspects of the social web – Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious etc. You’ve informed your Twitter followers.
And then what? Do you wait for [...]
August 25, 2010 – 6:57 pm
Several months ago Google introduced a new feature to their search results called the Wonder Wheel. SEO Design Solutions provided a great post on how to use the Wonder Wheel to improve link building with the use of keyword clusters. This tutorial provides insight in how to use the Wonder Wheel to improve your site’s [...]
