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How to Optimize Meta Titles and Descriptions

November 24, 2009 – 9:33 am

Here is a quick SEO technique to help search engines and readers cut to the chase when categorizing your content. Just like when you get in an elevator and expect to see an indicator of where you are to “validate” that you are on the right floor when you get out, relevant titles and / [...]

By Jeffrey Smith | Tagged Optimizing Meta Descriptions, SEO, SEO Meta Tags, SEO your Titles and Meta Data, Using Meta Titles | Comments (26) | seo

How To Avoid Google’s Supplemental Index

August 25, 2009 – 8:29 am

When pages go supplemental (into a secondary index in search engines) all the search engine ranking factors associated with the on page elements are nullified.
Using SEO to prevent your pages from going into the supplemental index requires that each page has something significant enough to distinguish itself in from other pages within your website.

By Jeffrey Smith | Tagged Avoiding Supplemental Index, deep-linking, Internal Linking, SEO, Site Architecture, Using SEO to Avoid the Supplemental Index | Comments (11) | seo

How to Improve your Pages SEO Score

May 19, 2009 – 9:10 am

What if you have a page in your website and for whatever reason it is completely ignored by search engines? What actionable intelligence can you use to employ as a strategy or which SEO technique can you implement to put that page on the map? The following tactic is capable of correcting (1) orphaned pages [...]

By Jeffrey Smith | Tagged Improve Ranking Factor, On Page SEO Score, Search Engine Optimization Score, SEO, SEO Score, Understanding Relevance Thresholds | Comments (7) | seo

SEO and Long Tail Optimization

February 16, 2009 – 10:19 am

Google currently occupies 72% of the market share for all searches conducted in the US, making it prime real estate for over 60 Million users each day. Despite your industry, attaining a lofty position for multiple keywords through the use of SEO or SEM, represent vast economic and strategic advantage.

Even though you may have one [...]

By Jeffrey Smith | Also posted in SEO Marketing | Tagged Keywords Content and SEO, long-tail-search-engine-optimization, long-tail-SEO, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, SEO and Google Optimization, SEO and Keyword Selection | Comments (7) | seo

How to Use “How To” Posts to Engage Readers

February 7, 2009 – 10:14 am

There are some modifiers used for SEO that have a ability to grab the readers attention and do not not let it go. For example “How to” posts have some of the highest reader engagement and viral appeal online, but why?

Is it because the are quite simply the most direct and to the point type [...]

By Jeffrey Smith | Tagged How to Increase Readers and Engagement, How To Use How To Content, How to Use SEO Modifiers like How To | Comments (3) | seo

Using LSI Based Synonyms for On Page Semantic Relevance

December 18, 2008 – 1:10 am

What does it take to produce a top 10 ranking? The answer is simple with SEO, just eliminate 990 other pages for the square root of relevance extracted from Pair, Sort-Based Computation and probabilistic methods for extracting relevance.

Proximity is important, hence, a keyword followed by augmenting the description with relevant synonymous keywords are strong indicators [...]

By Jeffrey Smith | Tagged Keyword Stemming and Clusters from Semantic Shingles, LSI Pair Research and Result Reordering, SEO using Syntactical Clusters, Using Latent Semantic Indexing and Synonyms for SEO | Comments (6) | seo

Optimizing Your Website for Multiple Keywords

November 28, 2008 – 9:56 am

This is a link to old post written 1 year ago titled how to optimize your website for multiple keywords.

The method remains tried and true, so, if this is something you ever struggled with, here is your chance to see how an SEO company approaches ranking for multiple keywords.

By Jeffrey Smith | Tagged Keyword-Optimization, Multiple Keywords, Optimizing Multiple Keywords, Targeting Multiple Keywords | Comments (6) | seo

On Page SEO Tips for Link Distribution

November 10, 2008 – 9:06 am

Ever wondered how to get more from your on page SEO factors? Well then here is a quick tip. Off page SEO such as external links and their respected reputation (their age, authority and flow) can only get you so far, ultimately, what you do with your on page factors are where the ranking battles [...]

By Jeffrey Smith | Tagged link flow, link flow distribution, on page link equity, outbound links and no follow, SEO | Comments (7) | seo

SEO Tips for Developing Authority Websites

October 12, 2008 – 9:05 am

There are some things that work well in tandem withSEO then there are other that just scratch the surface when it comes to tactful effectiveness.

Developing an authority website requires timing, employing multiple layers of strategies over time and patience to cultivate the proper results.
However, without the knowledge or experience of knowing when, why or [...]

By Jeffrey Smith | Tagged Developing Trust Rank and Phrase Rank, SEO Tips for Website Authority, website-authority | Comments (4) | seo

Keyword Exercises for SEO

September 25, 2008 – 9:09 am

Don’t be fooled by people trying to tell you that tracking SEO metrics based on keywords and keyword performance is obsolete.

Keywords and the traffic they produce are alive and well and depending on the position (above the fold or below the fold) and the percentage of traffic they receive is tangible to assess conversion and [...]

By Jeffrey Smith | Tagged Keyword Stemming using Synonyms, Overlapping Keywords for SEO, Related Search Phrases, Using the Thesaurus for Keyword Ideas | Comments (15) | seo

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