Using a keyword-rich premium domain for SEO purposes is still the Achilles heel for search engine algorithms to dissuade rankings from rising in the SERPs (search engine result pages) spontaneously. Premium Domains are the Achilles Heel to Search Engine Algorithms For example, if you a website with the name:
I believe as an SEO, we often have the tendency to get “to caught up” chasing search engine algorithms and phantoms in an attempt to reverse-engineer ripples and effects rather than quantifying the causes that created them. This is why today, I would like to share something simply brilliant by turning back the clock to Read More
While working on an internal document dubbed “The SEO Playbook” the question of which strategy is better, sub domains or sub folders?, flat site architecture or themed and siloed content? What follows is a peek from the SEO Design Solutions Playbook. Strategies from the SEO Design Solutions Playbook The strategy of employing sub domains or Read More
A few years ago link building was the rave of the day and probably the single most used and abused SEO strategy – people were swapping links, buying links, selling links, and breathing links. Is link building the sole factor that the search engines take into account? And for good reason – the majority of Read More
Sounds like a harsh way to start off a blog post about SEO, but in actuality, if you are not promoting an internal page structure or preferred hierarchy from within your own website, content or links then why would you expect a search engine to treat your pages any differently than you do and rank Read More
Rather than make this an SEO how-to manual, we chose to provide a “big picture” view of which steps are critical for launching a successful website in today’s competitive environment. SEO Best Practices Part 2 Marketing and Promotion From the topics covered in SEO Best Practices: Getting Started (part 1) and this post SEO Best Read More
One of the most undervalued aspects of SEO is the amount of time it takes to develop a website properly. People often wonder why SEO pricing is so exorbitant, it is because you have to work holistically across various metrics and have a baseline of SEO best practices in order to create the appropriate signals Read More
SEO Ultimate, the free WordPress SEO plugin from SEO Design Solutions, has been upgraded with a revolutionary new module that takes advantage of one of Google’s latest features for webmasters. SEO Ultimate 3.0 Add Rich-Snippet Editor Just a little over a year ago, Google introduced a new feature in their search results called “rich snippets.” Read More
In the last month, SEO Ultimate (the free WordPress SEO plugin from SEO Design Solutions) has been updated with no less than 8 major functionality upgrades. WordPress 3.0 Compatible SEO Ultimate 2.9.1 Update SEO Ultimate now stands at version 2.9.1. With every new release, SEO Ultimate grows its lead over other WordPress SEO offerings. Deeplink Read More
Search engine spiders thrive on fresh content and websites with an abundance of PageRank, authority and pizazz. Instead of making SEO more complicated than necessary, sometimes you need to “go back” to basics to move forward and simplify your search engine optimization approach. Feeding Search Engine Spiders Aside from all of the strategies, methods and Read More
Let’s talk about links. Information retrieval and SEO have a sympathetic relationship, however, built within the fabric of search engine algorithms are specific filters (such as null sets) that when they observe a high frequency of a specific metric have a tendency to dampen or normalize its influence – particularly pertaining to links. This is Read More
Who said rankings always make sense. Sometimes the SEO signals, relevance and tip of the iceberg analysis just doesn’t add up. The Tireless Quest to Reach the Top No matter how many times you have seen or used optimization tactics before, there is always a chance (as algorithms are like living breathing organisms) that something Read More
