Posts Tagged SEO

Anchor text is important for SEO

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Ah, anchor text…so important yet so misunderstood. Anchor text is simply another phrase for the label text for your link. Unknown to many bloggers, these words actually have an affect on how search engines perceive the link’s value. In fact, it’s well-known in SEO expert circles that anchor text is the top one or two [...]

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All about title and description tags

Here we go, another new guest author, Nittin Aggarwal! Undoubtedly title and description tags or Meta as they are called, are two most important aspects of search engine optimization. The title tag is used for ranking by Google and other search engines, while description tag is not. Since most of the searches use Google we [...]

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Who’s afraid of outbound links?

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We all know the importance of inbound links (aka backlinks) but what about outbound links? First, let’s start with what an outbound link is. All we’re talking about here is a link that goes from your blog to another site. Yes, an external link. Oooooh…scary stuff. Let’s run through some of the common reasons why [...]

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Lead Generation and the Future of Search: Real Time

Our first guest article for 2011 and it’s from a new face, Chris Fellows from Ocean Tara! What is Real Time Search? Most of us are familiar with search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask. The search engines sparked a revolution in organizing massive amounts of data. Well the amount of data has still [...]

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Is Google doing away with PageRank?

Are you getting frustrated with Google’s failure to update us on our PageRank (PR)? Believe it or not, it has been eight months since the last time Google showed us the PRs to our pages! In the past, Google was giving us updates every three to six months. Even though each pages’ PR is dynamic [...]

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Here’s your gift – free elevator pitches!

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah (very belated!), Happy Kwanzaa, or Happy Festivus! As I promised a few articles ago, my gift to you is posting your self-written promos! Sure, some where a bit longer than 20 words while others didn’t have very clear anchor text but here they are anyway. Keep in mind that I am [...]

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The Ten Commandments of Blogging

1. This is your blog, you shall treat it with respect. Run the blog like a business. That means whatever time and energy you decide to dedicate to it, find a way to keep that motivation up in the long haul. It’s a lot of work with very little results in the beginning … Related [...]

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