Good search engine rankings (especially at Google) depend mainly on two things: Having plenty of good text content that Google can index. Google doesn’t really index pictures well, or flash, or javascript, or videos. Google can’t pick the text out of an image or a Flash presentation or a video. They do a great job […]
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Where can I register in Search Engines?
Where can I register in Search Engines?
John Eberhard’s Link Building Tips: recommended reading
Recommended reading if you do any link building…
Proud of our clients’ growth: this client has doubled every year….
in this world, a group either expands or it dies.
Fan mail about our Google AdWords tutorial
Blimey! That was a great read!
Carri Bugbee of BigDealPR wins Shorty Award
My friend and colleague Carri Bugbee of Big Deal PR in Portland has just won an award at the first annual Twitter awards, winning a “Shorty” award for her many tweets as fictional character @peggyolson (a character from the TV show MadMen). She’s got about 12,000 followers on Twitter, who have followed her many thousands […]
Questions re naming of domains and pages for SEO
Jimmy asked: Would you say its better to have your domain name relevant to the sites content or actual highly searched for keyword that will be optimized on the site? Content — Do you recommend hiring someone to write content if we cant do on our own? how exactly does this work? I’ve been told […]
How to get links to your website – relevant backlinks are best
Visitor J.A. says: I’m interested in some SEO consulting from you. My dream words are ’email lists’ I’m on page 4 now, what will it take — backlinking? Hi, J.A. – There are only 37 mentions of your site that Google knows about. That’s a pretty small number. If you run this search for backlinks […]
Is it worth registering in the directories?
I received this question from a friend today about directory registrations and their worth or lack of it: Question Hi Jere … I just wonder whether you can give me any advice on this. I am looking at a quick way to get some of my sites listed in on-line directories to increase incoming links […]
Keyword Density De-Mystified
Question: Jere – I have the stable datum that keyword density should be around 3-4% of the page content for best optimization. More is bad apparently for Google and less isn’t as effective. Any thoughts? Answer: Good question. That’s not a bad stable datum, but in practice I’ve seen keyword density on a high-ranking page […]