“What’s at your fingertips here is a way to build entirely new search environments, and base them on the Google index.” One of the things that I learned about recently is the Ajax search API from Google. This is a cool new tool that has gotten little publicity so far, but really offers a lot […]
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The 5 Judgments of Link Quality
What are the 5 Judgments of Link Quality? They are simple rules to help you determine if the links you have, or the links you are planning to get, and going to be links that help your website rank in the organic search results. Without further ado, here they are: Would you want this link […]
Duplicate Content – The Problem and its Solutions
Lots of sites have duplicate content problems. For the most part, this is not a huge issue. When search engines find duplicate content they choose one of the pages to list in the index, and then will ignore the other. This assumes, of course, that the nature of the duplicate content is not so bad […]
Top 10 Bad SEO Ideas
The world of Search Engine Optimization is complicated for many reasons. For example, it is well known that the Google algorithm takes into account more than 200 factors in ranking a web page. In addition, search engines treat their algorithms as highly proprietary for two main reasons: They don’t want their competition to know what […]
Custom Search Engine Topic Refinement
“In this article, you’ll learn the basics of search topic refinement – a powerful way to allow your users to “drill down” through a search result set from a variety of different perspectives.” Introduction This tutorial is the first in a series designed to take you from Custom Search Engine (CSE) novice to CSE Ninja. […]
This Old website – Ziff Davis 1up.com Site Redesign
We had the pleasure of working with the Videomaker team on increasing their web traffic. The Videomaker site provides a wealth of resources about video editing and video production. In April of this year they began a website redesign, and we included within that a number of SEO modifications to improve the visibility of the […]
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and SEO
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and SEO For most of the early history of Google, it was assumed that Google was not able to read CSS files, and hence could not understand the location of content on a web page. However, Google worked for years to improve its capabilities in this area, and this culminated in […]
This Old website – VisualDxHealth Site Redesign
VisualDxHealth is a website that provides pictures and text information on skin and visual diseases. The site is meant to be a resource to help people identify or better understand a skin problem affecting them or a family member. The site was first made live in January 2007 and officially launched in April 2007 (OK, […]
Content Optimization for Search Engines
Overview Writing effectively for search engines is, at first blush, not much different from writing effectively for any other medium. Certainly, many key guidelines remain the same, such as writing well-structured paragraphs centered around one key idea. One overarching guideline is that the best way to write for search engines is to write for real […]
This Old website – Videomaker Site Redesign
We have the pleasure of working with the Videomaker team on increasing their web traffic. The Videomaker site provides a wealth of resources about video editing and video production. In April of this year, they began a website redesign, and we included within that a number of SEO modifications to improve the visibility of the […]
The changing face of SEO
Search engine optimization (SEO) used to be simple. You figured out what keywords you wanted to rank on, you put them in your title, you stuffed them in the keyword metatags, and you loaded them on the page, and you were done. Better still, if you were a spammer, it did not really matter if […]
Content Development and SEO
Content is King. You may have heard this before. And in the world of SEO, it’s true. This article will outline the specifics of how content helps your SEO strategy, and some ideas for methods for developing it. Why is content so important? One of the most basic reasons is that good content is naturally […]