2009 SEOMoz Search Ranking Factors Guide Released
If you haven’t taken the time to check it out yet, head immediately over to the Search Engine Ranking Factors Guide released by SEOMoz. The Annual survey of top SEO’s across the globe is a quintessential starting point for privatization of SEO tactics. Key Quotes from Yours Truly “If Google only ranked the “tried and trueâ€, their results would be old and outdated. Recency is a valuable asset when links are hard to come by”On Page Non-Keyword Ranking Factors “The Link is King. All Hail the Link”Page Specific Link Popularity Ranking Factors “Any opportunity you have to tell Google explicitly what region for which your site is designed — do it. Make their job as easy as possible.”Geo-targeting Factors “The...
Bad News Gives Good Information
Short Post: This morning I became aware that a friend’s site had been banned by Google this morning. My immediate thought was to see if his site had been banned in the beta sandbox as well. It was. It is interesting to note that the current engine’s and the sandbox’s indexing or, at least, deindexing is closely tied together. No tags for this post.
XML Sitemap Assisted Redirects: Advanced White Hat SEO
One of the most critical times for a site’s rankings occur when there is a massive shift in URL structure across the site. Unfortunately, this is a common prescription for sites with unruly URLs with multiple parameters. Creating pretty, canonical URLs is easy enough, as is mapping old URLs to new with 301 redirects, but preventing duplicate content issues can be problematic. Each page on the web represents a destination that can be reached by links. Theoretically, without XML Sitemaps (or similar forms of direct page submission), there would be no way for Googlebot to find pages that are not connected by links. In our first example image, this site has a homepage and 4 subpages, connected by links, all of which have been cached by Google. Let’s...
Glync Tracking 25,000 URLs
I will stop writing about Glync for a few posts after this, but I just wanted to announce that we recently surpassed 25,000 URLs being tracked via Glync. The Glync Firefox Extension allows you to add historical graphs to your Google Webmaster Tools external link tracker. Instead of just seeing how many links now, you will see a graph of the links over time (in my opinion, a much more useful representation of the data).Thanks for everyone who is using it and, if you aren’t, why not? It’s Free! Get it here! No tags for this post.
Blog About Glync for Pro Upgrades
Hey folks, thanks to all of you who decided to download and install the new Glync Firefox Extension. Right now we are tracking over 17,000 unique pages and the number is growing rapidly! I did want to give everyone the opportunity to get a chance to look at the Glync Professional Version. So, in exchange for a little publicity, I will upgrade any single domain in your account. Just go blog about your experience with Glync and shoot me an email at [email protected] with a link to your blog post and the website for which you would like an upgrade! No tags for this...
Find me at PubCon for Free Glync Upgrades…
Hey folks, if you haven’t tried Glync yet, go take a look. It is a free Firefox extension that adds a timeline graph of your links in Google Webmaster Tools. The professional version, $5/mo, adds Yahoo links to that same graph, and also gives you a graph of every subpage, and the PR of all the pages on your site and those linking to it. Find me at PubCon and I will hook you up with a free upgrade. No tags for this post.
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