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SEO Daily Reading – Issue 51

  Using Google Trends — Fine-Tune Your Website 10 Ways to Improve Blog Traffic — In 30 Minutes or Less Avoid Duplicate Content Issues — Return the Right Response Code on 404 Pages Domain Ages Affecting Search Rankings — Microsoft’s New Patent Application Makes Linking … Read More

Raven SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 22

Your Site Got Hacked, Now What? Having your site hacked can be very demoralizing and the clean-up very time consuming. You’ve put a lot of hard work and effort into achieving and maintaining your SERP’s only for them to disappear like a flying tank. Fear … Read More

Good Web Design Can Equal Good SEO

A well thought out information architecture (IA) is crucial for search engine optimization (SEO), in the same way that semantic structure and high quality content is. However, good design can play its part too. InstantAmber provides an excellent example of how good design can also … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 50

  Google’s “Dewey” Update — Matt Cutts Asks for Feedback Search Engine Crawling — Large Website Design Theory and Crawl Management Social News Bookmarking Immersion — The Hidden Value Search Percentage Breakdown — 80% Informational, 10% Navigational and Transactional A Different Take on the SEO … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 49

  In-House SEO Functionality — 5 Steps to Developing SEO Functionality Organic Search and B2B Marketers — Six Mistakes They Continue to Make The Chess Match Continues — Yahoo! Runs a Two Week Trial of Google AdSense SEO Strategy Targeting — Deciding on Short or … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 48

  Vulnerable WordPress — Blogs Not Being Indexed ALT and Title Attributes — Using Them Properly Master Your Keywords — Organize Your Keyword Research Optimizing Your PDFs — What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You The SEO Copywriter — Wordsmithing the Web Read More

The Trouble With SERP Tracking

There’s an ongoing obsession with tracking search engine result pages (SERPs). Both seasoned search marketing specialists and know-enough-to-be-dangerous webmasters can’t get enough of them. So what’s so special about these stats and why do people track them?   Why Track SERPs? There are generally three … Read More

Raven SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 21

Google Tests Horizontal Search Results A recent find by a member of the Google Blogoscoped forum reports that Google are now inserting horizontal search results in the middle of the Google results page. Those search results so far have been displaying images, video or shopping … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 47

  Expanded Keyword List — Google Subscribed Links Submitting Content to Digg — 3 Milestones of A Front Page Digg Yahoo! Mobile Search — Adds Voice-Recognition, Search Assist Feature Improving Navigation — 5 Simple Steps to Improving Navigation A Google Surprise — 5 Things You … Read More

Demystifying the Google Algorithm

Search Engine Journal recently demystified the Google algorithm. It’s really a matter of perspective. Google Engineer’s Perspective Search Marketer’s Perspective Of course this isn’t totally true, and money doesn’t need to be involved, but it’s still damn funny. Read More