On-Site Geo-Targeting and Local Search Optimization
Previously, I have already touched upon tools that help in geo-targeting and compared their effectiveness. All of them are beyond your on-site optimization efforts: Setting...
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Previously, I have already touched upon tools that help in geo-targeting and compared their effectiveness. All of them are beyond your on-site optimization efforts: Setting...
In my previous post on the topic I summarized the theories behind Google Sitelinks. Now I would like to look into and also to ask...
I do prefer FireFox over other browsers. This can be a matter of a habit but I don’t know any other browser that can be...
After my recent huge post on SEO tools was published, I promised to add the section for free online internal analytics services; but before that...
This is another geo-targeting case study I decided to discuss at SEJ. Say you have one product and you plan to target two same-language countries:...
Like plural/ singular word forms, hyphenated terms also often pose a difficult SEO issues for us to solve – which version to use and optimize...
An interesting discussion over at SearchEngineWatch Forum covers the way(s) of treating out-of-stock product pages that cannot be of any use to a visitor but...
I have previously covered numerous ways to explore your competitors’ backlinks via various web-based and desktop tools and even with the help of FireFox Extensions....
Reciprocal linking is one of the most disputable SEO questions. The problem is that it is two-fold in nature. First, reciprocal links are natural being...
Many webmasters come across one common dilemma: is it worth focusing efforts on one huge brilliant copy or is it wiser to split it into...
It’s getting even harder to make of a good short relevant domain name. Hence the web-based tools allowing you to find one are numerous. This...
SEOs keep discussing the effectiveness of old traditional techniques like reciprocal links and directory submission. Naturally, they cannot so easily be forgiven because they remain...
Google has started to open up their demographic tracking system to advertisers with Google Ad Planner and Google Trends users, but here is a look...
Regular and frequent visits by the crawler are the first sign that your site appeals to Google. Thus the most efficient way to get frequent...
Incoming links are considered to be a major factor that forms Google’s opinion about your site. Naturally, country specific links are also very important to...
The SEO power of in-content (or “Wikipedia-style”) links may be up for debate but from theory, practice, and experience webmasters know that a link in...
A Geek’s Guide To Promoting Yourself and Your Online Business in 140 Characters or Less with Twitter is a new completely free eBook describing Twitter...
Back in March Hitwise published its UK search report on differences between plural and singular keyword forms echoed by multiple bloggers enthusiastically encouraging webmasters to...
An often discussed lately geo targeting and IP delivery poses another rather interesting question: how to deal with multi-language countries like Canada or Switzerland? IP...
Google Sitelinks will always intrigue and excite webmasters until they know exactly how to get them. Google’s official explanation is rather vague and never explains...
A while ago we published a post discussing how image hotlinking might be beneficial for your site. Naturally we collectively came to the final conclusion...
An SEJ Reader send in the following question : What’s a Google Sandbox? How long can it last for a brand new site? Is there...
Sending a (good) link request via email is one of the most powerful ways to build links. My good friend and experienced link builder Melanie...
I daily browse tens of webmaster forums and one recent tendency I couldn’t help noticing is the astonishing number of threads talking about sudden decrease...
Today I’ll be reviewing paid tools for a change (just because they have no free alternatives), so before I start let me give a short...
Registering a domain name is the first thing to do when starting a website. And yet even here we come across a very controversial issue:...
To some SEO questions there are no definitive answers unfortunately. Using absolute or relative URLs to interlink related site subpages is just such a question....
Many webmasters choose to buy already well-established domains that have a number of backlinks and can be easier (and faster) to promote. These might be:...
More and more webmasters become victims of hackers who put hidden links at their blogs. At Google Webmaster Groups I read daily approximately every tenth...
Anchor text is a major ranking factor – it is hard to manipulate (at least it is getting harder now after Google started its anti-paid-links...