Note: This is possibly my most controversial, yet gutsy, post as of yet: Google. The very name evokes the word search, and has been used as a substitute in sentences, such as “I Googled this” and “I Googled that.” Nothing can take that away from them – they earned their success for the most part. However, [...]
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Why YouTube Doesn’t Have SEO Friendly URLs, Lighttpd (Lighty) and What Google Has Done
Google is the well-known Search Engine giant out there. The company provides relevant search engine results to those seeking info. An SEO knows that to be placed on Google’s search results pages they need to optimize their web-pages for Google. One of the most crucial elements is in having an SEO-friendly URL. Enter YouTube. YouTube: [...]
New York – 5 Ways To Control Your Privacy On Google
New York – Like it or not, your relationship with Google is becoming a lot more intimate. The company recently expanded its ability to combine data from its various services to create a highly detailed profile on you. Google says it’s doing that to simplify its privacy policy and improve your experience on sites such [...]
Yahoo Site Explorer, Wherefore Hast Thou Gone? Backlinks Anyone?
Last month, as part of Yahoo’s transition to merging with Microsoft and Bing’s search engine, Yahoo Site Explorer was shut down. In Yahoo’s search blog, they said that for SEO one must now use Bing webmaster tools! Bummer! I say “bummer” for one reason: no more free backlinking analysis. In the past, it was easy [...]
Google Changes – Week of 7-22-2011
According to the SEO RoundTable, last week was big in terms of the list of recent changes with Google (thanks Barry Schwartz). Among which: Google had a huge bug that allowed anyone with a Webmaster Tools account to remove any site from Google’s index, Google has fixed it by the way. Google is issuing warnings [...]
SEO Friendly Content Management System – What Does WordPress Do So Well?
One of the Content Management Systems I highly recommend from both an ease-of-use and SEO-friendliness perspective is WordPress. Google somehow manages to love it and post articles within hours of posting. Question is, what is so special about WordPress? Why does Google love it more than most other websites and CMS systems? Depending on how you [...]
Google Page Rank Myth Debunked – What Does Google Page Rank REALLY mean?
There’s a lot of confusion as to what Google’s Page Rank means, and why on earth people are obsessed about it. Since the word “page” is in “Page Rank,” the assumption is that if the web page is SEO-friendly, then the page rank will go up. People think that their rankings on Google will go [...]
Link Building Analysis – 90% of SEO terms?
Recently, someone came to me and claimed something preposterous. He guaranteed that if you gave him a list of your search terms to be ranked, he would get you on 90% of the terms, and only then would you pay per month to stay ranked organically. If you didn’t pay, he did something to get [...]
3 Ways on how to Prevent Your Website from Being Seen on Search Engines
Most sites show how to ensure that your website is seen online. However, some, for whatever strange reason don’t want to be seen on search engines. I’ve therefore put together this parody. Here are some ways to ensure that your website is not seen on search engines at all: When including WordPress functionality on your [...]
Matt Cutts – WordCamp 2007 talk: Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers
By the way, if you enjoyed Matt Cutts’ “Straight from Google: What You Need to Know talk from WordCamp 2009,” you might also enjoy his “WordCamp 2007 talk: Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers.” For convenience, here’s the video below: And here are the slides from the 2007 WordCamp talk: Not everyone has seen this talk, [...]
Reality 101 Rantings
Some universities and colleges will hire someone in the working world that “made it” to give a lecture in the “real world.” From my personal experience, I didn’t find those too helpful from the ones I attended.
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