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Your Evil Twin: Identifying and Managing Duplicate Content Duplicate content can keep you out of the SERPs. A host of tools can help you identify and manage duplicate content.   |
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SEO Site Structure 101, Part 2 Search engines love sites that provide a great user experience. So as you consider your site structure please do not leave this out. You will reap great dividends by doing so. |
Search Engine Watch
August 25, 2009
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10 Common SEO Mistakes Especially in larger organizations, it's common that SEO doesn't get the credit it deserves for driving traffic to a Web site. Unfortunately, this can often lead to uninformed senior managers making decisions that are catastrophic from an SEO perspective. |
Search Engine Watch
September 23, 2008
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Who Audits the Auditor? There are some individuals and companies who will provide SEO audits. But some of these folks look at this as an opportunity for them to earn new business or referral checks. |
Search Engine Watch
November 10, 2009
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SEO Site Review: Beadsbug.com Mark offers tips for improving Web sites using basic search engine optimization tactics, including title tags, resolving duplicate content, link building, and much more. |
Search Engine Watch
April 28, 2009
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SEO Site Review: Time to Clean Up Home-Yard It's time for Mark's quarterly site review. Today, we'll look at a Web site that has so many issues that there's going to be something here for everyone. |
Search Engine Watch
November 4, 2008
Mark Jackson |
SEO Site Review: Custom Creations, Unlimited The author performs his quarterly SEO site review, and this time the subject promises to implement his recommendations. Like many Web sites, it isn't in bad shape from a SEO perspective, but it is a great example of the importance of the little things. |
Search Engine Watch
December 22, 2008
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SEO Site Structure 101, Part 1 Understanding why site structure is important for natural SEO. |
Search Engine Watch
September 15, 2009
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Redesigning Your Web Site? Don't Neglect SEO When a company redesigns their site, it's usually for non-SEO reasons. But ignoring SEO issues during a redesign would be a big mistake. Here are some common mistakes that can happen when you're redesigning your Web site. |
Search Engine Watch
August 7, 2010
Jonathan Allen |
NHLPA Starts SEO From Scratch To Up It's Game on Google How-to guide: Optimizing your website for search engines, using the NHLPA.com as a live, working example. |
Search Engine Watch
December 19, 2007
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Search Engine Visibility and Site Crawlability, Part 1 This is the first of two articles outlining and explaining the SEO problems two experts identified with dynamic Web sites and solutions. |
Search Engine Watch
January 12, 2011
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Stop Making the 6 Biggest SEO Mistakes Have you fallen victim to these search engine optimization pitfalls in the past? If so, it's time to correct them. Now. |
Search Engine Watch
January 27, 2009
Mark Jackson |
SEO Web Site Review: Water Filter Corner This Web site recently launched and has several elements that need to be corrected to lay a sound foundation for future SEO success. |
Search Engine Watch
February 28, 2011
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The Canonical Tag Can Save You from the Duplicate Content Monster How the very useful rel="canonical" tag solves many common SEO problems that exist around duplicate content issues. |
Search Engine Watch
December 2, 2010
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Get Your SEO Firm Involved Before the Redesign Help swing internal debates and remove the possibility of additional development work after the launch by getting a sound SEO strategy in place early. |
Search Engine Watch
February 25, 2009
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Maintaining an SEO Log At its root, SEO is an inexact science. It's a world where we follow best practices and use our best judgment to make decisions on what to do next. |
Search Engine Watch
September 16, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Hosting Issues and SEO When it comes to server issues, many of us would rather not get into the down-and-dirty details. But knowing the basics of server response codes - and when to use them correctly - is critical for any competitive Webmaster or search marketer. |
Search Engine Watch
September 23, 2008
Aaron Shear |
Worried About the Economy? Why Not Try SEO? Often times, a simple rewrite of your URL structure can be enough to move your site into a position to be indexed by the search engines. |
Search Engine Watch
August 26, 2008
Mark Jackson |
SEO Success -- Guess What...Content Works! Fixing problems and implementing some search engine-friendly practices can have an immediate effect on a site's search engine rankings. But no search engine optimization technique works better than creating quality content. |
Search Engine Watch
January 2, 2008
Herndon Hasty |
SEO for President The sites of major candidates and minor players on both sides of the aisle show glaring holes in search strategy. |
Search Engine Watch
March 29, 2010
Josh McCoy |
SEO With a Skeleton Crew Crunched for resources? Here are some simple search engine optimization tactics for those faced with limited staff or budget. |
Search Engine Watch
November 25, 2008
Carrie Hill |
25 Design Best Practices for Your Small Business Web Site Whether you plan to hire a designer or figure it out for yourself, there are definitely some best practices you should follow when designing your Web site. |
Search Engine Watch
May 10, 2006
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Curbing SEOs Who've Gone Wild When it comes to optimizing your website for search engines, when is "enough" enough? And why is overoptimization a problem? |
Search Engine Watch
May 20, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Don't Hire a Butcher to do a Baker's Job - Part 2 If SEOs are bakers, then Web site designers are the butchers of the search engine world. Here are 13 questions customers need to ask their butchers. |
Search Engine Watch
June 8, 2010
Adam Audette |
Crawl, Index, Rank, Repeat: A Tactical SEO Framework (Part 2) A framework for SEO strategy that captures the three primary elements of search engine optimization. Part two in a three-part series. |
AFP eWire
October 20, 2008
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Online Fundraising: Is Your Website Google-friendly? If you're trying to figure out what sure-fire steps you can take to bolster your fundraising efforts in the coming weeks and months, have you considered search engine optimization? |
Search Engine Watch
June 23, 2009
Mark Jackson |
Top Signs Your Site Isn't Ready for Prime Time Many things have changed in the last few years, but the real foundation for SEO success hasn't changed much at all. Before you put time and effort into the SEO flavor of the day, try the tried and true SEO basics in this two-part series. |
Search Engine Watch
September 13, 2010
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Don't Let Small Disconnects Lead to SEO Disaster When SEOs and webmasters aren't on the same page, it can lead to listings dropping off search engine result pages. Here's how to avoid three common SEO blunders. |
Search Engine Watch
April 25, 2011
Ray "Catfish" Comstock |
3 Use Cases for SEO Tools If you want to improve your SEO campaign, especially if you have a large website, it may be worth your time to investigate what modern SEO tools can do to make you more efficient and help you attain better results. |
Search Engine Watch
August 12, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Proper SEO and the Robots.txt File By taking a good look at your Web site's robots.txt file and making sure that the syntax is set up correctly, you can avoid some search engine ranking problems. |
Search Engine Watch
September 24, 2008
Eric Enge |
Use Care When Choosing an SEO Agency It's important to beware of instant SEO experts who know a few things about what's going on, but don't get the whole picture. Don't hire an SEO or begin SEO work on your own without validating that it's the right course of action. |
Searcher
November 2011
Rushton & Funke |
The Goodness in the Evil of SEO - Why Search Engine Optimization Matters to Information Professionals Some information professionals view SEO with some reservation or even actual contempt due to the rampant SEO techniques that reduce the quality of search results by driving traffic to sites that take advantage of trending searches rather than useful information. |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2009
Carrie Hill |
Users and Search Engines Want the Same Things Optimizing your site for users is just as important as optimizing your site for search engines. While those are two very different things, you can often serve both audiences by being smart with your Web site development. |
Search Engine Watch
April 13, 2010
Adam Audette |
Want Big SEO Results? You Need Big SEO Ideas If you want your search engine optimization campaigns to produce big results, optimizing title tags and meta data isn't enough. You need thought leadership that can generate a strategic view of SEO and help put it into action. |
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February 2010
Erin Weinger |
What You Don't Know About SEO It's essential to understand SEO before you spend thousands hiring consultants you may not even need. |
Search Engine Watch
November 4, 2010
Adam Audette |
The Art and Science of SEO Site Audits SEO audits are essential. Here are tips on how to get started with your own technical SEO audits, diagnosing on-page and off-page issues that could be hurting your organic rankings, plus some recommended tools. |
Search Engine Watch
April 20, 2009
Ron Jones |
SEO Tools 101, Part 1 Getting started in SEO can be overwhelming, but your job can be made easier with the right tools. Here's an introduction to some of the keyword tools, site-grading tools and linking tools that will give you an edge in your search engine optimization efforts. |
Search Engine Watch
February 17, 2009
Mark Jackson |
Ignorance: The Trouble with People Who Claim SEO is Snake Oil A response to a recent article claiming that SEO doesn't work, and that its practitioners are a bunch of snake oil salesmen. |
Search Engine Watch
August 28, 2009
Chris Boggs |
Common SEO Problems of E-commerce Sites All sites must address technical infrastructure, content and linking strategies. For large e-commerce sites, some problems in these areas are magnified due to the size and complexity of their sites. |
Entrepreneur
June 2010
Mikal E. Belicove |
Here's Looking at You Make your site a better search engine target by optimizing your company's images. |
Search Engine Watch
October 1, 2010
Rob Chant |
Improve Your SMB Site with These 2 Basic SEO Metrics Unique search landing pages and unique keyword visits are two metrics that are directly actionable for small businesses, no matter what your level of SEO expertise. |
Search Engine Watch
January 4, 2010
Ron Jones |
Duplicate Content 101 What duplicate content is, how search engines deal with it, and how to avoid the pitfalls. |
Search Engine Watch
August 13, 2010
Nichola Stott |
Internal Link Housekeeping To get the best from your internal link strategy, it's a good idea to perform regular housekeeping checks looking at these three areas. |
Search Engine Watch
July 1, 2008
Mark Jackson |
SEO Quarterly Web Site Review: Villas of Distinction This travel site is nice, but with just a little bit of attention to some details, it could generate a lot more organic search engine traffic. |
Search Engine Watch
January 20, 2011
P.J. Fusco |
Enterprise SEO: 3 Secrets to Scalable Success in 2011 Enterprises should allocate the bulk of their SEO budgets this year on realigning three core areas: CMS optimization, site speed, and social media marketing. |
Search Engine Watch
September 30, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Tin Foil Hat? I Have Mine On When Google advises against URL rewriting in their Webmaster Central blog, is there an ulterior motive? |
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Danny Sullivan |
Avoid the Void: Quick and Easy Site Submission Strategies "If I build it, they will come."
This is one of the worst assumptions a Webmaster can make. No one will come unless you also promote your Web site, and search engines are one of the most important places to do this.... |
Search Engine Watch
October 13, 2009
Mark Jackson |
Addressing the 'O' in Search Engine Optimization Tips for improving optimization efforts. |
Search Engine Watch
July 7, 2009
Mark Jackson |
Top Signs Your Site Isn't Ready for Prime Time, Part 2 We've already looked at three of the common failings of Web sites for "newbies" who are trying to figure out SEO. Now let's look the title tag, domain age, and link building to see if your Web site is ready for prime time. |
Search Engine Watch
July 19, 2010
Josh McCoy |
SEO, the SERPs, and Your First Impression First impressions aren't just for first dates anymore. Taking advantage of free tools, smart thinking, and your visitor's best interests can be key to converting visitors into customers. |
