From the category archives:
I see this question alot:
Is .com better for SEO?
The short and sweet of it is NO. But of course there’s much more to learn!
Top-Level Domains
A Top-Level Domain (TLD) is the part of any URL that follows the domain name. For example, the common TLDs are com, net, org, gov, and edu. Every once in a [...]
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I have no clue what happened, but two days ago Yahoo! and MSN started crawling my site like crazy. I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary but it seems like something clicked on my site. So its been like this for about two days; I’ll see how long it lasts…and hopefully Google will join [...]
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Struggling to beat out your competitors on a national scale is tough to do - taking them on locally ain’t so tough!
You just have to know what to do.
Optimizing your content, but especially the markup of your page, is crucial to succeeding in dominating your local search results.
GeoRSS
Adding semantics to your page puts you leaps [...]
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Accessibility Checker
Make sure your page validates for handicapped users and increase your site usability while ensuring the use of standard SEO practices.
Backlink Analyzer
Wondering what your inbound links’ anchor text is?
Check Server Headers
Make sure your pages are returning the correct headers (i.e. 200, 301, 302, 404, etc.)
Code to Text Ratio
The higher your code to text ratio [...]
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Anyone can figure out how often bots visit their site by sifting through their log files everyday and organizing each bot and checking on the timespan between crawling, etc.
But who wants to do that?
Patrick Altoft created the Crawl Rate Tracker for WordPress. It does the grunt work to 1) visually display the rate at which [...]
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As I wrote last week, I was nearly SEMPO Certified.
The tests are over with and I am now a SEMPO Certified, Dallas SEO. Take a look at the right hand column >>>
As I said in that post last week I’d write an in depth post on SEO tips. Here’s only one of many more to [...]
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In order to be an SEO expert you have to prove yourself, something I’m still humbly working at. But in my pursuit to become the Dallas SEO guru, I’ve been given a great opportunity to become SEMPO certified.
Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) Mission: SEMPO is a global non-profit organization serving the search engine marketing [...]
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Ever wanted to add rel=”nofollow” to an entire div? Me too.
Say, for instance, you duplicated your navigation in your footer and you want to nofollow the links, instead of adding a rel=”nofollow” attribute to every link, it would make much more sense to add it to the containing div. This wouldn’t hide content and prevent [...]
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