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Google Wonder Wheel Keyword Tool
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Ok let’s face it, SEO and most types of Internet Marketing is like 95% about keywords. There’s a ton of free and paid keyword tools out there that I’m sure you use, from the Micro Niche Finder Keyword Tool, to the totally free Google Keyword Tool and a dozen in between. But […]
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SEO – How To Learn SEO Correctly For Free
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! I talked yesterday about the difficulty finding legit SEO advice, and how it’s hard to know just who to trust in the land of SEO gurudom. Today I want to expand on that and talk about what to do if you are an absolute beginner in SEO. How can you learn SEO […]
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H1 – H4 tags useless for SEO!
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Yesterday (10/22/09) SEOMOZ.org came out with a massive glut of some pretty exciting and priceless data garnered from their Linkscape web index, their own index of over 40 billion web sites. I studied economics at one of the better private colleges in the U.S. which means I’ve got a fairly overblown self-important […]
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I should do WHAT with my SEO?!
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! In the world of SEO, there’s a lot of misinformation. Everyone seems to have their own little secret for ranking well at the search engines. There’s your everyday “white hat” SEO who follows the rules and plays nice. There’s your “black hat” SEO who tries to trick the search engines and gain […]
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New First Link Checker Tool, Free!
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! There’s a theory floating around, I think Rand over at seomoz first came up with it, that says Google only considers the relevancy of the anchor text of the first link to a given web page that’s listed ON a web page. Or to put it in slightly more understandable terms….say I’ve […]
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Beginners Quick-Start Guide To SEO
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Say you’re new to seo and you’ve got a web site and you want to drive traffic to your site from the search engines. Where do you start? Well, I would recommend you subscribe for free to MarketingFool.com and download my free 50-page Beginner’s guide to SEO. But if you want the […]
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Yahoo Discontinues Meta Keyword Tag..or Does It?
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! There’s one ongoing debate in the world of SEO that never seems to go away. Meta Keyword tag…do they or don’t they use it?! The “they” is, of course, the search engines. Google has long since stopped indexing the Meta Keyword tag (or maybe never did to begin with) and Bing doesn’t […]
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Naming Web Pages For Better SEO Ranking
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Today’s quick tip is about web page naming conventions. So you’ve got a web site or a blog where you regularly publish content about whatever it is that your web site deals with. You may be missing out on some serious SEO juice if you don’t name your web pages correctly. First […]
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XML Sitemap vs HTML Sitemap, which is better for Search Engine Optimization?
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Sitemaps….oh sitemaps…how we love you. You make it easy for Google to find everything that our web site has to offer. You make Google happy…and when Google’s happy, we’re happy….very happy. Since Google came up with the whole XML sitemap scheme several years ago, I’ve assumed that in the world of Sitemaps, […]
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Meta Description – What’s the use!
Posted by John Elder
Hello good people! Yesterday I talked about the Keywords Meta Tag, today I want to talk about a meta tag that’s actually useful….the Description Meta tag. The Description Meta Tag goes between your HTML document’s <head> and </head> tag and will generally look like this: <head> <meta name=”description” content=”This is the description of my web […]
