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Div ID=”Header” Different SEO Tactics

August 29th, 2008 by Ann Smarty | 14 Comments

It is quite natural a header div is one of the most important on-page elements and thus it is in constant focus of SEOs’ attention:

it is a sitewide element - it “interlinks” / unites all site subpages (and thus is one of the most important components of your site internal architecture);
it is the most prominent […]

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How to File a Google Reconsideration Request

August 28th, 2008 by Ann Smarty | 7 Comments

Filing Google reconsideration request is the last resort for webmasters to recover their penalized sites. There are no guarantees it will help and hence plenty of rumors and speculations exist as to how it should be filed and what to expect.
1. Don’t rush to submit a reconsideration request - if you haven’t done anything wrong, […]

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5 Tools to Visualize Page Outlinking Tactics

August 27th, 2008 by Ann Smarty | 15 Comments

I love playing with visualizing tools because they allow to see what you might have missed exploring a table or a graph. This time I have compiled the list of tools that show various outlinking tactics and characteristics.
1. SearchStatus or SEOquake FireFox extensions both visualize on-page nofollow attribute usage by highlighting (or striking through) links […]

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Get Alerted Once Any Page Is Changed

August 26th, 2008 by Ann Smarty | 10 Comments

Being automatically updates once a page is changed opens up a wealth of (probably missed) opportunities:

Make sure your own page is save from hackers’ attack: receive email alerts once a hacker adds any illegitimate links or text on your page;
Keep track of new comments (an alternative to services like Co.mments which by the way doesn’t […]

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How to Get Google to Index Your Site Deeper

August 25th, 2008 by Ann Smarty | 26 Comments

Very often, especially with huge dynamically driven or user-generated websites, you might feel you have some indexing problems, i.e. Google doesn’t seem to dig your site as deep as you want it to. The remedies to this may vary but here are some essential basics you might want to look into

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Yahoo Link: Operator Issues and Possible Remedies

August 25th, 2008 by Ann Smarty | 10 Comments

Yahoo link: operator (and URL analysis in Yahoo! SiteExplorer) is the best method currently at our disposal to conduct backlink analysis and to evaluate either your own or your competitors’ link building tactics. Yet the tool is not perfect. Some essential tool drawbacks (many of them covered already at SEOmoz) we come across include:

Yahoo! link: […]

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3 Tools to Better Understand Search Results

August 21st, 2008 by Ann Smarty | 3 Comments

The tools I am listing today are not for daily use. I personally play with them once in a while if I want to get a really profound understanding of (top ten) search results.
1. Map out how Google and Yahoo search results are linked to each other: Yahoo vs. Google tool

identify “authority” sites that do […]

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Google Penalties : Manual vs Algorithmic

August 20th, 2008 by Ann Smarty | 4 Comments

If you need to keep track of all latest news, rumors and (educated) theories behind Google penalties, you should frequent WebmasterWorld forum of course.
I do not encourage you to trust everything you read there as this will most likely make you paranoid (you might want to go ahead and see the poll results to […]

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3 Domain Typo Generators

August 19th, 2008 by Ann Smarty | 5 Comments

Last week Rand posted a brilliant linkbuilding tip that involved taking SEO advantage of mistyped/ misspelled domains. Putting aside black / white hat discussion, I am giving the list of domain typo generators for your advantage:
1. DomainTools Domain Typo Generator offers a variety of options:

“TLD view” shows the list of domain typos and a top […]

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How to Analyze a Page HTML Semantic Structure

August 19th, 2008 by Ann Smarty | 13 Comments

H1 - H6 elements “briefly describe the topic of the section they introduce“. They form a page HTML semantic structure that can “be used by user agents, for example, to construct a table of contents for a document automatically“.
Heading tags will not dramatically effect the page rankings, of course, but the correct usage of the […]

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