How Much Is a Top Level Domain SEO Worth?
Registering a domain name is the first thing to do when starting a website. And yet even here we come across a very controversial issue:...
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SEO & Internal Interlinking: Relative vs Absolute URLs
To some SEO questions there are no definitive answers unfortunately. Using absolute or relative URLs to interlink related site subpages is just such a question....
Run a Domain Name Background Check Before Buying
Many webmasters choose to buy already well-established domains that have a number of backlinks and can be easier (and faster) to promote. These might be:...
Google Seems Good Sometimes : Helping Hacked Sites
More and more webmasters become victims of hackers who put hidden links at their blogs. At Google Webmaster Groups I read daily approximately every tenth...
How to Explore Backlinks Anchor Text
Anchor text is a major ranking factor – it is hard to manipulate (at least it is getting harder now after Google started its anti-paid-links...
Insane SEO: Blocking Robots.txt from Being Indexed
An amusing thread was taking place over at WebmasterWorld discussing a way to prevent Google from ranking Robots.txt file in SERPs. Google currently indexes 62,100...
Advanced Link: Operator to Explore Your Competitor’s Backlinks
I for one do backlink research almost daily. Why is that so essential in SEO to know how to properly analyze backlinks? It educates. The...
Squeeze the Most Juice Out of Your Social Media Profile
A while ago I posted a widely discussed article on indirect promotion on how to grow your site power by building links to pages linking...
What’s Most Effective for Geo Targeting?
We do know that for geo targeting in Google we definitely need: A country code top-level domain (ccTLD); Country specific server location; Setting Geo Targeting...
How Might the Machine Understand Text Relevance
What’s exactly relevance? Google finds the following explanation of the term: Relevance describes how closely the contents of an information source match the topics. [source]...
Handling Your 404 Page Properly
We don’t know for sure if Google pays much attention to the site 404 pages but it does show them within Webmaster Tools report as...
Black Hat SEO Lessons: Indirect Promotion
I’ve always said that instead of getting angry with black hat SEOs, we should learn from them. Working and often succeeding in really competitive verticals,...
8+ Ways to Evaluate a Page (Domain Independent)
Besides the overall domain strength, there are quite a number of ways to evaluate a site page power. Even if that’s not your site and...
Do You Report Your Competitors?
By profession we, SEOs, always have to compete. That’s an integral part of our daily routine: we come to work and check how our sites...
Making Sure Your Content Looks Good to Google
Very often if you have some issues with Google ranking your site, you should search for problems with your own site (instead of rushing to...
Looking for ‘Bad Guys’ – Discovering Networks of Sites
Creating networks of (interlinked) sites is a widespread tactic of PageRank and ranking manipulation. To own a lot of websites is perfectly OK but to...
How to Analyze Page Keyword Prominence
While keyword density is really something SEOs should really stop paying attention to, keyword prominence is a concept that still should be analyzed and evaluated....
How to Analyze your Site with Del.icio.us
Social bookmarking is not only a nice way to get more traffic and links. That’s a most effective method to explore what people think about...
Linking Out Loud… but with Caution
A while ago I posted a natural SEO piece talking about reciprocal linking and interlinking that was criticized for giving insufficient information on linking out...
Backlink Checkers that Actually Help
What do I usually want to see in a good tool? Contrary to what you might think, I never expect a tool to do part...
The Future of Video Search – Viewdle
Viewdle technology is nothing new – in fact it was founded in 2006 but the real buzz started in 2007 after the company presentation at...
Exploring Your Visitors’ Behavior with Analytics & Tools
Where do my visitors land? Google Analytics Top Landing Pages and Navigation Summary: A common landing page is the one that has a high percentage...
5 Useful Social Bookmarking FireFox Extensions
1. StumbleUpon toolbar (for registered SU users). Most useful features: review, vote for and tag any page you visit; search for pages submitted by your...
2 Ways to Get Intimate with Blog Readers
Like we all know, blogging is not only (or even not at all) about a blogger talking to his readers; it is primarily about communicating...
How to Analyze the Internal Power of Your Website
Obviously there are plenty of occasions where you would want to analyze your (or your competitor’s) internal pages strength. Most often these include: you want...
Natural SEO : Reciprocal Linking and Interlinking
This is my second natural SEO post attempting to foster FUD-free approach to search engine optimization. This time it’s about two most overused (but still...
Niche Marketing and Link Building Resources
The best things about niche link building is that it is (1) highly effective, (2) looks natural, and (3) lets you find targeted audience and...
How To Compare Results on Different Search Engines
While it remains unclear how many major search engines we will end up with, it is still wise to track and compare your (and your...
How to Organize Your Keyword Modifiers to Create Long Tail Strategy
What is a keyword modifier? A modifier is a word that in combination with your core keyword creates your long tail strategy (definition by Dan...
Natural SEO FAQ – Linking In And Out
I plan on starting the short new series at SEJ explaining most dubious and controversial SEO questions from the keep-things-natural point of view. If you...