Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘SEO’

Clarifications On Duplicate Content By Google

There were some excellent potential solutions to duplicate content discussed at the Duplicate content summit at SMX Advanced. I also learned a couple important points:

Duplicate content doesn’t cause your site to be penalized. If duplicate pages are detected, one version will be returned in the search results to ensure variety for searchers.
Duplicate content doesn’t cause [...]

Where Do You Begin If You Think You’ve Been Penalized By Google?

Rand Fishkin has posted an excellent flow chart for determining how to handle a Google penalty.
Speaking of Google penalties, Google webmaster tools just added a form to report paid links.

How Google Universal Search Will Steal Your Top Listings

Google is beginning to grab a part of the top 10 search results for themselves. So far, they’ve been adding the following to page one of your search queries:

SEO Automation: How To Track Multiple Search Engine Keyword Rankings Instantly

With a little help from Dave Taylor, author of a number of cool tech books, including the book that inspired this time-saving tip, Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, I was able to save myself a tremendous amount of time and energy. Time that I used to spend doing mind-numbing repetitive data entry can now be used [...]

Duplicate Content And The Problogger Group Writing Project

I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t mention the SEO consequences of duplicating the entire list from Darren Rowse’s Group Writing Project.
It’s never a good idea to duplicate someone else’s content on your own blog. You now have duplicate content issues and can very easily send your page into the Google supplemental index, [...]

Top 10 Twitter DOs and DON’Ts

You’ve got a blog. You’ve got email, SMS, and IM. These are great tools for communication. Email and text messaging are two-way conversations. Blogging is mostly a one-to-many conversation. But what about something in-between? Twitter is part micro-blog, part instant message, and can fill the need for short public and personal broadcasts.
If you’ve been thinking [...]

Find Related Keywords Using Google’s Define Command

Google recently added a new feature to the define: search command. A query like define:marketing will bring back a list of related keywords like the following:
direct marketing
marketing plan
marketing mix
marketing research
search engine marketing
viral marketing
affiliate marketing
internet marketing
permission marketing
database marketing
Not only is this a great tool for generating lists of related keywords to implement in your search engine [...]

SEO For Blogs

Darren Rowse has an excellent tutorial on how to optimize your blog for search engines. I’ll be elaborating on SEO for blogs in the future but I encourage you to give his post a good read.

Buddha’s SEO

From Buddha’s SEO:
The essence of SEO is suffering
All traffic is transitory
There is a rank beyond page rank
No ban is permanent – all pages get reborn

Your Music Will Sell In Japan?

I have been speaking with a business friend of mine, Greg Percifield. In case you don’t know him, he’s the owner of Music Forte Inc. We were discussing various CD distribution companies, and the problems that existed in that field of the music business. We both concluded that the rate of actual distribution is very [...]