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 … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
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: … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]