I recall reading somewhere that something like 20% of the searches in Google are for phrases that have never been searched for before. It is one thing to target and SEO a forum (or any website) for one or a... (Continue reading)
Google periodically exports the internal PR data that they update internally on a daily basis to the Google Toolbar for us to look at. The most recent dates of the export were approximately: 7 November 2011 5 August 2011 18... (Continue reading)
Ignore it….nuff said. For those that want a more detailed explanation: Google allow webmasters to search for sites that link to a web page (not a ‘site’) by the use of the link: operator (ie the backlinks). See this search... (Continue reading)
The Google Dance goes back to the good old days of search engine optimization. Google used to update PageRank (PR) and the search engine rankings (SERPs) on a monthly basis. It was a big event as the updates would roll... (Continue reading)
Building links (getting backlinks) is one of the more important ways to get a site indexed and ranked in the search engines. Directory and social bookmark submission is one of the ways to get some lower value links. I use... (Continue reading)
Basically an Alexa ranking is not important. Having a high or low Alexa ranking does not help a site one bit, unless you want to use it to impress people who are impressed by this sort of thing, but do... (Continue reading)
Link building is time consuming and can often feel unrewarding for the effort that is put in. It is still an important way to improve traffic to your forum and to help with the link popularity that is so important in... (Continue reading)
There is an old saying that we are all familiar with, that goes something like a little bit of knowledge is dangerous. This certainly goes for SEO, or search engine optimization. You only need to look around the Search Engine... (Continue reading)
One of the myths that come up from time to time is that Google will ban a site if it has more than a 100 links on a page or not crawl more than 100 links on a page. For... (Continue reading)
Google geotargets its search results. This means that search results vary from country to country and even from city to city. They do this so they can better serve the searcher (and remember the search engine is there to best... (Continue reading)