What is a robots.txt file? A robots.txt is a file placed on your server to tell the various search engine spiders not to crawl or index certain sections or pages of your website. You can use the robots.txt file to prevent indexing by spiders totally, prevent certain areas of your website from being indexed or [...]
In study after study, 100 percent of journalists – 100 percent – say they use the web to research stories. And something like 80-90 percent of journos writing about businesses visit company websites to dig for information. While there (according to my own approximate calculations), about half are stopped dead in their tracks because companies [...]
Remember that you can show up on the first page of Google for all of your important keywords, but yet – NEVER convert that into sales. If you can’t figure out why, perhaps you need to take a serious, impartial review of your website design. Remember what you do for a living – are you [...]
1. Ask for an example of a problem that a previous client had (as it relates to SEO), how they came up with a solution(s) to try, how they tested the results and what action items came out of the test.2. Ask how much time they spend online in chatrooms and forums (as they relate [...]
Bing has announced its new search features for the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics slated to begin this Friday in Vancouver. The two amazing search features Instant Answers and Visual Galleries on Bing will provide you with all the information on these Winter Olympic Games.On its official search blog, Bing posted that the NBC Universal has [...]
As a professional that has hired and fired my fair share of people, this article was very insightful. We are getting ready to hire two more people for our team and I will be using these guidelines. Thanks for the great article!Hiring Fail – The hard lessons learned hiring & firing over 30 Search Professionals [...]
This article is from one my favorite bloggers, Ann Smarty.I am sure Googlers should be enjoying this: hardly can they say a word, there follows a wealth of guessed and speculations. This time Matt Cutts is said to have mentioned that their 200 variables in Google algorithm and already plenty of people started looking for [...]
n this post, I’m going to try tackling a lot of the recent trends we’ve been observing from the engines and talk about my personal perception of what’s to come over the next 12 months. SEOmoz | 8 Predictions for SEO in 2010
Google brought translation features to many of our products in 2009, including Google Docs and Gmail and we’re happy to add one more before the New Year. To make it easier for people around the globe to read the site you created with Google Sites, we’ve integrated with the Google Translate Element. Now, whenever someone [...]
Just a little SEO Christmas fun…Merry ChristmasThe SEO Christmas Tree
Thursday, January 13, 2011
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