To Link or Not to Link or How to Link – A SEO Dillema

Originally posted in 2006 and updated for 2008. Look around you, the SEO industry is routinely at least 6-12 months behind search engine trends be it good or bad. There is always considerable discussion, in an effort to stay one step ahead of the competition,...

Re-Check Your Text – Special Characters Affect SEO

We posted this in 2006, almost exactly two years ago. It’s a chance for us to re-visit the SEO trends of the past and determine what changes in the industry have taken place since. Before one of the web sites we used to work on had a regular news feed. Searching...

When Geolocation of IP Doesn’t Go Deep Enough

Varying Results for Geolocation of IP Tools Case: I personally had a web site that needed Canadian web hosting so I could leverage the web site to an exclusively Canadian audience. I went with a host that touted everything Canadian. Turns out when I checked a month...

Adwords Quality Score Changing for Longtail

Longtail Strategies Get a Leg Up Some of our most popular articles at Distinct SEO are the long-tail and Adwords articles that show folks how to apply some long-tail strategies to PPC campaigns. Thankfully, the Google Adwords folks are changing the quality score,...

Non-Profit Organizations and SEO

One of the things nonprofit organizations need to consider just to stay alive is how to use every last donated dollar to its maximum. Churches to other non-profit organizations are all faced with operating on volunteer hours and limited budgets. Regardless of the...

Rapid Fire: The Real Value of .edu and .gov Links

There has been increased speculation regarding the value of attaining quality .edu or .gov links. Many SEO’s and webmasters, largely swayed by the dreaded ‘visible PR monster’, swear that acquiring one way links from domains with .edu or .gov will...

Rapid Fire: The Value of Press Releases to SEO

Someone asked the following question regarding the value of press releases: I am looking for some dofollow press release services that are: a) reasonably priced b) allow links in text c) feature in google news (but not be all and end all) The Value of Press Releases...

Rapid Fire: Reciprocal Linking Dead?

The age old questions, to reciprocal link or not to reciprocal link. Here is a brief outline of what reciprocal linking is if you’re unfamiliar. Nowadays people are asking a different question: Can I Safely Reciprocal Link? The answer is obvious, of course you...

Rapid Fire: Internal Linking Using Keywords?

Another edition of Rapid Fire: where we answer some regularly asked SEO questions in quick succession :). Many users are wondering (and as with many SEO questions there are multiple answers) what to do about internal links. The reason for the confusion is because of...

Rapid Fire: SEO Benefits to Article Marketing (ezines)

The second installment to our ‘rapid fire seo’ questions where we’ll be answering questions in rapid succession. (Also means a bit less detail than normal.) Q: What ezines (article submission web sites) should I use? This question assumes something...