Rapid Fire: SEO Questions Answered

I’ve been posting a bit more lately on a few SEO forums and figured, “why don’t I post some of my own content on my own web site”. Baring I don’t mean copy and paste, but I was answering some pretty basic but repetitive questions so I...

Check Your WebStats – Unused Competitive Advantage

We’ve posted some articles on long-tail and on the commercial tool used to measure the long tail. As I’ve said before the Hit Tail program (script) merely measures the existing traffic that is coming to your site, it’s not the holy grail of keywords,...

Long-Tail Criticisms – Applications for SEO

The phrase The Long Tail was popularized by Chris Anderson in Wired magazine in 2004. The statistical model with the cool name is primarily used to describe marketing models seen primarily in large firms like Amazon.com, Ebay, or Netflix. Rather than discussing the...

The Skinny On Meta Description Tags

This is an article originally posted in September of 2006. We’ve updated it some and posted it for your review. What was once a useful component to help increase rank has been reduced to a blurb from the past. Some SEOs claimed to have excluded meta description...

Page Load Time Now Part of Google Quality Score?

It is now fact that Google Adwords will give your landing page a lower quality score if it takes forever to load. This was discussed at Webmaster World and Search Engine Watch. My question, when will Google search implement the same test on their trust/quality scores...

Google Analytics Losing It’s Luster

Greywolf has made his usual cynical/pragmatic take on the recent Google Analytics announcement (check the update when you log into your Analytics account.) Basically Google is saying you can share your data with other Google tools. That’s great! you can benefit...

How Not to Run an Election Online

Wildrose Alliance Party Makes Rookie Mistake Last week we blogged about how big name companies, even media and web outlets, do not employ even the basics of SEO. This week, we want to show you why having basic knowledge of web servers will save you brutal...

How Big Web Sites Miss Basic SEO – Sportsnet.ca

I’m always shocked to note how large web sites don’t invest in basic SEO. Seriously, there’s a massive market to be had if a slick and slimy SEO and convince big web sites they can capitalise on some very basic SEO tactics. Case in point? Canadian...

How Fast Meta Scrapers Will Register Domains

I don’t really know what to call them but the whois data reads, “MetaPredict” as the registrant. But first, some context. I’ve been developing, or rather, coding a new design for a web site I own as a hobby. Basically I’m using an old...

Top 10 SEO Strategies or Tactics That Deserve a Paddling

Have you seen that Simpson’s episode where Jasper stands at the front of the class laying out the ground rules while nursing an old school butt paddle? If you’ve never seen this episode or can’t recall it by memory then quite frankly friend, you...