The Skinny on Meta Keywords

Originally posted August 30, 2006, and updated today. This article is a brief series on individual meta tags and their impact on SEO, today’s feature, the meta keyword tag. The year is 2004, smart SEOs noted the importance of keywords and also enjoyed the use...

Distinct SEO Turns 1!

Happy Belated Birthday Distinct SEO :P Well we’ve managed to stick around the roller coaster SEO world for a year now! As of August 15, 2007, we officially turned one year old! I know I know, I’m 3 weeks late on the announcement, but we’ve been busy...

Distinct SEO Web Review – SEO Review

Looking for a quick and inexpensive but highly valuable method of identifying the key areas your site lacks in on-page search optimization? Do you want to ensure your current SEO consultant has included all the necessary changes and hasn’t missed something...

Trying to Figure NoFollow – Impact on SEO

How Does Google Treat Nofollow? In January 2006 Google went widespread with the Nofollow tag designed to give the impression (to search engines that respect it), ‘I do not vouch for this link’. All outgoing links now added the following to ensure they...

Case Study: Google LSI or More Weight Given to Webpage Names?

Google Latent Semantic Indexing Caught in Action or Something Else? Browsing through my logs the other day I checked out a random visitor who landed on our Distinct SEO Web Review page. Nothing to shabby, however, the keyword used to hit the page was interesting. Our...

New Webmaster and SEO Tools from Google

High Rankings is reporting a number of new tools and updates on Google’s approach to search. Some interesting finds include: Google’s love of PageRank Comments on Flash Use of Sitemaps and Webmaster’s console and finally, a new meta tag called:...

How Far Does Google’s Reach Go?

Some interesting announcements by Google, coupled with a foray I’ve been having with a Dmoz editor, has brought a number of privacy questions to light regarding the internet giant. For example, Feedburner is now offering all sorts of free tools that used to be...

Adwords Impression Share Improves Keyword Research

Google has released another metric in their Adwords console to help advertisers understand the overall size of particular keyword markets. https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=52760 A brief description here: Search Engine Journal. This will have a...

Top Reasons Why Dmoz is Junk and Wikipedia Rules

Lately Google has done a good job reducing the value of incoming web links coming from less than stellar locations. This would include most ezine article web sites, web directories, and similar sites. Some SEO’s still argue that ‘high quality’ or...