Interesting Bits about Long-Tail and Meta Keywords

It’s unusual I post stuff about other SEO bloggers, but I should do it more. Two notable things have caught my eye with a new blog I found from StoneTemple Consulting. Firstly, Google revealed that between 20-25% of all searches per day are new to Google. That...

SEO Consultation Not for Everybody?

I recently did an interview for a provincial business magazine (more details later if it comes out), and one of the questions highlighted was, “I’m the small business coming into your office that knows nothing about SEO, what are you going to tell...

Google Updates Links Command

For as long as I’ve been involved in SEO, the major search engines have opted for varying degrees of disclosure when it came to displaying the number of incoming links to a particular domain. By typing in link:yourwebsite.com in the search field you were able to...

Google Indexes Your Session ID’s – Proper Links

Don’t use “&id=” as a parameter in your URLs, as we don’t include these pages in our index. That was the old school Google Webmaster guidelines….that was then, this is now [wasn’t that a TV dinner commercial?]. Today, Google...