Are you eating poison?
The most important thing in SEO is current experience. With that said, we have discovered the most likely reason some companies have fallen in rankings since January, and are now experimenting with a cure.
Have you got a good SEO doctor? Maybe it’s time to call one?
“Web” alerts will become “Everything” alerts
Marcel Gordon, Product Manager of Google Alerts, sends an email as we’re walking out the door today letting us know that our trusty web alerts are changing.
You may receive more results after this change. If you find that you are getting too many results, you can change the “How often” setting to “once a day” or “once a week.” You can also change your search query. You can do this on the alerts management page (www.google.com/alerts/manage), or by removing the alert using the link at the bottom of each alert email and creating it again with different settings.
Interestingly enough, I’d bet that the reason they predict that this change will continue to serve the same results, or increase is because their results contain many more types of information, videos, forum/blog threads, news results, local business results, maps and, of course, web pages. The next step may indeed be to send videos and maps in the alerts themselves.
Preliminary Online SEO Analysis Tool
Is there any online tool to get website seo preliminary report?
– Hareesh M. M / Kerala, India
I suggest www.WebsiteGrader.com.
This will give you a quick overview of the vital statistics for a given website.
Effective and Affordable Link Building
Does anyone know a good and reasonable priced Link Building company? (SEO)
- Roy P. 27 / M / Tel Aviv, Israel
Hi Roy,
I’d introduce myself and my company for this service. We can do large packages or small groups, reciprocal links only. We also hire out one-way linking from other firms, but reciprocal linking we do in house because of the relationship development with new link partners.
Depending on your goals and assets (domain, ranking) I can provide you with a recommendation.
We are at www.3-PRIME.com, with link building info here.
Should blog post title tag match headline?
For purposes of SEO, should the title tag of my blog post be the same as the post headline?
- Patrick H. 35 / M / Stow, MA
Not necessarily, unless you want to rank for the exact phrases you use as your headlines.
I’d recommend to use the title tag do target 1-2 keyphrases containing in your headline, and use your headline to employ those keyphrases in a useful sentence, providing semantic usage of both the keyphrase and context for its usage.
Thanks Ryan. Would their be any harm in using the same?
No, my recommendation is just a better practice, not a necessity. For the sake of simplicity, you can definitely use the same info for both places with no harmful outcome.
SEO Industry Standards
Talking SEO, is there a singles source for industry standards? I would like to find one?
- Joseph M. M / Omaha, NE
Standards imply that there is a right or wrong. This is a distraction from your goal. The standards you need to be aware of are:
1) Search engine guidelines from Google. As the big kid on the block, you must be aware of their guidelines.
2) Standards of your clients
3) Your own professional standards regarding the work you would claim as your own
Those should be your primary guides.
Build a Successful Blogging Site
What are the best resources to help build a successful blogging site?
- Tony W. M / San Jose, CA
Depends on what you mean by success.
If you are seeking high search engine rankings, then you are going to want to use the All in oneSEO tool and spend time optimizing your posts and pages.
If you are seeking advertising revenue, then you need to form a model for how you will get traffic and research what kinds of advertising is most likely to perform well from a revenue generation perspective.
If you are building a site simply to express yourself, then what you define as success could be as simple as easy maintenance.
SEO resources for beginners
What is your favorite SEO resource for beginners looking to gain experience?
- James S. 29 / M / St. Louis, MO
There is tons of info out there, but the way to learn is through experience. Pick a “long-tail” search word phrase like
and create a page about it and discover what you have to do to get into the first page of Google results. Experience is the ONLY real teacher in SEO.
Some tools you’ll want to familiarize yourself with are here: www.seomoz.org/tools
Book on Advanced SEO
What is the best book on advanced SEO?
– Chris P. 32 / M / Rochester, NY
The biggest problem that you’ll have with books is that the search engines engage “filters” frequently. The best you’ll get from a book is a chance to define your own philosophy about how to go about performing SEO tasks. Books will also familiarize you with terminology but again, this changes very frequently. The best book, therefore, will be one published very recently!
The author of SEOBook.com is very well reputed, that seems a good place to start.
