SEO Articles Archive

DIY Guide to SEO Page Mechanics By: Melanie Prough
How to optimize your page mechanics in detail. In page optimisation is the fastest and easiest way to affect your search position.  Even SEO novices can effectively optimize their pages with this guide.

To ROR or Not to ROR By: Melanie Prough
ROR sitemaps and feeds, should you have one?  Resources of a  resource is a structured feed written in xml, to describe content.  Generally used by commerce sites, as the description of the resource can be quite elegant if one wishes.

Submit sitemap, feeds to Yahoo via the Site Explorer Tool. By: Melanie Prough
How to submit sitemaps, feeds, and urllist.txt to Yahoo.  In depth tutorial for submitting sitemaps to Yahoo.  Feed are huge right now, and Yahoo let you add as many as you wish to your Site Explorer Tools.

The Hottest New Niche | Mobile Browser Pages By: Melanie Prough
Are you getting your piece of mobile traffic?  See how to build a mini-mobile site and direct just mobile browsers to it.

How to get New Sites Indexed Quickly ~ Guide to Google Indexing By: Melanie Prough
Simple plan to successful and quick indexing of new sites.  Easy to follow instructions to make your site more digestible for Google.

How Content Can Really Increase Your Sales   By: Jinger Jarrett
A total content management and sales based approach to search engine optimisation, with great technique examples and advice.

Sitemap Auto Discovery via the robots.txt Protocol By: Melanie Prough
How to include your sitemap in your robots.txt without a syntax error upon validation.  This is the Auto Discovery Protocol as announced by Google on 4/11/07.  The initiative includes Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live, and Ask.com.

SEO Optimizing for Page And Domain Names By : Joyce Jackson
In depth look at domain names and search engines.  Having your number 1 keyword in your domain name was ranked 3 out of 5 importance by SEOmoz ranking factors V2. There are many facets to choosing a domain name.

Introduction to Link Building By : Jatupol Tanaruthai
Rank, popularity, and how to get starting building links.  Google loves links, and so should you.  Build links, do not buy them.

Linking For Traffic - Deep Linking Strategies Revealed By : Adam Beazley
This works use linking strategy to pump up your traffic.  What is deep linking?  When you open your in bound link in Google Webmaster tools are the all pointing at your main page? If yes, then this is the article for you.

Tags, Hags & Other Things That Go Bump In The Night By : Brad Eden
I would especially recommend this if you are promoting your own website.  Social book marking, tagging, blogging,  and Digging...done right this is a valuable Web 2.0 strategy.

Reciprocal links are dead! By : Jonathan Leger
This is not a recommended solution to a long term problem, but if you must here it is.

Do It Yourself Search Engine Optimization Works! By : Mihaela Lica
Nice theory and planning narrative approach to your SEO project.  You should always scribble out a "plan of attack" as I like to call them. It helps keep your focus, and let you know when to some satisfaction that you might be gaining ground.

PR5 in 12 Weeks-Diary of a Beginner. Week 2 By : Neil Ebsworth
I don't know about the claim, but the message is stellar.  Content / copy then keywords.  The other way around is not for the new SEO we are facing these days, and success lies in the eyes of the user.

How To Use Forums To Promote Your Website By : James Woolley
This is good article but blogs are better now.  User generated content is red hot.  Google is eating it up.

The Role of Web Directories in SEO By: Gordon Petten
Anatomy of a search directory...pretty neat stuff. Read it and you'll see immediately why your SEO is so invaluable.

How To Find The Right Domain Name By : Kurt Naulaerts
Marketability, keywords, and more.  There is a lot to consider when choosing a domain name.