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Search Engine Optimization History: June 12, 2005 Was a Historic Day

Bill Hartzer

When it comes to the Search Engine Optimization industry’s history, I bet that you did not know that June 12, 2005 was a historic day. According to a new tool by Google called Google Correlate , there were far more searches for “search engine optimization&# than ever before. Well, what happened on June 11, 2005?

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Search Engine Optimization Tip: Include Keywords in URLs

Bill Hartzer

You also need to find out what the leader in search engines, Google, has to say about it. Until 2005, Google was putting all of the emphasis on the websites that had keywords in their domain name. That began to change though in 2005 and there were plenty of other elements that the search engine Google was basing ranks on.

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Search Engine Optimization: Search Engine Ranking Problem Solved for a Reader

Bill Hartzer

Perhaps in response to one of my recent blog posts about search engine ranking problems , I got an email today from James who owns a website called 4insure dot net. He asked me if I would take a look at his web site and see if I can figure out why he is having search engine ranking problems. Tags: Search Engine Optimization.

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Conductor Searchlight Search Engine Optimization System Launched

Bill Hartzer

Conductor, a SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) technology company, has launched Conductor Searchlight , a full-featured search engine optimization (SEO) operating system. Conductor Searchlight helps you prioritize your efforts and gives you insight into which SEO techniques are most likely to garner you top rankings in the engines.

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Search Engine Optimization Horror Story Contest Launched

Bill Hartzer

Do we really need another Search Engine Optimization (SEO) contest ? This Search Engine Optimization is different. They’re looking for Search Engine Optimization Horror Stories, extreme examples of cases where Search Engine Optimization efforts have failed. Who are the judges? Barry Schwartz, SE Roundtable.

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Link Spamming Is Not Good SEO

Small Business Mavericks

It’s a type of blogging centered around building anchor text link spam posing as search engine optimization. This type of blogging was popular in 2005. In fact, in 2005, just about everybody who was blogging was blogging this way, but it’s not the right way to blog. I’d be real surprised if it still works.

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Five Actionable Social Media Tips for Your Web Development Business

Webbiquity SMM

The more content you generate , the more social sharing you do, which creates a consistent online presence and drives traffic to your search-optimized pages, improving your search engine rankings and traffic. David Gutierrez started his career as a web designer in 2005. In 2012 he founded a creative design agency.