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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

One of the growing trends in the online space for e-commerce websites is to attach a blog to the site and promote the products in your store. Many e-commerce website owners simply add a blog to their sites and then promote the products in their stores. It likely will not appeal to the broader market.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Before you worry about search engine rankings, you should make sure your website is indexed in the search engines. There are some very important details you need to take care to pay attention to if you want your site to get crawled by the search bots. To get indexed, they need to get crawled. After that, start blogging.

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MAY 28, 2014

Search Engine Journal just put out an excellent guide for site owners called How To Conduct A Content Audit On Your Site. Content is pretty much everything you have on your site. That sounds like a completely overwhelming thing – to carefully look over everything on your site, right?

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MARCH 17, 2011

» What’s The Best Discovery Engine? Until Bing called itself a “decision engine,&# not many people had heard that term. And I’d wager to say the same thing about “discovery engine,&# though I like that term. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

This is the language that exists behind the words, that the computers use to navigate your site. This coding is essential because it determines how your site looks and how it is accessed by the search engines. Every business has insider lingo, and using that lingo will match up the insiders to your site. Insider Lingo.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

So how do you ensure that your website architecture is sound, solid, and helps your site visitors? First and foremost, you have to define what your site is about. Engine maintenance. What will be the most helpful to your site visitors? Website structure is one of the most important parts of web design. Transmission.

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MARCH 16, 2011

What’s The Best Discovery Engine? » How Q&A Sites Can Boost Your SEO SEOmoz has a great article on how Q&A sites can boost your SEO. Q&A Search Engines – Wolphram Alpha, True Knowledge, and Ask.com. Q&A sites diversify your link portfolio. Standard Q&A – Yahoo!

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

Do you have a map of your site somewhere? Here’s why this is a good idea: You can see if your site makes sense. A logical site structure is a pleasure to explore. A site that isn’t well-structured is not a pleasure. Why stay on a site that makes you irritated? It’s lovely.

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DECEMBER 1, 2014

The best rankings in the world aren’t going to give much of a return on your investment if people visit your site and leave because it isn’t what they need. The whole promise of a high placement on the search engine results page is that these sites will deliver. Is your site easy to navigate?

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JUNE 9, 2014

According to Google’s Webmaster Central Blog, “few topics confuse and scare webmasters more than site moves,” so they wrote a post on Making Site Moves Easier. Here’s the thing to keep in mind: Your site is designed to be read by two kinds of brains. Two Ways Your Site Is Read.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2015

It needed that tune up — the little tweaks and adjustments that make the engine run efficiently. Your site has a power source that acts like the engine in a car — the SEO factors can be okay but not be as powerful as possible, just like the car that needs a tune up. Use your target keywords across the entire site.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

While it’s true that a lot of PDF content isn’t the greatest SEO content, it’s not true that PDF documents are bad to have on your site if there are good reasons for PDFs to be there. An article at Search Engine Land details the pros and cons of PDFs for SEO. What’s A Good Reason For A PDF?

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

Matt Southern at Search Engine Journal looked at the reaction so far , collecting input all across the web, and I appreciate seeing the best in one place. I think it’s a good idea to remember that Google and all other search engines are after the same thing. Penguin update search engine optimization'

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bing is the second most popular search engine, and according to a recent article on Search Engine Journal, Bing tends to be preferred by certain parts of the market. The search engines are in a constant battle for the user’s attention. search engines bing SEO yahoo' Who Are These People? households with children.

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MARCH 27, 2013

Your site will rank better in the search engines if you optimize it for the search engines, but don’t be fooled by unnecessary SEO services. There is one SEO service that is so completely unnecessary that it won’t help your site one bit. And it might even hurt your site. I don’t recommend them.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In the article Ian Harris wrote for Search Engine Journal, he suggests 12 things you should be doing right now for semantic search. Respect your elders — webmaster guidelines are still valid in optimizing your site. Search Engine Optimization Still Works. search engines semantic search SEO' A Dozen Things To Do.

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MAY 20, 2011

If you are involved in any link building efforts at all – and you should be – then you’ll have to keep track of where you put your links and which ones are tracked by the search engines. But for keeping track of what the search engines consider inbound links, you have two options. s Site Explorer.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you don’t, there’s a good chance your site isn’t functioning the way it should. I think a content audit should be done about every six months, because you consistently are adding content to your site, and it’s easy to inadvertently change something. You are consistently adding content to your site, right?

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MAY 31, 2013

When it comes to search engine algorithm updates, some are serious and some are, well, not serious. Most of those sites already know they are on the wrong side of Google guidelines, so it shouldn’t come as no surprise to them if they are hit by the algorithm update. This week, Google announced the release of Penguin 2.0.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Matt Southern of Search Engine Journal says that with the New Google Panda Update Rolling Out, Google Takes Another Stand Against Thin Content , and we should see the results this week. Google has been getting the feedback from users and webmasters and using it to rank higher-quality small & medium sites higher.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Everyone knows you can improve your search engine optimization (SEO), and potentially gain new search rankings, by adding new content to your website. You can do this by adding web pages to your site or by blogging. If your website has been active for several years, you’ve probably got some outdated pages on your site.

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MAY 29, 2015

For as long as there have been search engines, if you think about it. This one is kind of silly, because as long as there’s a search engine, there will be a way to optimize your site for it. Black hat SEO is dishonest because it is trying to game the system and get a worthless site ranked high. The Truth About SEO.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

There have been a number of posts about link building on Small Business Mavericks because links are essential ranking factors when it comes to search engine optimization. Those calling link building “dead” are talking about the artificial manipulation of factors to fool a search engine into thinking the site has value.

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AUGUST 8, 2014

People who spend money or have their private information on the internet should be paying attention to security settings and site safety anyway. People Like Secure Sites. And if you think about it, every search engine in existence ultimately is designed to work with human nature to get the information that the human is looking for.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Search engine optimization is more than figuring out a magic formula to make an algorithm like you. If it works right, there’s a good chance it works right for the search engines. Once someone is on the site, their experience will determine if they stay there. Part of that public aspect is your website. Is It Easy To Find?

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JULY 24, 2012

It wasn’t too long ago that shady SEOs discovered they could engage in negative SEO tactics and kill their competitors in the search engine rankings. Matt Cutts explains negative SEO briefly in a recent Google+ post : If you received a message yesterday about unnatural links to your site, don’t panic.

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JUNE 30, 2014

You can indeed be too thin, and that is particularly true in web sites. The problem on your site is that Google looks for “thin” content and penalizes it because it isn’t all that valuable. The hope is that a search engine sees the keywords etc. Nobody wants pages that are too thin, not even search engines.

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MAY 17, 2011

If so, then you might be interested in two smaller search engines. But the problem with Blekko is that your searches are confined only to sites that you or your friends tell it to search. But the problem with Blekko is that your searches are confined only to sites that you or your friends tell it to search.

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

But in the throes of content creation and coming up with that elusive perfect content we do need, we can’t forget the fact that search engines are binary and they don’t think like we do unless they are programmed. The technology of SEO is a bit complicated, sure, but it allows the search engines to understand what is on our site.

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APRIL 24, 2013

The search engines ignore them. As far as the meta description tag goes, it’s still useful, but the search engines don’t always use it. Search engine submission services get your site indexed – No they don’t. Search engine submission services get your site indexed – No they don’t.

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APRIL 22, 2011

This invites the search engine spiders back to your site to crawl it. Increased Search Engine Rankings – Not only do you have more opportunities to rank with each blog post, but each blog post can rank according to its own merits. Every blog post is considered a separate web page by the search engines.

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MARCH 25, 2014

Matt Cutts received a question about how to know if and when Google has penalized a certain site and I think there are several takeaways from his answer, detailed at Search Engine Journal. Your challenge, if this happens to you, is to find out why your site fell in the rankings and respond to that appropriately.

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MARCH 11, 2015

Here’s something for y’all web wranglers: please tell search engines about your HTTPS URLs! If your site supports HTTPS, please do tell us: use HTTPS URLs everywhere so search engines can see them! Web Design and Search Engine Optimization how to migrate to https https HTTPS URLs security SEO'

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

The problem with search engine optimization is that there are so many different factors – all of them variables – that can affect a web page’s ranking for any particular keyword. Ability of your competition to employ best search engine optimization practices. Past search history of the searcher.

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MARCH 9, 2015

“A site’s URL structure should be as simple as possible. There are many suggestions in the article on how to simplify the URLs on your site, and if you are not following the search engine’s suggestions, you are missing some obvious SEO strategies. This helps the robot rank you on the search page results.

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JANUARY 6, 2015

You would think that sophisticated search engine algorithms would be able to differentiate between similar URLs like. The short page is packed with useful advice from the people who know what they will be using to rank your site. Before you start, look over Google’s advice and decide what is the best option for your site.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Your Site Has A Hidden Past That Affects Today’s Activity. If you have not taken care of old ways of doing business, that history sticks around and gets picked up by search engines. Penguin, Panda, and the rest of the algorithms run around your site behind the scenes and do things unless you clear out the stuff they are after.

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