SEO Spy Tools Ahrefs SpyFU SEO Spy Glass A1 Website Analyzer Compete.com Your Brain In a previous post, SEO Keyword Research – Choosing Keywords for SEO, I mentioned the ability to spy on your competitors for SEO purposes. I’d like to expand on that in this post. Below is a list of free research & …
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It’s Official: Google’s Algorithm Factors in Site Speed
While rumors have floated around that Google was now considering site speed as one its ranking factors, Google finally christened the rumor with an announcement on its Webmaster Central Blog. They also list tools for helping assist those looking to boost the speed of their sites. Using site speed in web search ranking Speeding up …
Read MoreSEO Report Card – Google Grades itself
Google recently revealed an internal SEO Report Card, wherenby it grades its own product pages (whereby Analytics, AdaWords, Product Search, Profile, etc each count as a single product). While it doesn’t reveal anything new, it does reinforce the importance of several on-page factors (ie. Images ALT text and filenames, H1 tags) that some argue are …
Read MoreSEO/Marketing Blogs/Articles for 2010-03-08
SEO/Marketing Blogs/Articles for 2010-03-08 Kill Useless Web Metrics: Apply The “Three Layers Of So What” Test (Wonkish) – Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik Google Wrap Up: Above the Fold; Gesture Search – Marketing Vox Don’t Be Afraid of Negative Reviews – Marketing Vox Social Networking SEO Tips and Techniques – SEO Chat Keyword Difficulty vs. …
Read MoreSpring Cleaning for those Analytics Profiles!
The ability to have multiple profiles in Analytics is extremely convenient. You can flip back and forth without having to switch accounts. And the ability to create duplicate profiles for the same domain name, gives you the option of viewing a site profile with a specific filter (for example; seeing only traffic that resulted from …
Read MoreCanonical Link Rel vs 301 Redirects: Using Canonical Link Rel tag for SEO purposes
Back in February, Google announced their support of the Canonical Link Rel element, and it was also announced that Yahoo! and MSN would soon follow suit. If you’re not familiar with it, think of the Canonical Link Rel element in terms of a 301 redirect–you can tell the search engines to ‘focus’ (though in this …
Read MoreBlogs/Articles for 2009-04-20
Blogs/Articles for 2009-04-20 Showing Off “The Innovation Machine” At Google – Search Engine Land Back to Basics: Pressing the right buttons – Google Analytics Blog Standard Metrics Revisited: #6: Daily, Weekly, Monthly Unique Visitors. – Occam’s Razor Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect w/ jQuery PR Goes Multichannel – Click Z Can High IQ Make You Rich? …
Read MoreSEO/SEM 2009 Trends
SEO/SEM 2009 Trends In looking for new SEO trends for 2009 (specific to Google), I encountered a few new things. Most importantly of these are: Google is moving towards personalization, which means search results will be less universal and more personalized to specific users and possibly those Google deems have similar interests. Google is also …
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