Category Archives: Google

Meta Description May Affect Rankings After All

April 2, 2008 – 9:55 am
It’s “common SEO knowledge” that your meta description does not help your Google rankings. I’m not so sure I agree with this assessment, though. The meta description is the snippet that shows up in a Google search below your title. If you don’t have a description in your source code, Google will pull a snippet from [...]
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Google Indexes Unlinked Pages

February 19, 2008 – 9:03 am
Search Engine Roundtable has a post today about Google indexing pages that are not linked from anywhere. Their theory is that the Googlebot is spidering GET forms. Shoot, I’ve had brand new sites, with no links leading to them, spidered almost immediately since last April! My lingerie site was being spidered every two weeks since [...]
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Google Search: what is a paid link

February 5, 2008 – 5:31 pm
Google is leaving that definition up to Aaron Wall. Pretty funny! From Wiep.net Popularity: 31% [?] Permanent link to this post.
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10 Best Types of Links

January 18, 2008 – 4:22 pm
Which types of links will help your site the most - give you the most “juice?” The reality is you need all kinds of links. Google wants natural link building. The way to make your link building natural is to have a mixture of the following types of links, using a variety of keywords: Authoritative directories with [...]
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The Flash vs SEO Conundrum

November 15, 2007 – 11:05 am
Ranking sites with a full Flash home page is one of the more difficult tasks in search engine optimization. I always try to steer clients away from it, but some insist. The content can be dropped below the fold, but this is not the most elegant method, and often the designer will object. So what’s an [...]
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Google’s Temper Tantrum

October 29, 2007 – 2:15 pm
Are you confused about paid links? Are you afraid of them because of Google’s recent temper tantrum? Do you wonder how you’ll get incoming links to your new site without paid links? The situation is not as dire or scary as it may seem. Google is trying to create fear and instead is garnering loathing [...]
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