Best SEO Blog

Articles I wish I could write every day

Michael Martinez — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:00:36 +0000

I was tempted to title this post “three articles I wish I could write every day” but the idea of putting a number into a blog post title now sickens me. It’s such a cheap, spammy trick now because everyone is doing it in an attempt to “create linkbait”. I almost never click [...]

Best Free SEO Technique

Michael Martinez — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:00:40 +0000

What is the best free SEO technique that you can use? More importantly, what makes an SEO technique “free”? An economist would quickly tell us there is no such thing as a free lunch. So one should ask if there are any truly “free” SEO techniques. I submit that there are no truly [...]

Using Blogger for SEO

Michael Martinez — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:00:49 +0000

One of the most controversial practices in SEO wisdom is to use a blog service like Blogger for your blog. Most people in the industry advise against using third-party services to host blogs, especially for businesses. In a perfect world, that advice could be the best or the worst advice. In the [...]

Will Search Engines Ignore My Site?

Michael Martinez — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:48:44 +0000

Will search engines ignore my site? That’s a very good question. And there is no simple answer for it. Search engines ignore Web sites for a number of reasons, including: Inappropriate use of robots.txt Use of “rel=’nofollow’” on internal/navigation links Lack of indexable content Lack of fresh content Lack of trusted inbound links And there may be other [...]

How to qualify SEO cold call suspects

Michael Martinez — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:44:00 +0000

It seems that many of my peers are falling back on cold calling more and more these days in order to build up their SEO portfolios. I reach that conclusion on the basis of the email that is sent to the Xenite.Org Administrators. We seem to be receiving several SEO inquiries a week [...]

SEO Multiple Domains – Same Site, Different Names

Michael Martinez — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:28:34 +0000

To people in the SEO industry the idea of creating multiple domains to host the same content is anathema — you just don’t do that. Why? Because the search engines see it as being abusive and misleading. Most people who ask in SEO forums if they can do this don’t really have [...]

Signs you have a quality Web site

Michael Martinez — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:00:58 +0000

Signs you have a quality Web site – “Quality” is a completely, totally subjective concept. It has nothing to do with who knows more than who, who is right about anything, or who is better. It just means people associate value with your work. People search on your Website’s name and click through to [...]

60 Hard Core SEO Tips

Michael Martinez — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:32:12 +0000

Yes, I’m being self-promotional (and engaging in a little experiment). This Best SEO Blog post is recapping three SEO Theory posts. Hm…I wonder what those SEO Theory posts could be about. You see, a while back I was walking down the yellow brick road–Ooops. Sorry. Wrong movie. Two years ago I was driving [...]

What Is The Best Blog For SEO?

Michael Martinez — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:00:36 +0000

I see this question often. People want to know which blog platform works best for SEO. That’s really a terrible question to ask for several reasons, the most important being that you might not actually be able to use the best SEO blog platform. There are many blog platforms out there. Generally [...]

What is the perfect link?

Michael Martinez — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:00:31 +0000

I recently found myself in an online conversation where it became apparent to me that someone was looking for guidance on the right kind of links to obtain. I am paraphrasing because the issue has been raised in many SEO forums and blogs and mailing lists in many different ways. But really all [...]