tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114756472023-03-16T22:26:23.129-05:00Search Engine Optimization, Marketing and Blogging Basics! New to web design, search engine optimization / marketing or blogging? This is the place to come for the basics on how to get your web site ranked with today's top search engines and marketing basics to promote your website or blog. Helping newbies navigate the world of search engine optimization.Li Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07250388447764411996noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11475647.post-1115229494518681252005-05-04T17:00:00.000-05:002005-05-05T09:35:35.133-05:00

Perhaps this entry is a little off topic for the focus of Ranking Basics, as I don't blog about pay per click advertising (Adwords, Overture) nor politics, but this little piece note worthy non-the-less. I think this caught my eye, more to the point to see how GOOG will react and how the power of the blogosphere works, seeing all the hype lately political blogs have been getting.It seems the

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SEO Professional Shari Thurow, author of Search Engine Visibility, has a great article out on Search Newz about the right way to go about link building. She addresses those wonderful spam emails people get requesting to trade links and why to veer away from them.Check out - Successful Link Development Tips And GuidelinesAnd if you haven't read Shari's book and are curious about search engine

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Today I'm finding a treasure trove of nice articles - informative, well thought out and relevant to SEO/Blogging/Marketing. Two more piece I've come across that I'd like to share, and don't scoff at their titles, they are chalk full of sound advice and wisdom!Blogging as Farming - How to Grow a Bumper Blogging Crop by Darren Rowe over at ProBlogger.andReturn Customer takes Darren's post a few

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With any blog, building one is not necessarily a “If You Build It, They Will Come” scenario. There is some hard work involved in promoting your blog and getting the word out that your company has one and that subject needs an separate entry devoted entirely to it.Now with that said, I’m going to focus on what happens once you’ve got a solid foot in the door of the blogging world. This means that

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Normally I don’t like to single out just one particular search engine, however, for “basics” sake I’m focusing on a recent tweak in Google’s algorithm and what can happen to your site if you utilize “tricks” or “sneaky” ways of getting inbound or incoming links to your website.Apparently, the time has passed where having thousands of inbound links to your website is a good thing, at least when it

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Brought to us by Danny Sullivan at Search Engine WatchYahoo! and Google Consider Merger; Brin & Page to DepartHa! Ha! Yeah, it's April Fool's :)File under: Search / Search Engines /April Fool's

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Looks like the search engines are getting in on the fun!Ask Jeeves has just introduced the new Jeeves 9000 (Beta)!Google's quenching your thirst for knowledge with the Google Gulp!MSN's got a great Search Spoof to send off to your friends (I've personally done this and couldn't stop laughing at the results!).Still waiting on Yahoo's foray into April Fool's ... its only 6 a.m. there, so we'll cut

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“Google doesn’t use Meta Tags”, “Meta Tags are out of date”, “Meta Tags won’t get me ranked in the search engines” are all statements I’ve heard over the last few years when working with clients or conversing with other Search Engine Optimization Professionals. To a degree some of these statements are true, but taken as a blanket statement, and not using them could be costing your website a

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I've been working on a post about Meta Tags, their importance and do you really need them. Hopefully I'll have that ready to go in a day or two. With the immergence of MSN as its own search engine (no longer getting results from Google or Yahoo), there has been some change in whether Meta tags are useful.Now, onto the reason for this post - What NOT to do if you are wanting to promote your site

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It's interesting to watch the birth of yet another industry and how companies can utilize it towards Search Engine Marketing and Optimization. Blogs are that industry. Just today being the "news" junkie that I am, searching for new tidbits in the SEO and Blogging worlds, I found two great examples that can go to show how your company can benefit from starting, maintaining and actively promoting

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When it comes to the basics of optimizing your website for ranking in the major search engines, one of the most basic and simplest ways to give your website a boost is to optimized your title tag. Keep in mind, this alone won’t get your ranked #1 in Google, but it is a big piece of the Search Engine Optimization puzzle.Just Why Is That Title Tag Important, No One Pays Attention To It Anyway?To

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So I wake up and come into work this morning to the news that Barry Diller's multi-billion dollar multi-media conglomerate InterActiveCorp (IAC) is about to spend $1.9 billion dollars to purchase AskJeeves.com. The New York Post was the first to break the story (I believe) shortly followed by WSJ and then the blogger world made the word travel faster than Superman reversing the world's spin to

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By now I'm sure you've read an ad somewhere, on some website or in a newspaper, trade magazine that will Guarantee top ranking in the "Search Engines". Hopefully by now you've realized that NOTHING in the realm of Search Engines is every guaranteed, especially natural search engine results.My first advice is, be wary of anyone handing out such broad sweeping statements to get your business. My

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Interesting enough, I've had a LiveJournal for a few years now. Mostly its for keeping up with my online friends from around the internet. I decided to start this blog in Google's Blogger and try out the Syndication features and feeds through Feedburner, its interesting learning this stuff, so bear with me.I'm a big advocate of the "Blog" and "Bloggers" ... there's a link to the left for

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After being the Search Engine Optimization industry for a few years ... being one of those "silent" people that read the forums on Jill Whalen's High Rankings and Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Watch, not to mention the numerous other forums, blogs and websites, I decided to finally start putting my knowledge to work, beyond helping clients and friends get higher rankings in the search

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