Recently I’ve been collecting online resources that look deeper into the science behind search engines. Here are some of the papers I’ve read that I felt like really provided me with a much deeper insight into SEO. When you start out learning about search engine’s optimization you get caught up in many of the tips [...]
Archives for August 2009
Guide to On-Page Optimization
Monday Rand Fishkin make a great post on the SEOmoz blog titled “Perfecting Keyword Targeting & On-Page Optimization“. I usually pass over these on-page checklists as it seems they are a dime a dozen and usually there’s a lot of opinion that over shadows the core principles. This article really stuck out
Optimizing Yourself for an SEO Career
This Saturday will be my last day of class and my completion of the MBA program at Point Park University in downtown Pittsburgh, Pa. I have always had the urge to keep learning and this is one of many reasons to why I have found myself in the field of search engine optimization.
I often get [...]
Developing SEO Analysis Tools
At Eyeflow we find it important to develop some of your own SEO tools. There are many options out there when it comes to checking your link popularity, on-page optimization, trust, etc but there usually isn’t one tool that does it all the best and also to meet your specific needs. We’ve found that your [...]
Twitter is Down… what are we to do?
I got into work today, read through my emails and rss subscriptions. I found an article I wanted to share on twitter only to find out that twitter is down. It’s been an hour and a half and it’s still down. I thought of the next closest thing to a live search and did a [...]
Engagement Filtering with PostRank
I recently discovered something new that has become a core part of my online experience. It’s called PostRank and it helps me filter through my RSS feeds to find the most engaging content and when you’re subscribed to dozens of RSS feeds it really comes in handy.
9 Important Backlinks for Commercial Websites
This is an old post from my last site that I thought was worth revising. It’s a collection of highly important websites that offer free backlinks.
This is a collection of websites, that offer free backlinks, any commercial website should be listed on. When choosing these websites they had to meet three criteria; high page rank, [...]
Think Links!
I’m going to step back from thinking about keyword usage, page structure and other on-page elements for moment and talk about something I always think about when doing anything for a client or myself… LINKS!
Even before Google’s algorithm came around, links were still a very important part of increasing your online visibility. Just ask link [...]
Why Is This Website So Plain?
Some of you might of arrived here thinking “why is this website so plain?” and that’s a perfectly normal thing to ask. Some people want to have loud flashy designs and this can be good depending on the industry and audience you are targeting but one thing you always want to keep in mind; can [...]
How I Manage My Blog Comment Links
I want to encourage discussion on my blog and I know since my blog is very focused on SEO that I’ll probably get people looking for followed links(or dofollow). Of course I can’t just let every comment have a dofollow link because then I would be bombarded with comments with little or no value. Here’s [...]
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