A Quick January 2009 SEO Update
Jan 21, 2009 at 8:43am ET by Barry Schwartz
Many SEOs and SEMs have been noticing updates at Google, Yahoo and Ask.com this past week. I thought I catch you up on what has been noticed at each engine.
On the Google front, as reported at the Search Engine Roundtable, many webmasters noticed their PageRank scores drop. After a lot of discussion, concern and debate, Matt Cutts of Google commented explaining that the PageRank scores are fluctuating due to the canonicalization updates Google is pushing through. He said, as long as you are not selling links, "Don't Panic." These things will work themselves out and your rankings should [...]
Filed in: Ask: SEO, Google: SEO, SEO: General, Yahoo: SEO
The 2007 Paid Links War, In Review
Dec 31, 2007 at 10:18am ET by Vanessa Fox
The paid links debate is back, this time about whether Google wants all links
in a paid post to have a nofollow attribute. Below, a look at the latest round,
plus a recap of this year's "War On Paid Links" by Google and where the other
search engines stand on the subject.
The current round was sparked by an IZEA (previously Pay Per Post) post
inviting the major search engines to clarify their stances on links in paid
posts. Ted Murphy
blogged
that he talked to Matt Cutts at Pubcon, who told him that all links in a paid
post should have the nofollow attribute, not just links to the [...]
Filed in: Ask: SEO, Google: SEO, Link Building: Paid Links, Microsoft: Live Search SEO, Yahoo: SEO
Meta Keywords Tag 101: How To “Legally” Hide Words On Your Pages For Search Engines
Sep 5, 2007 at 7:42pm ET by Danny Sullivan
If there's anything I particularly hate when it comes to SEO, it's the meta keywords tag. I so wish it had never been invented. It's practically useless, yet people still obsess over it. In this article, I'll explain more about why you shouldn't worry about it except perhaps for misspellings, as well as which search engines support it.
The meta keywords tag is one of several of meta tags that you can insert into your web pages to provide search engines with information about your pages that isn't visible on the page itself. For example, my Meta Robots Tag 101: Blocking Spiders, Cached Pages [...]
Filed in: Ask: SEO, Features: General, Google: SEO, How To: SEO, Microsoft: Live Search SEO, SEO: Flash, SEO: General, SEO: Writing & Body Copy, Yahoo: SEO
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