How to create SEO-friendly URLs
How do you make sure that your URLs are SEO friendly? This detailed guide has you covered.
Topic: Directory
Subdomain vs subdirectory: Which is better for SEO?
Should you use a subdomain or subdirectory? Learn how each impacts SEO and get expert-backed guidance to choose the best structure for your site.
International SEO execution: Keyword research, link building & UX that converts
Learn how to structure, localize, and optimize your website for international audiences. This guide covers hreflang, geotargeting, multilingual SEO, and more.
Google’s Matt Cutts: Don’t Try To Build Links Through Article Directories
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a video answer encouraging webmasters not to use article directory web sites with the goal of building links. The question posed was: Links from relevant content in article directories — Seen as good or bad? E.g., I link my beauty website from a cosmetic surgery article on […]
Twitter’s New SEO Play: A Profile Directory Of All User Accounts
Twitter has quietly launched a user profile directory that it hopes will bring it more search engine traffic. It’s Twitter’s second SEO play in recent weeks, coming on the heels of a change in its robots.txt file. With that change, Twitter made its content-based search results — i.e., search results for tweets and hashtags, but […]
Google City Sites May Compete With Yelp, Online Yellow Pages
Yesterday David Mihm was pointing out on Twitter that Google had created a number of new city sites or portals. They appear to be the phoenix rising out of the ashes of Hotpot. As I wrote yesterday on my own blog, this is Google’s effort to bring a number of initiatives together in a single […]
Twitter Launches A “Who To Follow” People Directory
The next time you login to Twitter.com, you might see a new tab at the top of the page called “Directory” or “People” or “Who to Follow.” Different names for Twitter’s latest tool for helping users find new accounts to follow. And it’s their best attempt yet at facilitating user connections.
How To Find The Right People To Follow On Twitter
While many of us in the marketing world tend to focus on how many followers we have and how to get more, for many Twitter users the other side of that coin is a real challenge: How do I find good people to follow on Twitter? Twitter itself has underscored the challenge as far back […]
Which Internet Yellow Pages Site Has The Best Rankings?
One of the challenges for a local business that wants to rank for phrases like “reno dentist” or “nashville accountant” is that the large Internet yellow pages sites and similar local directories often take up a lot of the real estate on search results pages for “city category” phrases. Ergo, one of the most basic […]
WeFollow – New Twitter Directory From Kevin Rose
One of the problems with Twitter is knowing who to follow in particular areas. Now Kevin Rose has launched WeFollow, a nice directory of people organized into categories. It’s not perfect, but it’s a great start and well worth visiting. At the site, you’ll see the top five people in popular categories such as celebrity, […]