Category | SEO

Most people when they’re searching for something on the web will simply enter whatever it is into the Google search bar and get the results. Fortunately, Google has become better and better at making sense of what you type and delivering you the most relevant search results. You can pretty much type anything in Google now and it will know what you’re talking about. That said, sometimes you might need to drill down a little further and be a little more specific with your search. That’s where search syntax comes into play. If you use special search syntax with Google you can sometimes get better...

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Google’s Matt Cutts was recently asked what factors influence video rankings on Google search? Here’s what he had to say:  

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One thing the Internet certainly has no shortage of is advice about SEO. Bloggers in particular often times swear by certain SEO strategies which may or may not have any real value, but simply seem like they do. However, one source of advice on SEO is prized above all others. This source is prized because it holds the keys to the castle so to speak. SEO guys spend their time trying to figure out how to legally manipulate this source to get it to do what they want. The source I'm referring to is of course Google. When Google gives advice about how to get better search rankings on their search engine...

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You know all those blog experts who tell you that adding your blog title to the end of post titles is good SEO? Guess what? It's not. I had been noticing for some time that my posts weren't showing up in search results very well like they once did. It seemed like traffic was slowly decreasing so I decided to do a little experiment. I surfed around the web looking at some of the top blogs in a variety of fields like technology, politics, news, business, etc. I noticed the one thing most had in common (other than great content) was their post titles. The vast majority of them used this format... %post_title% Here's...

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Andy has a great post over at Marketing Pilgrim that looks at how you can use Google SearchWiki to your advantage.

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