It looks like blackhat seo spammers have finally forced Google’s hand and they are in the process now of making adjustments to their ranking algorithms to counteract the manipulations. For the record, few people outside of Google, if any, are going to really know right off the bat how this algorithm change is going to […]
Stephan Spencer on SEO
I just watched a great interview with Stephan Spencer from this years Search Engine Strategies conference in Chicago on the webpronews video blog. Stephan is pretty high on WordPress as a CMS, most of the speakers that I have seen from this years conference were, which was good to hear. He also recommends a few […]
Add your URL to Google
I had an old friend ask me today how to submit his website to Google, the short answer was to send him a link to: Add your URL to Google, but I went ahead and elaborated as to how I approach Google submissions. The first thing that I do is to submit an XML sitemap, […]
Explaining Google (PR) PageRank
At Pleth we tend to keep a close eye on our clients search engine rankings, I personally devote about an hour each day to just Google Hacking to see where we stand on things. This week, I have had 2 separate unrelated clients ask me about Google PR, or PageRank so I am going to […]
SEO, URL’s, and Modx | Greg Smart
My partner Greg posted an entry on his blog the other day talking about SEO friendly URL’s and how MODx works to help you have an extremely search engine friendly website using .htaccess. This is just one of the many upsides to using MODx PHP Framework, there are quite a few others that I am […]
My Personal SEO Research Findings…
One of the most frequent conversations I have with my clients is about their Search Engine Rankings. I have been pleased to see the amount of interest they are taking in their websites organic ranking. By organic, I am referring to “natural” search results as opposed to paid rankings or pay per click / adword […]