SEO Moz has just published an interesting summary of possible ranking signals that may (with great debate) rocket your site into the SERPs in 2011.
I wanted to share with you some of my thoughts on the overlooked ‘rank-worthy’ website features that the SEO Moz crew have highlighted and also to remark on some of [...]
Archive for the ‘Tactics to Improve Rankings’ Category
Natural Link Building – Does it work anymore?
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Google still advocates the ‘content is king’ rule i.e. what makes a great site rank highly is great content that lots of people want (and do) link to.
In a recent article on GreyWolf’s SEO blog, Michael concludes that having great content NO LONGER guarantees having great links. His evidence comes from his six month case [...]
The Importance of Keywords
Friday, May 28th, 2010Keywords are one of the backbones of good sites, and using keywords well is essential to monetizing any site for bloggers. Keywords are not just important for getting traffic to come onto the site, but are also important for attracting advertisers.
Keywords in posts should be relevant to the content of the post in question. Important [...]
Optimize Your WordPress Blog (Part Two – SEO Friendly Titles)
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009Now that your permalink structure has been fully optimized, it is time to consider SEO friendy titles for your posts.
WordPress titles are by default configured to the following format: Blog Title > Blog Archive > Post Title
However, higher traffic can be achieved by reversing this order. The reason for this is that search engines place [...]
Optimize Your WordPress Blog (Part One – Permalink Structure)
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Higher rankings mean your site won’t get lost in the crowd
Here is the first post in a series of how WordPress bloggers can increase their search engine rankings. WordPress is already one of the best optimized CMS systems available to bloggers, however there are a few things you can do to make your blogs more [...]
LinkLift & PageRank
Thursday, October 29th, 2009It has been almost two years now since Google announced controversial plans to penalize paid links, a decision which provoked a considerable reaction across the online community. At the time, it seemed fairly straightforward: paid links were bad and if you were caught buying or selling them, your PageRank would take a hit. But the [...]