If you try to visit www.searchme.com today, don’t bother: you’ll be redirected to Google instead. Apparently, the positive media coverage (including one of my articles on SitePoint) did not help the Sequoia Capital funded startup to get a new round of financing. CEO Randy Adams wrote a letter to Michael Arrington, where he explains the [...]
How to Select a PR Company That Knows SEO
June 1, 2009 by 7 Comments
If you want to know how good an online PR company is at dealing with SEO you type ‘online public relations’ into Google and make your choice from the first page. You already know that I know my SEO and it should not come as a surprise that Pamil Visions is ranking on the first [...]
SEO – Optimizing Graphic Images
March 7, 2009 by 14 Comments
The search engines take into consideration the entire content of a Web page. That’s why the image and sound files you display on a Web page should be related with its topic. The best way to define this is “harmony.” The search engines want you to create harmonious content and not a soup of mismatches. [...]
The Robots Meta Tag and Robots.txt File
March 2, 2009 by 6 Comments
The Robots, also known as Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders are programs that traverse the Web automatically to look for information of various types. Search engines use them to index web content and this is what we will discuss in the article below. There are two ways to “talk” to the robots: by adding a [...]
Traditional SEO Techniques: Page Titles
February 13, 2009 by 5 Comments
Introduction: Natural Language SEO On-site SEO includes: optimized content, well-formed HTML code and creating Web pages that are both usable and accessible, basically designing with Web standards. These guidelines are as powerful today as they were yesterday — if not more. But the difference today is that you can no longer go around misusing these [...]
SEO Challenge 2009: Get a News Site Included in Google News
January 6, 2009 by 4 Comments
Google News and Yahoo! News generate thousands of unique visits each day for a site. Many news publishers fail to understand these two channels, others simply don’t know how to apply for inclusion and how to create a site that qualifies. This is possibly one of the hardest SEO challenges for any news publisher. In [...]
Don’t Pay for Google Sitemaps
December 8, 2008 by 16 Comments
$375 for a Google sitemap and a Yahoo! sitemap is an exorbitant price! Believe it or not, there are so called SEO companies ready to charge such a price and enough website owners who fall for the scam. This article explains why you should not pay for Google sitemaps. SEO Scammers Approach Their Victims Via [...]
