Whenever I see a Links program it always perks my interest. Mainly this is because we hardly ever devote as much time to building quality links as we should. If you are a Google fanatic, like most people, we like to think that the hard work we put into writing unique articles is time well spent. That is until Google has a tantrum and for reasons known only to itself point blank refuses to recognize most, some or all of your links. >…continue reading LinksManager Is A Pro Link Building Tool For Consideration

Sometimes Google can be just too smart and it’s a real pain. I found over 40 pages from my blog in the supplemental index and I thought they were all unique content. Here’s how Google made me feel like a kid in detention writing out 50 times “I Will Make My Content Unique To Stop Myself Being Punished” Sorry Sir!!
>…continue reading Dragging Your Pages From Googles Supplemental Index

1. Google Sitemap WordPress Plugin - Absolutely essential. When I first installed this Google was showing 3 pages of my site. Within 12 hours it had indexed 47.

2. Add Meta Tags WordPress Plugin - Meta Keywords and Meta Description are added automatically. The good thing is that you will have different data for each page as it uses page content for the tags. It also uses the category(ies) as keywords. You should be optimizing your categories anyway, (ie check the word or phrase has search volume), but this is a reminder to make the names topic relevant. >…continue reading 8 Essential WordPress Plugins For SEO

Article Content Evolution is with us.

The way we have been writing articles, you know from keyword stuffing, (we’ve all done it), to judging a keyword / keyphrase density and hoping it’s just right for Google is on the way out.

Semantics, the page theme, contextual relevance, phrase matching and seeing if you’ve included those little words and phrases that are specific to whatever niche you are writing about, (eg surfers have a language of their own), will all go toward the relevancy Google will place on your article before it is included in the index.

Don’t worry about Yahoo and MSN. They are still indexing just about everything published on the Net so keep using using the meta tags and other traditional procedures.

It may be the case that before long even the use of the title tag, heading tag and the filename may not be necessary for the purposes of “assisting” Google into what our content is about.

A brief thought but one of relevance… before the days of programmers, algorithms and LSI I am sure we used to write topical and contextually relevant content to give a good “user experience” anyway! See what article spinners have done to us?

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Just a quick heads up if you are submitting articles to article directories for SEO purposes. It is worth checking out whether or not they apply a nofollow tag to all outgoing links. One site, as of today, is Searchwarp.com. All the anchor text links in their articles are nofollow.

Waste of time submitting. Good for their PR but no link love for us honeys!

To check for nofollows either View Source or get the SEO Bar addon for FireFox.

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