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- Site Structure for Crawability
Tim Converse Yahoo
He doesn’t work for the crawler group, but he knows that they find annoying. Crawlers are simple minded. Visit URL, store contents. Extract all links, decide when to crawl those links and decide when to refresh that page. Their crawlers runs continuously. External links and domain registration is how they find new domains. Crawlers are behind a few years from modern browsers, as in javascript, flash, css. your links should be…
- Afternoon Opera Keynote Jon S. von Tetzchner
Brett is talking about how long he’s been using opera and how much he respects it for charging for a product the two other major competitors gave it away for free. He’s had over 500 computers and never run an anti-virus program, because he doesn’t run a microsoft email client and he uses opera.
Jon starts talking about what Opera does as a company. He says they’ve been doing browsers since 1994. They setup the first intranet in Norway. He…
- Corporate Meda Site SEO Management
This panel is also called “big fucking site management”.
Andrew Gerhart Primedia Automotive:
The first speaker is talking about a site he just took over and the website evaluation they did on it.
it was a strong established site, a market leading authority, lots of incoming links, exisiting content, fresh content and they had previously done some SEO training. The site was built on a modified open source CMS system that output flat html…
- SEO and Big Search
Melanie Mitchell Director of SEO/SEM at AOL:
She says that AOl can now find thir asses in the dark, they used to be in the business of sending out lots of CDs. They’re now giving away all their services and products, to generate an audience. They’ve changed their entire business model as a online network of properties and their new business goal includes SEO. They understand that the new AOL has to flip their topdown model, people don’t come in…
- Pubcon Introduction
8:53: Tons of people here already, huge line of people still waiting to register, looks like we’re going to be starting 15 minutes late or so.
9:05: We’re starting, Brett says pubcon has more than doubled since last time. The exhibit hall isn’t going to be open untill tomorrow. Brett says there are 4 invite-only private parties, he tells us to go talk to our reps, and mentioned that Google, Yahoo, Text Link Ads and Ask all probably have…
- ReviewMe Leak
An unamed source sent me this a while before Review Me Too (seriously guys we want in on this sponsored posts thing too!) launched, but I sat on it, but now that the cat is out of the bag about a contest sponsored by the Review Me guys for their upcoming launch, I figure its about time.
So I think you may be able to get a head start on that $25,000 giveaway here.PS. Good thing Chris Pearson has a place to get away from it all.
- My Duplicate Content Tool for Detection
Following my own advice (which some seem to have liked) I went and created a Duplicate Content Detector tool. Its still very beta (like all the other tools I’ve posted) but its simple and it works.
Enter your domain name, select which version is your primary domain (with the WWW or without it) and submit. The tool will compare the number of pages indexed for a set of searches in Google to check common duplicate content problem areas. If it…
- Top 8 SEO Plugins for Wordpress
Building on yesterday’s post about tips to make your blog rank better, here’s the plugins you’ll need to impliment that functionality. If I missed anything or there are better alternatives, please let me know.
- Optimal Title make sure your post titles occur at the begining of each permalink page’s title tag.
- Related Entries Deep linking baby.
- Google Sitemap Generator probably won’t make you rank better, but does provide good info.
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- 10 Tips To Make Your Blog Rank Better
- Do keyword research and know which search terms drive the big traffic
- Make sure your target keyword appears once in the post title and at least once in the body of the post
- Make sure your post title appears first in the title tag on its permalink page
- Make sure your post title appears in a heading tag in the HTML
- Link out to other blogs, a lot. Eventually they’ll link back
- Redirect all URL requests without WWW to the WWW version of the page (or…
- Coming Soon
My upcoming ebook, SEO for bloggers.
