SEO 101

WordPress 3.0 Preview

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:38:00 +0000

Wordpress Core Developer Mark Jaquith, BuddyPress developer John Jacoby and head of User Experience Jane Wells preview the eminent launch of WordPress 3.0, including how it has been catered for SEOs, its security modifications, and more.

Increasing Indexation on Large Sites

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:45:33 +0000

Ross and John discuss Increasing Indexation on Large Sites, plus look in some comments on content management systems, and a discussion on domains and how they impact SEO.

Blog Post Indexing and Duplicate Content

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:44:36 +0000

Ross and John discuss the cost of PPC, duplicate content, plus they help a webmaster with delayed blog posts from being indexed and how to configure your xml feeds to advance your blog posts.

Web Design for SEO

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:23:11 +0000

Ross and John discuss the issues that you can come across when you are an SEO working with a web designer, including securing pages being indexed, plus how web designers are expected to understand SEO, and what are the best ways to work with a design firm.

Geo Based Search Results on Mobile

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:59:18 +0000

Ross and John discuss Geo Based Search Results on Mobile, plus a Technology Review article on How Google Ranks Tweets, where its Algorithms judge the relevance of microblog posts containing 140 characters or less.

Mobile Advertising Feud

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:42:01 +0000

Ross and John discuss Real time search results for the recent California earthquake, plus the news that Bing is on all HP desktops and how
Google Nexus is in a feud with Apple iPhone as Apple buys Quattro as they fight Google for advertising.

SEO Topics to Watch in 2010

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:28:03 +0000

Ross and John ask What are the big SEO topics to watch in 2010. THey go through the various search related events, plus what are the ToDos on your 2010 SEO list?

Distinguishing Real Time Search

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:08:10 +0000

Ross and John discuss real time search and distinguishing it from time sensitive search based on when something happened, fresh content sensitive search meaning different search results based on the most recent data content and geo-spatial sensitive search based on the location of the user search for that content.

Index Saturation

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:32:22 +0000

Ross and John discuss index saturation and how much of your site is being indexed by search engines, if you have deep navigation or if your site is experiencing some major blocks.

Tips on Hiring a SEO Company

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:18:42 +0000

Ross and John discusses some tips that you should follow when hiring a SEO company for service, plus they discuss Droid, the next wave of Android-powered smartphones will include free turn-by-turn navigation software powered by Google Maps and Google Street View.

KMLs and Sitemaps

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:56:00 +0000

Martijn Beijk is a local search engine optimization pro and SEO Consultant at Onetomarket. He just spoke at SMX Stockholm and he discusses his SEMMY nominated article on KMLs and Sitemaps.

Linkbuilding Effect of PageRank Removal

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:01:51 +0000

Ross and John discuss a listener email on the Linkbuilding and SEO Effect of PageRank Removal, plus a listener on query freshness when it comes to ranking on Google.

SEO Performance Guarantees

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:53:15 +0000

Ross and John answer questions on search ranking and optimization, rank position goals, web ranking reports, SEO performance guarantees and more.

Yahoo Bing Site Searches

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:41:28 +0000

Ross and John discuss how will site searches be affected once Yahoo is taking over by Bing, plus they discuss a question on unethical SEO.

SEO 101 Q and A

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:46:47 +0000

Ross and John answer questions from the WebmasterRadio chatroom like sitemaps, foreign content, crawl errors, black hat, xml sitemaps, duplicate content and more.

SEO Testing and PageRank Sculpting Changes

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:41:01 +0000

Net Concept founder Stephan Spencer discusses SEO Testing, recent changes to recent PageRank Sculpting Changes and he gives his thoughts on the future of search.

Learning from SES San Jose 2009

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:41:10 +0000

Ross and John discussed what they got out of from SES San Jose 2009, including the news including news rankings, classifying and ranking for content, PageRank, new search and more.

Roundtable on Bing-Yahoo and Google Caffeine

admin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:58:29 +0000

From SES San Jose 2009, a panel of Search marketing experts; BestOfTheWeb President Greg Hartnett , SiteLogic Director of Marketing Jennifer Laycock, Pole Position Marketing President Stoney deGeyter and Enquisite CEO Richard Zwicky, discuss hot topics including the Bing Yahoo deal, and Google Caffeine.

Website Redesign and XML Sitemaps

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:34:16 +0000

Learn about the impact that can be made when you are redesigning your website and they reference RexSwain.com for some cool tools. Plus, they discuss how to go about with setting up an xml sitemap.

Using Blogs in SEO

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:05:29 +0000

Ross and John discuss best practices for Using Blogs and blog platforms like Wordpress in SEO, and downfalls like scraping, plus their take on tag usage and the best uses for rss feeds.

SEO Relation to Social Media

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:21:06 +0000

Ross and John discuss SEO and its relation to social media and essentially using blogs and other social media tools to bring traffic so that they can see your search engine optimization.

Keyword Research and XML Sitemaps

admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:22:17 +0000

Ross and John discuss the hot trend tools that you can use for Keyword Research, like Twitter keyword tools, Yahoo Buzz and Google Trends. Plus, they discuss Google Analytics, xml site maps and transitioning your website with an excessive amount of archives.

Javascript and PageRank Sculpting

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:16:49 +0000

Ross and John breakdown what was learned at SMX Advanced 2009, including Javascript, the comments made by Google’s Matt Cutts on NoFollow and PageRank Sculpting, and the IIS SEO ToolKit.

Evolution of Search Engines

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:27:35 +0000

Ross and John discuss the Three Major Ranking Changes that have affected the Evolution of Search Engines, where search engines are today, and how they affect you.

Google Webmaster Tools Redesign Part 2

admin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:36:06 +0000

Ross and John discusses the changes made in the redesign of the Google Webmaster Tools new interface, and this time they look at some of the tabs on the dashboard like site configuration, site maps, site links, and settings.

Google Webmaster Tools Redesigned Part 1

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:21:24 +0000

Ross and John discusses the changes made in the redesign of the Google Webmaster Tools new interface, including crawl stats and sitemaps as they overview the dashboard.

Guy Kawasaki Twitter Tactics Discussion

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:17:38 +0000

Twitter Tactics Discussion following a PPC Rockstars interview featuring David Szetela’s interview of Guy Kawasaki. Guests include Search and Social’s Dave Snyder and Szetela himself.

Keyword Research with the Keyword Guru

admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:49:43 +0000

Keyword Research with the Keyword Guru Dan Thies, and he discusses keyword relevance, tools , the acquisiton of customers versus traffic, and finally spy tools

Link Building to Directories & Link Opportunities

admin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:28:09 +0000

Link Building to Directories and Link Opportunities with Loren Baker from Search Engine Journal. Loren discusses some tools that he uses for a linkbuilding campaign.

Using Social Media to Improve Search Engine Rankings

admin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:00:44 +0000

Jeff Quipp joins Ross Dunn to discuss the advantages of Twitter and how social media can help your site’s rankings. Jeff and Ross give in-depth examples of how Twitter has helped link build and add targeted traffic to sites as well as build solid communities.

Completing Google Optimization

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:32:52 +0000

Completing Google Optimization, plus a look at a number of other considerations which play a role in successful rankings in Google, and also touch on some tactics which are best avoided.

Incoming links

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:56:18 +0000

Discussing incoming links as well as using Google Webmaster Tools in part 2 of a three-part series on Optimizing for top Google rankings.

Website Optimization

admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:23:59 +0000

Website Optimization when optimizing your site for Google from the right title and meta description tags to the body text and keyword placement.

Wordpress Optimization

admin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:44:39 +0000

Wordpress Optimization, from plugins to avoiding duplicate content and the best uses of Word press for SEOs with Wordpress Expert Joost deValk

Canonical Link Tags

admin — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:55:37 +0000

Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft introduced Canonical Link Tags as a joint effort to help reduce duplicate content at SMX West.

Best Web Marketing Checklist

admin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:59:37 +0000

Best Web Marketing Checklist when looking to find new optimization with Stoney Degeyter who wrote the SEMMY Award winning post

Common mistakes SEOs make

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:02:13 +0000

Ross Dunn and Jennifer Evans Laycock discuss the common mistakes SEOs make, including Flash pages, targeting, link building, branding, and unrealistic client expectations.