Test SEO

SEO testing is essential to understanding search engine optimization, ever wondered how SEO experts know how some parts of Google SEO works? The real experts setup hundreds of SEO tests.

Most SEO's keep their SEO tests secret, in this section of the website you will find some of the public SEO tests I'm running or the test results which are used for developing the new SEO package features and for writing new SEO tutorials

Recently wrote the Amazon Online Shop SEO Check guide and discussed Amazon.com home page SEO and how I think they could improve their Google traffic for SERPs like Online Shopping by having a title tag “Amazon.com: Online Shopping” and stated would be an interesting SEO test to target the Online Shopping SERP on this website which isn’t a shopping site. I don’t seriously expect to rank high for the online shopping SERP (will probably get useless low/no traffic SERPs like Online Shopping SEO), for starters this isn’t a shop which makes it impossible to silo SEO links: look at the left sidebar links, they are about SEO not shopping which will hurt this webpages shop SERPs and I’m contextually linking […]

Was reading an SEO article on Niche Pursuits I Need Your Input for 2 SEO Experiments! which is looking for ideas for an SEO experiment. Basically they want their visitors via comments to suggest an SEO experiment and there’s a social media SEO experiment I’d like testing I was going to post this as a comment at Niche Pursuits, but it got a little long explaining my SEO logic (I don’t write short comments :-)) so new SEO test article… I’ve setup a lot of SEO experiments over the past 10-15 years and always try to limit them to one variable (studied genetics at University, I’m a scientist at heart) as it makes it easier to understand an experiment when […]

This will be a quick SEO test, very easy to prove Google completely ignores the title attribute of text links. Google probably ignores the title attribute SEO wise because it’s semi-hidden content that can be very easily abused by black hat SEOs. Though interestingly Google does count the alt text of images as a ranking factor and that’s as semi-hidden as the title attribute text. As I wrote this article I did a few Google searches like “Title Attribute SEO” and was shocked to find some still either believe the title attribute has SEO value or they don’t know for sure! Title Attribute SEO Ranking Value This has been so easy to test SEO wise, every SEO expert and consultant […]

In the WordPress SEO theme I develop there’s an advanced SEO feature to make the most out of internal links anchor text in the new Google Hummingbird algorithm. If you are looking for general anchor text info, see my anchor text optimization tutorial. In short Google only counts the anchor text of the first link to a unique URL. What this means is if a web page has two or more links to the same URL only the first links anchor text is counted as anchor text (it’s still indexed by Google as standard body text). It’s essential SEO wise to have the first link (as found in the code) to use your best optimized anchor text since others are […]