SEO Tips

Open letter to the blackhat SEO community. Dear BlackHat Community, I was a blackhat SEO before it was called blackhat SEO (I’m apparently old :-)). I was spamming guestbooks, forums and comments for links before we had tools for automatically SPAMMING links and at the time (pre 2004-2005) it worked really well, I once had a domain (eccomerce site) with a PR8 home page from link spamming with loads of competitive top 3 Google SERPs. The black hat SEO techniques I used worked really well 10 years ago, made me a lot of money, but the techniques used by the black hat community have evolved and so has Google. BlackHat SEO blackhat SEO, not such a good way to do […]

Search Engine Optimization article updated August 2014. Based on this websites log files you most likely found your way here via a relevant search on Google. Maybe a SERP (Search Engine Results Page) like Search Engine Optimization Tutorial 2014 or WordPress SEO Tutorial, Google SERPs I’m doing quite well for. Whatever keyword search you used, you almost certainly are looking for help to improve your search engine rankings (most likely for free :)) and more than likely consider Google THE most important search engine to your websites rankings. You’d be right, Google is the most important search engine. Search Engine Optimization Basics Let’s cover some basic search engine optimization concepts, SEO is a relatively straight forward set of quite basic […]

SEO Tips Internal Linking Structure updated June 2014. Been following a thread in the newsgroup alt.internet.search-engines called Crit My SEO :-) The alt.internet.search-engines newsgroup used to be the place to be for discussing the latest SEO techniques, in 2014 it’s dead. Checked a few of the latest articles and found one I’d responded to (I posted under the name: SEO Dave) in 2004 called “Title tag maximum length?”!!! As normal turned into a flame war and so the Internal Linking Structure vs Outbound Linking Structure discussion was lost, but it inspired an SEO article regarding backlinks and internal PageRank sculpting. PageRank Sculpting Using Internal Nofollow Links The OP asks about PageRank sculpting using internal nofollow links: I’m trying for a […]

Hire an SEO Expert article updated April 2014. Are you looking for a trustworthy SEO expert to hire to help achieve high search engine rankings in Google, Yahoo and Bing? Here’s how you find that SEO Expert, your own SEO Guru who won’t rip you off with worthless SEO guarantees of easy long tail keyword SERPs that any idiot with a computer and Internet access could achieve. I worked as an SEO consultant for around 10 years (no longer offer SEO services, so you can’t hire me) and you would be surprised how many people especially from countries like India and Pakistan are offering SEO services BEFORE understanding basic search engine optimization! I see comments (on this site) from “SEO […]

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 […]