SEO Tips

Search Phrases Are Getting Longer

Feb 27, 2009Comments

Still trying to capture those one, two or three word search results?  Well, keep on trying, but don’t forget about longer search queries.  Data from Hitwise (via MarketingCharts) shows that the number of words in the average US search query is rising.  Longer searches - with an average of five or more words - increased [...]

SEO - Where Should You Spend Your Time

Jan 22, 2009Comments

With the various tasks associated with SEO, the question that lays on many minds is this: “Where should I be spending my time?”
Aaron Wall has created a great post that lays out what aspects of SEO you should spend your time on.  He takes the time to add info for users that have both new [...]

How Long Should Your Google SEO Changes Take to Show?

Feb 19, 2008Comments

A WebmasterWorld thread posed the question about how long a person should wait after making a change to see if it helped with Google.  In the case of the thread, the site seems to have been penalized.  The poster wants to make several changes to the site but doesn’t know how long to wait after [...]

How To Get Brilliant Keyword Research

Jun 19, 2007Comments

Brendon Sinclair posted a nice little post about how to get brilliant keyword research.
He mentions that a very easy way to get effective keyword research is to use Google AdWords and do a test run on keywords that you have in mind.
A run as short as 24-48 hours will give you a very good idea [...]

Do you do .biz?

Jun 11, 2007Comments

Aaron Wall made a post today stating that he doesn’t like .biz domain names. I can’t say that I’m a fan of them either, but I’m not sure about his reasoning.
The question posed was along the lines of switching from a .biz to a .com for better ranking. Aaron believes that a .biz [...]

On-site SEO Checklist PDF

Feb 23, 2007Comments

Earlier today I wrote about an article published over on SEOmoz about 24 On-site SEO checkups.
I mentioned in my post that I was going to put together a PDF version of this checklist. Well, here it is! PDF will open in a new window
Enjoy and let me know if you use it! [...]