The Newbie’s 9 Simple Steps for Search Engine Friendly Wordpress Blog Posts

September 15th, 2007 by Alan

Following are recommendations for basic SEO Friendly Wordpress blog posts and plugins. This is how some of SEO Image’s clients are set up - depending on the needs and goals some client structure, configurations, and plugins may differ.
We like things kept simple until the blogger gets more experience and can utilize additional methods and plugins. […]

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Link Popularity Building through Link Types & Link Quality

July 19th, 2007 by Alan

I have written a 3-Part tutorial on the Search Engine Journal where I have been putting up weekly tutorials based on my SEO experience. For those of you who are unaware, I have been working professionally in the SEO industry since the late 90’s. I am very technical and have been a beta tester for […]

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Search Algorithm Popularity Factors and Types

June 15th, 2007 by Alan

Alan’s latest post is online over at Search Engine Journal.
It categorizes popularity types and gives a brief intro into each. In defining popularity types, we can determine the best methods of optimization that would benefit websites by utilizing these popularities. Knowing that if we are well-rounded and utilize every aspect, we can get websites […]

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Supplemental Index - Why are big sites falling victim?

June 2nd, 2007 by Alan

The supplemental index has become a tool for Google to place less valued pages into to try and fine-tune the quality of its main index. In fact, the current supplemental index is growing rapidly and may be trying to get into the “Size Wars” of Millions of pages indexed. - OK, so I may like […]

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The Top 3 Tools for Keyword Research on the Fly

May 3rd, 2007 by Alan

This is a quick Tidbit for SEO Keyword Research: Utilizing Keyword Search Tools on the Fly.
One thing we often do with clients is track terms in conversations about potential new directions and goals. In doing this we often use our knowledge of the system and the goals of the client to determine the best choice […]

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SEO Image Interview with Mr. SEO (Part 2)

April 27th, 2007 by Alan

Listen to part 2 of the amazing SEO Geeks on Caffeine. Joe Balestrino, of the New York SEO Company MR. SEO, and I cover so many SEO topics and theories that even Matt may like this. We even address concerns on relevancy and the choices made by Search Engines to use when creating Search Algorithms. […]

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SEO Image Interviewed by Mr. SEO - PodCast

April 16th, 2007 by Alan

Mr. SEO, a New York SEO Consultant and SEO Company, has a very interesting podcast, and in my opinion, is one of the leaders and early adapters on the SEO PodCast front. Joe asked me to do a podcast which was very similar to one of the many several hour conversations that we have every […]

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Erratic Rankings for Blogs and SEO Factors

April 5th, 2007 by Alan

I notice that many powerful blogs when they post will gain rankings for as long as the specific post remains on the home page. Constantly changing content will lead to constantly changing rankings. While blogs do archive content, by nature, they devalue content with age as the more powerful PageRank and backlinks are generally coming […]

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Increase PageRank and Quality Content Factors

March 25th, 2007 by Alan

Content, considered king by some, is currently proven to effect the PR of a page. For instance, pages with more content and well written content generally get a PageRank boost. If the content is original and high quality based on a “Microsoft Word-Like” word processors that Google uses, then pages gain an additional boost.
If the […]

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Why You Need to Design Sites for Search Engines - NOT Visitors

March 23rd, 2007 by Alan

For years we told users to design sites for their visitors and not the search engines. Today we actually state the opposite. Due to Google’s overly obsessive duplicate content filter and its parameters for spam being so close to natural content and template usage, we now believe it is imperative for sites that want to […]

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