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Google recently added In Page Analytics to its offerings. Prior you would have to look at charts and statistics. Now you can visually see what percentage of clicks each link gets via the context of the Web page itself. Bubbles (or thought clouds as I call them) appear near the link. They tell you the [...]

I read a blog article recently from Dan Paterson. It was called “18 Simple SEO Items Commonly Missed in Web Development” and was published on SEO.com, a high ranking site with lots of traffic. As an aspiring DIY SEO I especially appreciate it where where he says: “a lot of Web developers don’t understand the [...]

This video from Google Webmaster Help is another good insight into how Google ranks your site as it appears on a search engine results page (SERP).  Matt Cutts, Google engineer, says that page ranking is a factor of some 200 different signals.  Much of these are common sense. He cautions you should not be totally [...]

“If you run WordPress, and I do and I love it….”  states Matt Cutts, of Google’s Search Quality group.  Cutts starts discussing WordPress approximately 9:32 into a YouTube video entitled:  Google I/O 2010 – SEO site advice from the experts.  This is an eye opener from someone who is generally recognized as a search engine [...]

A blog, or Web log, is the easiest way to regularly add new content to a Web site.  Google and other search engines constantly search the Web for today’s news, not yesterday’s headlines.  Query matches in search engine results pages are moving to ‘real time’ matches.  This is as opposed to previously historically archived matches, [...]