PPC Blog’s Google Sitelinks

My PPC blog gordonchoi.com has been given Google Sitelinks recently: Run a search on “Gordon Choi” on Google.com, or copy and paste the following links onto your Internet browser, you will be able to see the Sitelinks: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=gordon+choi&btnG=Search Previously, I have explained some of the criteria for Google Sitelinks to be shown for web sites [...]

Google SEO Starter Guide

Google officially published an Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide, finally. The SEO Starter guide is a 22-page document in PDF format which can be downloaded here (*.PDF). The guide covers the aspects of SEO below: Page title tags Description META tag URL structure Site navigation Quality content Anchor text Heading tags Image optimization Robots.txt Rel=”nofollow” [...]

SEO Geo Targeting Multiple Countries

You have a multi-language site that is required to rank well in the SERP of every single country. This allows your web business to be reached easily by global audiences coming through the search engines. I mentioned previously about Geo Targeting SEO Strategies for a Single Country. Besides top-level domain (TLD), local hosting, and business [...]

SEO Geo Targeting

Websites do rank differently in the search engine result pages of different countries. You want your site to rank well in the SERP of the country that your business targets. When setting up the SEO strategies your website, you should consider the geo-targeting factors below. Top-level Domain A top-level domain (TLD) indicates to the search [...]

Canonical URLs, 301 Redirects, Preferred Domain, Non-www, or Www

Canonicalization is the process of picking the best URL when there are several choices, according to Google’s Matt Cutts. Consider canonicalization that refers to home pages like the examples below: www.example.com example.com/ www.example.com/index.html example.com/home.asp All of the above URLs seem to be the same URL, however, technically they are all different (the www version is [...]

Google Sitelinks Updated

Selected web sites have been given Sitelinks on Google search result pages since awhile ago. Google Sitelinks are links that appear directly underneath the search result of a site and are determined by Google’s algorithms. Currently, Sitelinks are only shown for top search results. Google usually shows 2 to 8 Sitelinks for a site. Google [...]

Virtual Hosting or Dedicated IP?

Webmasters who are to put up new websites all will face decisions to whether host with a shared IP or a dedicated IP. With a share IP address, there are multiple websites that are being hosted on the same IP address. With a dedicated IP address, you are the only user of that address. Some [...]

Matt Cutts Reveals 2007 Google SEO Changes

Earlier this year on his SEO blog, Matt Cutts revealed some important changes on Google organic search in 2007. Update Frequency The internal databases of Google will be updated once every 1-2 days instead of once every 3-4 weeks. This means more variance will be in the Google rankings for webmasters. Google has always been [...]

Matt Cutts Blog Hacked

Matt Cutts’s SEO Blog was hacked by the so-called Dark SEO Team today, as you can see from the screenshot below. His blog is one of the SEO blogs I love reading, so I guess I have no other options but will have to come back later. Whether it is an April Fool’s joke by [...]

Link Popularity and Google PageRank

When it comes to SEO, there are link popularity and Google PageRank. Many SEO outsiders often are confused by the differences between link popularity and PageRank. Link popularity is the quantity and quality of links pointing to your website from other websites on the Internet. When many other websites link to your website, search engines [...]

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