Google, Yahoo and Bing Search Algorithms Revised

Stephen Noton re-posted the major factors of search engine algorithms for Google, Yahoo and Bing. He originally reviewed the SEO algorithms in 2006, but ever since then the algorithms of the top three search engines have been updated.

Google’s Algorithm
Yahoo’s Algorithm
Bing’s Algorithm

Before your website ranks well on Google, Yahoo and Bing, make sure you monitor how [...]

Inhouse SEO Tips

Your SEO team is to do in-house SEO for a large organization’s website. Often the major obstacles are not the technical issues, but the company’s culture and bureaucracy. Successful SEO requires buy-in at the corporate level where your SEO team will influence and educate the people and together you will have to find the mutual [...]

SEO Tips from Stephen Noton

I recently interviewed one of the most experienced Internet marketing experts, Stephen Noton, who has 11 years of experience on consulting and training individuals and businesses across different countries. Stephen has worked with companies including Dell Computers, Alibaba, and Global Sources on SEO/SEM projects. Before Google existed Stephen started optimizing web sites for organic search [...]

SEO is Usability

Google’s algorithm for ranking websites rely heavily on a site’s link popularity which are essentially both the quality and quantity of inbound links pointing to the site. However over the years, Google has discovered other ways to more effectively and fairly rank web pages. It has been collecting enormous user interacted and generated data from [...]

Firefox Search Status Toolbar Shows Compete Ranking

For those webmasters and SEO specialists who use Firefox browsers, Compete Ranking has been incorporated into the Search Status toolbar which is a really useful Firefox extension.

2007-05-15: ver 1.19 – Compete.com added! Compete ranking for the current domain now appears in a new bar alongside PageRank and Alexa Rank, with estimated visitors in the menu [...]

Search Engine Crawlability Factors

Before a website can rank well in the search engine result pages, it has to be indexed by the search engine spiders. A search engine spider (robot) will visit one of your pages and look for links on the page. It will follow the links on the page to other pages. All the web pages [...]

Traffic, Traction and Popularity through Search Engine Optimization

Many clients often argue that SEO is only one of the many methods in driving traffic to your website. Any methods such as pay-per-click advertising, email marketing, contextual advertising, or banner advertising can give your site a steady stream of traffic. The traffic will turn into financial profits or not, it depends on whether your [...]

No Follow Or Do Follow?

Link popularity is the fundamental concept of how major search engines rank sites in their SERP. This led to the abuse of this concept by the so-called link spammers in which blog comments are mostly targeted. To prevent the abuse, just over two years ago Google introduced the nofollow attribute. This is what Matt Cutts [...]

4 Reasons SEO Fails

Most SEO campaigns fail to achieve the objectives they were set out to achieve. Below are the four most common reasons for failure. By understanding the reasons webmasters can start their next SEO campaign with better planning.
Reason #1: Failing to gather information about keyword popularity
One of the mistakes many webmasters make is to do their [...]

False SEO Strategies

Many websites with big brand names were created many years ago, and at that time SEO had just begun. Search engine optimization techniques have been changing as search engines are updating their algorithms once every few months, these “big brand” sites look for advises from external SEO experts.
I am sure it can be painful for [...]

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