Keyword Research on the cheap

Don’t have big budgets to do keyword research? Read on… STEP 1 – GOOGLE SEARCH The wildcard (*) operator tells Google to substitute it for one or more words that would normally appear in the search phrase.  Here are a couple of examples of how you can use the wildcard operator: If you type [“black …

Is the order of links on a page important for SEO?

I watched this nice short video from Matt Cutts answering questions from the community. This is about the important of links in a page and their position relative to other links on the page. Matt from Lexington, KY asks: “Is first link priority an on-page SEO factor? If so, should we modify CSS or JavaScript …

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24

Seasonal flower arranging: http://www.artisticflowerarrangements.com/blog/index.php/seasonal-flower-arranging # RT @lizajlee: Thank you Sandro for helping me to finish Artistrun.org as my own art blog now! http://www.sandrosalsi.com/testimonials.html # How to avoid an adsense penalty: http://sandrosalsi.com/2764/banned-from-adsense-how-to-avoid-it-from-happening/ # The 2010 Hiring Challenge: http://www.prevueassessments.com/blog/2010/01/the-2010-hiring-challenge/ # Google Social Search: tips and tutorials: http://sandrosalsi.com/2752/google-social-search-tips-and-tutorials/ # SEO tip (4): get diffefent type of links and …

Twitter Updates for 2010-01-22

SEO tip (4): get diffefent type of links and do not add links too quickly # SEO tip (3): When linking to your site don’t always use the same anchor text # SEO tip (2): link to internal Pages # SEO tip (1): Stay Away From Link farms # Twitter does not allow images. Either …

Twitter Updates for 2009-06-29

Blog optimization tip (9): Use a Good URL Structure. Use permalinks to create search friendly URL’s/ # Blog optimization tip (10): Use your own domain name. Companies go bankrupt all the time. You cannot rely on FREE hosts. # Blog optimization tip (11): Manage Your Trackback & Comment Spam. Don’t allow masses of spam links …