Normal wisdom says that if you use Flash in a web site it will hurt your search engine placement. This is due primarily to search engines having a hard time to index Flash content. But with a little ingenuity we can use that very problem to our advantage.
Torpedo and Sink the Ship SS Search Engine Rankings
I was recently contacted by one of my best clients who asked me what I thought of his decision to make a major change to one of his highly ranked pages.
Google and Yahoo Updating Rankings
Both Google and Yahoo appear to be updating their listings at this time. Searchers and SEOs have reported major fluctuations in search engine results pages over the past two days.
The Myth of Rankings – Beyond Search Engine Optimization
What follows is a condensed version of a conversation that happens all too frequently when I am approached by a prospect interested in search engine optimization (SEO):
There Should Be More to your SEO Consultant Than Rankings
Perhaps one of the biggest misconceptions in SEO is that ranking at Google and Yahoo is all that counts in search engine optimization.
Can A Ping Really Help Your Blog Get Top Search Engine Rankings?
It’s been all over the SEO-student rumor mill for weeks now, and has finally made it into my Inbox – in droves.
How Web Design Can Affect Search Engine Rankings
Uniquely built web sites can create unique issues when being promoted on the search engines. From a basic 3 page brochure site to a corporate site with hundreds of dynamically generated pages, every web site needs to have certain design aspects in order to achieve the full effects of an SEO campaign. Below are a few points to take into consideration when building or updating your web site.
Are You Down With OPP? Get High Rankings with Other Peoples Popularity
There are many “offsite” promotion tactics that work well to get high rankings. But nothing works better in my experience than publishing and syndicating information pieces or articles.
Blog + Feed + Press Release = Top Yahoo Rankings in 1 Week
I just had a great Yahoo experience with one of my sites this past week. Within the last 7 days, I’ve gone from being invisible on Yahoo to having top listings on a number of targeted keywords and I thought some of you might find it useful if I explain how it happened.
Does W3C Validation Help In Search Rankings?
Validating the html and other codes in your website can be a time consuming task. Because validation simply checks the mark up language for proper syntax, some have wondered if using this process will benefit a site when it comes to search engine rankings, and as such, is it worth doing?