Category | SEO & SEM

Don’t End Your URLs With .0, .exe or .tgz

Posted on 14 June 2008

A simple SEO guideline says that you should end your urls in .htm, .html or make them as mine. Some do not follow this and end them in .php, .asp and other programming languages. It might not be as good as the ones ended in .html, but Matt Cutts say they are and there’s no […]

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Google Trends Gets New Features

Posted on 11 June 2008

Google has just added a new feature to the Trends tool. Unfortunately, it wasn’t what a lot of us were expecting: the search volume in numbers.
Now it shows how much a keyword is searched, in comparison to the average searches since 2004 until the time you perform the query. For example if today the keyword […]

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Search Engines vs. Social Media

Posted on 20 May 2008

I do have websites with traffic based on social media, others based on search engines and others combined. I have been doing a lot of research and comparisons between all of them. Of course it’s hard because of the niches, but I do have some that are on the same niche that are some based […]

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How to be a successful webmaster - part 2: Branding

Posted on 07 June 2007

The brand is very important for your readers, because it will make them return on your website, talk about it and will keep it in mind. But it isn’t quite easy to brand yourself, being composed of more parts, like the domain name, website title, your name or nickname, logo and website design.
Name or nickname
This […]

How to be a successful webmaster - Part 1

Posted on 28 May 2007

I will try to write a few lessons or tips on how to be a successful webmaster or blogger, that will be composed of: choosing a hosting company and plan, a domain name, building your website or blog, choosing a good theme/template or getting a custom one, optimizing your website for good results in search […]

Microsoft to buy Yahoo ?

Posted on 07 May 2007

There are rumors that say Microsoft will buy Yahoo to improve their search engine and Adcenter. Microsoft is fighting to gain a bigger part of the search engines industry, but can’t defeat Google, the best in relevance, indexing and also PPC. Yahoo could help Microsoft in this game, as it ranks better than it and […]

Buy viagra from … Google ???

Posted on 01 March 2007

Currently, Google ranks first in Yahoo UK’s SERP and 5th in Yahoo’s SERP for the keyword ‘buy viagra’. This seems to be due to black hat seos and Google spamming, that they can’t stop.
Here are screenshots that prove the fact:

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Wordpress is Duplicate-Ready

Posted on 12 February 2007

Wordpress seems to suffer of supplemental syndrom, because of it’s unsafe structure, that shows the same posts in a lot of different pages, like Categories, Archives, Page, Post and Index. This are at least 5 copies of the same post, that Google may treat like duplicate content and add to supplemental results.
If you don’t want […]

Great SEO blog and forum

Posted on 02 February 2007

A few weeks ago, i have discovered a great SEO Blog, written by a man owning also a SEO Forum, which has incredible success and also there are a lot of great tips, tricks and news.
The blog is updated daily and treats the most interesting subjects for a SEO and webmaster.

The Search Engine Market Competition

Posted on 17 December 2006

Lately, the search engine market got large scales and became very profitable, so the big IT player ( Microsoft ) wants in, but here’s a leader that seems to be invincible.
Currently, Google leads the battle with over 50 percent of the search engine market and after it it comes Yahoo, with 23.9 percent and Microsoft, […]