How to Stay Safe from Duplicate Content by Using .htaccess and 301 Redirects
It's not uncommon for a site to have mutiple domains and sub-domains pointing to the same content. For example, you can get to this site using sitening.com or www.sitening.com. But for...
Bounce rates affecting rankings? Or SEO for SEO's sake?
Over at SEO Black Hat, QuadsZilla demonstrates correlation between traffic, specifically Google traffic, and bounce rate, claiming that bounce rate is being used to determine quality and factoring...
Google introduces SearchWiki; SEO heads explode
If you're signed in to Google this morning and have performed a search, you've no doubt noticed that they've introduced interaction elements that allow you to move results up or down or suppress...
Happy Birthday Raven!
We had a little party over the weekend to celebrate the launch of Raven, our SEO tools suite (more to come on that later). A cake was purchased (after, no lie, having to jump through legal...
Example of Good Link Bait
I just found this linkbait mentioned in my RSS reader. It's a site called How Long Could You Survive Chained to a Bunk Bed with a Velociraptor?. To search marketers, this is an obvious attempt at...
Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management Presentation on SEO & Search Marketing
I want to thank Corey Cleek of Uloop and Erick Goss for inviting me to present on SEO & Search Marketing to their Internet Marketing class at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. I...
EDU Links! EDU Links! Get Your Red Hot EDU Links!
There's a belief among many search engine optimizers that links from college websites (aka EDU links) carry more link juice than typical COM, NET and ORG TLD links. Because of that belief, many SEO...
Mikulla Joins Sitening as SEO Specialist
Matt Mikulla has joined Sitening's SEO team. An accomplished artist and self-described creative geek, Matt changed career directions to pursue his long-time interest in computers and technology. Prior...
Sitening Launches Raven SEO Tools and Companion Firefox Toolbar
After several months of testing and tweaking, we're excited to announce the release of Raven — The Essential Toolset for Search Engine Optimization. The success of Sitening's free SEO Tools prompted...
Google vs Text Link Ads
Google has reached a monopolistic milestone with its recent changes to the treatment of paid links. While I believe they are still operating within reason, they are edging ever closer to the danger...
Google SEO Update: Underscores, URL Depth and More!
Stephan Spencer, from CNET's News Blog, posted an informative entry about changes that are taking place with Google's search engine. Of particular interest was the news from Matt Cutts regarding...
Husband and Wife Traffic Building Smackdown
A fellow web designer has recently started a public battle with his wife on the Internet. It's not what you think though — they're battling to see who can have the most popular blog within the...
WebDU 2007: Countdown
I'm currently in Sydney, Australia for the 2007 WebDU conference. I'll be presenting on Optimizing Standards Based Websites for Search Engines (aka SEO). My first impressions of Sydney have been...
Google PageRank Updated Daily?
We recently added a PageRank alert service to the Sitening SEO Tools. Historically, the published PageRank for web pages in Google's index was updated quarterly. While it doesn't change a whole lot...
SEO Inc. Releases SEO Toolbar 2.0
One of the best things to happen to Internet browsers are toolbars. Until recently, most toolbars were used to enhance a user's browsing experience. For example, the Google Toolbar offers features...
