2 Giants in SEO: Inbound Links and Domain Age
They say wine tastes better as it grows older. While I’m no connoisseur, the price alone of aged wine is enough to convince me that the quality is better. When it comes to SEO, some concepts also have something to do with aging. The two most important things when it comes to site ranking is the age of the domain (the older the better, but anything older than a year is good) and also the incoming links. You want to have sites (good sites that rank well in Google) that are linking to you. (more…)
Keywords in Titles, Content and URL: 4 Tips on Maximum Utility
Economics study the maximum utilization of scarce resources. I would like to think of SEO in the same light; not in terms of tools but in space. To succeed, you have to maximize the available space because every inch matters. Well, admittedly there are other factors such as time but let’s focus more on space today. Wikipedia defines keyword as “ the words that are used to reveal the internal structure of an author’s reasoning. While they are used primarily for rethoric, they are also used in a strictly grammatical sense for structural composition, reasoning, and comprehension. Indeed, they are an essential part of any language.”Well, you have a different meaning for it in the web world but there are parallels. (more…)
5 Most Effective SEO Methods
“Summarize the story of Arachnid in 5 sentences.”My classmates groaned. They would rather write their version of the story than make a summary of the quite long story of the sad fate of Arachnid. I was probably the only one happy with that test. I ended up acing the test. That was in the fifth grade, way, way back. I forgot what I wrote but from then on, I knew that one of my strengths was making summaries, or simplifying long and complex concepts. Today, I’ll be giving my list of the five most effective things for SEO. This is based on experience (mine and a lot of other people), based on statistic (ranking, traffic, etc.) and it depends on the application of course. (more…)
The Rule of Threes in Mini-net Blogs
I started a diary in the 6th grade. My first diary was a small notepad that I tucked away so secretly I don’t think the sun saw it. The small notepad lasted 6 months with my miniscule handwriting. The next one was a thick semi-hardbound notebook that was our project in our crafts class. The paper I used was typing paper that was really old . My friend’s dad who worked for a printing press, gavw it to us. so to be unique (everyone else was using fine, ultra white, bond paper) we decided to use. It took about 3 years of my life to fill that notebook. Then, blogs surfaced. During those years, blogs weren’t common at all. People that it was just another passing fad. (more…)
6 Things You Need to Know About Blog Comments
There are days I’m so uninspired and don’t feel like writing at all that even if a flying elephant crossed my way I would probably turn over the other side and continue wallowing and feeling uninspired. But even if I have days like that, I know that I have to do something. And what I usually is I make comments on blogs. I’m not saying that you should only comment on blogs when you’re bored okay, but I do have constructive reasons for doing it: one, it is a very useful way of killing time while I’m not doing anything. Two, you get ideas and different perspective that most often than not inspire me. (more…)