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Link building. Are you doing it incorrectly?

Dec 13

I just wrote an article that is posted on my other blog on how people do link building incorrectly.

As stated in the article:

“Exchanging links with other low PR and heavily reciprocal linking sites will not do you good in ranking well on the engines. The only exception occurs when you can link to a new site that is related and that you feel will eventually have a high PR. In other words, sometimes getting in on the ground floor is a good idea.”

You can read the full article here.

SEO, Google, MSN, Yahoo     

MR -SEO Launches Video Cast - How to create and build an XML sitemap online with free tools

Nov 23

This is the first of many. If you are a fan of the podcast you’ll love this.

Head to my site or itunes for a larger screen size.

http://www.mr-seo.com/SEO-Tutorial.html

The Sitemap Protocol supplements, but does not replace, the crawl-based mechanisms that search engines already use to discover URLs. By submitting a Sitemap (or Sitemaps) to a search engine, you will help that engine’s crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.

Using this protocol does not guarantee that your web pages will be included in the search engines index.

Can I use an XML sitemap as a substitution for a robot.txt file?

No, you must still use a robots.txt file to restricted the engines from pages and folders you do not want them to index.

Will submitting an XML sitemap increase my pagerank?

No, it will not. An XML sitemap has nothing to do with pagerank.

Will submitting a sitemap get me out of the sandbox or supplemental index?

No, it will not. Submitting a sitemap will not help you with either of these problems

I’ve submitted a sitemap and may site is still not being fully crawled. Why?

There could be other factors involved. Check your sites navigation. Make sure all your links are accessible and spiderable.

To learn more about XML sitemaps visit http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/google-sitemaps.htm

SEO, Google, MSN, Yahoo     

SEO Podcast - MR SEO 1 year anniversary!

Nov 10

Nov 11th marks two special days. Besides the fact it will be Veteran’s day. ( A thank you to all those who have served and made the USA what it is today.) It will also be the one year anniversary of the Mr SEO podcast. One year and several thousand listeners later, the podcast has grown by leaps and bounds.

It has all been made possible with the help of all the loyal listeners. I’d like to take this time to thank everyone that listens to the show. What does the next year hold? We have some ideas that will continue to keep you folks up to date on all the latest SEO methods and information.

As always you can email me and tell me what you’d like to hear on the podcast. If you never listened to the MR SEO podcast you are missing out on a lot of great and free information. Take a listen.

You can read listener feedback here if you need some convincing

SEO, Podcasting, Google, Ask, MSN, Yahoo     

Top 7 SEO mistakes new site owners make.

Oct 31

Here is a list of the top 7 things new websites owners fall prey to. Doing some or all of these can cause your rankings to suffer.

1- Lack of content – Not enough original content can be bad for your site and possibly land you into the supplemental results.

2- Duplicated content – This is usually a problem with content management systems. Using the same amount of content with a few words rearranged can hurt. For example, if your site offered services for different cities and you used the same content for all and simply swaped out the cities; that would be seen as duplicated content.

3- Bad urls - Google just announced they can no longer read urls that end in id=123, which is great, however if your urls contain more than 2 query strings, you can still run into problems.

4- Hiding content - Believe it or not, this is still a problem. Some people try to get away with it by not making blend in exactly with the background (making the content 1 shade darker or lighter than the background color) or by making the content so small it can barely be read.

5- Exchanging links – Linking to unrelated sites, especially while taking part in a link exchange, can be bad for your site. As Matt Cutts has stated here: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/2006/05/, it’s best to stay away from link exchanges with sites that are not related. This might translate into your site not being fully indexed.

6- Backlinks and rankings - Many people have no idea what to do when they have a site built. They assume they can have it built and submit it to Google and that’s all it takes. Others are obsessed on numbers, thinking if they merely out-link their competition, they will rank better. Neither one of these are true.

7 – Title and descriptions tags - Keeping title tags and or description tags the same throughout the site is bad. I have heard designers say, “It keeps the site uniform”. What it really does is place you in the supplemental index. Title and description tags should reflect what the page is about.

SEO, Google, MSN, Yahoo     

Get $50 in credit when you join MSN adcenter

Oct 27

Need a reason to try out MSN AdCenter? We’ll here is is….You can get $50 in free clicks by following this url below.

Just click here www.msftadcenter.com/events

Enter promotional code excomxpo1006

Expires Nov 15, so get a move on.

Yesterday I talked about Google giving away $50 as well. Click here to claim those

http://www.mr-seo.com/wordpress/?p=127

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