Inside SEO with Mr SEO

Google Trends. How are people searching on Google?

Jul 28

Ever wanted to know which phrases are searched more? In the example below you can see that the term SEO (in red) is searched more then search engine optimization(in blue). It seems that SEO has always been more popular, but more so in 2006. In fact, it seems it has been on a steady rise.

Keep in mind that this is in beta. Which means this info may not be 100% accurate. Try different ways of testing key words and phrases. Singular and plural searches on some results show a major difference, while others show very little difference. I am sure you can come up with some great ways to use this tool. If you discover anything new or have tips please post them.

Tools, Google     

Estimating invalid clicks in Google adwords

Jul 26

Inside adwords announced today….

“Today, we’re announcing the launch of a new AdWords feature enabling

advertisers to have a much more detailed picture of invalid click

activity in their account. The metrics of “invalid clicks” and “invalid

clicks rate” will show virtually all the invalid clicks affecting an

account.”

Google is trying to blame a 3rd party (consultants) for greatly exaggerating fraudulent clicks. Saying their (consultants) methodologies are to blame.

What do you think?

To read more about this visit Inside Adwords

PPC, Google     

Windows Live Toolbar

Jul 25

The new windows live toolbar!

You can search from any web page, lets you can add and manage RSS feeds in Onfolio, free virus scanning on demand, adds maps, tabbed browsing and more. Download it and give it a try. If you like it or hate it, post comments here. I may write a review or do a podcast on it.

Download the toolbar here http://toolbar.live.com/

Tools, MSN     

Getting out of the supplemental index

Jul 24

I recently wrote another article on how to get out of the supplemental. It seems there is a lot of conflicting ideas as to why pages hit the supplemental. Many people are saying only pages that have been removed from a site show up in the supplemental. This is not true. In fact all of these can cause you to hit the supplemental index.

Not enough content on the page

Duplicate content

Too many query strings in the URL

Orphaned pages… Pages not linked to any other inside your site

Titles and descriptions the same on every page

All links to your site are reciprocals and possibly to bad neighbors

A page that no longer exists may have an old cached version of itself in the supplemental listings

To learn more about the supplemental and how to avoid or get out of it, read this article

Supplemental index

If you are still having trouble, contact me via mr-seo.com or post your concerns here.

SEO     

SEO Contest is over

Jul 21

The Mr SEO contest is finally over. I can now be myself. If you enjoy people making an ass out of themselves, then this picture is for you. I don’t plan to post my mug here to often. I’ll stick to SEO as much as possible. But for now, cheers!

Misc     

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