Archive for the 'on-page SEO' Category

How Does a Blogroll Harm Your Blog?

A blogroll is an integral part of every blog. In fact, when a blogroll isn’t present, it’s like a blog isn’t complete. Did you know, however, that SEO-wise, your blog roll might do your domain harm? As of this point in time, unless you’re fresh on the scene (wherein which, I would recommend reading through […]

How Outbound Links Help In SEO

This is the last half of a two-part discussion regarding links. This time, I’m discussing One of the most common advices I come across in many web master forums is to link to other web sites. In short, to include outbound links in web pages. One might not really understand it at face value. After […]

The 411 on Inbound Links

I’ve been mentioning backlinks quite often in many articles and I’m sure the experts need no more explanation. Every time I go to web master forums, however, I’m greeted with questions about linking so I thought it best if we tackle the basics of linking. First up — inbound links. The most widely known information […]

How Important is the Site’s Popularity for Backlinks?

We all know how important building backlinks is. Nobody would find your web site(s) unless you promote and build back links. It’s not only for the PageRank anymore because as I have observed, a lot more people are becoming disillusioned with the Google PageRank. And besides, with all the change in algorithms and penalizations, it’s […]

How to Optimize for Yahoo

Last time, I talked about the need, or lack thereof, to optimize your web site for each particular search engine. As was said, it might not be possible for one to fully optimize for one search engine and hope to do well in the other. You should optimize for all of them collectively and as […]

How to Optimize Your WordPress Blog

Blogging has boomed over the recent years and honestly, I’m not surprised. Blogs are everything from entertainment to sources of information to venues where people can socialize in cyberspace. In short, blogs are currently a gamut of things and who knows what else in the future. One of the most popular and widely-used blog platforms […]

Optimizing Web Site Configuration

When people design web sites, we often most usually think about the aesthetics. As long as it looks good, frankly, I don’t care what goes on the left and right parts of the layout. However, if you plan to optimize your web site completely and would want it to be search engine friendly, there’s actually […]

The Importance of Header Tags in SEO

I’ve seen quite a lot of disagreement on whether header tags actually help optimize web pages. I understand the skepticism, but testing it, I’ve found out that the text inside H1 header tags is displayed by the search engines. In the absence of the H1, the first line of text available to search engine spiders […]