Boards actually do hit back
Bruce Lee said "Boards don't hit back" -- which made for a great movie line, but it ain't quite so: Newton's laws assure us...
Smiling through the pain
A certain amount of testing is just figuring out what you can make yourself do when you obviously can't do anything more. To...
Group shot
Here are we all, another stripe to our names, some with one, some with two, and still others with three, but none of us...
Links that open a new window. Do they pass PageRank and Link Reputation?
Spiders are simple little animals and the theory that guides the way search engines are built admit of few special cases, so generally speaking,...
What kinds of “links” are spiderable
When most webmasters talk about links, they almost always mean "navigation". There are several ways to connect your pages together so that humans...
What are the problems in ranking?
First, let's define terms.
Dynamic content generally means that pages are generated by some chunk of software by reading data from a database. This...
Do the engines discount links from the same domain versus links from a different domain?
Not now. Not ever. To be sure, just follow the money.
Big sites involve big dollars and it is big dollars that makes...
Is a MiniNet an effective strategy for ranking against a million competitors?
The simple answer is yes. If that's all you need to know, stop now and get back to work! 😉 But if...
Can I use Blogs alone to get good rankings?
Blog or not blog is not the real issue -- it's all about pages. Blogging software just happens to be a readily available...
Is too much nofollow a bad thing?
Some webmasters worry that pages with lots of incoming links and very few outgoing links, or lots of nofollow links, or some other pattern...
The Google Top Three
Google depends primarily on three characteristics to rank pages. They are: Page TitleHaving the search term in the title of the page you want...
The real meaning of Google’s Many Patents
Google has been keeping the patent office busy the last couple years, and reading all those patents has been keeping quite a few SEO...
How to write the nofollow attribute
A question came up from one of the owners of the Mastering PageRank video concerning the way I wrote the nofollow attribute. There...
Relative vs. Absolute links
Rumored to have come from an advanced SEO seminar is this latest SEO myth stemming from a complete lack of understanding of the underlying...
Can linking to a non-related site hurt our PageRank?
All links divert PageRank based on the number of links on the page where the new link appears. The topic of the pages...
What characteristics increase PR?
Every page has a native PageRank. It is pages that create PR. Links only distribute it. The theoretical definition of the PR...
Are sites with the .php extension worth linking with?
Will they be spidered if they do not have an html extension?
Check to see if the page is indexed by the search engine. If...
Are high keyword densities penalized?
When you see really high on-page keyword densities in OptiLink you'll probably find the the pages are framed and the noframes tag has a...
Does Google frown upon pages of the same domain cross linking with each other?
Isn't this just a normal site navbar? How would a human use a site that did not have such linking?
Or maybe you are...
Will I be penalized for linking to non related sites?
All outbound links are evil (because they bleed PR), but generally a necessary evil, and where they go does not in the least matter.