SEO - page 2

Tutorials to help you learn about SEO, and optimize your site without resorting to aggressive linkbuilding.

  1. Traffic has drastically dropped again, and this is what I personally plan to do about it.
  2. HTML class names does not have any influence on SEO, but other coding practices does have some limited influence.
  3. Subdomains may be more flexible than directories when deciding for a location for a new web application, the main reason is that you can more easily setup extra servers as needed.
  4. One of the best things you can do to increase engagement with your articles or blog posts is that you can pick an image to represent your article. Learn more about how I do this in this article.
  5. The idea that there is some kind of magis minimum word count for pages, before they will rank, is mostly wack, and here is why!
  6. I think people seem to obsess too much about their backlinks, ignoring other quality signals that are more important.
  7. A simple guide to using the Canonical URL tag, and tips on avoiding duplicated content in the SERPs.
  8. Why I place nofollow links on guest-posts.
  9. I noticed this interesting phenomenon with YouTube videos ranking higher in Google, and I have done a few tests with some success.
  10. With CSS it has long been a practice to include images as backgrounds, but as it turns out, images included as CSS backgrounds will not be indexed by Google Image search.