Archive for: SEO

Google’s Rich Snippets: An Introduction to Semantic Markup

At the end of last month Google announced an update to Rich Snippets. Rich Snippets, which debuted in mid-May of this year, are intended to provide more in-depth information – such as ratings for videos or restaurants or people's social and professional information – in the snippets on the search result

November 12th, 2009 by aviva b
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Are We Compatible?

When it comes to marriage, it's important that you be compatible with your spouse. When it comes to SEO, it's important that you be compatible with everyone – those who use Internet Explorer and those who use Chrome; those who embrace every new technology the web has to offer, and those

September 7th, 2009 by aviva b
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Why Is Your Site Not Ranking? The Reason (in Rhyme)

So you want your site To rank up high We have quite a job I'll tell you why When we search for your keyword Your site does view Way down on the list Rank three hundred and two Your homepage has five versions .html, .php /index, /default And the original, you see Your links are all Java Your navigation's in Flash Google has just one page of yours Stored

September 2nd, 2009 by aviva b
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Research is Key(words)

Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz wrote a recent blog post about different strategies and tools for keyword research with excellent tips on how to effectively gather and organize data. Most of the tools he covered, however, work primarily for keyword research in English, and especially well for keywords that have

July 27th, 2009 by aviva b
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Playing Tag – “You’re IT!”

Some of the most basic elements of website optimization are the title and description tags that you append to your web page. These tags are an easy way for you to let the search engines – and the searcher – know what your page is about. The user sees the title

July 23rd, 2009 by aviva b
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www.debi-z.com goes live!

Dear Friends, I was just about to go to bed tonight (or rather, this morning!), when I received an email from my blog. "Strange", I thought, "I haven't written anything for a while...". Then the penny dropped (or the "asimon" for those of us who lived in Israel before the days of mobile phones). My site,

March 26th, 2009 by debizyx
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JWP SEO Expert Panel and other adventures

Yesterday was the 1st day of 2009, and I decided that one of my new year resolutions would be to get back to blogging. So, expect a few posts from events in 2008 that I didn't manage to get to in time.
I wrote that exactly 2 weeks ago, and here I am now, without

January 15th, 2009 by debizyx
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Google de-myths SEO

When I write up an SEO analysis of a website for a new client, I include about 20 topics that over time have been proven to help improve the rankings of a website in the search results. These topics are what I call the science of SEO. There are a lot of other topics that I

November 17th, 2008 by debizyx
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The No-No’s of Website Promotion @ the Marcshoret Conference

Today was a pretty busy day for me. In fact, the last few days have been rather mad ... It all started on Wednesday evening, when I received an urgent call, asking me to speak at the Marcshoret conference on Sunday, since one of the overseas speakers had pulled out at the

November 3rd, 2008 by debizyx
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Because my SEO site is still in the works …

Lots of people have been asking me what this SEO stuff is all about, and I've been too busy to finish my website (I know - excuses, excuses ...), so I decided to add a post on "SEO in a nutshell" in the meantime.

SEO is an acronymn for "Search Engine Optimization", which in laymans terms

October 5th, 2008 by debizyx
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