Dear Readers, Have you been asking yourselves "what is this SEO stuff all about?", " maybe I should change professions?" or "I've been looking for a job - but what about being my own boss?". Well, maybe we have the answer for you... Announcing, the Full Track program for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) professionals. This program has been specifically

A few weeks ago, I wrote an overview to the semantic web - and how Google's Rich Snippets feature uses it.  Now it's time to dive in a little deeper - take your semantic scuba gear along - and discover the differences between different types of semantic markup. Any type of semantic markup needs

Hi, all! We decided to put our latest SEO blog post on SEOmoz's user generated SEO blog - so check it out over there! Just to give a brief summary - recently Google announced that YouTube videos (and other videos from Google's video partners) will be able to have automatic captioning.  Admittedly this is a

Optimizing the title and description tags for hundreds (or even just dozens) of pages? Obviously an Excel spreadsheet is the tool of choice to keep everything neat and orderly. Beyond the neatness, Excel has a number of very helpful features that make a page optimization project much easier. Here's one

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

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

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

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

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

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,