SEO - Pick Of The Day - Blogger HTML Hacks

Blogger is much more harder to optimize for Search Engines than Wordpress, but Blogger allows much better blogging service (Ad revenue) for free.

It's kinda funny that you need to hack Blogger to get better page rank, as Google owns Blogger, and you would think that it would help your site to rank better...Wrong!

Check out The Original Blogger Tips and Tricks

to stay up on latest Blogger HTML hacking news.

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Is 100 links or less still valid?

Latest Google Webmaster Help videos is up. Discussing about if the less than 100 links per page is still valid.



Another SEO myth busted. Still...who wants to add more than 100 links to one page? or more than 20?

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SEO - Pick of the Day - PDF Optimizing

Once you have finished updating your blog or/an website to the max. You should start to optimizing your files too.

I have searched some blogs today to find new tips how to optimize my pages, and for some reason I landed to PDF optimizing blog post.  5 Ways To Optimize Your PDF For SEO. 

Plenty of other interesting blog posts too. Gonna take some more coffee, and continue reading. :)

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Ping Services For Your Wordpress Blog - Essential To Any Blogger

If you have a Wordpress blog. You WANT to know more about Ping Services. Ping Service automatically notifies sites when your blog has a new content. You can add list of ping sites to your Worpress, and you don't need to worry about it anymore. There can't be much easier way to get more visitors.

How to add ping services to your Wordpress blog?

Here is a recent guide that helps you setting out your Wordpress ping settings + Has a nice list of ping sites you can add:

How To Ping Your Blog Effectively In Wordpress

Using Blogger/Blogspot and want to ping your blog too?

No worries. There are ping websites that allows you to automatically ping many blog search sites for free. Of course with some extra cash you usually get more places to ping.

Here is a list of free ping services:

Pingomatic
Blogbuzzer
Pingler
Pindevice


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SEO: How To.... or How Not To? Black Hat SEO

Black Hat SEO and Google

Google has attacked strongly against Black Hat Search Engine Optimizations (SEO) lately, and latest "bust" has been J.C. Penney:

The company bested millions of sites — and not just in searches for dresses, bedding and area rugs. For months, it was consistently at or near the top in searches for “skinny jeans,” “home decor,” “comforter sets,” “furniture” and dozens of other words and phrases, from the blandly generic (“tablecloths”) to the strangely specific (“grommet top curtains”).

Read rest of the story at: The New York Times - The Dirty Little Secrets of Search

Finally black hat seo got some major attention, and pretty sure that this will scare some of the dirty competition away...

If your site got banned from Google. Make sure you use Webmaster's tools, as it has a page for a "Site reconsideration", in case you go wrong. Of course you need to fix your page to fit the rules.

More about Google spam penalties and how to deal with them:

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Matt Cutts, Man Against Spam

Matt Cutts - Google's Webspam Guru

Just wanted to let you know about one of my fav blogs: "Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO". Matt is the head of Google’s Webspam team, and his blog gives you nice info about how Google is fighting against spam, and how he feels about SEO, Gadgets and many other things.

Any other good SEO blogs out there?

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Bing - Webmaster Tools - True SEO value, Finally!

Bing and Webmaster Tools - Finally Worth Using!

In past few weeks Bing Webmaster Tools has finally gotten more love, and it's actually usable now. It's not good as Google's Webmaster Tools, but at least you can do thing or two with it.

The site has been redesigned to be easier to use, with an intuitive design organized around three key areas: crawl, index and traffic.  New features, such as Index Explorer and rich charting functionality, provide a comprehensive view into how Bing crawls and indexes your sites. 

I don't know if it's just me, but the whole Webmaster Tools thing is also much faster now.

See it yourself: Bing - Webmaster Tools

Make sure you also sign up for their blog for Bing SEO tips.

With SEO business you always want to be one step ahead.

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