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Archive for May 21st, 2008

Get A Better Meta to be a Trendsetter

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

I just saw something at Google Webmaster Central that’s of interest. It may be information you already know, but from what I see a lot of us haven’t been totally sure about this and it’s good that Google is telling us like it is.

While the use of a description meta tag is optional and will have no effect on your rankings, a good description can result in a better snippet, which in turn can help to improve the quality and quantity of visitors from our search results.

A lot of people find Meta tags confusing (I won’t pretend to be an ..

Source: search+engine+optimization

Exclusive: Share A Post Beta - Blog Post Syndication

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

I was honestly wondering when someone would come up with a service like Share-A-Post, because it is one of those “no brainer” ideas that I have thought of doing, but never got around to.

When to a huge amount of disbelief I blocked some of my high ranking paid reviews with robots.txt, and hinted that syndication would be a perfect loophole in Google’s penalties, no one fully understood what I meant - many SEO experts thought I was bonkers.

This is what I meant - widespread syndication with editorial control

The Limits of Traditional Article Marketing

Article marketing is all well and good, but ..

Source: seo