Search Engine Optimization

How To Use Backlink Tools To Help You Get More Traffic

If you analyze backlinks to websites or blogs, you might have used some of the free tools out there like SEOquake and the Quirk SearchStatus Add-on for Firefox. Both of these tools provided backlink information which was gathered from Yahoo Site Explorer. YSE stopped providing this information in 2011. YSE allowed you to track what [...]

Keyword Research: 7 Steps To Casting An Extremely Wide Net

Keyword research is the process of discovering words that searchers use to find what they are looking for on the Internet. These words are known as keywords, keyword phrases or queries. You can use these queries to help people find what they are searching for. The search results are considered organic search results as opposed [...]

Domain Age and Other Interesting SEO Observations

I was working on a site recently that has been registered since 1997.  So the Domain Age or how long the site has been out there on the Internet is over 10 years.  It will be 12 years this December 2009 to be exact. The site is completely hand-coded in html and has grown to [...]

Thirteen SEO Definitions

After summarizing Google’s Search Engine Optimization Start Guide, I thought I’d provide an SEO definitions page for those folks who are new to SEO or just need to know what’s what.  So here are Thriteen SEO Definitions.  Mind you, this is not some exhaustive list.  Just some that I found helpful when I started learning [...]

The Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

Google has a free guide for webmasters called Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide.  The guide is a must read.  Below is a summary of the guide. Title Tags Title tags are the title of your blog post or page that shows up in Google when someone searches on the keywords that are in your [...]

What is Domain Age?

I’ve always wanted to start a website using my name as the domain name – billbolmeier.com. I didn’t really think about what I’d do with the website so I held back from registering it, until blogging came along. First Things First: A Bunch of Definitions A blog is a type of website. Blogs are easy [...]

Blog Titles and Descriptions

Here’s a video of Google’s Matt Cutts discussing how to setup your blog title and description for the best search results. Blog Titles Instead of Starbucks Homepage as the title, change it to Starbucks Coffee. From an SEO point of view you’d rather have the word coffee indexed than homepage. People will have a better [...]