Archive for the 'SEO' Category

Craigslist is good for SEO

I like Craigslist. Posting ads on Craigslist is fun, and helps in boosting your link popularity and traffic. Craigslist has one of the highest Alexa rankings in the world; so if you want your site to get some exposure, posting a small ad can work wonders. I’ve heard that posting an ad on Craigslist helpes [...]

Is Page Rank everything? Likely not.

Being a webmaster (and this applies for bloggers too) can be a tough chore. No kidding. It takes lots of experience and SEO knowledge to constantly keep your site at the top of the SERPs, or to get them there. And it takes constant work. The craze for links and more links would not have [...]

For better SEO results, consider a translation plugin for your blog

I just installed a translation plugin on Modern Street. It works quite ok for now. I found this plugin at The World’s Greatest Blog. (Thanks Rob) There are currently, a few around that may or may not work for your particular blog. I recommend searching around until you find one that works. SEO-wise, you should [...]

Digg effect experiment at SEOmoz

I noticed an interesting post on SEOmoz that in essense shows the power of Digg and Reddit in building crazy traffic overnight. The post by SEOer Daniel Tynski is here. A worthy link bait from any webmaster’s perspective. How long would it take to get 234,000 visitors? Practically overnight? Here’s what I observed: Social media [...]

LSI: A quick look at LSI

Almost everyone agrees LSI is here to stay, and will keep on increasing in importance in the search engines. LSI or Latent Semantic Indexing is a way to evaluate a document based on semantically related terms using a sparse matrix with rows corresponding to terms and columns corresponding to documents. A weightage is assigned to [...]

How to use keywords in your article

Search engine marketing relies heavily on articles to promote products. Without a proper keyword optimized article, it is going to be difficult to get your article up in the search engine results. As if it has become a byword, unique quality content is important to please both search engines and humans. But whereas humans can [...]