Archive for 'Myths'
PageRank and NoFollow
Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by James Beswick.
As discussed in yesterday’s post, building inbound links to your site is a major part of search engine optimization. This is largely due to the weight that Google places on not just the number but the quality of sites linking to yours. Google’s measure of quality is known as PageRank (PR) and is published infrequently [...]
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Inbound links
Posted on 27. Jul, 2010 by James Beswick.
Getting other sites to link to yours is a major part of SEO and there are three main ways to do this: Pay a service to get inbound links for you Manually trawl the web for high quality sites and request links or post comments on their blog Develop content and use webpage design to [...]
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Avoid the Social Bookmarking Scam
Posted on 19. Jul, 2010 by James Beswick.
In Ranking Number One, I covered the importance of social bookmarking for drawing traffic and improving your SEO. Due to the social element of sites such as StumbleUpon and Digg, there are two critical elements in making this work:
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The Google Sandbox and What You Can Do About It
Posted on 22. Apr, 2010 by James Beswick.
There’s confusion about what the Google Sandbox actually is and whether it really exists, but most search engine optimizers have come to agree that it’s a mechanism used by Google to reduce the impact of new websites, and restrict their ability to rank highly. Why would they do this? Google’s priority is to provide quality [...]