Reading Time: < 1 minI’ve always shied away from using more than H1 tag on a single page. I’ve assumed that Google would frown upon multiple H1s on a single page. I was wrong. The video below from Matt Cutts explains Google’s position on it. I may re-look at a few sites where I used an H2 when I […]
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Search queries are getting longer
Reading Time: < 1 minIt’s something that I’ve suspected, but never had the data to back up — users are typing longer search queries into Google. As people become more comfortable with search engines, they’re learning that longer queries will help them find what they want much more easily. There’s also the thought that searchers may be refining their […]
All on board for the new “Canonical Tag” for you to use
Reading Time: < 1 minA new tool has been added to your arsenal to help fight against duplicate content on your site, and Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are all on board with it. Introducing the “Canonical Tag”. This new tag allows you to specify the desired URL for a page that might have multiple URLS. For example, you might […]
SEOmoz asks — What’s PageRank got to do with it?
Reading Time: < 1 minRand over at SEOmoz has done a nice little “whiteboard Friday” video about Google PageRank and what it’s really about. He covers four areas where increased PageRank can benefit a site: crawling, inclusion, freshness and ranking. It’s a fairly short video (8 mins) and it’s well worth your time. Do you agree with Rand’s conclusions? […]
A great video with some WordPress SEO tips
Reading Time: < 1 minHere’s an excellent video with some SEO tips for WordPress-driven sites. This was given by Stephan Spencer of NetConcepts. He mentions his excellent “SEO Title Tag” plug-in, which can be found here. The video is about 30 minutes long, but well worth watching. Even if you’re a WordPress SEO expert, you’re bound to pull a […]
Don’t let your web design firm trash your Google rankings
Reading Time: 3 minMany of you are getting ripped off by your web design (or hosting) companies, and you don’t even know it. A while back on my SEO blog I talked about the benefits of doing some minor PageRank sculpting to your site. Another simple piece you could add to that is the tiny bit of text […]
Get more links by fixing erroneous links to your site
Reading Time: < 1 minGoogle has just released a handy tool to the webmaster portal that shows you all of your 404 errors with a link of pages that link to them. As Matt Cutts explains, it’s an easy way to get some links to your site. There are probably sites out there that meant to link to you, […]
Chrome now listed as a browser type in Google Analytics
Reading Time: < 1 minAs of today, Google Analytics is now showing “Chrome” as a browser type in Google Analytics. Visits from Chrome users over the last few days will be retroactively updated to show their use of Chrome over the next few days. We’re showing Chrome usage at over 10% on this blog for the last three days, […]
Question and Answer time
Reading Time: < 1 minDo you have a question releated to Search Engine Optimzation, AdSense, WordPress, or a related topic? E-mail me (mickey@mickmelseo.com) and I’ll round them up and post the answers in a few days. Thanks!
Google Suggest finally coming to the main Google homepage
Reading Time: < 1 minIt’s been in Google Labs for a couple years, but Google Suggest is finally coming to the main search box on Google.com. Google Suggest shows an on-the-fly drop-down of possible search results as you’re typing. The advantages of this, as presented by Google, are: Help formulate queries. Start typing what you want to find, and […]