SEO – an update.

Google does not pay attention to your Keywords tag anymore. As a matter of fact – they ignore it.

Matt Cutts explained that due to all the abuse of this meta tag due to people keyword spamming it and stuffing it with irrelevant keyword, the search engine now ignores this meta tag.

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SEO Cheatsheet, part one.

Important SEO HTML tags

Title Tag <head>
<title>Keyword</title>
</head>
H1,H2,H3 <h1>Most Important</h1>

<h2>Second Most Important</h2>

<h3>Third Most Important</h3> Meta

Bold, Strong

(Same Worth)

<b>Keyword</b>

<strong>Keyword</strong>

Image

(XHTML)

<img src=”keyword.jpg” alt=”keyword” />

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Google Cheat sheets

Google Cheat sheets

Here are 4 Google cheat sheets to help you use Google better.

Subdomains: The unknown advantage.

Most people refrain from using sub domains because they use a prefix name and don’t “look” right. Alot of people are also under the impression that they are overlooked by the Search Engines.

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Google Alerts

http://www.google.com/alerts

Google Alerts is a free service offered by search engine giant Google that allows you to keep track of any topic or URL on the web. Anytime one of your alert queries (like links or content) comes up on the web, you will receive the results via email.

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Google Pagerank

What is Google Pagerank exactly?

I get asked this question alot of times by my clients. I am still amazed sometimes at the ignorance of website owners. And, since I own a hosting company, I deal with website owners on a daily basis. I think it’s time to set the record straight on the whole PageRank topic.

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Search Engines explained.

Search Engines explained.

A search engine is a tool that you can use to find information on the internet. It is a co-ordinated set of programs which searches an index (or database of indexed web pages) and returns the matches to a specific keyword or phrase. All search engines consists of three parts: A) a database of web documents B) a search engine operating on that database C) a program (or series of programs) that determine how the results are displayed. The results are then displayed on a search engine results page (SERP).
Where does the information come from?

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