Links to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and more

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Resource on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

This website contains a resource of information on search engine optimization (SEO). We are maintaining one of the biggest collections of relevant external links to search engine optimization, that is being freely offered to the public by any SEO Blog. While other blogs will tease you with bits of information on search engine optimization, this site actually delivers what web developers need to know. We also provide a search feature that easily allows visitors to find what they are looking for.

Listed in alphabetical order are hyperlinks to external web pages that hopefully the public will find to be interesting reading.

This page was created by an alternate Page Template, which technically makes our SEO blog a Content Management System (CMS).

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1. 15 Blog Tips from Matt Cutts - Googler Matt Cutts gives SEO tips for blogs.


2. 15 Web Design Errors to Avoid - An irreverent look at design mistakes web developers often make when designing a website.


3. 21 SEO Tips from Matt Cutts - Tips from Googler Matt Cutts that will help your site rank better.


4. 30 Point Penalty - Learn about Google's 30 point penalty.


5. 404 error messages reconsidered - Should your site have a special 404 error handler?


6. 9 Ways to Misunderstand Web Standards - Web standards are simply tools that offer no guarantee.


7. A Humanized Google - A superstitious approach to Google from the point of view of filters, penalties, and Gremlins and all manner of rumors.


8. About Google Datacenters - Which Google are you using? What are Datacenters? And, what do you need to know about them.


9. Ameria First Party - Their name says it all: Be Proud to Put America and all Americans first.


10. An Introduction to Customizing Wordpress - How to customize WordPress. Plus some tips for making your blog search engine friendly.


11. Basics of Search Engine Optimization - Discusses three basic steps for good search engine optimization.


12. Broken Links Hurt Your Search Engine Results - Stresses the importance of maintaining good external links.


13. Buy American - Be proud to be Amerian and find out how you can keep Americans working.


14. Calculate Your Google Supplemental Index Ratio - More information on how the supplemental index ratio is actually calculated. Direct supplemental index checkers nolonger work due to Google.


15. Check Points To Improve Search Engine Crawlability - Three ways that you can make your website more crawlable by search engines.


16. Conditional Tags - The basics of using conditional tags in WordPress program modifications.


17. Damned to Google Hell - Supplemental Results - Another view on what are supplemental results.


18. Deep Links and The Power of Anchor Text! - On page factors like anchor text from internal cross-linking are often overlooked for their ability to impact just how visible your site is or how it impacts you for competitive keyword phrases.


19. Download Smitrem.exe - Effectively removes a variety of Malware from Windows XP, that you might have collected while browsing the web. Malware can be extremely annoying inconveniences.


20. Duplicate Content - Google"s official help page on duplicate content. Covers what it is and what it is not. And, offers some suggestions as to how to manage it.


21. Dynamic URl Challenges - Tips for increasing the crawlability of dynamic URLs.


22. Enabling Registry Editing - Error "Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator" can be fixed in 2 seconds for Windows XP


23. Enabling Task Manager - Error "Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator" can be fixed in 2 seconds for Windows XP


24. Factors Essential for a SEO Friendly Website - A search engine friendly website is about attracting your target audience to your site.


25. Gain Site Accessibility - Ease of use and accessibility: What are the differences? Why is accessibility important?


26. God Bless USA - A tribute site to a great song that goes: "I am proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And, I wont forget the men who died, who gave that right to me."


27. Google does NOT validate - Google does not consider validating their HTML to be important. What should that tell you about the importance of validation?


28. Google Filters - Tells you what you need to know about Google filters.


29. Google Search Engine Ranking Factors - Read about what the experts have to say what helps and hurts the most when it comes to ranking well in Google.


30. Google Webmasters Tools - Helps webmasters monitor what is happening with their sites.


31. Google's Central Blog - Official news on crawling and indexing sites for the Google index


32. Google's General Audience - Googler insights into product and technology news and our culture.


33. Hidden features of Visual Editor - The WordPress visual editor offers more than just the default options.


34. How Americans can Buy American - Explains how those who care about America and Americans can take control of America's destiny.


35. How to Handle a Google Penalty - A humanized viewof what to do when you have gotten caught violating Google Webmasters Guidelines.


36. How to Monitor Google Datacenters - What Is A Google Datacenter? And, why you should monitor them.


37. How to Remedy Duplicate Content and Magical Thinking - More discussion on duplicate content and how to remove it.


38. How to Select Keywords - An in depth guide to selecting keywords for your webpagers.


39. Internal Link Structure - Tips on building good internal link structure.


40. Internal linking and internal link structure - A hands on approach to building good internal link structure on your website.


41. Introduction to Conditional Tags - Conditional PHP programing can be used to make your pages look different and how content is shown.


42. John H. Gohde - Uses a FREE WordPress blog to respond to Tabloid Journalism of the Worst Kind.


43. John H. Gohde - The personal web site of John H. Gohde.


44. John.H.Gohde - John H. Gohde maintains his presense on the Web with del.icio.us.


45. Keyword Suggestion Tool - Free Keyword Research Tool


46. Link Checker - Check for dead-ends, or bad links, on your site one webpage at a time.


47. Link Structure - Goes over a large number of SEO factors that revolve around hyperlinks.


48. Made in U.S.A. - Help create and save American job. Buy American made products. Read the label, ask questions, and buy American made.


49. Major Players Do NOT Validate - It is the position of this blog that there is a reason why the big players on the web are not bothering to validate. In the real world, W3C Validation is not important.


50. Making Your Content Relevant - X-Googler Vanessa gives tips about making your content relevant.


51. Matt Cutts Video Transcriptions - Googler Matt Cutts videos are now available in text format.


52. Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO - Matt Cutts' blog on Google, SEO, and things.


53. Navigability and Crawlability in SEO - Make it easy for Google to find all the webpages and content on your website.


54. NoFollow and NoIndex Secrets Revealed - Googler Matt Cutts Interview on Robots.txt, NoFollow, and NoIndex.


55. Onpage Optimization - Is your web page crawlable?


56. Page Ranking Factors - A big list of factors that affect the ranking of a web page.


57. Parallels between the health field and SEO - A SEO quotes me on the parallels between Health and SEO work. This SEO even likes my sense of humor.


58. Plugins and More Plugins for Your WordPress Blog - 300+ Plug-ins for Running Your WordPress Blog


59. Proper Navigation - Your site's navigation must let visitors easily find what they are looking for as well as let the Google search engine index all the pages on your site.


60. Redirects using HTTP 301 headers - While there are many ways to rediect webpages, there is only one search engine friendly way of doing redirections.


61. Reporting Copyright Violations to Google - If your site has been scraped, here is how to report alleged copyright infringement to Google.


62. Robots.txt Checker - You think that your robots.txt file is correct. But, have you actually validated it to make sure?


63. Robots.txt Generator Tool - You specify what you want and this tool will automatically create a robots.txt file for you. Has a hand bad bots features for individually excluding the worst of the worst bots.


64. Screen Size Tester - Test how your webpage will actually look with different screen resolutions.


65. Seach Engine Optimization (Seo) Myths


66. Search engine SPAM detector - Evalutes your webpages for what Google considers SPAM.


67. See Your Site Like A Search Engine Does - Now you can test the crawlability of your site, just like the search engines would see it.


68. Select Keywords For Search Engines - Covers how to select keywords that will attract the right visitors with search engine traffic.


69. SEO of Keyword Density - Keywords are important. They allow people and your potential customers to find you. Without keywords there would be no SERPs.


70. Similar Page Checker - Checks for duplicate content and just how similar two pages are.


71. Simplify Your Web Site for Clarity and Ease of Use - Don't ignore the basic elements of good design. Clarify your site's message while simplifying your website, in order to achieve ease of use.


72. Slashdot - Has the simple mission to provide 'News for Nerds.


73. SmitRem Tutorial - Instructions on how to run SmitRem on your system.


74. Standards that May Kill - An irreverent look at the fundamental lunacy of the W3C Validation argument.


75. Supplemental Index Ratio Calculator - Find out what percentage of your webpages are in the supplemental index.


76. Support America - Support America is a grass-roots effort to promote the support of these United States of America through encouraging everyone to display the American flag and other patriotic designs, slogans and symbols.


77. The IDcide Affair - A good example of humanizing problems with Google. Engaging in superstitious behavior. Subscribing to the Gremlin theory of Google problems.


78. The Power of Text Navigation - Documentation of the importance of internal anchor text and why internal cross-linking of your webpages is very effective.


79. Ultimate WordPress SEO Tips - The SEO power in WordPress is not in the default setup. Do you know what is best when it comes to options?


80. Understanding Google Webmaster Guidelines - Explains Google's webmasters guidelines from a easy to understand approach.


81. Use WordPress as CMS - 5 reasons to consider using WordPress as a content management system(CMS).


82. Use WordPress to run a Magazine or News Service - Illustrates how WordPress with a news service format can be converted into a content management system (CMS).


83. Using Wordpress as a CMS - Explore some of the many ways that you can use Wordpress as a CMS.


84. Valid HTML - Does Google Care? - Not only did Google rank both sites with obviously wrong HTML higher, they even refused to include one of the sites with valid HTML altogether!


85. Vanessa Fox on making sites crawlable - X-Googler Vanessa gives tips about crawlability.


86. Web Page Speed Analysis Tool - Tests url and offer suggestions on how to improve its loading speed.


87. Web Writer’s Style Guide - How to write good web pages.


88. What CSS means for Accessibility - A down to earth discussion about how the use of CSS does not automatically make your website accessible.


89. When Did Standards Compliance Become Only About Validation? - It is about design and about using your brain, rather than just complying to W3C Validation nonsense.


90. Why Did My Website Tank in Google? - A checklist for getting a website out of the Google dumpster.


91. Why You Should Avoid Flash - 7 reasons to avoid Flash like the plague when designing a website.


92. WordPress: A Complete CMS - Highlights some of the more difficult parts of the migration process.


93. You Should Be Able to Browse it with Lynx - An irreverent look at how you can test the crawlability of your website.

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