Google, Yahoo or Bing. Pick your poison

Have you ever tried searching with any of these three? I’m sure you have. These are the most renown search engines around. Which gives the most relevant results?

Right now search engines compete to make themselves better in terms of their results and different functionalities. The more relevant results, the better.

I would think that right now Google still holds the most searches in the world. Why? Well, they’ve never stopped innovating and they’ve never stopped improving their search engine algorithm. They keep on changing it – adapting to the trends of the internet and to the trends of SEO pracitioners (especially the black hat ones).

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Facebook is blurting out your private information

Facebook has just released it’s new ‘socialization’ features in the form of API’s and widgets to it calls to be it’s “trusted partners”

I agree that Facebook is doing a mighty well job in connecting the web and making it more personalized for most people but then maybe this step is a bit too hasty for them. Sure, you have the option to keep your stuff private, but then Facebook has, by default, already checked the ‘instant personalization’ box for you. Meaning the moment you land into one of their “trusted partners” sites, your personal information has just been given away.

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Yes we Can! Says the White Hat SEO Hacker

Building links is one of the toughest parts of SEO. Being a blogger for some time, I know how tough it is to just get your content out there and let people create buzz out of it. If you’re a black hatter, you’re most probably building links by yourself through doorway pages or comment spamming. But if you’re a white hatter, what now?

I say, yes we can!

White hatters can create links too!

Just listen to my good friend Matt Cutts say it all. Watch this video.

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SEO and the White Hat approach

SEO has a long history. It’s simply not something new. And before it became this technical, it was merely a matter of content, which is the main focus of White Hat (or sometimes known as organic) SEO. When SEO was yet unconscious, content was almost everything. And right now, content is still one of the main driving factors when it comes to SEO.

When content mattered most

‘Content is King’ as they say. And SEO will not argue with that statement. Content may still well be king even up until now but what’s a king without the queen and their subjects?Aall the other factors that a Google spider verifies such as meta tags, image alt text, keyword density, backlinks and whatnot are just as important.

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In SEO, domain age matters

How much weight does age have in SEO? They say that a site’s age matters in a website’s search engine rankings. How does this work? How long does your site have to be up in the web to be ranked higher by our beloved Google?

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Seven simple things that matter in your site’s SEO

Did you ever wonder what really matters in SEO? What stuff makes your site rank higher? What would make your Google rankings better? What is the secret ingredient to the brew? I talk about the 7 simple things that matters in your site’s SEO:

1. Keywords
Keywords are important because they make your site specific in the search engine. Good keywords works both ways, they make your site specific to the search engines and they make it easier for you to identify your target market.

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SEO in 2 simple terms

SEO is such a wide topic. You can type in ‘SEO’ in the internet and get endless results. It’s an emerging trend and a lot of information can be confusing. I lay out SEO in simple terms in this post. What is SEO in simple terms?

SEO is helping the search engine find you
SEO is making your site more visible and transparent to the search engines. It’s true that Google has a page rank system (similar to a point system in which they add and deduct points from you) but that is secondary. The primary goal of SEO should be connecting your site to the search engine.

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Hey mister SEO, what’s up with the black hat?

Search engine Optimization can be done in a variety of ways. It’s flexibility and boundaries are almost limitless. There are two popular ways or methods to do SEO and they are called the ‘White hat’ method and the ‘Black hat’ method. You are either of the two or you’re in between.

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How is Google’s personalized Search engine capability going to affect SEO?

Google now has a personalized search feature in their search engine. It’s kind of like a bot that can tell Google’s search engine what kind of stuff you’re looking for. Different keywords have different results and you’re if you’re looking for only one type of result, it would be tasking to go through all of the irrelevant search results.

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How is Google’s new real-time search going to affect SEO?

Google has plans of making their search engine capable of tracking real-time information. Now you can see search results update in a moment’s notice – from twitter or facebook or myspace, etc. This is a phenomenal development for the search engine giant and is sure to affect SEO in the coming years.

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SEO without boundaries

SEO has no direct, knockdown guidelines on how to make your page rank higher. It doesn’t tell you how to be a competitive site, doesn’t tell you how your site will get into the 1st page search results. It doesn’t tell you it’s secrets. You have to know it yourself.

And so that’s what some people do

Some people do the trial-and-error method. First, they try to know what methods are punishable by Google (which is the top search engine there is based on users) and what methods are legal, then they try out new ideas in hopes of somehow increasing their page rank. Some of these ideas are proven to be true while some are still on the test-tube.

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So what is SEO?

SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization. Simply put, it is the process of making your website a better-ranking site in the search engines than other websites with the same niche or market as yours. So why is SEO important?

Search Engines Matter
Search engines are a big way to get traffic to your site – that is if you have the right content. People who surf the internet almost always look for information they need. If your site provides that but it doesn’t show up when they look for it, then your site is next to useless.

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