Search Engine Optimization

High PageRank Article Directories

Part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is getting quality incoming links (also called backlinks and inlinks). Links are not simple to attain! One means of possibly attaining links is to publish articles for reuse through one of the various article publishing Sites /Article Directories. The advantage of using these Directories is that other sites may [...]

Terrorist Hiding at his Home Page

An alleged weapons dealer is listed as being wanted by Interpol for the offence of Terrorism Conspiracy. Where do we find information about said person? Why, his Internet home page of course! Yes, Victor Bout, the Russian accused of whom movies have been made and books (e.g. ‘Merchant of Death’ by Farah and Braun) written [...]

Article Directories – A Waste of Time?

Heard of the various Article Directories (GoArticles, Article Dashboard, EzineArticles etc.)? Well so have the Search Engines! Search Engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo etc.) publicly state that they frown upon duplicate content (the article doesn’t need to constitute plagiarism however no added value is deemed ‘bad’). Article Directories are portals for distributing the same content to [...]

To Dofollow or to Nofollow?

Nofollow is an HTML instruction to Search Engines not to consider the link destination as endorsed by the link originator. Google, Yahoo, Bing and other high quality Search Engines use links as one factor in considering the importance of a Webpage. So, very simplistically, if two WebPages are identical except that one has more incoming [...]

The SEO Experiment

What difference does Search Engine Optimization really make? Is it worth spending the time and money on SEO? From experience it is obvious that SEO is an effective activity however I thought it’d be fun to compare two identical websites; one with a bit of SEO performed and one with very little SEO. I have [...]