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Google & Matt Cutts: Site Speed Now A Factor in SEO

April 12, 2010

In a blog post yesterday, Matt Cutts explains how Google is now incorporating site speed as one of the over 200 signals that they use to determine search rankings.
Don’t panic! As Matt Cutts also explains, Google actually launched this already a few weeks back and nobody noticed anything. Fewer than 1% of search queries will [...]

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Google To Be Investigated By The European Union

February 24, 2010

The European Commission has received three complaints over Google and now intend to start an investigation. The three complaints are from Foundem, a UK-based “price compare”-portal, French legaladvice search engine ejustice.fr and german Ciao, a company below Microsoft.
Foundem believes that Google’s search algorithms place Foundem’s pages worse in Google, because Foundem is a competing search [...]

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Matt Cutts On How PageRank Flows From Twitter & Facebook

January 18, 2010

A new webmaster video has been released from Matt Cutts, where he talks about how Google see links from Twitter and Facebook coming to your site and how the PageRank flows from these sites as well.
If you’re a webmaster or a blogger, it might be a good idea to follow @googlewmc on Twitter to [...]

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SEO Was Yesterday – Now Comes NFO (Facebook)

October 28, 2009

SEO, Search Engine Optmization, is what bloggers (and companies) do, to get as high a rank in the search engines as possible. Something you should always aim to do if you’re interested in search engine traffic finding their way to your site.
Now there’s a new concept on its way: News Feed Optimization (NFO).
Recent Facebook changes [...]

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Thesis 1.6 Has Arrived – SEO Optimized WordPress Theme

October 27, 2009

I’m using the Thesis theme for my WordPress blogs since August 31st on TechPatio.com and since the beginning of ApplePatio.com too. It’s a great search engine optimized theme with lots of features.
Some of the major changes in 1.6 compared to 1.5 are:

Design and color options built-in to the theme settings.
Automatic dropdown navigation menu, using parent-child [...]

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Why “Comment Reply Notification” Is A Must Have Plugin For Your Blog – Otherwise…

October 20, 2009

… you could be missing out on some sweet commenting action! Allow me to explain:
When it comes to WordPress, there’s usually three kinds of bloggers (more or less):

Those with a pretty standard WordPress installation and no “subscribe to comments”-plugin whatsoever.
Those with some 3rd party comment-system like Disqus or similar, that handles it all for you.
Those [...]

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WordPress Plugin: What Would Seth Godin Do (WWSGD) – “If You’re New Here…”

October 11, 2009

I’ve received quite a few questions already from my great techpatio.com readers, asking me how I get that message to appear at the bottom of my posts that (per default) says: “If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!”.
I changed mine a bit, so that it now [...]

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The Importance Of Keywords In Your Domain Name For SEO?

October 6, 2009

I often wonder exactly how important it is to have keywords in your domain name, so I would like to hear your thoughts on this.
But first, let’s break down what we’re dealing with here, cause mostly you hear about keywords in the URL.
An URL usually consists of two things, the domain name and the filename:
http://techpatio.com/category/tech-news
The [...]

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FeedBurner Changes Redirect Method to ‘301′ – Better SEO For Your Blog

October 4, 2009

I was going to create a post on how you could get better Search Engine Optimization for your blog using FeedBurner links, especially if you have a habit of commenting on blogs with CommentLuv that pulls your FeedBurner RSS feed to get your latest blog post(s), but FeedBurner made a change that would render my [...]

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Meta Keywords For SEO – Don’t Bother, Says Google

September 29, 2009

I guess we all knew it already, meta keywords didn’t really have any effects with regards to SEO, within Google at least. But most of us still use meta keywords from time to time and maybe even recommended others to do it.
The reasons for still using meta keywords are simple: While Google might not use [...]

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Matt Cutts: “Google Crawls According To PageRank”. A Must See Video For Bloggers

September 12, 2009

Matt Cutts is often looked at as the “face of Google” among bloggers and search engine optimization people. Matt often posts information, tips, videos etc. with information about Google and other related stuff that can help bloggers and webmasters optimize their site for better ranking and readership.
He joined Google as a software engineer in 2000 [...]

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Is SEO Necessary For Your Business

August 27, 2009

The day of the catalog is long gone. No longer can companies get away with having a purely physical presence in the marketplace. By that I mean that any company that thinks a catalog, a billboard, or some television advertisements are a sufficient marketing strategy are clearly mistaken.

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I Luv’ CommentLuv – do you have it on your WordPress blog yet?

August 23, 2009

Are you a blogger?
No! Then go become a blogger and return to this post once you get a blog going. Your future readers and blog commentators will love you for it!
Yes! Great, are you using WordPress as your blogging platform then?
No! Hmm, okay, I hope you’re happy with your current platform. If not, I strongly [...]

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TechPatio Is A “Do Follow” Blog – Spreading The Link Love For Free

August 19, 2009

In case you didn’t know, TechPatio has alwas been a do follow blog. Meaning, if you post a comment on techpatio.com and include the link to your website/blog, you will receive some of the so called “link love” or “link juice”.
Often nowadays, blogs are no follow blogs so if you post your link there, all [...]

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3 Article Headline Techniques That Will Bring A Flood Of Traffic To Your Site

August 19, 2009

Article marketing can be a great way to drive traffic to your site. One of the best article directories, EzineArticles, get hundreds of thousands of visitors a day. EzineArticles allows you to submit your articles to their directory, for free! But getting the EzineArticle users to take a look at your article is a completely [...]

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Internet Web Site Marketing And SEO

August 12, 2009

Search Engine Optimization is a highly specialized skill that goes far beyond good content and HTML skills. Page structure, incoming links, style, title tags and many other things come into play to get a website to the top of the search engines for your keywords. Search Engine Optimization is crucial to your success online. Search engine optimization is a popular type of online marketing. The term SEO refers to utilizing content to increase search engine results and thus traffic. An internet web site marketing campaign can become quickly overwhelming of not done right. Search engines are the way most people find a web site. Being well-placed in the search results can make a tremendous difference in the number of visitors you get.

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Attaining Higher SEO Ranking

August 7, 2009

The seo ranking service support has it hypnotic tactics that can create a good or better ranking for your website and directs bring more traffic to your zone. Search Engine Optimization ranking is of vital importance to your business on the web. With the application of the SEO system your site will be able to find a prominent spot in relation to your position in the search engines results pages.

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The Bing- Yahoo Partnership: Good News or Bad?

August 6, 2009

Microsoft and Yahoo finally signed an agreement to join forces. There was not a buyout or a merger, as some analysts thought there would be: that may come later. But, the current contract between the two corporate giants, if not blocked by the Justice Department, has big implications for search engine optimization companies and everyone with a website. Here are a few of them.

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Meta Tag Explained

August 5, 2009

A Meta Tag is a line of HTML coding containing metadata about the webpage it is sited on. The Meta tag information does not change the appearance of the page and will never be seen by the people visiting the webpage. The only way your Meta tags will be seen is if the audience wish to notice your find language.

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SEO: Why Meta Description Is Still Important

July 30, 2009

By now you may have heard several times from search engine experts, that “meta tags” are not as important any longer as they used to be. While that’s especially true for “meta keywords”, as they were simply being abused too much, meta description is still important to maintain in your website pages. Let me explain [...]

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