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SEO Basics for Blogs

Anyone who runs a website or a blog quickly learns the importance of traffic from search engines. While SEO basics are becoming common knowledge for designers and marketers, blogs face different issues with search engines than traditional websites.
With blogs you have less control over the coding that is used. Depending on what blogging platform [...]

Links of the Week

Here are some articles that we have been reading this week.
CSS:
70 Expert Ideas for Better CSS Coding from Smashing Magazine
Blogging
Four Reasons to Write Extraordinary Articles When You’re Starting a New Blog from Dosh Dosh.
How Long Should a Post Be? from ProBlogger
How to Get Traffic for Your Blog from Seth Godin
Turning Visitors into Subscribers from Andy [...]

68 Essential SEO Resources and Tools

Blogs: Read articles from some of the leaders in Search Engine Optimization and learn how you can improve your website.
www.seomoz.org/blog
www.seo-scoop.com
www.mattcutts.com/blog
www.seroundtable.com
http://blog.outer-court.com/
Search Engine/SEO News: Stay up-to-date with the latest search engine and SEO news.
www.seomoz.org – Top SEO firm. Their site has a lot of articles and tools
www.searchengineguide.com
www.pandia.com/sew/index.php
www.searchenginenews.com
http://searchenginewatch.com
www.seo-news.com
www.seoproject.com
www.sitepronews.com
www.webproworld.com
www.seoresearchlabs.com Free SEO [...]

LINK: SEOmoz Releases Updated Version of Search Engine Ranking Factors

SEOmoz, one of the leaders in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), released an updated version of an extremely useful resource today. On their website, seomoz.org, they provide a document that covers the factors involved in search engine rankings. The original version was realeased in 2005 and the updated version is now available. This resource combines the [...]

LINK: Get a More Complete Picture About How Other Sites Link to You

Google’s webmaster tools now includes more detailed information for website owners about their inbound links. Google is reporting the anchor text of inbound links. For information, see the post on the Google Webmaster’s Blog.

What Makes A Website Search Engine Friendly?

Search engines view websites completely differently than humans do. To a search engine this page looks like this:

The same appearance of a website can be achieved with a number of different coding methods. Some are more effective for search engine rankings than others. Simply by looking at a website in an internet browser it is [...]