The meta description effects how search engines will show snippets of your site and effects how your visitors will determine to visit your site based on its description. It is definitely directly related to the chance your site will get clicked. Google chooses its snippets based on many different things, but we can control some of them through writing an effective meta description Read more »

We know a little bit about how google ranks keyword placement. And I will try to get you up to speed on the most relevent areas where you can improve your site’s visibility to Google and other search engines right away. This post is part of the series, Ultimate Guide to SEO. I recommend reading the entire serires to get the most of this article. Read more »

This post is the first part of the series Ultimate Guide to SEO. To get the most out of this article you will want to read the entire series. Read more »

Face it you can have the best site in the world. But if it isn’t Seach Engine Optimized (SEO) you won’t have much for visitors. Search engine optimization can lead to a difference of being on the 30th page of google right up to being on the first page. Usually it is not the content or the lack of incomming links that is driving your page to the bottom. It is a problem getting your page to be more “machine readable”. You have to look at your page from Google’s perspective. Read more »

Wordpress by default is very un-search engine friendly. There are many places where content is the same yet the URL is different. Google recognizes this as duplicate content.

Modern search engines like Google penalize for duplicate content. They do this because they want to give credit to the original author and keep spammers or copiers from getting page rank. They also do this to separate actual content and navigation/sidebar/ and other text that is not ranked as higher value. This all helps Google provide better search results. Read more »

The typical a domain usually starts with http://www and a subdomain would usually only contain the http://.; however, recently search engines have been marking http://yourdomain.com as an entirely different site from http://www.yourdomain.com. Meaning they get an entirely different ranking in Google searches. Read more »