Recently I have been receiving a growing number of visitors through Google Image Search. So I am going to talk a bit about the difference between search and image search.
One of that first differences it that what you call your images, file name and alt text, is not the only factor in the ranking for [...]
Entries from February 2008
Use of ALT Tags
February 12th, 2008 1 Comment
Tags: conversion · Google · SEO
Cheap SEO - How To Do SEO With 100 Dollars
February 8th, 2008 7 Comments
Originally I was going to do another site review like the one for Zappos, but I have a friend coming in from out of state so I decided to spend some extra time cleaning.
So I am revisiting the original inspiration for this site, my answer to the question of Cheap SEO.
You get what you pay [...]
Tags: Analytics · Google · SEO
Stripped Search: Why Stephen Colbert Should Interview Me
February 7th, 2008 3 Comments
Checking my links today I discovered two strange looking links. Apparently someone republished my review of Zappos (note: I they actually took the internal linking post) as theirs, which was subsequently scraped and attributed to the first person.
This left me confused and a bit derailed from my original blog idea, I forget what I was [...]
Tags: internal linking · Linking · SEO
Building A Better Site: Internal Link Structures
February 6th, 2008 6 Comments
Continuing from my post on nofollowing internal navigation I want to discuss, theoretically, how to design internal structures to selectively drive value. This will necessarily be a partial explanation because I am not going to cover content issues, only links structure. As such don’t throw these recommendations at your favorite site unless you are sure [...]
Tags: Design · internal linking · SEO
No Follow - Gaming A Broken System
February 4th, 2008 6 Comments
Use of nofollow has been a hot topic last week, SEOmoz tentatively claimed that nofollow changes in their architecture may have been the reason that they saw an increase in search traffic over the last few months. Tempers flared in the comments and many people responded directly about PageRank sculpting and siloing some people responded [...]