http://www.blogseo.com Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:36:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Most of us who have installed Google’s “freshly baked” Chrome (for a test drive or for good use) did not hold back their surprise when they found out that the legendary PageRank status bar is nowhere to be found. More than that, there is no Google Toolbar-like plugin for Chrome ... http://www.blogseo.com/blog-seo-news/pagerank-in-chrome/ Yesterday Google released the official version of their Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide specifically developed "as an effort to help teams within Google". This document does not contain secretive information or Google hacks. However it is a good read for beginner and advanced webmasters. It can be approached as an introduction ... http://www.blogseo.com/seo-tips/googles-search-engine-optimization-guide/ There is a great number of free or inexpensive design templates available for all kinds of blogging software. They are easy to install and can be, to some extent, easily modified. They come in different arrangements of content blocks and color schemes. When it comes to looking for that close-to-the-perfect ... http://www.blogseo.com/blog-optimization/picking-a-seo-template-for-your-blog/ Sometimes site administrators may decide to block some ranges of IP addresses to stop unnecessary traffic to their websites that will eat the bandwidth. In some cases they may ban whole countries and even continents from which they get a great number of spam bot visits and uncontrollable crawlers. In this ... http://www.blogseo.com/seo-tips/blocking-ip-ranges-is-considered-cloaking/ Use the following link to listen to the interview with Matt Cutts provided by Duct Tape Marketing and John Jantsch This interview covers benefits of blogs in promoting businesses online. Quite a few interesting questions were asked and just as many interesting answers were given. Some of the topics touched up ... http://www.blogseo.com/blog-seo-news/interview-with-matt-cutts-from-duct-tape-marketing/ When it comes to the on-sight SEO repetition of links and redundant descriptions in “alt” or “title” arguments can only do you good. Making it easy to navigate to the most important pages of your site will not only make sure that you visitors will find them, but it will ... http://www.blogseo.com/seo-tips/redundancy-in-seo/ Recent notions to enhance crawling abilities of many search engines have us believe that quite soon Google and other major players of the industry are going to find a way to slip through the form generated links to find more pages for their indexes. Which kind of forms will be ... http://www.blogseo.com/blog-seo-news/search-engines-to-crawl-forms/ Link marketing can involve different strategies; it can take a form of paid or traded links, posts in forums, comments in blogs, etc. Although quality comments may attract and entertain blog visitors, quick spammy ones posted with only intent of inserting links to other sites that try to increase their ranks are ... http://www.blogseo.com/seo-tips/fighting-comment-spam/ This post is going to be a timely addition to the URI discussions previously covered on the pages of bloSEO (Keywords in URLs, Underscores vs. Dashes). Today we will be talking about the file extensions in URLs. Many believe that adding “.html” or “.htm” to the name of a page ... http://www.blogseo.com/blog-optimization/page-seo-and-file-extensions/ The “7 must read Webmaster Central blog posts” were published just about a week ago at, you guessed right, Webmaster Central Blog. Although the pick has no particular order and includes random topics, these are some of the important subjects many of novice-webmasters look for everyday. Helpful post! Thanks for ... http://www.blogseo.com/blog-seo-news/7-must-read-blog-posts/