Google, Yahooo and Microsoft announced support for a new element that can be defined in the html head structure to avoid page duplication problems.  Any page can define an element like the following to indicate which is the real page(canonical page) the search engine should take in consideration:
<link rel=”canonical” href=”http://example.com/page.html”/>
The above element can be defined [...]

There are many popular Squidoo, Hubpages and “recently” launched Google Knol where everyone can join and publish their own content. Most of them are admirably built from the seo perspective and market themselves as communities of people with different passions, or alternatives to Wikipedia. In my opinion they are built with the intention to make [...]

Google is changing at special events, celebrations, etc. a special image displayed instead of the usual logo. Today it was Charles Darwin’s 200th Birthday and the image was pointing to “charles darwin” results page. The fact I found interesting is that not all the google domains were displaying Charles Darwin google logo.
Initially, I thought it [...]

The end of year came with a google PR update. ImproveSeo.info increased its page rank from PR0 to PR3, and most of the sites I was handling increased their PR. I’ve seen forums discussions where people were mentioned their site PR went down, but my general impression is that most of the websites gained PR.
However [...]

When you have a new site you don’t have many options to promote it. If you don’t have a popular blog in the same niche or if you can not convince other bloggers to write about your product then you have a big problem, even if your site totally rocks. One of the well known [...]

Alexa made the list of top 1,000,000 available for free. Everyone can download it for free from this link. Alexa used to sell the list until now for $6500.
There are many ways to can use the data to analyze popularity and the trafic for websites. Alexa rank can be manipulated and is based on the [...]

I’ve compiled a list of mistakes that most of the beginner blogger do. The list came from my experience, I’ve done the mistakes from the list and I’m still tempted to do some of them.

Writing or buying as much content as possible. Most of the time he focus on quantity than on quality. A [...]

In terms of SEO a Bad Neighborhood effect appears when you link to bad sites(bad neighbors). Usually the bad neighbors are the warez sites, hacking sites, pornography sites, link farms. A bad reputation can have also sites like script generated sites, sites with duplicate content, sites generating incoming links using bots.
You have to be carefully [...]

Backlink Watch

backlinkwatch.com – is a back link analyzer. It’s the best free tool I encountered. It shows the number of backlinks and then displays them in one table along with the important information:

anchor text of the backlink
total external links found on the webpage giving backlink.
pr of the webpage giving backlink(seems it doesn’t work for the [...]

According to internetnews.com cited by forbes, Net Applications(a company analyzing web traffic) discovered some interesting facts in the webpages traffic coming from google headquarter in Mountain View. The indication related to operation system from which a web page request is missing. Net Applications’ executive vice president of marketing, Vince Vizzacarro stated “I’d be shocked if [...]