http://www.topositionseo.com/blog/ Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:07:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 It's been all quiet on the Topositionseo blog-front lately. Not to bore you with too many specifics, but Topositionseo started as a repository for interesting SEO/tech articles that I came across in my daily reading - sort of like a personal bookmark manager set in blog form. But now that I'm hooked on Google Reader, [...] http://www.topositionseo.com/blog/2006/12/08/too-much-reading-too-little-blogging/ 101 Web Marketing Ideas and Tips Long List of Link Searches Link Search Tool How to beat the Google Sandbox Jim Boykin’s Favorite SEO Writings http://www.topositionseo.com/blog/2006/10/27/important-seo-reads-for-october-27-2006/ Over at SEOmoz, Rand supposes a simplistic way of looking at the Google algorithm. Generally, I agree with the weights and factors enough to move on to what that means in a general sense for a webmaster. Use/buy/steal an old domain Use keywords in your domain name/URLs Use a local host/top-level domain that reflects the area in which [...] http://www.topositionseo.com/blog/2006/10/16/the-google-algorithm-simplified/ Jim Boykin has an excellent post on Google's Trustbox - more commonly referred to as the Sandbox in SEO circles. In the post, he suggests that time is the most important factor in ranking well (and easily) in Google. In case you didn’t know, TIME is a huge factor to Google’s rankings. How long you’ve been [...] http://www.topositionseo.com/blog/2006/10/12/googles-trustbox-older-is-wiser/ No, you don't need a splash page. http://www.topositionseo.com/blog/2006/10/04/note-to-client-no-splash-pages/ Via Digg comes this gem from SEO Egghead summing up Matt Cutts over the past couple years. It's a nice, succinct SEO tips list straight from the horse's mouth. http://www.topositionseo.com/blog/2006/09/14/matt-cutts-seo-cliff-notes/ Jim's got a weekend series of good Q-and-As on all sorts of topics. See Google's Florida Update, Keyword Research, Link Building and Linking Out. I take particular interest in Jim's comment on linking and content. Often in my past I used to say "90% links"…but ya know, today it’s so much both that I’d say it’s equal…with [...] http://www.topositionseo.com/blog/2006/09/07/jim-gives-seo-tips/ From the horse's mouth: Most bloggy sites tend to have words from the title of a post in the url; having keywords from the post title in the url also can help search engines judge the quality of a page. It can't get any clearer than that. http://www.topositionseo.com/blog/2006/08/31/matt-cutts-keywords-in-urls-improves-search-relevancy/ Danny Sullivan, one of the foremost authorities in the field of SEO and SEM, has been making waves recently with his departure from Incisive/SES/SEW. His post over at his personal blog, Daggle, has all the information you need. As for what the news means for the industry at large, I'm definitely noticing more participation by Danny [...] http://www.topositionseo.com/blog/2006/08/30/seo-and-your-own-ip-address/ If you do any sort of bandwidth optimization or code-to-content ratio tweaking, this web page speed report is nice to benchmark and compare to your final result. http://www.topositionseo.com/blog/2006/08/23/bandwidth-optimization-web-page-speed-report/