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Three SEO Metrics You Should Monitor, or, “PageRank Is Still Mostly Useless”

July 26, 2011 by Chris Smith

It’s been pretty commonly agreed for quite a while that PageRank (in the form that’s publically viewable) is a number that just doesn’t match up to the real authority of a particular site. The latest post from the Webmaster Tools blog solidifies that fact that this just isn’t something to base your success metrics on. [...]

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Funemployment

March 28, 2011 by Chris Smith

As of 9AM this morning, I officially joined the ranks of the unemployed freelance community. I’ve been keeping a radio silence this weekend to mull over and discuss the situation with a few trusted friends/advisors, and making sure I have everything in order. While TopSpot Internet Marketing has been nothing short of an excellent place [...]

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Top 3 WordPress SEO Tips For 2011

March 5, 2011 by Chris Smith

WordPress is an excellent CMS for building easily edited and updated websites. It also has a well-structured architecture that performs reasonably well and is mostly well-optimized for search engines. However, depending on your use of WordPress, there are a few tips to keep in mind when building your WordPress website. Well Written Content Without decent [...]

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Twitter As An Authoritative Backlink

September 12, 2010 by Chris Smith

A while back, I did an experiment trying to prove that while Twitter links are marked as nofollow, that they actually ARE followed. I had a registered, but never-used domain. Google searches for the domain name yielded zero results. I published a simple, static HTML page (no possibility of trackbacks/pinging/RSS/etc.), and tweeted a link from [...]

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Site Speed As A Ranking Metric

April 14, 2010 by Chris Smith

Site speed is important from a usability standpoint. If you’ve got a Flash-heavy site, or large images, the bounce rate tends to go up, given that people are, by nature, impatient. So, for Google to announce that they’re taking page load speed into account is no surprise. I’ve said many, many times before that the [...]

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SEO Experts

August 23, 2009 by Chris Smith

There are countless “SEO experts” available. Online, locally,…just about everywhere. They’re like fire ants. You get rid of some, and twice as many pop up later. You have to give these guys some credit. These “SEO experts” can undoubtedly make a page appear high in search results. However, it’s for a keyphrase that is not [...]

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