Just enter your first name and valid email address below, then click theWhat is Canonical URL? How to Clean Canonical URL’s and Reduce Duplicate Content
Sorry for the lack of posts for the last few days guys. I was making new sites. You know diversifying
Anyway, I’m glad to tell you that all this “site making scheme” gave me another SEO lesson. It’s duplicate content. Not the ordinary duplicate content most people know (Copying articles from another site) but duplicate content within your site. Yes, duplicate content WITHIN your site.
What’s Canonical URL’s?
No, not that
that either
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What the heck?!
How come that happens?
Google is not that smart – yet. Google is not your math teacher that wants to answer challenge questions. Google is like your little brother looking for his toys. Google wants you to feed them with information so they can eat it.
But like your bro, they don’t want ice cream over and over again, that makes their stomach ache and their teeth. So the extra waste goes down the drain or in the trash (Results…
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Chris Pearson over at Pearsonified has an article on how to get out of the sandbox by taking advantage of Google’s image search.
I saw this article about a month ago and was surprised that I was doing the “half” correct thing when using images on my blog posts. I thought of sharing it with you a month ago but, of course I tested it first. Just for sure!
Even though I’m not so good to these SEO stuffs, you might as well give this tip a try. It just needs a little effort.
But take note that image search that doesn’t convert that much
Here’s what I did before that I thought was the best thing t do to my images:
- Put some alt tag
- Specify the width
- Specify the height
- And the source (Of Course!)
I bet that you’re doing the same! You might as well change those pictures and add the title tag. Just like in…
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How Do I Get .edu and .gov Backlinks Easily?
This post is for the AskCarl feature. Question submitted by Mark. If you want to submit a question, Just drop me a mail and I’ll try my best to answer it!
Most search engines value .gov and .edu backlinks. These links are so called “authority links” to search engines. That’s the reason why most SEO’s hunt for these kind of backlinks.
Even thought it’s quite hard to get these backlinks. Here are some tips for you to start with:
First, go to Google and try to do the following search:
For .edu domains
“Your desired keyword” “powered by wordpress” site:.edu
This search will help you find blogs that uses WordPress with a .edu domain.
“Your desired keyword “ “powered by vBulletin” site:.edu
This search will help you find forums that use vBulletin. Alternatively, you can replace the word “vBulletin” with your desired forum management program (Like Xoops, Phpbb, etc.)
For .gov domains
“Your desired keyword” “powered by wordpress” site:.gov
This search…
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Today, I’ll be launching a new feature of this blog. Thanks to Yvonne Russell of Grow Your Writing Business for suggesting it. She reviewed my blog 3 weeks ago on a different manner. It wasn’t that ordinary review that I get everyday, she gave some suggestions and criticisms. Believe it or not, I love hearing to those It’s just like a way of letting me know the things that you want me to improve.
But what I really like is her last suggestion about a new feature called “Ask Carlâ€? where you can submit a question and I can answer it on a post. Even though I’m not that good and all, I’ll try my best to answer every question you ask me. We will be doing this post on a weekly basis about every Saturday (+8 Philippine time). I really loved the idea and for suggesting it, she gets the chance to…
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SEO (Search Engine Optimization) – is a thing that usually drive people’s heads off!! Naaahh! Ok, here’s the thing: Search Engine Optimization is an act of optimizing your website or blog to be more Search Engine Friendly. Almost %75 of web traffic comes from search engines and that’s why it is required to optimize your webpage.
Optimizing your website/blog is a procedure to maximize the unique visitors of your website by building a Search Engine Optimized webpage. You should be in charge of the top 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) which take control of almost all the search traffic in the web. By Search Engine Optimization you could make your website to be in the first pages of those search engines above!
SEO is easy as 123:
- Keyword research – The most important in SEO is keywords, of course if you don’t have the right keyword your nothing. Also internet marketing strategies should also be implemented in…
