Bing and Yahoo, the two headed spear that hopes to bite into the market share of Google, will be sharing natural search results by the end of the week! This is not real news to people searching the web as it will pretty much be a seamless transition. To you and I, Webmasters, and website owners… it might just be a big deal!
Later this week, we will begin transitioning the back-end technology for Yahoo! Search in the U.S. and Canada (English) over to the Microsoft platform, and will post an …

Web Page Optimization and on-page SEO does not have to be one of those voodoo processes that scares the heck out of most people! There are some basic principals of web page optimization (ext: Google) like proper keyword density, use of heading (h1, h2, h3) tags) tags, image optimization and so much more, that help anyone who is willing to follow some standard practices, and develop effective habits for your web page optimization.
I am NOT going to blow smoke up your butt and tell you that fixing on page factors …

This video is kinda long at +1 hour, but I am in the last 15 minutes of it right now, and there is golden nuggets of search engine wisdom buried within!
I advise to watch from end to end…
SEO Review from Matt Cutts and The Google Spam Team

Yesterday, I started a step-by-step walkthrough of speeding up your WordPress powered website.
Today, I added the optimization of your base install and got a score of 95! Hey, thats an A!
Follow along as we  learn to Speed Up WordPress
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I think we can all agree that regardless of the fact Google using speed as a ranking factor, it will help us to learn how to speed up our websites.
In this post – that will be updated several times – I am going to take a very systemic approach to finding bottlenecks. From the DNS, to server, to WordPress, Plugins, Images and everything else that could affect your sites speed.
[Day 1 - Test Your DNS] [Day 2 - Base WordPress Installation]
The First Test – Trace Route and Eliminate the DNS

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Matt Cutts announced on this on his blog Friday, and you can also read more at the Google Webmaster blog… Google now uses your websites Speed as a metric in how its ranked in search results… In other words, speed up your site, or we won’t send you traffic!
While Google says that this change affects less than 1% of the websites “It’s customers visit”, that’s quite a lot!
One other interesting thing this new “Speed Metric for Google” brings up, is that you MUST subscribe to Webmaster Tools in order to have …

One of the biggest areas ANY website owner struggles with, is finding ideas for new content! Sure, we all “think” we know whats best for our visitors based on our own experience and research, but how about taking it up a notch, and delivering content on top of what they already like!
This post is going to walk through a simple way of discovering exactly what your existing readers like, turning that into fresh content, and ultimately appealing to an even wider reader base. Along the way, we will also see …

Every now and again, I hear things about bits of advice written on other websites and realize why there is so much confusion spread to the masses! This post is likely to add MORE confusion for sure…
So… I got an email from a reader who wanted me to take a quick look at her site and try to help her figure out why it was failing so suddenly in terms of traffic and conversions. She seemed to have a pretty good grasp on the research and discovery side of niche …

As soon as I opened the 50 Kickass Keyword Strategies pdf… I saw many tips I had not even thought of before! If you are unfamiliar with the author, Aaron Wall from SEOBook, lets just say he is the Godfather of SEO. His SEOBook has even  been used by colleges to help people get a grip on search strategies, and now he has teamed up with WordTracker to release a compact and informative guide to you can start using immediately to increase your understanding, presence and most importantly… search rankings, with …