As the science of SEO has developed, so have the SEO tools. One tool that you should be aware of is called a web crawler simulator. The web crawler simulator essentially shows you how search engines are viewing your website so you can respond accordingly, tweaking your SEO strategies to reflect the algorithms of the search engines.
Gooogle made an update recently dubbed “The May Day Update” that has rang some bells in the SEO community. The main complaint is that it has shrunk the amount of traffic coming into websites as a result of long-tail searches. Most websites didn’t see a drop in their rankings for their more important keyword phrases. [...]
Among the stickiest of SEO conundrums is Ajax SEO. Just seeing those two words together—Ajax SEO—makes the SEO gurus shudder and lose a few hours of sleep at night. While the wonderful dynamism of Ajax web apps is so smooth and tantalizing, it has always posed a problem for SEO purposes. So, is AJAX SEO possible?
Just when you thought you had Google figured out, a major monkey wrench comes hurtling through cyberspace. With bone-crunching chaos, it smashes your perfectly engineered SEO strategy into smithereens. When the dust clears and the fallout passes, what you’re staring at is a strange new animal. It’s not Google. It’s not Yahoo. It’s Bing. It’s Microsoft’s attempt to gain ascendancy in the king-of-the-search-engine-hill competition.
Sitting at the heart of the social networking universe, Facebook has become the destination for everyone who wants to make sure they stay connected to friends and family. Also, businesses and associates have begun to use Facebook as an easy way to maintain connections within their industries. However, when it comes to tapping into the vast Facebook user-base, trying to take advantage of the millions of page views per day, the average business model simply doesn’t have a section devoted to social network sites.