http://centuryhouse.net Charlotte SEO company located in NC & Miami Florida. We offer Search Engine Optimization to obtain high rankings with Google, Yahoo, and MSN Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:53:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have always been a big believer of a link being just a link no matter where it came from. I have added lots of Edu and Gov backlinks to my site(s), and haven't seen any difference compared to regular com/net/org backlinks. I'm writing this post because a lot of people ask me ... http://centuryhouse.net/edu-gov-back-links/ DAO or Digital Asset Optimization is huge part of Off Page SEO. DAO is defined as Optimizing marketable assets for search engines & users. Basically, every digital asset you own should be optimized for the search engines, and for users utilizing the website's search function. Here are a few examples of Digital Assets: ... http://centuryhouse.net/digital-asset-optimization-dao/ It seems in recent weeks that Google is forcing Whitehat SEOs to go underground. With recent posts from Michael Gray and Lisa Barone it seems that Google is putting out an APB alert on all SEOs. So what happens if one of your websites was found to be guilty in the eyes of Google? In Lisa's ... http://centuryhouse.net/seo-profiling/ Linking to a penalized website can really hurt your own website. This is why it's very important to know who you're linking to when not using the 'nofollow attribute' on your external links and internal links. This is known as 'linking to a bad neighborhood'. You can control what's flowing in ... http://centuryhouse.net/linking-penalized-pages/ You probably found this post because you have a nice website that nobody seems to like. If you have an Ecommerce site, then having a high bounce rate is understandable. 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The text that is associated with a hyperlink. Example: SEO for Dummies <<<< "SEO ... http://centuryhouse.net/backlink-anchor-text-optimization/ My response to Aaron Wall's blog post Google's New Search Engine Rankings Place Heavy Emphasis on Branding My opinion is that "I don't think it's a case of branding" It's a case of having thousands of links pointing to your website with the keywords "airline tickets" or "auto insurance". Another thing is that ... http://centuryhouse.net/google-branding-search-engine-rankings/ Your HTML Meta Tag Description is very important if you're looking to obtain more traffic from search engines. This is the second place where a vistor looks at to determine whether they will click on your website or not. 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