Search engine optimization of discussion forums is not a very well explored topic in the SEO circles. The forums still look the way they did ten years before and grow into bulky megasites that are neither friendly to the information seeker or search engines. In fact, come to think of it, not much has changed when it comes to forums.
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An article on Wall Street Journal explains how a simple change in a site can cause it go missing from Search engines.This is what happened with Topix.net Chief executive Rich Skrenta. The news site “paid a Canadian company $1 million for the Web address Topix.com in January. Mr. Skrenta intends to switch his site over to the more popular .com Web address from .net soon to help eliminate confusion and increase credibility with consumers.” This simple change has caused this site to disappear from the top search results in Google search.
The March Madness is here. This time, as Loren Baker reports, a few SEO professional have got together to form a Yahoo Fantasy Sports March Madness competition for the SEO world. You can sign up for the SEO group, SEO Gang, using the password feelinglucky. The group URL is http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/men/group/74465b.
Aaron from SEObook has written a post on Common Internal Site Structure Issues. In this post he explains about some common internal site structure errors.
First he informs about making sure that “search engines are seeing mysite.com and www.mysite.com as the same site. If they are not 301 redirect the less popular version to the more popular version.” Then he talks about site structure and says, “In an ideal case your internal site structure would not be the same for every page on your site, especially if you have different sections to your site.”
IPs can be shared as well as dedicated. A shared IP address implies that there are a host of other web sites that are using the same IPs address on the same server. However, a dedicated IP implies that that there is only one site with the same IP address on a server. So which one is better for SEO?
A post on Search Engine Watch inquires that the order of META tags makes a difference or not:
Is there an industry standard for the orders in which the Title, Description, and Keyword tags should appear in the meta tags section of the page headers? I've been told by one prominent SEO Optimization company that it should be as follows:
-title
-description
-keyword
In a press release, Vantage Media has announced that it has concluded a $70 million Series A preferred financing that is led by Montgomery & Co. Scale Venture Partners. Two others who participated in the round were Tudor Ventures and Integral Capital Partners.
Todd Malicoat has an excellent post on what he refers to as "new school SEO." This writeup is meant for people who understand the exciting SEO industry. Todd gives seven tips to keep up with the ever evolving SEO industry.
Guillaume on SEOmoz has written a interesting post on 24 On-site SEO Checkups For Clueless Developers/Marketers.
The list of SEO on-site tips touches up the basics. However, Guillaume has rightly said that manty SEO consultants and web developers forget these basics at the time of launching a site. The twenty four tips will for sure ensure that any link building or link baiting effort gives maximum results.
Google recently announced that it will be going ahead with personalized search results. There is no need to underestimate the potential of this change. It is really the beginning of a new era in search. What has begun as a default personalized search for every Google account holder can extend up to personalized search for every single browser. There has been criticism of the move from some SEOs saying that Google is becoming the Orwellian Big Brother of the web. Thus Google decides which sites are good for you (Google Search), provides products and services to buy (Google AdWords) and the way to pay (Google Checkout). Now this implies that Google completely dominates the whole process involved in web services.
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