Anchor Text For Internal Links

This post was made Nov 13, 2008 by Carlos del Rio


If you have spent any time working on search optimization, novice to guru (ha ha), then you have spent some time worrying about anchor text. Inc Magazine has an answer for you: just link the entire page to itself. The image above is an accident, I assume because it has been corrected, ...

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Traffic For a Year – SEO Efforts, or SMO?

This post was made Sep 17, 2008 by Carlos del Rio


Micheal Martinez is calling us all out today. He says that anyone who gets a substantial amount of their traffic from social media sites should reexamine their title. He says you shouldn't call your self a search engine optimizer if you are spending significant amount of time working the social media angle, including putting social media buttons on your site. From Micheal's post: Social media optimization is another form of Web marketing like pay-per-click optimization, like ...

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Advanced SEO Tips & Techniques

This post was made Jun 30, 2008 by Carlos del Rio


Last week I saw an influx of Advanced SEO posts. I think that they are all off the mark in one sense or another. To me they all seem like this guy: What Shimon Sandler thinks is Advance SEO: An Excerpt: “A silo is a vertical page linking ...

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Thursday Site Review: Foundation Seattle

This post was made Apr 24, 2008 by Carlos del Rio


Url: www.FoundationSeattle.com Title: Foundation v5 Meta: N/A The Foundation Seattle is a group that throws parties for charity events for organizations in Seattle and gets matching funds from companies like Microsoft. Right now they only show up for the domain name. Which is unfortunate, they really could use search both to their advantage and to the advantage of their charities. Dealing With Flash Foundation Seattle uses ...

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Does Context Affect Quality?

This post was made Mar 26, 2008 by Carlos del Rio


An excerpt from comments at Cornwall SEO March 7 - 11, 2008: Carlos Del Rio: The major weight of links and references are to things that are accessible, not exceptional. Pages that amass large amounts of links are often remarkable (comment worthy) content that is not on the high end of the value spectrum. Lyndoman: Carlos if something is remarkable then it’s on the high end of the value spectrum, you seem to be arguing with yourself… Carlos del Rio: …Few ...

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