http://greekgeek.mythphile.com Adventures in Blogging and Article Writing (since 1993) Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:56:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/11/keyword-research-and-competition-something-else-to-consider/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/11/keyword-research-and-competition-something-else-to-consider/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:21:17 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2288 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/11/keyword-research-and-competition-something-else-to-consider/feed/ 4 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/backlink-seekers-target-squidoo-for-pagerank/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/backlink-seekers-target-squidoo-for-pagerank/#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 18:18:37 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1972 Pagerank is a measurement Google came up with in the late 1990s to help it decided how highly to rank webpages, based on which webpages linked to that page (backlinks) and which pages it linked to. Nowadays, Pagerank is only one of 200+ factors that Google uses to decide how high up to list a […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/backlink-seekers-target-squidoo-for-pagerank/feed/ 7 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/04/the-long-tail-in-the-age-of-semantic-seo/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/04/the-long-tail-in-the-age-of-semantic-seo/#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:29:43 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1964 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/04/the-long-tail-in-the-age-of-semantic-seo/feed/ 2 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/11/tip-check-your-google-snippets/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/11/tip-check-your-google-snippets/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:40:40 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1733 When Google lists your page, it lists a “snippet” — a small excerpt of your content. This snippet will be one of two things: Your META description tag. On Squidoo, this is the first 255 characters of the lens introduction. OR: an excerpt from your page showing the first instance (usually) of the keyword the Google user […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/11/tip-check-your-google-snippets/feed/ 0 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/10/bing-still-uses-the-meta-keywords-tag/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/10/bing-still-uses-the-meta-keywords-tag/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:04:28 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1657 Uh, oh! Bing still uses the META keywords tag! META tags. Gotta love ‘em. They are pesky bits of HTML code hidden on (some) webpages to give information about each page. Ten years ago, search engines consulted META tags to help them learn what search phrases each page was relevant for. Then people started manipulating META […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/10/bing-still-uses-the-meta-keywords-tag/feed/ 0 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/multiple-backlinks-from-one-zazzle-store/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/multiple-backlinks-from-one-zazzle-store/#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:29:57 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1487 NoFollow backlinks aren’t that useful, but people and Google do follow them. (Yes, Google does follow NoFollow Links, and in fact counts them a tiny bit for Pagerank.) Also, it’s possible that search engines may take notice of how many different domains link to a page. We don’t know, but it’s no more foolish counting […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/multiple-backlinks-from-one-zazzle-store/feed/ 1 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/a-good-seo-article-to-ponder/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/a-good-seo-article-to-ponder/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:43:35 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1477 One of the places I browse often for SEO wisdom and trends is SearchEngineLand. Here’s a good article they recommended: 33 Ways to Get Penalized By Google. Nothing earth-shattering there, but a good reminder of core best practices. In other news, Fluff points out that Hubpages is back on Quantcast, and shows a slight uptick […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/a-good-seo-article-to-ponder/feed/ 6 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/07/seo-mojo-cool-trick/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/07/seo-mojo-cool-trick/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:53:55 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1326 Here’s another riddle. Google “Greatest SEO” if you don’t mind somewhat strong language from a crass but knowledgeable SEO guy. 1. How’d he do that? (Highlight for answer: Meta Description tag, which on Squidoo is supplied by the Introduction module.) 2. It’s ugly as Trump’s toupee, but it’s effective search engine optimization. It’s a tacky […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/07/seo-mojo-cool-trick/feed/ 1 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/06/seo-and-dates/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/06/seo-and-dates/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:38:53 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1256 Sorry to post so much today, but I wanted to share this Squidoo tip before I forgot. Old hands know this already: where relevant, use the year in your page title (but NOT in your URL, since you’ll want to change the title each year.) Users who search for product reviews, news or information often […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/06/seo-and-dates/feed/ 1 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/06/hubpages-vs-squidoo-traffic-holding-steady/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/06/hubpages-vs-squidoo-traffic-holding-steady/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:33:30 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1222 With all the hullaballoo lately I haven’t had much time to follow my pet project, the impact of Google Panda on Hubpages and Squidoo (there’s another lens that needs rewriting before page breaks vanish, sigh). I just wanted to post a quick follow-up. I was actually checking to see if Squidoo traffic is down across […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/06/hubpages-vs-squidoo-traffic-holding-steady/feed/ 1