There are a lot of terms and slang words in the world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), do you know them all? Are you baffled by some of the terms? Well here is an SEO slang handbook: Anchor Text Anchor text refers to the visible text for a hyperlink. For example: < a href=”http://www.streetlessons.com/” >This is the anchor [...] [...more]
Recently the world of SEO has erupted at the news that Google is stamping down on any webmasters who sell text links. Many sites have seen a huge drop in Pagerank, and some have even noticed a drop in search rankings. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is very much an industry where you need to stay ahead [...] [...more]
Would you like to know how to create a robots.txt file for your website? Even better, would you like to know how to steal the best robots.txt files on the net? and how to hack into Google and The White house? Ok, well read on… Well first, I will explain what a robots.txt file is, and what [...] [...more]
Tired of checking your Google rankings and index updates every hour? Wouldn’t it be cool if you could get your server to send a text message to your phone when the Google-Bot is visiting? Here is how you can do it: if ( strpos( $_SERVER[’HTTP_USER_AGENT’], ‘Googlebot’ ) !== false ) { // Send Alert To: $mobile_address = ‘yournumber@txt.att.net’; // Send Message mail($mobile_address,’GoogleBot’, [...] [...more]
Recently I did part one of my SEO mistakes feature. Today I am going to look at another area that drives me loco. Meta Keywords There once was a time when you could spam a load of meta keywords into a web page and rank well, but shortly after this period of time the colour television was invented. It [...] [...more]
There are certain things that I see in the world of SEO (Search engine optimization) that make my blood boil. Today I am going to share with you the noob mistakes that I see on a daily basis. The Most Common SEO Mistakes - PART ONE Ranking for a highly low searched term. I see this all the [...] [...more]
“I said get Ping-Pong Balls!” Today I am going to be talking about misspellings and how they can boost your search engine traffic. I tend to write quickly, this often means that a few spelling errors get through the net, but I have learned over the years that sometimes it can be best to NOT fix [...] [...more]
Anyone who has created a website in a competitive niche will at some point have experienced the effects of the dreaded Google Sandbox. “But Dean, there is no such thing as the Sandbox, it is merely a series of filters and trust rank algos that affect sites that have failed to build up enough trust.” Shut up! [...] [...more]
Over at DeanHunt.com there is a list of webmasters who are sick of hearing about Google Pagerank. If you would like to join in the fun and get your blog/site linked to by hundreds of other bloggers, then follow the instructions below: Step 1: Highlight the links below, right click, then click “View selection source” Step 2: Paste [...] [...more]
Will The REAL Michael Anthony Please Stand Up? Today I am going to try and get to the bottom of something that has been annoying me for quite a while… If you are interested in Pay Per Click (PPC) then this could be the most important article you read. For those of you who [...] [...more]
