SEO Dance

A Digital Point forum member with the handle of Bag has been providing free search engine optimization service to DP members since Christmas day.

Today, he or she has opened again the doors to those who would like a free SEO report:

Blog, forum, website, whatever that runs on the web and you feel like getting higher search engine rankings, this is the topic for you. And you don’t have to pay a thing, so you have nothing to loose!

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UFO research fanatics can soon access an online French database of around 1,600 UFO sightings and other UFO-related info from the more than 30 years effort of National Studies Space Center or CNES.

It sounds promising with its being backed by CNES. Will this be the most legit UFO search engine?

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I was about to recommend Darren Rowse’s post on making Digg work for your blog but decided to not give it a go. Why? Read on…

Does the acronym SEO makes you want to roll your eyeballs because you equate SEO with spam? Spam, for the uninitiated, is that anything annoyingly repeated just to get the same message across and it’s usually for advertising purposes.

Then, you’ll do good as a Digg editor because… (more…)

No, this is not a dance craze made popular by Googlers. According to Matt Cuts, Google Dance is the resulting changes in search engine results after…

Index Update
When new indexing data is pushed out to data centers.

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Jimmy Wales, the founder of the widely-used free online encyclopedia and one of the most successful Web 2.0 creations Wikipedia will be collaborating with Amazon to launch the search engine that promises to change everything - Wikiasari. It currently redirects to Wikia Search. (more…)

It’s been a great two months of SEO blogging. And I thank everyone who has visited this site and found it helpful. Yes, if you hate it I hate you, too! Just playing!

Before ending this year of sweet new beginnings, I’m giving you a short recap of what I’ve learned either from SEO experts and from my own search engine gaming, er, optimization experience with some Christmas song inspiration.

Allow me to be cornier this time.

The 12 Days of Searchmas

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Entrepreneur.com Sales and Marketing section proposed four New Year resolutions for business people with e-commerce sites. One suggests about making a website earn a better search engine placement through SEO efforts.

Resolution #3: Increase SEO efficiency. “We seek top-five placement for our top five keywords on the organic listings of Google, Yahoo! and MSN,�? says Stamp. “We took away some imagery on our landing pages because search engines [only] read text.�? Stamp hired a company to work solely on search engine optimization.

The other three initiatives to improve conversion include focusing on the customer from website use to order placement, personalization of products and marketing efforts, and addition of customer feedback and reviews.

via Entrepreneur

website optimization, e-commerce site SEO, 2007 business resolution, Entrepreneur.com

For those who are still too worried about getting penalized for duplicate content, a Wordpress Plugin, DupPrevent is born.

DupPrevent claims to control NOINDEX meta tags and also includes robots.txt file, which prevents search engine spiders on crawling trackbacks, feeds and WP-directories.

But one felt that there’s not much need for this plugin because..

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If you are a serious about your search engine optimization efforts, you don’t just optimize your text content, you don’t just learn how to optimize images. Videos need to be SEO’ed, too.

The popularity of the $1.65 billion YouTube and other video submission sites has proven that videos are the next big thing.

So, here’s a bunch of SEO tips for videos from Search Engine Strategies speakers Jon Leicht, Intuit’s web marketing manager, Eric Papczun of Performics and Gregory Markel of Infuse Creative:

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Tagometer, a new widget from Del.icio.us , has been released to further boost the ego of bloggers with the most of bookmarked posts.

The Tagometer opens things up from there - using a JSON data feed from del.icio.us, the Tagometer includes an up-to-date count of others who’ve already bookmarked the page, as well as a fresh list of the top tags applied.

It has two kinds: the one-line badge and the tall badge. See samples of these Tagometer varieties and how to get one.

via Yahoo! Search Blog

del.icio.us, social bookmark, Tagometer, widget, tagging

Duplicate content penalty. You might have read of that already. But what really is duplicate content?

Duplicate content is blocks of texts that are considerably similar or that completely matches that of another domain’s or even just within a page.

But what if you’re getting all too worried that whatever you write or blog you double-check first using Copyscape?

To get rid of too much stressing over what’s duplicate and what’s not, Google has cleared up the smoke too on what is NOT duplicate content:
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At least according to David Temple, because he has another view of who should really be noted as the Person of the Year..

I’ll tell you which of you is the person of the year. While you are cryin’ because your YouTube wasn’t dugg, or your linkbait didn’t work, or wondering whether Britney was wearing underwear or not, American men and women are fighting a war!

Too much for imagining people taking a stand ovation for you after reading that Time’s linkbait, huh?

But if you have been one netizen who generate content for the Internet for the good of the afflicted, then, yeah, you’re right YOU really are worthy of being labeled as the Person of the Year.

person of the year, NY Times, David Temple, social media

The social networks won the curiosity of most of Google search users. And this is documented by the list of Top 10 Most Searched Terms on Google for the year 2006. Bebo isthe top searched term, which is one lesser-known social network website compared to Myspace, which maybe the reason it’s highly-searched?! Huh?! The second most-searched, Myspace, is the highly sensationalized social network that has even topped Yahoo! in terms of number of searches.

Here is the complete list of Google’s Top 10 most-searched terms.
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Aside from content optimization for related and trusted sites to link to and link baiting, Google suggests participating in services such as Yahoo! Answers to build link-based popularity. According to the official Google Webmaster Central Blog, Yahoo! Answers and similar services can help build one authority to consequently earn a good reputation.

This sounds like the “Report Abuse” feature of this Yahoo! service will soon need to be used often.

link development, link building strategy, SEO strategy, Yahoo! Answers

Thanks to Nokia, Motorola and all the mushrooming mobile phone companies, mobile Internet surfing is fast-becoming a worldwide trend. And as a webmaster or as an ambitious entrepreneur who knows that an online presence can only increase your bottom line, how do you make sure you don’t get outdated?

Mobile search optimization is the solution!

Here are some excellent optimization tips from Ross Dunn, the CEO of the SEM company Stepforth, if you want your site emerge as one which is well-armed when it comes to mobile searching:

1. Get a .mobi top level domain to create a mobile version of your site that will make your site easily viewed using mobile phones.

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