If you want to increase the pagerank and traffic to your site there are many SEO options available but one of the most crucial methods is by gaining relevant backlinks to your website. Backlinks are vital in raising the profile of your website as up to 75% of Google’s ranking factors are attributed to off […]
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More Freebies from UK2Net & 10% Off Hosting
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]UK2Net has always offered some great freebies to their customers – so as they add a few more to the list I just wanted to take the time to showcase all of the great freebies you get with UK2Net right now, not to mention the 10% off coupon at the end of the […]
SEO Reports Will Continue To Be Free
The Free SEO Reports that I started offering earlier on last week have received quiet the popularity – and suddenly I found myself with alot more than 5 requests for reports. Next Designs was always about offering as much to the community as possible, for free – and if Rapid Purple is going to follow […]
The Keyword Meta-Tag Is Still Very Much Alive
Even though Google and other search engines do not use the keywords meta-tag, many search engines, such as Active Search Results, still do. Personally I find that the keywords meta tag is a good location to include words that you want indexed that might not appear in your content much. For example you may wish […]
Free Website Search Engine Submissions!
Search engine submissions are key to getting your website noticed by all the different search engine crawlers out there; however with so many different engines out there it can turn into quiet the hassle to manually submit your site to all of them. This is were we come in. We’ll submit your site, completely free […]
First 5 SEO Reports Free!
I have recently launched my SEO Reporting service – providing in-depth and quality SEO reports of your website. Our SEO reports take your site, along with the keyword you wish to rank for, and your top 10 competing websites – and provides a full in-depth analysis of your page, your competitors pages, and who outranks […]
Schema.org Video Markup Supported By Google
Videos are some of the most commonly viewed media on the web, and one of the most common search result types on Google. So it should come as no surprise then that Google has been working hard to bring support for video markup – and as of Tuesday, February 21st – that support has finally […]
SEO Panel Tool Launched!
I have been working hard at launching several free, premium level, tools and services to help everyone out with getting their website online and active. As if the existing collection of 30+ online tools and generators isn’t enough – I have a new one to add to the list: The Rapid Purple SEO Panel. The Rapid Purple […]
Bing Webmaster Tools Updated
This past week a slew of new features have been coming out for Bing Webmaster Tools – and today seemed a great day to showcase some of those changes. For starters Bing Webmaster Tools will now be showing you all inbound links to a given URL regardless of the heading. So anything listed under the 300, 400 […]
Google Updates Reconsideration Procedure
If your site isn’t appearing in Google search results, or it’s performing more poorly than it once did (and you believe that it does not violate Google’s Webmaster Guidelines), you can ask Google to reconsider your site. In the past you would receive notification that your reconsideration request has been received – with another notification once it was […]
Google Reworks Internal and External Site Links
Most of you by now probably utilize Google Webmaster Tools, and if not you really should be. For those who do use Webmaster Tools, chances are you have noticed that Webmaster Tools will only recognize internal links to your site if they exactly match your setup domain. For example http://www.rapidpurple.com links will not be displayed […]
How Do I Get Listed By Ask.com
[frame align=”left”][/frame]We often focus on Google, Bing and Yahoo and forget about some of the other great search engines out there – like Ask.com – the Q&A search engine. However while the ‘Big 3’ have their own set of webmaster tools which allow you to easily submit your website and manage it – Ask.com doesn’t […]
Using The Right Words On Your Website = More Traffic
[frame align=”left”][/frame]There’s no doubt that having a website for your brick and mortar business is crucial, and even necessary these days. However it’s not enough just to have any old website. You need a website that will draw traffic, aka visitors, who are surfing the web. These are visitors you wouldn’t otherwise have and they can […]
Schema.org Workshop Announced
[frame align=”left”][/frame]Almost 2 months ago I wrote to tell you about the launch of Schema.org – a project aimed at creating and supporting a common set of schemas for structured data markup. Microsoft recently announced the first Schema.org workshop to be held in Silicon Valley on September 21st, 2011. Bing describes the event as a “working session” […]
Use AHREFS.com To Discover All Your Backlinks
Backlinks (incoming links to a website or page) show the real situation: who is paying attention to the page you are interested in. The quantity and quality of backlinks are significant indicators of site popularity. AHREFS.com shows all the backlinks that exist for your website, without any exceptions, so you can see just where links to […]
Google Removes .CO.CC Domains from Index
Just a little while after we put together a list of free domain name providers Google decides to pull the plug on .CO.CC domains and remove them all from it’s index. Don’t believe me? Run a search for site:co.cc – nothing. Completely empty index. A post by Matt Cutts explains why this happened and what […]
Google, Should I Add “no-follow” To Banner Ads?
A good question was brought up in the Google Webmaster Help Forum: Should I add “no-follow” to my banner ads? In-short, maybe. It ultimately depends on where these ads are coming from in the first place. For example most advertising programs such as Comission Junction will send all their links through a URL which is […]
Free Sitemap Generator
Sitemaps can be time consuming to create from scratch as you may know. Luckily, there are many tools online to help you with this task! One great tool from xml-sitemaps.com is Free Online Sitemap Generator. This online tool will help you create an XML sitemap that you can submit to search engines, text sitemaps, ROR sitemaps and html sitemaps as […]
Google, Will Showing Recent Posts On My Homepage Cause A Duplicate Content Issue?
Google tweeted today about a new video/question they made live on their Youtube account. Will showing recent posts on my homepage cause a duplicate content issue? In short the answer is no, provided you do it correctly. Displaying the full blog post on your websites homepage AND on your blog may result in duplicate content. Google […]
SEO or SEM?
To be highly effective, a company needs to employ multi-marketing strategies, using a variety of approaches to reach their intended audience. An increasingly popular approach due to its low costs and large rewards is search engine marketing (SEM). With any other form of advertising, whether it is on a billboard, TV ad, or ad copy […]