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How To: The Best Articles on SEO

by Charles Grimm on December 16, 2009

SEO – Search Engine Optimization

These are a collection of articles on the How To: of Search Engine Optimization for 2009. This list was compiled from several websites of leading industry professionals. It is a good place to get started and revisit when defining your objectives, strategy, tactics, Do’s and Don’ts of your SEO program.These articles range from the beginner to the advanced.

1. The Beginner’s Checklist for Learning SEO: by SEOmoz.
2. SEO Guide for Designers: by Web designer wall.
3. The Web Developers SEO Cheat Sheet: by SEOmoz.
4. The SEO Guide to Information Architecture: by Adam Audette.
5. The SEO Success Pyramid: by Matt McGee.
6. What is the Definition of SEO?: by Jeremy Schoemaker.
7. Online SEO Tools: The Ultimate Collection: by Search Engine Journal.
8. How to Get New Web Sites to Rank Quickly: by Aaron Wall.
9. Tools of the SEO Trade: by Search engine land.
10. Keyword Density SEO Myths: by Hobo SEO.
11. The Most Powerful SEO Tactic: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify: by Eric Enge
12. Content is NOT Always King and SEO is not always bad: by Thinkseer.
13. Don’t Sour Your Link Juice by Forgetting Basic SEO: by Loren Baker.
14. How Much Money is a Top Google Ranking Worth to Your Business: SeoBook.
15. How to be an SEO Service Provider: by SEObook.

Please add your comments or suggestions for this list or any new valuable additions would benefit our readers.

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How To: The Best Articles on Link Building

by Charles Grimm on November 30, 2009

These are a collection of articles on the How To: of Link Building for 2009. This list was compiled from several websites of leading industry professionals. It is a good place to get started and revisit when defining your objectives, strategy, Do’s and Don’ts of your link program.These articles range from the beginner to the advanced.

1. The Fundamentals of Link Building: by Adam Audette.

2. Link Building: A Complete Walkthrough: by Saad Kamal’s.

3. The Ultimate Guide to Internal Linking: and Part 2: by Pete Wailes.

4. The Definitive List of Link Building Techniques: by Jeff Quipp.

5. 11 Experts on Link Development Speak Out: by Rae Hoffman.

6. Link Building Secrets Revealed by Top Linking Experts: by Stoney deGeyter

7. Where Do You Start Your Link Marketing Campaign?: by Wiep Knol.

8. 101 Ways to Build Link Popularity: by Aaron Wall

9. 131 Legitimate Link Building Strategies: by Search Engine watch

10. Link Building from A to Z : by SeoMoz

11. A Link Building Method So Effective I Can’t Believe It’s Not Blackhat:SeoMoz

12. There’s No Such Thing as a Worthless Link: by Deb Mastaler

13. The 30 Easiest Was to Get Links and Exposure: by SeOptimise

14. Link Building Strategies: 69 Solid Tactics for 2009: by Wiep

15. 30 Ways to Get Links Naturally and Stop Link Building: by SeOptimize

Please let me know your comments or suggestions for new valuable additions that would benefit our readers.

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Joomla SEO – Duplicate Content & 301

by Charles Grimm on October 13, 2009

If you work in Joomla a fair bit as I do, at some point you will be considering the best way to eliminate duplicate content.

Within the Joomla.org site there are a couple of options for the Joomla Canonical URL Tag that you may want to consider. These are pretty simple to use, yet I find not the most effective way to deal with duplicate content in Joomla.

Joomla Canonical and SEO extensions in general are not as effective as the WordPress SEO plugins. If you have a choice in building a client site that needs more SEO ease and effectiveness out of the box then wordpress is your best product.

Joomla however is great product for more functionality and really has a much more sophisticated open source CMS platform for easily building and maintaining more complex business websites.

So if your are building a dynamic CMS using joomla, I find the best way to solve your duplicate content issues is by employing one or both of these methods:

1. Do a .htaccess rewrite and /or 2. Do a simple redirect within your cpanel

1 .htaccess rewrite

This file is located in your public html (www) folder.

What this does. It rewrites your domain from http://yourdomain.com to http://www.yourdomain.com

This is a permanent rewrite that will also be reflected in the address bar of your browser.

Add this script to your .htaccess.

# mod_rewrite in use
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ “http://www.yourdomain.com/$1″ [R=301,L]

2. The Redirect

Since Joomla doesn’t have any good Free plugins for this yet, here is a paid extension I found but have not yet tried…Joomla SEO 301 Redirect.

However if you have access to your cpanel you have two easy and better options:

1. Do a redirect under ‘Addon Domains’ and/or 2. Do a redirect under ‘Redirects’

1. Add-on Domains
Use this if you have a parked domain on top of your site domain and you want to make sure that Google isn’t indexing your parked domain. Just follow the instructions in ‘figure A’.

Figure A

2. Redirects

Use this if you want to redirect individual duplicate content pages.

i.e http://yourdomain.com/index.php?option=com_user&view=photos&return=aHR0c

to:

http://www.yourdomain.com/user/Charles-Grimm/photos.html

I know I have cut to the chase here pretty quickly, but if you have any questions or comments on SEO for Joomla please let me know in the comments area. Cheers C.

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Top Rated SEO Tools for Joomla

by Charles Grimm on August 3, 2009

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These are some of my must have tools to be installed for Joomla 1.5. If you are small business building an IN House CMS website or a web developer, using Joomla, I suggest looking at these top Rated tools to get your site optimized, verified and tracked quickly.

These are pretty much straight out of the box with very little configuration or modification necessary.

1. JoomSEO

Developed by Phillip Brown – JoomSEO is a Search Engine Optimization BOT making Joomla content more Search Engine Friendly. JoomSEO dynamically creates meta keywords, meta descriptions, changes the title on the fly, adds heading tags to content titles and more…..

2. Google Verify

Developed by Michiel Bijland – Small Plugin to make Google Webmaster Tools site verification a bit easier. Works with the Meta Tag method and no template adjustments are needed. This is ideal for website with multiple templates or demo sites, no templates adjustments needed when you add a new template this plug-in ….

3. Missing Meta data Module

Developed by Dan Rahmel - Missing Metadata module adds a panel to the Control Panel of the Joomla Administrator interface that lists any published articles that have empty meta description or meta keys fields. Search engines (particularly Google) use the meta description text as the summary text for site-listings displayed in search results. Any articles that fail to include this metadata will suffer…..

4. Big Shot Google Analytics

Developed by Kenneth Crowder – This Plug-in will add the Google Analytics Tracker Code to your site automatically.

5. JoomlaWatch

Developed by Matej Koval – JoomlaWatch allows you to watch your website visitors and bots in real-time from the administration menu. Especially their IP addresses, countries they come from, geographical location on a map, which pages they are viewing, their browser…..

See more resources and links on optimizing your Joomla ROI

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The SEO Benefits of Blogging

by Charles Grimm on July 30, 2009

9 Reasons you should have a blog!

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I found an article on SEO benefits of blogging on an Australian site, SearchEngineRoom. The artilce was written by Lee Odden, CEO, Top Rank Online Marketing.

Since most of the businesses I speak with are interested in web development, this article gives good reason to make blogging or at least regular article writing a part of your web marketing program. I have summarized these benefits.