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Archive for December, 2007

Useful SEO Plugins, Resources, and Newsletters

Posted by Geoffrey Hoesch on December 8, 2007

Before beginning any keyword research or link building for your site, its a good idea to familiarize yourself with a few SEO resources.

Plugins:

I use Firefox as my web browser and recommend that others do the same. Here are a few SEO friends Plugins I’ve picked up along the way: Read the rest of this entry »

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Optimizing your Title and META Tags

Posted by Geoffrey Hoesch on December 8, 2007

Don’t be frightened by the weird ‘techie’ name, although META Tags are part of HTML coding, they are easy to understand.

In the past, professional SEO services were primarily concerned with three aspects of the <head> portion of a website, these were: Title, keywords, and description. Now SEO is primarily concerned with only three: Title and description. Some claim that the keywords META tag has fallen out of favor on most search engines and will not help increase your site’s ranking. I tend to believe that its best to cover all your bases, and, assuming search engines still place some value on the keywords META, it can’t hurt your site to include keywords. Also, since SEO is in a constant state of flux, it’s possible the keywords META tag will one day be favored by Search Engines. Who knows. Read the rest of this entry »

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