How Robots.txt and Meta Tags Affect Search Engine Crawling

Googlebot

If you are concerned about the privacy of your website and you do not want the search engine crawlers or bots to crawl certain pages of your website, then “Robots.txt” is the one-stop solution that will keep the crawlers away from the ‘No Entry’ zone.

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SEO Philippines: Google Freshness Algorithm Experiment

SEO Hacker Labs

Okay so I posted an entry last night (14 hours ago) about SEO Philippines. The post was entitled ‘SEO Philippines‘ and had a good number of ‘SEO Philippines’ keyphrase inside the body of the content. I did this mainly for three reasons:

  1. I was experimenting on how high I can rank for the term SEO Philippines
  2. I wanted to contribute to the Philippine SEO Community
  3. I wanted to let my readers know about great Filipino SEO specialists out there

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Why Schema Might be the Next BIG Ranking Factor

Schema
Schema is the new way of Google, Yahoo and Bing to sort the whole internet out. It is a system that will make it easier for their search engines to identify what a site, or even a paragraph, is all about. So now that we know, the question to ask yourself is, how will Schema affect SEO?

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The Bright Side Behind Seemingly Useless Links

useless linksThere are different kinds of links in the internet. Different methods to acquire them. Different attributes that go with them. There are links that we look down on – and these are the links that I would like to talk about in this entry. What makes these links worthwhile?

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How to Rank High without using Google? Youtube SEO

youtube-seoSEO is one of the foremost, in demand services in our world today. That being a fact, there is now cut-throat competition in all of the search engines (especially the big three). How do you rank high without having to compete in Google, Bing and/or Yahoo? Answer: Youtube SEO.

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2 Things to Avoid When Linkbuilding

Link BuildingLinks are an essential factor for the Search engine Optimization of your website. As I’ve pointed out in my previous entry, Links make up to almost 75% of your whole search engine optimization effect.

As SEO specialists, we always keep a keen eye on links. And we always try to accumulate and build links for our website. We find good, relevant and high quality sites to get or ask links from, then we do our stuff. But we should also know the things we have to avoid when we’re building links.

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2 Kinds of Search Mindsets you Must Understand

2 kinds of search mindsetsThere are different kinds of people all over the world. These people are searching in Google with an average of 5,000 searches per second and it’s not getting any less than that in the years to come. These people have 2 kinds of conversation running around their minds – the explicit and the implicit.

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5 Reasons why Linkbaiting is the way to go

Linkbait typesI’m sure as an advanced SEO practitioner, you’ve already heard of the term “LinkBait” one way or another. There are practically millions of ways to build links as an SEO practitioner. Linkbaiting is just one of them. My favorite one.

If you’ve been practicing SEO for quite some time, you’d know that linkbuilding is probably the hardest, pain in the ass work that you need to do. And you’re right. In fact, it is so much a pain in the ass that so many SEO practitioners are left confused as to what linkbuilding method is still effective.

If you ask me, the most effective method would be linkbaiting. Why?

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Linkbuilding Fundamentals

Link buildingIn my previous entry, I talked about how big of a chunk links are to your site’s SEO. In this one, I’ll be talking about the basics and must-knows about linkbuilding. Why do you need links? How important is it? Where do I start?

Links don’t grow on trees

First off, you have to realize the linkbuilding is one of the slowest, pain-in-the-ass processes that you have to go through to grow your site’s visibility as an SEO practitioner. Links don’t just pop out of nowhere. You have to earn it.

And, yes, even if links do grow on trees, you have to climb a bad-ass ladder in order to pick it off.

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How to jumpstart the SEO of your business blog

SEO your business blogWe all know that SEO has been a huge hit with many big and small businesses that has made their attempt in the online world. And many of them have well been trying to manage and optimize a business blog. Why? Well, isn’t it obvious?

When the art of writing became a business need

If you’re a business and you’ve stuck around for a year or two in the internet, you’d know that you need a blog simply because a blog is one of the best ways to keep up information with your customers while generating possible linkbait content at the same time.

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