SEO for the Average Joe

Last Monday, Google launched its real-time search results. Live & real-time search results from Twitter, Facebook & more are now featured on standard search results pages. Watch the video and try it for yourself. Continue reading full post...

If you manage a Facebook Page, you are sitting on a powerful SEO opportunity, but you may be missing out on all that glorious organic search traffic supercharged by social networking. Here is a summary of the 10 key SEO Strategies Every Facebook Page Owner Should Know. Continue reading full post...

Are you using best practices in your Paid Search Marketing strategy? The SEO Rapper (AKA Poetic Prophet) tells you what you need to know in his rap video "Paid Search 101". You probably won't see him on MTV, but he's well known in the SEO community. Continue reading full post...

The launch of Bing is Microsoft's latest attempt at grabbing a more significant market share of the search engine business. What components are most heavily weighted in Bing's algorithms? Here are two tools that let you compare Bing Vs Google search results side-by-side. Continue reading full post...

Building link popularity is one of the key components to a strong SEO strategy. Building strong link popularity can be achieved with very little marketing or technical experience. Here are four basic, but critical things to consider before diving in to building link popularity as an SEO strategy. Continue reading full post...

Check out this SEO video of a fantastic presentation on white hat SEO tips for blogs by Google's head of Webspam, Matt Cutts. Matt shares his own advice on SEO and blogging, and covers the most important issues regarding SEO for blogs focusing on how to use white hat SEO techniques to make your blog more search engine friendly.
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One of the most underutilized, yet highly impactful, SEO strategies is optimizing your internal links and site navigation. An easy and effective way to do this is to use targeted keywords within the link text and navigation throughout a web site or blog. Like so many SEO tactics, this simple improvement will make a big impact on your overall SEO efforts, and help boost your search engine rankings by enhancing search engine crawlability, sculpting page relevancy, and controlling content theming. Continue reading full post...

SEO for the Average Joe is an SEO blog and educational resource for people who manage or own web sites and blogs, but are not necessarily SEO experts. Whether you are an online marketing manager for a large company, a small business owner, a blogger, a seasoned web developer or designer, or the owner of a small web site, SEO for the Average Joe will give you practical, powerful knowledge that you can easily apply to see measurable results. Continue reading full post...