I was asked this question not too long ago. The answer depends not if Yahoo stores is SEO friendly, but if you know how to make it SEO friendly. Yahoo does allow you to enter meta, title tags and keyword data. They even create breadcrumbs, which makes it easier for the engines to index the sites pages. (more…)

In my last post, I talked about title tags. Titles are important, but in combination with a properly optimized description tag, can increase your rankings dramatically. When I optimize a site, I may perform keyword research, write content, work on the tags or all of the above. Let’s look at the example from the last post where I decided to optimize the title tag for “ Solid Oak Wood Office Desk” by “ABCSupplies”. In order to be relevant, we need to have as many of these terms as possible in the description tag. I don’t mean repeat them, I just mean have them in there. (more…)

It�s a rarity for me to find an SEO related product or third party service that helps manage client assets, report on progress or offer anything new in the world of optimization. There are the tried and true tools that most SEO�s (myself included) cling to, and a steady stream of imitators promising improvement on what was perfected long ago. Still, it does happen once in a while. It�s even more rare when a product that has nothing to do with SEO makes my job a lot easier. (more…)

If you own a web site or a blog, you want more page views than visitors. Why? The more pages visitors view the more chance of you making money. The problems is many people don’t know how to get people to go deeper into their site. There was a post on how to make money blogging that gave some great tips on how to get visitors to look at more pages. (more…)

Many people use WordPress for blogging. Heck this blog is WordPress. Plus, I own several WordPress blogs. I love ‘em. I do. But one thing many people don’t know about WordPress is… by default WordPress restricts search engine robots from indexing your site. You heard me. It restricts the bots. Not good if you want to rank and, honestly, who doesn’t? (more…)

Meta data provides the engines with certain information. This information helps your pages to rank. It seems many people still don’t know how to use meta data the properly or will just leave it out altogether. This is a bad mistake. (more…)

One of the things I hate about SEO is the lies. The lies from others who prey on the fact that many people don’t know much about SEO or how it works. One of the biggest lies in SEO is the “Search Engine Submission” service. Or the infamous “get listed in 48 hours or less” line. (more…)

I just launched another episode of my podcast were I about monetizing your website, when and how to do so, what happens if you get caught selling links and much more. You can download the podcast via iTunes ( Mr SEO’s podcast) or on my SEO podcast page.

You can always contact me here with any questions you may have. I will either answer them in a podcast or post the answers right here. So ask away!

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Google, up until a few weeks ago was showing supplemental results. They have now decided that it would be better if they didn’t show what pages were supplemental. So how do you know if your pages are supplemental? Well there are some easy ways that you know your pages will fall supplemental: (more…)

Ok, you’re probably asking yourself what is Google’s Supplemental index and why do I care? If you own a site you’ll need to know this. If you’re a designer, you will need to know this as well.

Supplemental results are Google’s way of weeding out pages that are questionable or that have little value. Google determines this in a number of ways. I’ll talk about those in future posts. It use to be that new site were the only victim of the supplemental index, however this is no longer true. Pages of a site that show little worth (, repetitive tags, lack of content, stolen content) could fall victim. (more…)