By Matt McGee on Mar 10, 2009 in Blogging, SEO | 7 Comments
Dawn emailed recently with a question about syndicating blog content:
Based on your SEO expertise what is your opinion of the following: For the last two years I allowed a site to reprint one post a week onto their site as long as they changed the title and linked back to me.
Now I am wondering, as [...]
By Matt McGee on Mar 8, 2009 in Education/Conferences, SEO, Web Design | 4 Comments
Kim Krause Berg got me thinking last week when she wrote Why I’m Not Comfortable with Web Site Clinics, an article that questions the value of those site review sessions you see at almost every search marketing/design conference.
At the risk of paraphrasing, Kim’s argument — which I generally agree with — is that the [...]
By Matt McGee on Feb 8, 2009 in SEO | 21 Comments
It’s been forever (okay, about four months) since I’ve done a mailbag, but there are a few questions in my IN box that are waiting to be turned into a blog post. I’ll start with this one from a reader who asked not to have me post his/her full name; the first initial is “M,” [...]
By Matt McGee on Jan 27, 2009 in Google, SEO | 9 Comments
This has been driving me crazy for a while now, and the only way to stop being driven crazy may be to write about it. Before I go further, you should know where I stand on XML Sitemaps: They’re not necessary for most web sites, especially for most simple, small business web sites. I wrote [...]
By Matt McGee on Jan 26, 2009 in SEO | 6 Comments
I think it was last April, when I first met Anita Campbell at the Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference in Houston, that I promised her a guest post on Small Biz Trends about SEO. Under the better late than never program, that guest post was published this morning:
SEO Trends for 2009
I share six “Industry/Big Picture” [...]
By Matt McGee on Jan 22, 2009 in SEO, SEO & Web Tools | 10 Comments
At the suggestion of one of its customers, Keyword Discovery has added “Question Phrases” to its list of searchable databases. This means you can now enter a keyword and, rather than get back related keywords, you get a list of related questions that searchers have asked. Question Phrases appears as the last choice on the [...]