SEO

Do Webmasters Have Brains?

I got an interesting email yesterday, and it suddenly occurred to me that perhaps the members here would like to see it, so I've included both the email I received, and my response to it:

Feeding RSS Directories - Have You?

RSS content is becoming more and more popular, and with good reason.  It allows the end user to have some control over what he wants to read - and for the webmaster, it allows him to bundle everything up, including articles newly written - and immediately publish everything. RSS is simply a method of syndicating content. The idea of aggregating content is very useful - the readers of your website can view your latest offerings without being bothered with email spam, and without taking a trip to your website. RSS allows users the flexibility to regain control of their content. The creation of RSS feeds provides content, yet doesn't force it on anyone who isn't interested in what you say.

Drupal Pathauto - Optimal URL Pattern Settings

To Follow or NoFollow - That is the Question...

The correct use of the rel="nofollow" tag, it has been argued; will help your SEO efforts. Some believe that by eliminating external links from search engine consideration - you'll end up with higher page rank. Others strongly disagree. Some will argue that one place to use it is in internal links going to your privacy policy page, or your contact page... pages on your site that you really have no interest in raising the page rank.

The Magic of Good SEO Techiques

SEO - Search Engine Optimization - is a series of techniques that you can do to improve your 'SERP's, or Search Engine Result Pages... where you end up when someone is searching for your website.  Everyone would like to be number one - but in reality - that's going to be very difficult to achieve.  There are too many other people fighting for a number one listing for you to hope to rank as number one for your selected keywords.