http://www.seoarticles.com SEO Optimization - SEO Tutorials Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:30:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We all know that Google’s ranking algorithm uses hundreds of different factors to determine the position of search results – but is your mouse pointer one of them? According to a recent post on Seo By The Sea, the answer is Yes, after Google was recently granted a patent for determining ... http://www.seoarticles.com/2010/07/29/does-your-mouse-pointer-influence-ranking/ One of the things I often say that most bloggers get wrong is they sacrifice keyword focus for being clever, cute, or entertaining. Yes, it is important that you make your blog posts as interesting as possible; but you should never ignore the opportunity to tie into commercial concepts. Since ... http://www.seoarticles.com/2010/07/15/timing-your-blog-posts-for-maximum-exposure/ Google has one of the most extensive web site indexes in the World Wide Web. Being the most popular search engine there is today, Google has established itself and set standards for other search engines to try and follow. The company has done this by using one of the most ... http://www.seoarticles.com/2010/07/01/google-releases-the-new-and-improved-googlebot/ SEO, as you know, stands for Search Engine Optimization, and you might rightly expect that SEO is about optimizing pages to appeal to search engines. And you'd be right. Increasingly, however, I am finding that clients believe so fervently in SEO that they aren't actually optimizing their pages for sales. ... http://www.seoarticles.com/2010/06/23/why-do-you-seo-your-website-pages/ Helping companies with very, very large web sites increase sales through improved search engine performance takes a unique type of person. Think equally strong left and right brain lateral thinking.  Heavy doeses of technical savvy plus creative problem solving are essential. Shopzilla and Bizrate market millions of products and Michael Nguyen’s ... http://www.seoarticles.com/2010/06/10/improving-site-traffic-through-seo-strategies/ There are currently 29.6 million small businesses in the U.S. (SCORE). 63% of consumers and small business owners use the Iinternet to find information about local companies and 82% use search engines (Webvisible & Nielsen).  That means there's a lot of opportunity for local SEO. Recently I attended GetListed.org's Local University ... http://www.seoarticles.com/2010/05/20/building-your-seo-with-simple-tactics/ Often one finds themselves looking in the rear view mirror at topics that just won’t go away. One such shadow for me is a set of patents produced in whole, or in part, by Anna Patterson, (former Googler, was to Cuil for ‘em); the now (in)famous Phrase ... http://www.seoarticles.com/2010/05/06/understanding-the-seo-magic-bullet-theory/