Notes on title rewriting keyword density

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

I was doing some research for a school assignment today and came across a few news articles that were using some very interesting URLs.

A Fox News Report titled “Global Warming in Last 15 Years Insignificant, U.K.’s Top Climate Scientist Admits,” ended with: global-warming-insignificant-years-admits-uks-climate-scientist

Why was it that several of the words in the title were left out of the URL?

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Targeting long tail keywords on your blog

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

Forget targeting individual keywords. That’s right. They matter little if you are serious about getting traffic to your blog from search engines.

For a business website that received 15,000 visitors per month, 8,135 of the visitors (less than 20%) came from keywords that bring only 1 visitor per month. That means that 80% of visitors came from long-tail keywords. And that statistic is not by any means an isolated case.

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How to tell if your blog has been indexed in Google

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

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A good indication of how much respect the almighty Google has for your blog is to check how many pages you have indexed in Google. The more pages you have indexed, ideally, the more chances you have of getting visitors from Google.

The fastest way yo determine how many of your blog’s pages that Google has indexed is by doing a simple Google search with site:yoursite.com

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How to add meta tags to your blog’s front page and posts in WordPress

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Meta tags like the description and keywords tags are what search engines use to identify the content of a page on your site. The description tag is the most important meta tag because it is displayed to search engine users on result pages. For example, when I search the term ‘blog’ in Google, the first result looks like this:

The text that reads: “Blogger is a free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world. Blogger makes it simple to post text, photos and video …” is actually the meta description tag for Google Blogger’s frontpage.

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