SEO – Mitch Bartlett

April 27, 2012

Image Content and SEO

We all know that detailed ALT tags in your images can help SEO on your web pages, but what about the actual image? For example, let’s say that I wrote a page about “Sioux Falls”. ALT tags and image names aside, would an image of Falls Park help my SEO? I believe it would. Google developed this type of technology...

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April 19, 2012

To Date or Not To Date Your Posts

Years ago, I removed all timestamps from my posts. This was because people are biased when it comes to reading a post that is old. Google indexes date information on your page too, which can cause people not to even click through to your site. Though I couldn’t tell how much of an impact this made, there was something not...

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September 17, 2010

Check What Other Websites Are Hosted On Your Shared Server

I just watched a video where Matt Cutts of Google talks about shared web hosting and whether or not you should be concerned if your web site is hosted on the same server as spammy websites. He says it’s only an issue if there are thousands of questionable sites hosted on the same IP address as your site. It’s highly...

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September 15, 2010

How Google Decides Your Page Is Worth a Top Ranking

Anything you post on your blog appears on Google almost instantly these days. Real-time search is becoming more and more important. After observing how some of my top articles perform in Google rankings for 5 years now, I think I’m beginning to understand a newer part of how Google ranks its pages. As with all people who try to figure...

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September 14, 2010

How 1 Guy Took a Site to Over a Million Hits Per Month

I found this to be the best part of Gnomedex 10 this year. Matt Inman tells you the creative things he did to earn millions of hits and pageviews per month on his dating site and TheOatmal humor site. Any website owner can apply these skills, so it’s worth a watch.

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July 23, 2010

SEO Isn’t Only About the Keywords You Use

People spend a lot of time trying to figure out different combinations of keywords to use in their posts. There’s so much focus on using certain keywords that sometimes writers don’t pay attention to the keywords that shouldn’t be included in their posts. I recently wrote a post about how to make it through a Nintendo DS video game called...

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Category: SEO

Image Content and SEO

To Date or Not To Date Your Posts

Check What Other Websites Are Hosted On Your Shared Server

How Google Decides Your Page Is Worth a Top Ranking

How 1 Guy Took a Site to Over a Million Hits Per Month

SEO Isn’t Only About the Keywords You Use