I just watched a video of Matt Cutts answering the question:
Is a website designed with a CSS-based layout more SEO friendly than a table based layout?
I was expecting Matt to say, yes in fact there are reasons CSS+XHTML works better for SEO. He did not. He basically said, use whatever works best for you. WOW. [...]
The question is: within the URL of a webpage should you use a dash (-) or an underscore(_) to separate words? For example: www.somesite.com/page-about-bagels.html VERSUS www.somesite.com/page_about_bagels.html
Like the Hi Definition format wars, we have an undisputed winner in the to dash or to underscore question. There is no reason to use an underscore unless a searcher [...]
The center stage of this battle ground between Search Engine Marketers and Marketing firms is simply this: is conversion more important than traffic. “Content is King” exclaims the marketing firms whilst “Get the traffic then worry about conversion” is the overall tone of Search Engine Marketers. So who’s right, is content truly king and search [...]
When it comes to our SEO results, in many cases going from page 10+ to position 1, customers are often convinced we have some secret recipe or complex tools to help us achieve such a drastic change. I wish that were the case.
However there are a few tools we use just to save time [...]
Number 1 with a (lack of) bang: CHROME
Wowey wow wow wow as Christopher Walken would say. There is a lot I love about Chrome. The first thing that stands out is the giant display size. Thanks to it’s ‘omnibar’ which combines pretty much 3 menubars into 1 you find yourself not staring [...]
There was an interesting poll and post over at Search Engine Roundtable about how much traffic Yahoo! sends. I’m confident SERoundTable see’s a lot more traffic than my sites do and it was interesting to see the breakdown. Less than 6% of traffic to their site came from Yahoo! in the past month.
So [...]
