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I came across an interesting post at cre8asiteforums.com that opens the doors to discussion on some popular SEO myths.  Some are myths while in my opinion some are more fact than fiction.

In this article I look at a few of the “myths” to give you my take on these issues.  You may be surprised to learn that they aren’t all myths after all.

There’s been a lot of terms thrown out lately to do with how Google currently ranks sites.  Terms like “TrustRank” and “Sandbox” have been out for quite a while stirring up heated discussions in all the major SEO forums.

So I thought I’d try to shed some light on these two terms.  What exactly is TrustRank and the Sandbox and how do they affect search engine positioning?

I recently speculated wildly on what Google would do with $6 billion in reserves.  And while I still think Google is looking at a major move on a well known company more evidence has come to my attention.

Evidence that perhaps points Google in a somewhat different but similar direction.  In this article I look at the new evidence and see how it could impact Google’s decisions.

Search engine forums have been around for years.  One of the more popular of late is the Searchenginewatch.com forum.

In this article I take a look at even more of the more popular forum topics.

Search engine forums have been around for years.  One of the more popular of late is the Searchenginewatch.com forum.

In this article I look at some of the more popular forum topics.

Textlinkbrokers is looking to partner with several web designers for a few projects we have in the works.  Our in-house staff is currently booked.  We are looking for “Award Winning” designers that are looking for either direct contract work or for a partnership deal where we advertise the designer in exchange for work.  We currently reach 30,000+ unique webmasters on a monthly basis. This is an opportunity for a good designer to get his work seen by a ton of potential clients.

If you are interested please email jarrod at textlinkbrokers.com.  I would love to see examples of your work.

It has long been speculated that Google, along with other search engines, would someday start looking at the length of your domain registrations to determine how legitimate your site is.  Well, according to Godaddy, they are starting to do just that. About 6 months ago Google applied for a patent, which they do often, thats states “Valuable (legitimate) domains are often paid for several years in advance, while doorway (illegitimate) domains rarely are used for more than a year”

With Thanksgiving just around the corner it is time to refresh your seasonal optimization if you haven’t already.

This is because the words you used to capture traffic last holiday season will not likely capture traffic this season.

In this article I look at some of the tools you can use to help improve your site for this holiday season.

Sometimes your competitors will do almost anything to compete with you including stealing your content.

To do this they sometimes employ automated software much like a search engine crawler to make the process quicker and easier than manually copying your site.  This can cause many problems for you.

In this article we look at ways to stop this from happening.

There are many tactics one can employ to improve their search engine rankings.  After all improved rankings usually means increased sales and more profits for the business owner.

There are certain things that some businesses seem to neglect however.  And they usually have the biggest impact on your bottom line.

In this article I look at the most important tactic to increasing your sales from your website.

We all know that AOL is looking at some kind of partnership with the likes of MSN or Google.  But many people do not realize how big this deal could potentially be.

For one thing, AOL owns Netscape which maintains the rights to the ODP.

In this article I look at some of the implications for the ODP in relation to this AOL deal.

All to often I come across sites that are slow or even go down for a few minutes.  Worse, I’ve had clients sites go down for days at a time due to hosting issues.

Many times the site owner does not realize how big of an impact this has on their rankings both now and into the future.

In this article we go back to the basics by looking at how a search engine indexes your site, and what impacts there will be if the crawler can not find your site.

301 redirects are used to tell browsers including search engine spiders that pages have been moved, and to notify them of the new location.

However there is much confusion on what the best type of redirect is, as well as confusion on the proper way to implement it.

In this article we cover the bases looking at the most common types of redirects as well as how to implement them.

Nothing seems to have turned the SEO world around as much as blogs.  This is because blogs initially started as personal journals.  Now however websites are beginning to realize their value in building an online reputation and helping promote a website.

In this article we look at one aspect of blogging.  That is tagging, and it’s impact on SEO now and into the future.

Google just announced that they are launching Google Web Analytics tonight.  Thats great news for a lot of people.

If you didnt know, Google bought Urchin a while back.  For the last few months they have been offering Urchin analytics for $199 per month.  We have been using it for about 6 months ourselves and love it.

Now it’s FREE!

Google has decided to make Urchin free to all their users as well as change the name to Google Analytics.

You can sign up by going to http://www.google.com/analytics or http://www.urchin.com

I feel sorry for all of the Web analytic companies out there, this is very bad news for them.

There are three major benefits to Article Marketing; Traffic, Links, and Branding. It’s tough to say which benefit is more important, since articles can be equally benefit to all three. Some of our clients are only interested in the search engine optimization aspects while others are mostly interested in traffic. In most cases however, regardless of what they initially expect, most of them quickly find that, when done right, articles will bring a ton of traffic, build your brand, and increase your search engine rankings.

Hello Everyone,

About 6 months ago we co-wrote a free ebook called “Your Link Popularity Study Guide”. We have been offering this 6000 word document to everyone that signed up for our newsletter. Since it has been about 6 months now, I have decided to go ahead and offer it freely to the public.

It is a great beginner guide to anyone that is new to link popularity..

If you have an audience of webmasters, or anyone that may be interested in link popularity, feel free to download it and offer to your users. All we ask is that you give credit to both Brad Callen of www.seoelite.com and Jarrod Hunt of www.textlinkbrokers.com Hard coded links are always appreciated.

Heres the URL of the download
http://www.textlinkbrokers.com/linkpopularityguide.pdf

Over the past few weeks we’ve seen all the major engines update in some form.  From major Google updates to minor MSN And Yahoo updates.  Sometimes these updates catch website owners off guard.

While the search engines are getting better at letting people know that updates are happening, sometimes they don’t always let us know in a timely fashion if at all.

In this article I look at some ways in which I’ve noticed updates before they happen.  These are some indicators you too can employ to watch for potential updates.

In the SEO industry we sometimes get too focused on designing a site with search engines in mind.  All too often we have to take a step back and say “what is the end user going to think of this?”

Sometimes the two conflict in that occasionally a user friendly design is not so search engine friendly, or a search engine friendly site seems too uninteresting for the average user.

But in between the user and the search engine there is one more aspect that some designers miss.  That is designing a site with the web browser in mind.  Not the actual user, but the software which renders the site.

In this article I look at some things to keep in mind when designing a browser friendly site.

Search engine forums have been around for years.  One of the more popular of late is the Searchenginewatch.com forum.

In this article I take a look at even more of the more popular forum topics.

Search engine forums have been around for years.  One of the more popular of late is the Searchenginewatch.com forum.

In this article I take a look at even more of the more popular forum topics.

Last week I brought you some of my favorite SEO tools.  These are ones I use on a regular basis to help improve my clients search engine positioning.

But as I was thinking about it today, I missed some other very important ones as well.  One’s that can help show problems the other tools may have missed.

In this article I look at these other tools and how they can help you.

Working in the SEO/SEM industry can be very rewarding.  Many times a problem can be solved simply with a little online research, and posts on a few forums.

All to often, however, some people put too much stock in the posts they see, ultimately negatively impacting their SEO efforts.

In this article I look at some of the positives and negatives of online SEM forums and attending SEM and SEO conferences.

Analytics are very important to your web marketing campaign.  If you do not use analytics properly you may not understand how effective your search engine marketing is.

In this article I look at some practical examples of when to use analytics and some things you need to identify in order to get the most out of your analytics.