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NHL Officials protect their photos from…themselves.

Mickey — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:46:46 +0000

It’s a fairly common thing to protect your photos from being hotlinked — shown on another site but still hosted on yours. Bandwidth costs money, and people don’t like to have their hosting abused like that. A common solution is to configure the server to show the correct image when people are on your site, [...]

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NHL Officials protect their photos from…themselves.

Is this natural? Used cars, used cars for sale, buy used cars…

Mickey — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:53:26 +0000

Another great “Whiteboard Friday” video from Rand at SEOmoz. This one talks about over-optimization and it covers it very well. Check it out: SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – On-Site Over Optimization from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo. Post from: MickMel SEOIs this natural? Used cars, used cars for sale, buy used cars…

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Is this natural? Used cars, used cars for sale, buy used cars…

Has Google changed the way they handle social media links?

Mickey — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:45:03 +0000

The short answer is yes. And no. Matt Cutts explains in the video below. In a nutshell, he says they haven’t specifically changed the way social media links count toward your site, but they’re always changing the algorithm and some of the changes certainly could have had an impact. They’ve made about 300-400 changes in [...]

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Has Google changed the way they handle social media links?

Multiple H1s on a page — not a problem.

Mickey — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:47:13 +0000

I’ve always shied away from using more than H1 tag on a single page. I’ve assumed that Google would frown upon multiple H1s on a single page. I was wrong. The video below from Matt Cutts explains Google’s position on it. I may re-look at a few sites where I used an H2 when I [...]

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Multiple H1s on a page — not a problem.

Search queries are getting longer

Mickey — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:29:48 +0000

It’s something that I’ve suspected, but never had the data to back up — users are typing longer search queries into Google. As people become more comfortable with search engines, they’re learning that longer queries will help them find what they want much more easily. There’s also the thought that searchers may be refining their [...]

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Search queries are getting longer

All on board for the new “Canonical Tag” for you to use

Mickey — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:10:04 +0000

A new tool has been added to your arsenal to help fight against duplicate content on your site, and Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are all on board with it. Introducing the “Canonical Tag”. This new tag allows you to specify the desired URL for a page that might have multiple URLS. For example, you might [...]

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All on board for the new “Canonical Tag” for you to use

SEOmoz asks — What’s PageRank got to do with it?

Mickey — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:28:51 +0000

Rand over at SEOmoz has done a nice little “whiteboard Friday” video about Google PageRank and what it’s really about. He covers four areas where increased PageRank can benefit a site: crawling, inclusion, freshness and ranking. It’s a fairly short video (8 mins) and it’s well worth your time. Do you agree with Rand’s conclusions? [...]

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SEOmoz asks — What’s PageRank got to do with it?

A great video with some WordPress SEO tips

Mickey — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:59:04 +0000

Here’s an excellent video with some SEO tips for WordPress-driven sites. This was given by Stephan Spencer of NetConcepts. He mentions his excellent “SEO Title Tag” plug-in, which can be found here. The video is about 30 minutes long, but well worth watching. Even if you’re a WordPress SEO expert, you’re bound to pull a [...]

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A great video with some WordPress SEO tips

Get more links by fixing erroneous links to your site

Mickey — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:30:32 +0000

Google has just released a handy tool to the webmaster portal that shows you all of your 404 errors with a link of pages that link to them. As Matt Cutts explains, it’s an easy way to get some links to your site. There are probably sites out there that meant to link to you, [...]

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Get more links by fixing erroneous links to your site

Question and Answer time

Mickey — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:21:15 +0000

Do you have a question releated to Search Engine Optimzation, AdSense, WordPress, or a related topic? E-mail me (mickey@mickmelseo.com) and I’ll round them up and post the answers in a few days. Thanks! Post from: MickMel SEOQuestion and Answer time

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