Using CSS for SEO purposes

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) can be useful when optimizing your site for search engines. Some of the more common SEO uses are: Ability to place your most important text and keywords near the top of the code, yet still display [...]

Search engines go from one web page to another, following links found on each page. This process is known as "crawling" the web. The program that crawls is known as a "spider" or "bot". Once a spider finds a web [...]

Is buying and selling text links good, bad, or somewhere in-between, in terms of SEO? I believe that buying and selling ADVERTISING, in whatever form that takes (banner ads, text links, etc) is a normal part of doing business, and [...]

Late last night, Google began updating backlinks across its datacenters. Most people are reporting strange results. Many have significantly increased backlinks, with most of them being low PR (even PR0) showing up, yet not showing the higher PR backlinks. In [...]

The search engines are busily scooping up other companies, hoping to win the search engine war that has ignited amongst the big three (Google, Yahoo, MSN). The rate of acquisitions is at a frantic pace, as each tries to outdo [...]

Google launched a new toolbar feature this week that allows users to type in a name, such as Grand Canyon, and be taken directly to the homepage for the site. If the users searches for something less specific or not [...]

I own or manage a lot of websites, and checking to see if DMOZ has accepted my submissions is a chore that I often forget to do. I also tend to forget exactly what category I've submitted it to. When [...]

Many seo newbies wonder if they should point all their external backlinks to the home page or to internal pages of their site. There is no hard and fast rule for this, as it depends upon different factors, but the [...]