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Many of our web hosting users are using Google Analytics, Webalizer, and Awstats to monitor their website performs and statistics.  A few weeks ago Google made some changes to their services and made these stats slightly less useful.  Lately many website owners, Weberz included, have been seeing “(not provided)” or “Unknown” for the keyword visitors used to find their website in the Google search results.…

Now that we have decided to stop ignoring the search engines, we are going to need some tools to help us monitor and improve our SEO efforts. The first tool we are going to need is Google’s Webmaster Tools. Webmaster Tools is a free service provided by Google to allow website owners and web designers to understand what Google knows and thinks about your website. A free Google Account is all that is needed to register with Webmaster Tools.…

Every website on the Internet has a job to do. It could be selling products, sharing information, or getting consumers into a brick and mortar store. It really doesn’t matter what the job is, just that there is a job to be done. To get this job completed successfully, websites need visitors and typically the more of them the better. This is where search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing can help.…

Recently I have been writing more about SEO and SEO related topics. Well today I realized that some of our less advanced readers might not know or understand what SEO is and how it works. Every webmaster should know at least the basics of SEO and SEM since they can be the decision maker on whether a site thrives or dies on the net. The problem when writing about SEO and SEM is that too many users out there have their own definition of these two terms and what exactly falls under each one. So here I will explain what …

A few weeks ago at SMX Advanced, Matt Cutts made a comment during a Q&A session that seemed to shock the SEO industry. The comment Matt made was that link juice that is assigned to a nofollow’ed link by Google evaporates instead of being reassigned to links that don’t contain the nofollow attribute. Well after many speculating blog posts were made by SEOs trying to understand the comment, Matt decided to post a clarifying post on his blog about page rank sculpting.…

Update 1/4/2011: The problems described in this article regarding WordPress functionality breaking due to permalink structures have been fixed in version 3.0 and higher. Now the permalink structure suggested by the people mentioned in this article is the best solution for SEO optimized URL’s. However the WordPress Codex, the official WordPress documentation, still suggests that you should start your permalink structure with a number for performance reasons. In most WordPress sites, the performance hit caused using the permalink structure suggested by the SEO experts below would not be large enough to out-weigh the SEO benefits.

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