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SEO: How to Rank Facebook Notes on the First Page of Google

Do you shop on Black Friday or Boxing Day? I don’t like going out on busy shopping days, especially Black Friday or Boxing Day (Canada). There’s too much to handle, especially when you think of all the news about people fighting over boxes and even spraying mace in eachother’s eyes – yikes! And although I’m one to go elbow to elbow with crazy shoppers, that didn’t stop me from shopping online! So this past Black Friday, I was price shopping online for a set of Knives; The Bay and Canadian Tire had almost identical sets of Cuisinart knives on sale and wanted to see if they were a good deal or not. And to my surprise, I found a Facebook note ranked 9th in my Google results page for, “Black Friday Cuisinart Knives”:

SEO: Tag Clouds are Ugly, But Are They Good for SEO?

I’ve seen many blogs (both corporate and personal) with a right sidebar widget that includes differently sized keywords in various orders – its a Tag Cloud. Personally, I think tag clouds are ugly and people abuse them by keyword stuffing, “the more tags I use, maybe I’ll rank better for each tag”. . But, what if a tag cloud isn’t abused, are tag clouds good for SEO?

Magento: Advanced Magento SEO Guide

Magento SEO. Magento is an open-source shopping cart platform that I believe will do for e-commerce just as what WordPress has done for blogging. If you’ve decided on going with the Magento platform, then SEO… 

SEO: SEO Debate – Text Links vs. Image Links

Text Links vs. Image Links. This is not a new concept. In fact, I debated about writing this post simply because of its elementary SEO level. However, The reason why Im writing this post is because a) I was recently tested on this SEO foundations level question and b) there are still many people learning SEO today and can teach them how to create SEO Friendly websites. In this post, I’ll provide an example of how a images within your website can be optimized using a combination of CSS and SEO basics.

Recently, I was tested on how I would optimize a catalog page on a website. The page was comprised of 12+ image-based links. At first glance, each link 1) had the text as part of the image and 2) switch when you hovered your mouse over it. So, my solution was use a technique that incorporates an Image Replacement Technique (read Mezzoblue on this technique) which does away with using an image tag within the link structure and replaces it with anchor text and then using CSS display the image in the background. But, after viewing the source code, it was easy to see that these links were more complex and that screen dithering can be deceiving.