The meta keywords tag has long been thought dead by SEO professionals: modern search engines ignore it and Google has always ignored it. The SEO community was surprised then by a statement from Bing that the meta keywords tag is a signal. Now we learn that while it is a signal, it’s only a spam signal, not a ranking signal.
Did you ever play the game Chubby Bunny at camp when you were a kid? You know, the game where you stuff as many marshmallows as you can into your mouth and try to say the words “Chubby Bunny” while laughing and trying not to choke on the powdered sugar goodness? Just in case a …
Images are a way to make your site look more attractive and encourage your visitors to spend more time on the site, but they can also serve very real SEO purposes. Proper implementation of images on your site or blog can increase your search engine rankings and attract a couple different kinds of backlinks.
Linkbuilding is a perennial effort in the SEO world, and Google+ has just presented SEO professionals with another source of high quality dofollow backlinks that you know Google will be paying attention to. There are a couple of settings you have to pay attention to, but it’s and easy and free way to gather more links!
Google’s Matt Cutts offers an update to the hyphen vs. underscore for SEO URLs status. He reaffirms that yes, Google still treats hyphens as a word separator, and still treats underscores as a word joiner. He confirms in unequivocal terms that you should use hyphens for your URLs.
