SEO Basics: The Meta Keyword Tag

SEO Basics focuses in specifically on the meta keywords tag, and we discuss the history of meta keywords a bit. The meta keywords tag does not help your rankings, not even slightly, in any of the major search engines. In fact, the tag was helpful only from 1996 to 1998. If you’re still trying to use this tag to improve you’re rankings, you’re more than a decade behind the times.

Facebook Pages, Profiles and Groups…What’s the Difference?

The difference between a Facebook Page, a Facebook Profile and a Facebook Group can be confusing. In order to be certain that you are using the correct format for the correct application, specifically when it comes to setting up a business Facebook page, educate yourself on the difference.

Matt Cutts Update on Hyphen vs Underscore URLs

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.

Google+ Launches Games

Google continues to grow their fledgling Google+ social network by introducing their first 16 games, designed to segregate all game notification so they don’t go into your news feed. You only see the game spam if you choose to go to the game page. Facebook responds by increasing the amount of space allocated for games, and increasing the amount of notifications that games and pump into users’ feeds.