“WordPress Takes Care of 80-90% of Search Engine Optimization” says Matt Cutts of Google

He also said that “WordPress is a fantastic piece of software“. So why should we care what Matt Cutts has to say? Well here is what the Wikipedia has to say about who is Matt Cutts:
Matt Cutts works for the Search Quality group in Google, specializing in search engine optimization issues. He [...]

Measuring and Improving your Social Media Impact

As Web 2.0 evolves to returns the internet to its social media roots, albeit with great advancements, interconnectedness and opportunity, it is useful to try to get an idea how well you are doing. After all, the first step towards improving is measurement.
Fortunately Google has a tool, wouldn’t you know it . [...]

Building a new website and domain? Replace your temporary landing page with a simple WordPress LAUNCH page for SEO and SEM jumpstart.

When starting a new domain name and related website I like to use a simple WordPress blog as the landing page. This makes the old style landing page more of a launch page. Often typical practice has been just to put up a single static HTML page announcing the coming website. In some [...]

Front Page Guarantee for Google Yahoo and MSN Placement – SCAM

The email quoted below was forwarded to me by a client wondering if it was legitimate. He asked how a company could guarantee front page search page results placement.
There are some ways it can be done, and you can do any of them yourself if you want to.
1) Bid high enough on the Adwords [...]

"I can start thinking reducing my adwords month payment"

All the websites I do are based in the same technology and implemented with the same skill and crafting. It takes extra time and planning, but it is what works! Personally configured and installed by me, my website services are always designed to return the highest possible internet search marketing results for your [...]

SEO tidbit – domain age and registration term impact on search results rank

For a some time it has been known that Google’s patents includes factoring the continuous age of a site’s domain name and the remaining term of its registration period. But what is a little more obscure is if Google actually used it, how and what weight they give to it. Some [...]

WordPress Based Websites Dominate SEO Worldcup Challenge

Did you know that there is a large-scale SEO competition … until a few days ago neither did I. And after telling wedding professionals that our WordPress based websites would dramatically increase their search ranking I am happy, because now there are concrete results for what is the best website basis for excellent [...]

Another perspective on SEO for Wedding Photographers

This is one of the most accurate and complete discussions of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) that I have read lately.
SEO Is Not Just For Wedding Photographers Anymore
Plus it mentions a number of helpful specific action points to improve most site’s search ranking.
(Although I do think he is a little optimistic on the likely possibility of [...]

META Keywords tag will not help a Flash website

In fact it won’t help any website.
I recently had an email from a Flash website owner who said that his website designer assured him that the META Keywords tag would help overcome a Flash site’s search engine weakness. Sadly, no.

Despite some SEO hype types, in reality the META Keywords tag is DEAD. Yep, [...]

Google Adwords free benefits – just use them in your content

With the growing cost of Google adwords and our target market brides’ increasing resistance I thought it would be helpful to precisely show how you can discover the search words used most often. And benefit from using them in your website content at no expense.
First to discover the most productive bride’s search engine words [...]