One method of estimating potential traffic is by using click distribution knowledge and adwords data. In August of 2006 AOL leaked millions of search records. Some SEOs scoured through this data to look at click data by ranking. A comment on Jim Boykin’s blog reveals the percent of clicks for each position for 9,038,794 searches [...]
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CakePHP Authentication, Authorization and ACL
What’s the difference between Authentication and Authorization? These two terms are quite often misunderstood. Let’s put it this way, suppose you work in a 100-story office building, each floor has different offices of other companies. You are working on the 49th Floor, cubicle number 20. Authentication is when the security personnel at the building’s front [...]
Google Maps Disappearing from Post
Have you ever tried to add a Google Map into your wordpress posts or pages only to find them disappear after editing the post or page again? Apparently this problem is caused by using WordPress’ built-in Visual Editor. The Visual Editor does not like iframes. There are plugins available to insert google maps such as [...]
How Many People Still Use IE6, IE7 and IE8?
It’s been several years already and who would have thought that a great many people are still using IE6? Apparently, IE6 still has lots of fans. These two snapshots were taken from our properties, with majority of the visitors coming from the U.S. and Philippines. IE7 dominates the Internet Explorer charts. However, websites should still [...]
Finding Dofollow Links
Brian Gilley over at Social SEO published a great article about finding the best backlinks. To find these backlinks, Google’s advanced search operators are your best friend. Here’s a summary of the keywords from Brian inurl:forgotten_password.php “We will send the address of a unique verification page to you via email click” Elgg “Powered by Elgg” [...]
How to Analyze Keyword Difficulty Using Only Google
Perform a naked search of the keyword e.g. “Organic Wine”. Perform an allinanchor search to distinguish the authority domains from the niche domains (allinanchor:”Organic Wine”) To get how many back links a site has using the keyword, perform a search using Yahoo! Site Explorer SEMRush competition meter. The higher the number, the more difficult it [...]
High PR (PageRank) Article Submission Websites
Here are some websites to submit your articles for free Ezinearticles PR: 6 / Alexa: 255 Buzzle PR: 6 / Alexa: 2,599 GoArticles PR: 6 / Alexa: 22,529 ArticleBase PR: 5 / Alexa: 1,826 ArticleDashboard PR: 5 / Alexa: 29,138 ArticleClick PR: 5 / Alexa: 32,451 Web-Source PR: 5 / Alexa: 36,492 Isnare PR: 5 [...]
Factors That Affect Search Engine Ranking Positioning
There are hundreds of factors that influence a website’s ranking in search engines. And the importance of each of these factors will fluctuate depending on the competitiveness of each keyword in a particular search engine. Google Enterprise general manager – Dave Girouard – says PageRank relies on more than 100 variables, and these factors are [...]
Off Page SEO Guidelines and Tips
Off Page SEO is the process of optimizing your site by influencing external factors such as link building, search engine marketing (sem) and pay per click (ppc). Off Page SEO can be broken down into parts. Metrics That Matter Indexed Pages. Google PageRank. Links to URL. Links to domain. Domain age, address and info. Last [...]
On Page SEO Guidelines and Tips
On Page SEO is the process of optimizing your HTML pages for the search engines’ perusal. It is by no means an exact science, but Google and all the other search engines have published guidelines for us to follow to better rankings.