Online News Sites, Newspapers & SEO

Posted by john shehata on Nov 8, 2008 in News Optimization, SEO

This is a time line for all news & newspaper related news. We will list the latest updates on online news, print newspapers, news headlines and SEO. This page will be updated frequently.

Google SEO Ranking Factors & Link Value Factors Simplified – 2007

Posted by john shehata on Oct 27, 2008 in Internal Linking, On-Page Optimization, SEO

Early this year SEOmoz.com published search engine ranking factors 2007 document, they asked 37 well known SEO Gurus in the world of Organic search engine optimization to vote on the importance of a variety of Google Search Engine Ranking Factors that comprise Google’s ranking algorithun. Here is a summarized table of all factors in order of importance.

“it is my opinion that 90-95% of the knowledge required about Google’s algorithm is contained below.” Rand Fishkin said.

Ranking Factors are classified under 4 categories:

45+ Check Points for a Comprehensive SEO Site Audit

Posted by john shehata on Oct 26, 2008 in Advanced SEO, SEO

In every SEO conference I attend there must be multiple site clinic sessions. Webmasters and business owners ask questions to a bunch of SEO gurus. What I noticed is that there is no process or structured methodology to Audit a site. Also i noticed that most of webmasters/business owners are not very familiar with SEO or Coding. That’s why I created this comprehensive list of SEO check points for any site webmaster or business owner to SEO-Audit their site in an easy way:

Iraq is searching for Palin’s Hot Photos while Kenya is Searching for Obama’s Religion

Posted by john shehata on Sep 17, 2008 in Search Trends

Google has launched a new product; Google Insight. With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames.

Utilizing Google Insight to understand global and local search patterns for US candidates (John McCain / Sarah Palin, Barack Obama / Joe Biden) of the 2008 elections, you notice the following:

SEO Friendly Widgets

Posted by john shehata on May 3, 2008 in Advanced SEO

The main goal for widgets, so far, is its viral effect in increasing traffic. But with the recent Facebook.com updates (allowing spiders to their members profile pages) and the increased use of widgets on social networks, it is important to build SEO friendly widgets. In other words to utilize widgets in link building. if you are going to have a Widget, you should get some SEO link benefit out of it, in addition to its viral benefit.

To discuss how we can use widgets for SEO benefits, let’s dissect widgets into 3 main parts; header, footer and body.

SEO Resources, Links, Blogs & More

Posted by john shehata on Dec 7, 2007 in SEO Resources

- Top SEO Posts for 2007
- 26 Free Buzz Monitoring Tools

Nintendo Wii site 256% increase due to SEO

Posted by john shehata on Dec 7, 2007 in SEO Examples

Thursday, 06 Dec 2007 10:37
DirectNews.com reported that The Nintendo Wii is so sought after by British consumers that one website which sources the console has increased its market share by 265 per cent during November alone.