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SEO and Validation

August 26th, 2006 at 10:20am Under Free SEO Advice+ SEO

This post is based on a thread (Re: My Google Page Rank is 4) in the NG alt.internet.search-engines and a request for help in the comments at SEO Expert page.

Original poster asked about his 3-4 month old site www.cre8ivemind.com, with a PR4 home page, but no pages indexed in Google despite using Google site map.

Confirmed with the Google toolbar the home page was indeed PR4.

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Confirmed with a link:http://www.domain.com/ search in Google that the site had backlinks (5 backlinks) did the same with Yahoo, though Yahoo has changed it’s link: format recently and sometimes it doesn’t work (used to work with any site including deleted ones!)! Yahoo showed 113 backlinks.

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SEO vs Accessible Web Design

July 29th, 2006 at 10:30am Under Free SEO Advice+ SEO

There’s a discussion in the NG alt.internet.search-engines “comparing seo techniques [was: To hyphen or not to hyphen]” partially based on this web page How to get IE6 to apply image border styles on hover (mouseover)?.

The owner of the Locus Optimus (Els) is a web designer who focuses on accessibility based web design, a growing niche market due to recent web site accessibility legislation.

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If she came to me as a client with the primary goal of accessibility since that’s her niche market in web design and compromising accessibility would damage the sites credibility (I have SEO clients with similar needs, and you are a pain in the neck :-)) my optimization advice would be as follows.

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SEO Consultant Ranking

July 17th, 2006 at 10:53am Under Free SEO Advice+ SEO

Was reading a post on alt.internet.search-engines (newsgroup) called “SEO certification” which had gone a little off topic, had gone on to basically how to show you are a good SEO consultant by showing your rankings (SERPs). I started to respond, but thought it would be better on the SEO section of the blog (some new much needed SEO content)-

Someone said to show you are a good SEO consultant make a site that ranks well for some SERPs. Another poster (a self proclaimed ethical SEO expert) agreed rankings is the way to go giving a easy SERP as an example and that got me started-

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Free SEO Advice from an SEO Consultant

March 31st, 2006 at 03:48pm Under Free SEO Advice+ SEO

I’m a paid SEO Consultant with SEO Gold where we don’t generally offer free search engine optimization advice since that wouldn’t be good business.

However, to generate some interest in my new blog for a limited period of time I’m offering free SEO advice here from an SEO consultant.

If you have a question regarding search engine optimization (SEO) post it as a comment below and I’ll try to create a new post to answer your question.

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