http://www.seomix.com Search Engine Optimization tips and advice. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:11:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you’ve done much SEO work for your website, I’m sure you’ve realized just how important it is to include the right text in the < title > tag of each page. As discussed in this article, it is a good idea to build each of your pages around its own ... http://www.seomix.com/2006/12/facts-about-title-keyword-density/ Despite Google’s dominant position in the search industry, the internet giant’s decision makers insist that search is not a “solved problem,” and that there is still much room for improvement. “Our position is that search is a very hard problem. We have still a lot of work to do,” commented internal ... http://www.seomix.com/2006/07/google-strives-to-further-improve-search-functionality/ This is pretty obvious from a design point of view, but it’s important to remember the SEO benefits as well. When designing a website, you should try and have a text link back to your homepage on every page of the site. Flash and Java navigation is (usually) okay from a ... http://www.seomix.com/2006/04/help-yourself-link-back-home/ I just came across an interesting Webmonkey Q&A interview with SEO expert, Jason McQueen. In it, McQueen covers the basics of search algorithms, white hat versus black hat optimization tactics, the effects of blogs on search results, and more. Definately worth reading if you get a chance… Here’s the link. http://www.webmonkey.com/06/16/index3a.html http://www.seomix.com/2006/04/interesting-seo-interview/ Last week, many webmasters noticed that Google’s public pagerank system (a rough measure of each site’s importance in the search engine) was displaying higher than expected rankings for some sites. Many virtually unlinked and unheard of sites rose significantly on the scale, without any official explanation from the search giant. Two ... http://www.seomix.com/2006/04/a-very-unusual-pagerank-update/