Category Archives: SEO Tips & Tricks

Latent Semantic Indexing & SEO

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on July 24, 2008. Filed under Keyword Research, SEO Tips & Tricks. No comments.

According to the Wikipedia, Latent semantic analysis (LSA) is a technique in natural language processing, in particular in vectorial semantics, of analyzing relationships between a set of documents and the terms they contain by producing a set of concepts related to the documents and terms. Google uses LSA in its algorithm when determining which pages [...]

Researching Your Competitor’s SEO Strategy

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on February 29, 2008. Filed under Competitor Analysis, SEO Research, SEO Tips & Tricks. No comments.

Do you research your competitor’s seo strategy and activities?  If you don’t then you should, this is the only way to beat them at their own SEO game. Firstly lets define a competitor. Comptetitors are not necessarily your traditional bricks and mortar competitors.  Your online competitors are the websites with the number one to five positions in the search engine results pages [...]

Managing your link juice with “NoFollow”

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on February 12, 2008. Filed under Link Building, SEO Tips & Tricks. 3 Comments.

“Link Juice” is the cumulative effect of the link popularity that your site gains over time as more and more sites link to yours.  If not managed properly, this link juice can be diluted unnecessarily within your site’s internal pages. So how do you go about managing your internal link “link Juice”?   Easy..Use the Nofollow link attribute wisely within your [...]

Using Link Title Tag for SEO

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on January 20, 2008. Filed under SEO Tips & Tricks. 2 Comments.

Here’s a good optimisation tip, did you know that you can add optimised title tags to your site’s internal links?  Here is what it looks like: <a title=”Computer Monitors ” href=”your-link” mce_href=”your-link”>Home</a> Home I’ve bolded the title tag in the above example “Home” link, and as you can see, while the visitors can still see home as the link text, [...]

Finding Spam on Your Site

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on January 4, 2008. Filed under SEO Tips & Tricks. No comments.

Here’s a quick way to find and eliminate spam on your website. Type:  “popular spam word” site:yoursite.com in Google and analyse the results.  You’ll be surprised, well I was!  I noticed that someone had managed to spam some of my members’ blog comments in my Invision forum blog software.  They had used spam words such as [...]