Category Archives: SEO Tips

Optimising for Page Load Time

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on March 21, 2010. Filed under SEO Tips. No comments.
Page load time for SEO

Indexation levels (the number of pages Google crawled and kept in their index) are directly correlated to improvements in speed/load time of a website’s pages.

URL Consolidation the New PageRank Sculpting

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on July 12, 2009. Filed under SEO Best Practices, SEO Tips. Tagged , , , . No comments.
rel-nofollow

Ever since Google dropped a bombshell on webmasters attempting to sculpt pagerank (control link juice flow using the nofollow attribute),  SEOs have been trying to figure out ways to achieve the same results via other means.

QDF: Query Desreves Freshness

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on March 24, 2009. Filed under SEO, SEO Research, SEO Tips, SERP Analysis. 1 Comment.

QDF is a term used to describe the thought process behind Google’s results for certain search queries’ ”deserving” of fresh and regularly updated content. QDF is Google’s way of ensuring that its users get the most up to date results for certain search queries such as a breaking news event, a major new product launch a topic [...]

Outbound Links, Nofollows & Link Juice Dilution

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on March 6, 2009. Filed under Link Building, SEO Best Practices, SEO Tips. 1 Comment.
Nofollow

One of the SEO arguments out there is the detrimental effect of outbound links on “link juice” and PageRank dilution. While not completely inaccurate this is somewhat of a myth that requires further explaination. Outbound links are links pointing from your website to external sites. Over time, as your website becomes more popular (more and more [...]

LinkBaiting Process – The Guardian Example

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on February 19, 2009. Filed under Link Baiting, Link Building, SEO Tips. 1 Comment.
Guardian Newspaper Using Chalkboard as LinkBait Technique

Link baiting is a powerful strategy to build one way links from relevant sites and improve a site’s overall popularity.  How do you go about baiting links?  Here are a few steps to follow in order to conduct a powerful linkbait campaign. Arrange a brainstorm session that includes various people from your organisation including marketing, [...]