Why You Need to Link to Your Own Blog Posts
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- Written on: January 30th, 2009
Last week I mentioned that I was going back to revise some of my older blog posts to help them rank better for their key terms. After adding much missing meta data, scrubbing for dead links and nofollowing ones placed for reference purposes, my traffic jumped 12%. At the same time my bounce rate also […]
Hyphens in Domain Names – The Right Way to Use Them
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- Written on: January 5th, 2009
The most basic explanation is that Google sees hyphens as spaces, and interprets them in the same way a space is used to separate two words.
One of the best explanations about how this works was written on Guru of Search where he posts that Google considers hyphens to be spaces in a domain name. If you start thinking of hyphens as spaces separating keywords as well, you can begin to select domain names that will have a slight edge in the search engine results positions (SERPs) over some of your competitors.
