robots

Basic Robot-Friendliness SEO Checklist

People often ask us to write SEO checklists for them.  But SEO encompasses such varied efforts – from blog writing to technical site review – that squeezing it into a checklist can be difficult.  However, we always try to work with our clients’ processes, because we think that’s the most effective way to get SEO [...]

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Ask the Experts: How to Remove a Page from Google

Q: I need a bit of ‘straightening out’ on an issue concerning the removal of pages from Google. A friend of mine told me instead of removing the pages themselves, that I could simply remove the link from the homepage – that way the search engines won’t find it and won’t relist in in their [...]

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Ask the Experts: Why is Google Giving My Privacy Page Good Ranks?

This is a common problem, because so many websites point links from their footer or global navigation to their privacy & legal pages…

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Ask the Experts: How Can I Improve my Google Listing Title & Description?

Two possible explanations for bad-looking Google listings, and our advice for solving the problem…

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How to Use the Robots Meta Tag

The Robots meta tag has been around for ages, but some new features introduced in 2006 and 2007 have made it a lot more useful than it used to be. Here’s the 4-1-1.

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Ask the Experts: Multiple Domains – is Google Penalizing my Site?

This could be a problem with Google seeing your URLs as unique domains, and indexing them as if they are two separate websites…

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