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By Jim Westergren

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SEO for WordPress - The Complete Guide
Posted in SEO Articles, WordPress on March 20th, 2007

I’m an SEO and I have been working a lot with WordPress, here I give you all my tips for you to rank very well in Google with your blog.
UPDATE: Check this blog post for a better guide.
Quick Facts

There are 55 million blogs out there, if you don’t stand out you will have no chance.
The […]


What a SEO Professional should know
Posted in SEO Articles on October 28th, 2006

To be a good SEO you need to know a lot of things and to be a professional SEO you need to know them well. I sometimes see people calling themselves “SEO Experts” looking to make a quick buck …
Let’s just list the things I consider that a good SEO must know:
HTML
As an SEO, knowing […]


Link Building Guide
Posted in Link Building, SEO Articles on June 5th, 2006

Update: I have developed a new link building service based on this article, check out: Smart Link Building
Introduction
I have been providing many thousands of links to my SEO clients and I have myself established a number of PR6 sites and almost won the biggest SEO contest ever with the means of huge link power.
The purpose […]


Forums, Branding and Public Relations
Posted in My life, SEO Articles on March 18th, 2006

If you are an SEO Consultant that charges $80 per hour like me, have too many clients and too little time - why would you go to forums and spend 15 minutes only to answer some guy asking SEO questions on a forum, for free and giving out valuable information? Why?
And why would you start […]


<RK> as Internal Live PR; Evidence and Findings
Posted in SEO Articles, SEO News on February 24th, 2006

March 27 update
In Matt Cutts latest post:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/q-a-thread-march-27-2006/:
Q: Is the RK parameter turned off, or should we expect to see it again?
A: I wouldn’t expect to see the RK parameter have a non-zero value again.
Q: What’s an RK parameter?
A: It’s a parameter that you could see in a Google toolbar query. Some people outside of Google […]


Link Bait
Posted in Link Building, SEO Articles on February 13th, 2006

Link baiting (or linkbaiting) is the latest buzz word in the SEO world and has come to be the preferred way to natural link building.
It means to create something that naturally attract backlinks for your web page by getting people to talk about it, discussing it on forums, blogging about i, posting it on del.icio.us/Furl/Digg/Shoutwire […]


Google Sandbox - All Latest Data
Posted in SEO, SEO Articles on January 12th, 2006

What is the Google “sandbox”?
In my own words I would say it is an observation of an algo effect implemented by Google in March 2004 that makes new sites not rank at all for a period of many months. It is a dampening effect that was most probably created to stop spam sites from getting […]


Future PageRank prediction
Posted in SEO, SEO Articles on December 31st, 2005

There are 7 different tools and one new discovery that can be used in additional to looking at backlinks if you are interested in finding out what your future PageRank will be.
I say already now that they are not accurate …

Backlink and PR prediction tool from online-utility.org
Comments: This is the only PR prediction tool that […]


Tutorial: Feed your sites by blogging!
Posted in Link Building, My sites, SEO Articles, WordPress on November 30th, 2005

Are you also the kind of webmaster with 5, 10 or even 20 web sites with the plan of making a living only through your own sites?

How do you make sure that the content on all your sites are always fresh with related information?
How can you make sure that new pages you write are indexed […]


My Guide to SEO and Success
Posted in SEO Articles on November 26th, 2005

This is THE ONE checklist for SEO. Extremely useful and full of insights. I can assure you that there is something here you didn’t know. It has also been reviewed and commented on by a number other professionals.