http://www.blueseo.com/categories/seo-reviews The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.blueseo.com/wikipedia-hits-back-at-the-spammers <p></p> <p> In a surprise move, online resource site Wikipedia recently announced that all outgoing links from the site have been tagged as “nofollow” - which effectively renders them of no value when being considered by search engines. While the move has angered many, Wikipedia have seen a massive increase in spam links which offer little or no benefit to the massive online community which the site has fostered.Is The Move Justified? </p> <p> While it is easy to see why Wikipedia have carried out the exercise (which is just temporary until they find a more efficient way to identify spam), there are millions of valid outgoing links on the site which will suffer. This move has also had a major impact on the PageRank of many sites, thereby having a knock-on effect to both advertising and traditional business income for the sites in question. </p> <p> Wikipedia itself relies on the contributions of third parties to add content, self-regulate and improve the quality of the offering. If the link situation is not resolved in the short term there is a real risk of contributors losing interest, and this may leave the market open for a competitor. </p> <p> The webmaster forums and chat rooms are buzzing with claims and counter-claims with regards to the Wikipedia situation, but it does seem as though many are missing the real point. Spam is more than annoying, it is starting to have a real impact on people’s online livelihoods and income. </p> <p> Will this spur the many millions of internet users to take a more hardline approach on reporting spam? Time will tell, but the internet is definitely approaching a crucial stage of the fight against spam, but who will be the long term winner? </p> http://www.blueseo.com/wikipedia-hits-back-at-the-spammers#comments SEO Reviews Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:10:49 -0500 BlueSEO 38 at http://www.blueseo.com http://www.blueseo.com/search-engine-optimization-articles <p></p> <p> Websites are created around content and that content is created around SEO optimization. Content on your website is very important for many reasons: for the search engines and for your visitors. </p> <p> By having SEO optimization articles on your website, you are ensuring that the search engine spiders are crawling to your website. The better your SEO optimization is, the better your page ranking will be with the major engines such as Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, and Google. SEO optimization articles are focused on a keyword, group of keywords, or a key phrase that pertains to the website. For example, if you had a website about dog training, the most obvious key phrase would be “dog training”, but along with that come many other key phrases and keywords that you should focus at least one article on. </p> <p> The second reason that you want SEO optimization articles on your website is for your visitors. However, it’s important to note that your articles should be articles that read well, not a string of nonsense words that have keywords crammed into them. This is not SEO optimization, and it will hurt your page rankings with the search engines as well as drive traffic away from your website. The good news is that by including proper articles that are original, fresh, and informative, you drive good solid traffic to your website. </p> <p> You will quickly find that your visitors want information after all, they found your website on the information superhighway, and that’s exactly what they expect to find information. Even if your website is selling information, such as products or e-books, your visitors still want information about the information you’re selling and whether they know it or not, they want it through SEO optimization loaded articles. </p> <p> By using SEO optimization, you can guarantee a decent page ranking on the major search engines, which will help deliver (free) traffic to your website and that’s what the game is all about: getting traffic to your website that wants to be there. Once you get them to your website, you want to keep them there, you want them to purchase from you or click your links, and you want them to come back again and again for more. You can ensure they will by including good keyword articles that make sense and inform the visitor regarding the topic of your website. Of course, it would be silly to have articles about dog training on a<br /> website about medicine. </p> http://www.blueseo.com/search-engine-optimization-articles#comments SEO Reviews Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:49:02 -0500 BlueSEO 22 at http://www.blueseo.com