search engines

7 Habits of Highly Effective One-Way Link Building

by Yan Susanto

Link building is the art of getting links pointing back to your site in pursuit of higher search engine rankings. We certainly know how important link building is but the question are how do we build links? Why do we build links? Which link building strategy works best? Everything else being equal, in theory, the [...]

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Duplicate Content: Penalty or Policy?

by Yan Susanto

What is duplicate content? Will Google penalize for duplicate content? If you copy and republish someone’s article, will you get punished? or at worst, anger the God of Google? Everyone is confused and worried about the duplicate content penalty. According to search engine land, one of the most trusted voices in the business of search [...]

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15 SEO Tools for Beginners

by Yan Susanto

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the art of optimizing your site blog to rank higher in SERP or Search Engine Result Position. Being on #1 or page one of Google is the ultimate goal of any blogmaster. It’s the key that separates the average site from the extraordinaire. Simply put, the higher you are on [...]

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15 SEO Tips for Beginners

by Yan Susanto

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is all about optimizing your blog to rank high in the Search Engine Results and thus increase overall visibility. Apart from unique contents and site design, it’s one of the most important aspects of blogging. Basically, what you are trying to achieve here is to figure out On What ‘Keywords’ you [...]

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What Do They Say About Link Building?

by Yan Susanto

The most often used phrase in the blogging community is “Content is King”. However, content alone is not king. Content has to be well-written, unique or controversial and well-received. It’s better to write a one killer content than to pump up ten of sub-standard and poorly written articles. It does make sense, doesn’t it? When [...]

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Optimize robots.txt for Better SEO

by Yan Susanto

If you aren’t in the know, search engine is not as smart as what you think it is. It can’t tell which pages of your site should be included in the index and which files to ignore. Therefore we need to instruct it on what to do using a robots.txt file. What is robots.txt file? [...]

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15 Most Under-Utilized Plugins for SEO

by Yan Susanto

Search Engine Optimization is all about optimizing your blog to position it higher in the Search Engine Results and thus increase overall visibility. It’s one of the most, if not the most, important aspect of blogging. In what I have come to learn, there are 3 fundamentally important factors determining the success of a blog, [...]

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Playing with Google in the Sandbox

by Yan Susanto

If you have been following this blog, I posted an article recently in an attempt to seek an answer on . Though the mystery has been uncovered, the problem still exists. If you think you’ve done your SEO, catch your breath, because you ain’t know what’s coming your way. No amount of inbound links and [...]

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Optimize Your URL For Search Engines

by Yan Susanto

If there is one thing foremost in importance when starting a new blog is to optimize your URL or what one would call permalink. Permalink refers to the URL by which a particular post can be referenced. When proper permalink structure is taken care of, you stand a better chance of ranking higher in search [...]

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