One big site or many small sites?

Posted by James on July 19th, 2008

Should you open one big site on many topics or open many small niche sites, each having a topic of it’s own?  I personally prefer opening many sites (all optimized for their own unique set of keywords) as opposed to one site. The main reason being “don’t put all your eggs in one basket”.

Read the rest of this entry »

The importance of Sitemaps

Posted by James on July 14th, 2008

When building websites, there are two types of navigation you need to keep in mind.  Navigation for humans and navigation for search engines.  In order to keep your site both human and search engine friendly, all websites should have both an HTML sitemap as well as an XML sitemap.

Read the rest of this entry »

Language translation to burst duplicate content

Posted by James on July 13th, 2008

I’ve posted in a thread before that you can use a translator as a simple tool for avoiding duplicate content penalties.  I’ll give you two examples of doing this below.

Read the rest of this entry »

How much do you need to edit a stolen article?

Posted by James on July 8th, 2008

If you are copying and re-spinning articles from other sites, or just want to respin your own articles for article submission, you might ask yourself: How much do you need to edit it in order to avoid duplicate content penalties?

Read the rest of this entry »

Is there such a thing as bad links?

Posted by James on July 4th, 2008

I have a small PR3 directory based on phplinkdirectory script.  This morning I actually received an email from a listed site owner asking me to remove their site.  I wondered why someone would actually want me to remove a link. I used to think that any link on the internet pointing to your site can only help you; that no links could hurt.  I did some research and I am slowly finding out that this is far from being true.

Read the rest of this entry »

eXTReMe Tracker
Designed by: Web Refill | Brought by Wordpress Themes