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Sound SEO Resume Advice

Posted by Garth O'Brien | On: Mar 26 2012 | Comments (10)
Managing an SEO team requires being very active throughout the hiring process. As the business grows or when a team member moves onto another opportunity headcount opens and the fun kicks into overdrive. Shockingly,...

The Rel Canonical Tag is Not The Solution to Every Known URL Problem

Posted by Garth O'Brien | On: Mar 23 2012 | Comments (34)
When Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft joined forces and endorsed the rel=canonical tag back in 2009 SEOs across the land jumped for joy. Rel canonical does fulfill a very useful purpose buying a site owner time...

Bloggers You Are Missing Out on Image Search Traffic

Posted by Garth O'Brien | On: Dec 19 2011 | Comments (11)
Many of my friends blog and they always ask for search engine optimization hints. They want to know every way possible to increase their organic referral traffic. They also cannot afford having a full-time...

Changing Your Website URLs? Learn About the 301 Redirect

Posted by Garth O'Brien | On: Dec 14 2011 | Comments (4)
The 301 redirect is the single most important thing to learn before launching a new URL scheme for a legacy website. Especially if your legacy website has been around for years and has accrued valuable external...

How to See if Your Site is Indexed by the Search Engines

Posted by Garth O'Brien | On: Nov 02 2011 | Comments (5)
A shocking revelation cascaded down upon me the other day. An “experienced” site manager thought you only needed to publish a website and it would be discovered by the search engines. The new website...

What is in a Name? When Using Your Formal Name is a Bad Idea

Posted by Garth O'Brien | On: Oct 31 2011 | Comments (3)
You company is about to embark on a website build or redesign and you get an email to provide content for your bio page. Since this is the corporate website you think you need to be corporate and your response...

Link Building Campaign Idea Leveraging Your Monthly Newsletter

Posted by Garth O'Brien | On: Oct 28 2011 | Comments (2)
Many struggle with link building campaign ideas, but there are dozens of creative ways to snare those coveted gems. Companies often times publish monthly newsletters with very high subscription numbers. The...

About Google Personalized Search and How to Turn it Off

Posted by Garth O'Brien | On: Jul 18 2011 | Comments (3)
Ever get the feeling that the search results Google displays seem to include the websites you often frequent? Ever wonder how that is possible with trillions of web pages and billions of websites? Can your...

SEO Interview: Quick Questions for Tracey Woods

Posted by Garth O'Brien | On: Jun 21 2011 | Comments (0)
Over the last decade I have become friends with many SEOs. All of them have provide expert level advice and have added valuable knowledge to the collective SEO community. Some of my colleagues are very well...

Why Your Website Needs the Robots.txt File

Posted by Garth O'Brien | On: May 25 2011 | Comments (0)
The robots.txt file is a set of instructions that help massage the interaction between your website and the search engine crawlers. That means the crawlers should follow the instructions of your robots.txt...