Performing a complete website redesign is a lot of work and a daunting process. Whether you want to keep your existing rankings and targeted search engine traffic, or you are using your redesign process to get started on a new SEO campaign, there are a number of best practices to keep in mind.

The situation: changing [...]

Yahoo has announced that they’ll begin to roll out Yahoo Web Analytics (beta) on a limited basis beginning this week. According to Jitendra Kavathekar, Yahoo’s Web Analytics VP, the service has already been made available to select Yahoo advertisers and third-party application developers.
The next “big deployment,” Kavathekar says, will be for Yahoo’s 13,000 e-commerce customers [...]

There are many ways to get links from social media. One such technique is to establish profiles on various social media, and link from your profile on those sites, back to your web site. The key obviously is in knowing which social media sites permit links, and which permit DoFollow links.
To save some time, here [...]

How do we integrate Plurk and Twitter ? The secret lies in RSS , that simple little protocol that is serving to glue so many websites together. You see, Plurk lets you export your Plurks as as RSS feed. You can see the hyperlink to this on your Plurk screen:

Copy this URL and head down [...]

A weblog, or “blog” for short, is an online journal that provides web users with information, generally on a daily basis. A blog’s subject can range from the day-to-day musings of individuals, to op-ed pieces, to reports of world events as they break. A blog’s tone can range from stately to sarcastic, with shades of [...]

The well-esteemed Busby SEO Challenge will give its verdict on August 31 this year on whoever ranks the highest on Google. But why specifically in Google?
Google, to date, is the most popular search engine available for both ordinary surfers and webmasters. Surfers like it because of the highly relevant results it produces and the speed [...]

Pogung177 is ranking top 1 today. How did he get such a top ranking? Let’s try to examine his site backlinks and we may get some answers.
Let’s then diagnose his link on his blog Busby SEO Challenge and see what happens. After a couple of minutes we get a nice report like this.
We get a [...]

Days are forthcoming when Busby Seo Challenge will end. Participants are doing their best to top in the first spot in Google and win the prize. Competitions are too tight and tough! Doing their best and create strategies. The question lies within, “Who will be the winner? “
We Filipinos have the chance to win! Remember, [...]

Yesterday was the day that the 2008 Summer Olympics kicked off in Beijing. Here are the logos from Google day 1(yesterday) and day 2(today), Yahoo and Ask.com for the special day:
Google Day 1:

Google Day 2:

Yahoo

Ask.com

Also Google and Yahoo have special search results related to the Olympics. In addition, Google Maps blogged about Olympic features they [...]

Whenever you make changes to a web site, one of the most important considerations should be how to use “redirects” to alert the search engine to your changes to avoid having a negative impact on your search rankings. Whether you’re moving pages around, switching CMS platforms, or just wanting to avoid duplicate content and PageRank [...]

Google has launched Google Insights for Search, a tool that helps advertisers and marketers understand searcher behavior. The tool offers a comprehensive set of statistics based on search volume and patters. You can compare seasonal trends, geographic distributions, and category-specific searches, and you can group all these variables together to get extremely specific. In addition, [...]

Perhaps the greatest benefits of organic SEO are the unexpected rankings a site can get by earning a top spot in the engines.
This week’s infographic demonstrates how, through solid search marketing, related phrases can get ranked without additional or intentional efforts:

It’s already a month before the Busby SEO Challenge will end. Hoping that my kababayans will come-up in first page by the end of August.
I’m creating Wordle –a toy for generating “word clouds” from text, for my fellow filipinos in joining the said contest.

You can now post comments on my busby seo challenge entry. Before it appears, I must always approve the comments. Thanks!

Joining WordCamp Philippines 2008 is a chance to discover the most recent trend in the blogosphere and the finest venue for WP enthusiasts to come together and share to others some blogging experience using wordpress today. This leading event for WordPress users and developers was prepared by Mindanao Bloggers.
The following are some list of [...]