At what level is nofollow honored?

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Google’s Matt Cutts answers the question, “Does the PageRank of Twitter profiles matter?”

If you own a restaurant and you want to have a successful website there are some “musts” SEO Aware recommends and also includes in our clients’ websites. Our suggestions: You need your dinner and lunch menus on your site and that they be completely readable. They should also mimic your current menus so people can easily find their favorite dish. A printable take-out menu - By offering...

We talk to a lot of businesses and often they believe they have much higher traffic than they really do. This can be for multiple reasons: Analytics programs that include hits from bots; Google Analytics does not include these hits and is much more accurate. Web companies that inflate the hit count with various methods. A misunderstanding of the analytics data. Free Sites That Allow You to Get a...

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I was inspired to write this by Lisa Barone and her article about Twitter. Lisa is always an inspiration, but I will get back to my point. Is your Web presence well rounded? Have you covered all your bases? Have you covered any? 5 Things You Need to Be Well Rounded Online 1). A solid, well-coded, well-though out, optimized website. Your website is your foundation for everything. Your goal is to eventually...

Matt Cutts answers “Can having dofollow comments on my blog affect its reputation?”

After many discussions with business owners I have found that many either don’t see things or don’t want to see things. So, here is a list of things that could apply to you: You might like your site, but in many cases others do not. Whether you want to spend the money or not you, need to get a better site. Not investing in a website and optimization is like playing football without the...

Matt Cutts answers How can a site that focuses on video or images improve its rankings?

Well, I use Facebook a lot, but there are somethings they could do that would make me possibly use them as a my homepage: Sidebar business directory search (imagine how many more people would sign up to add their business) If they did have a business directory I would like my business info to be at the top of my business page Sidebar local movie search A Google search box (or maybe search3 or askboth) Let...

Google’s Matt Cutts answers “Is it worth spending time on creating tags and categories?”

I know I am not the only person that gets phone calls/emails with these questions. I am writing this to let businesses know a few things. Your Website Can Be A Huge Marketing Tool and Source of Revenue If your website is done right a website can help a business increase both its visibility online and offline and it can bring in a lot more business. The fact that I understand that marketing plans need...

Matt Cutts answers Will changing hosts cause any SEO concerns?

I am not sure if I am getting too irritated or if this is just a difficult concept for people to understand. I have had like 10 conversations this week with people that do not understand that traffic is just that, traffic. It doesn’t mean that it is “quality” traffic- traffic that will convert to sales/money/income. Without research, a marketing plan and goals beyond “getting...

What you can give to the non-SEOs you love! 1). An Optimized Website With a Smart, Focused Goal We have had a ton of calls the past 45 days from businesses that think they know what they want for a new or current website. After speaking with them we have been shocked at how many are not concerned with things that matter such: Promoting their company Increasing revenue / Conversion Expanding into...

Google’s Matt Cutts answers this question.