One of the many myths concerning how pages are ranked is that the volume of traffic a website receives affects the rankings of the pages within that website. On the surface this seems logical as a website that gets a lot of traffic probably has good content. Unfortunately once given a deeper look this starts [...]

There are many good reasons to be consistent when using the ‘www’ in URLs. This includes good usability (it may confuse some people when they see it there some of the time but not others) and SEO (some search engines may consider the the same page with the ‘www’ different then the one without it).
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For the purpose of this blog post, when I say “Meta tags” I am referring to the Meta description and keyword tags only.
 
Back in the day, when Alta Vista was king of search and Yahoo was primarily a web directory, meta tags were powerful tools for helping a web page rank well in Alta Vista [...]

Over five years and 24,000 posts later I finally reached a point where I feel it is time for me to resign my position at the SitePoint.com Community Forums.
The primary reason I resigned is I’ve reached that point in my online life where I don’t want to be online so much anymore. Between work [...]

For those of you who have been living under a rock, domain authority is a popular concept that claims that a domain name that has lots of pages, gets lots of visitors, has lots of links, and is frequently indexed is an authoritative domain and gets special privileges from Google. These privileges supposedly include:

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