It seems to me that Search engines are spending more time crawling important information on the site and the most important pages as apposed to crawling and indexing less important pages?

I am a big believer in landing pages particularly for niche industries so this latest information on Landing Page Optimisation is very useful, enjoy!

Unfortunately, some clients can unintentionally limit or harm the work you're trying to do on their behalf. It's frustrating. They're usually ambitious for their Web sites, but lack any real understanding of SEO methods.

As with much of SEO, the answer is "it depends." More precisely, it depends on the level of competitiveness in your market space, and the scope of what you're trying to accomplish. Today, we'll examine a couple of scenarios and discuss how this might impact your SEO campaigns.

In this post I present some intermediate level landing page optimization tactics. I toss in a couple of real-world scenarios and we will work from some basic assumptions. This article is targeted for Google AdWords advertisers with direct marketing goals in mind, although the same principles apply to other search engines just as well.

Experian Hitwise is the first of the traffic measurement services to check in with numbers for March 2010, and there’s really no other way to say it: March was a strange month of consmer searching. Google continues to lead the way with almost 70% search share, but that represents a fourth straight declining month for Google. What’s more, the two winners in March were … Yahoo and Ask.com?

Well once you get done patting yourself on the back for owning such a magical device you’ll no doubt want to start tweeting from it. Of course that’s easy enough right? Through the myriad of apps and web services that should be no problem right?

Friday afternoon Google announced that page and site speed is now a ranking factor. Yes, we knew this was coming for months now and Google gave us tools to prepare for this, but how much of an impact does it play in the overall ranking algorithm at Google? Very little!

How does a person become successful in the world of SEO? I wish I could tell you all the secrets but if I knew them, I would be sitting on a beach in Tahiti, sipping mai tais, instead of writing this post. About a year ago I ran across a video of Richard St. John giving a quick 3 minute presentation at TED about the 8 secrets of success and started to wonder if those same 8 secrets where true within the SEO industry. Take 3 minutes, watch the video and think about how you can implement his secrets into your SEO work and then read my take on his secrets related to SEO.

SEO, however, is incredibly difficult to understand and to explain. It's a thorn in the side of nearly everyone I talk to in our industry that they can't easily explain the concept and process of their work outside the web marketing and development communities. That's why I'm creating this post. If someone in your personal or professional life simply doesn't understand SEO, send them here. Hopefully, the silly pictures of me cooking up some pasta on a sunny Sunday can help to inspire that missing connection.