Darrin Ward - Articles

For common words that you can find in the dictionary, Google sometimes shows Dictionary as potential keyword alternative. Strange.

SEO and PPC search marketing is a great road to take during rough economic environments. Here's some thoughts on why.

Google use a single image with multiple graphics to replace lots of different images, decreasing overall SERP load-time.

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Google has been showing dates in listing meta descriptions for a while now. Here's how the dates look as part of the meta descriptions.

Since Google's terrible rel=nofollow link attribute has swept the Internet, I think it's time to take a look at why it might be a bad thing. Or, at least how to use it right

Cross-optimize both your SEO and PPC campaigns by applying learnings from one campaign to another.

Darrin J. Ward, speaking for the third time at the 2008 Webmaster Jam Session Conference in Atlanta, Ga on October 3rd & 4th.

Submitting your Website to Directories can sometimes help your rankings in Google, Yahoo, and other search engines. But only if it's done correctly. Read more...

Need to change your Website's primary domain? Use 301 redirects to let the search engines know you are moving all URLs to a new domain name.

The Ad Surf Daily (ASD) program is being investigated as a ponzi scheme by the US Attorney General, having approximately $53 in assets seized.

Learn some tips for using the *NIX grep and tail commands to track Web server log files in realtime.

A common question: Does invalid HTML code prevent sites from ranking well in SEO? Let's find out!

Darrin Ward, a premium Internet marketing and E-business logistics consulting firm, today announced that it would begin providing pro bono services to select non-profits

Darrin J. Ward shares the Webmaster Jam 2007 Slides / Presentation

Academic papers are among the most common sources of thought-provoking material in SEO. This article elaborates a little and links to some of the very most useful documents for SEO

If there is anything that is important when it comes to website ranking, we know it's unique content. So, how do we protect against people from stealing it and scraping?

Darrin talks about how Google downloads include files such as JavaScript (.js) and Style Sheets (.css), and retroactively determines when it might have all began.

This is a bit of an eyesore.

This page is a list of some commonly asked SEO questions - along with answers. Old, but perhaps of interest to some!

I get asked about doing redirects quite often. The single biggest question in this area, I think, is how to get example.com redirecting to www.example.com - So here is how!

Several interviews with SEOs (including myself) were conducted by 14thc