http://www.darrinward.com/ Darrin Ward SEO and search indusrty articles en-us Darrin@DarrinWard.com http://www.darrinward.com/articles/google/Google-Common-Words-Dictionary For common words that you can find in the dictionary, Google sometimes shows Dictionary as potential keyword alternative. Strange. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:12:21 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/Internet-Marketing/SEM-Tough-Economic-Environment SEO and PPC search marketing is a great road to take during rough economic environments. Here's some thoughts on why. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:43:00 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/google/Google-SERP-Image-Optimization Google use a single image with multiple graphics to replace lots of different images, decreasing overall SERP load-time. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:45:24 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/seo/Rankings-Reporter-Released Track your Website's ranking with this FREE PHP / MySQL keyword rankings reporter tool Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:15:15 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/google/Google-Dates-Descriptions 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. Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:29:50 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/google/Rel-Nofollow-Links 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 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:09:47 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/Internet-Marketing/Cross-Leveraging-SEO-PPC Cross-optimize both your SEO and PPC campaigns by applying learnings from one campaign to another. Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:24:26 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/press/WebJam-2008 Darrin J. Ward, speaking for the third time at the 2008 Webmaster Jam Session Conference in Atlanta, Ga on October 3rd & 4th. Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:14:11 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/seo/Directory-Submission-SEO 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... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:48:09 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/Tech-Tips/Changing-Domains-301-Redirects 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. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:10:41 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/Internet-Marketing/USA-vs-ASD-AdSurfDaily The Ad Surf Daily (ASD) program is being investigated as a ponzi scheme by the US Attorney General, having approximately $53 in assets seized. Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:16:06 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/Tech-Tips/Grep-Tail-Log-Files Learn some tips for using the *NIX grep and tail commands to track Web server log files in realtime. Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:52:56 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/seo/HTML-Validation-Rankings A common question: Does invalid HTML code prevent sites from ranking well in SEO? Let's find out! Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:24:56 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/press/dec-1st-2007-non-profit 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 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:17:45 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/seo/webjam2007-slides Darrin J. Ward shares the Webmaster Jam 2007 Slides / Presentation Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:51:22 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/seo/seo-research-papers 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 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:26:01 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/seo/bad-robots-prevention 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? Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:12:18 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/google/googlebot-css-javascript 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. Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:19:23 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/google/excessive-checkout This is a bit of an eyesore. Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:46:08 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/seo/seo-faq This page is a list of some commonly asked SEO questions - along with answers. Old, but perhaps of interest to some! Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:05:30 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/seo/mod_rewrite-www 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! Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:28:34 -0500 http://www.darrinward.com/articles/press/14thc-interview Several interviews with SEOs (including myself) were conducted by 14thc Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:37:39 -0500