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For those of you who do not know who Vanessa Fox is I suggest that you start reading her blog because she used to work for Google and is highly relevant (and a nice person). Vanessa offers the best three part series (from BlogHer) on good basic SEO that I have seen. This is the type of information that would be useful to any novice or intermediate looking to do well in search engines.
Looks like Google still relies on anchor text, Vanessa even suggests asking those who have linked to you to change it (if it is not relevant) but isn’t that kind of going into the area of “link exchange” or the influencing of search engines? Hmm? HAHA!!! I really wanted to ask her that but decided not to stir things up.
I have been using Wordpress blog software (way before SEOs starting getting interested in it) and believe me, it was a shaky somewhat unstable ride. Following the basic tips Vanessa offers is a good start.
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August 1st, 2007 at 11:21 am
Thanks for the recommendation on Vanessa Fox. There are a few techniques that Google doesn’t like that work, like link exchanges. They’re a little like the recording industry telling everyone they can’t trade music.