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As promised in my previous analysis of the Google keywords, here are the data for the Oceania region.

The table of figures:

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Over at FreeAlerts, you’ll get to see a list of most expensive keywords available currently by Google Adwords estimations. “Selling structural settlements” topped the list with a single click worth $64.81 but considering the statistics only show a chance of 0.1 clicks/day, you’re earning almost nothing if you choose to use that as your content. (more…)

Currently, there has been numerous debates about the different factors affecting SEO and one of them is the relevance of a title attribute to links for SEO. For the benefit of those who are not sure what I’m talking about this is an example (*note the title part):

 

<a href=“http://….” title=“….”>

Is it really worth spending more time to add them to your article, especially one with lotsa links?

I’ve read a few articles and it seems that there are 2 distinct camps on this, which I shall call the optimist and the pessimist. Here I’ll attempt to summarise the primary lines of thoughts so that you can decide for youself if it’s suitable:

The Optimist:

 

Provides developers another place to effectively insert targeted keywords and descriptive text helping to increase the value of their document.

It’s there for the blind, where text to speech browsers read them aloud, so that people who cannot see can still know what the page being linked to is about.

Increases usability and accessibility to your site and does no harm.

The Pessimist:

Believes that search engines only uses it in consideration to the page being linked to and not the page the link is on.

If SEOs were to find out that they can be used to boost rankings, those who already use them may just make some changes to the way we use them.

There are well over 100 variables used by Google, smaller systems use more than 100 already, and they have less data to sort so nothing is constant as everything continuously readjusts itself everytime the environment changes. (more…)

I’ve recently been exposed to this tag which informs the mediabot for Adsense where in your site, it should search for relevant keywords for displaying ads. It looks something like this:

 

<!� google_ad_section_start �>
� targeted content here �.
<!� google_ad_section_end �>

I think on this blog, since it’s focussed almost exclusively on SEO or Adsense, most ads displayed are of those nature but the code could be very useful for personal blog owners, who normally writes whatever that comes to their mind and usually have lotsa links on their sidebars. Other good candidates for this code would be forums where you can target a specific part of the discussion for the ads to show.
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Finally after months of waiting, Google updated its PageRank database! Although SEOnoob has only 28 posts (not including this one) and is barely 2 months old, it has already been linked by quite a few posts that were dugg/del.icoi.us-ed and was also listed on some wikis about SEO but the PR5 ranking given was quite a surprise to me =)

As always I’ll try to analyse the latest PR update and see if there were anything weird happening. One of the most critical component of PR used to be the no. of backlinks to the site, but I think in this latest PR update, there could be some major changes.There’s a new site which I track and frequent called techgurls, and although they’ve been dugg twice/thrice already, with almost 600 backlinks, they have only received a PR4, compared to SEOnoob, which only has 131 links. (more…)

Recently, there has been a popular trend among Adsense publishers to display images next to their ads in order to attract more clicks but the question of whether they are against Adsense TOS is never really answered/understood very well. Generally, the rule followed by many is to not attract direct attention to the ads (e.g. an arrow pointing to the ads or an image with Click Here) and some have claimed that Adsense support said images with a light border around the images are fine. (more…)

I bet most of you now must have heard of Text Link Ads by now but does it pay well or complement well with Adsense?For my case, the answer is YES, although the amount is not much and each link that I managed to sell vary between $5 -$12.50/month, it’s still a significant amount of income for a relatively low-traffic blog. Implementation wise, it’s very easy for a Wordpress blog and vBulletin forums and doubts about whether it’ll conflict with Google Adsense’s adverts have been cleared. (more…)

Often times, visitors from search engines just leaves your site after they have found what they wanted but wouldn’t you want them to continue reading your other good posts too? Well, this is where your site navigational tools will determine if they’ll stay longer or not; and I’ll attempt to analyze them by showing some of the ways the popular bloggers do it (more…)