Google Insights is a great keyword and industry research tool. Just type in a few keywords or phrases and google insight will compare the terms using a line graph. You can also narrow your search down to a specific geographical location. This will come in handy for websites who

“new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next few days.” – Matt Cutts

This is great news… I’m looking forward to seeing if the page rank of my websites increases.

PageRank is Google’s link analysis algorithm that gives a 1-10 score to quality web content.

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What is Link Building?
Link building is the process of gaining links from other websites that point to your website or other online content.

Why is link building important?
You can look at links as votes for your website. Every link you get from another website is seen by search engines as a vote for your website.

Good news, the Post Gazette added our next meeting to their calendar which can be found here. We hope to see the growth of this group to continue and for it to reach a larger audience. Any suggestions to where else we should announce our meetings are welcomed and we hope to see some new faces at our next meeting.

Recently a friend of me came to me with an SEO problem. His site is almost two years old and has a 0 page rank. I took a quick view of his site and all his paragraphs were in <H4> tags and I think that search engines are seeing that as a Black Hat SEO method. Now I can’t say this is the only reason Google hasn’t gave his site any page rank but I am going to definitely recommend that he change it.

From all that I’ve studied and experienced during my internet marketing day job I can say it’s

I started a page for frequently asked questions I will begin placing answers to some of the common questions made at our meetups. Feel free to send me any questions and I or someone else will answer it as soon as we can. I hope this website can serve as a great resource not only to those in Pittsburgh but to those anywhere.

Lets put Pittsburgh on the map for one of the best Internet Marketing cities!

According to a post made last night on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog they have improved Google’s ability to index Flash websites. This is big news because from an SEO standpoint we’ve always had to steer away from using flash to display textual content this can change everything.

I ran some quick tests by going to an all flash site

Are you worried that your site might of been blacklisted by Google or would you like to have a way to be notified if yours or a clients site was blacklisted. If so then I have a great new and free tool you can use called SERPGuard. Its free service that checks the Google Safe Browsing Blacklists and sends you an instant notification through email and/or an RSS feed.

One thing about SEO is that it’s always evolving; new link building techniques, new search engine algorithms, new programing strategies, etc. If you really want to be on top of the Internet Marketing industry then you’re going to need to subscribe to some RSS feed or at least visit a well respected search engine marketing website on a daily basis. To get you started my recommendation would be to visit Sphinn it is an social website for those involved in the SEO industry, you too can sign up and submit news stories.

Last week google had a live chat with anyone who could attend, so of course I did. A friend of mine said that he thought google must of took something away from links tagged nofollow, at least the anchor text. I was intrigued by this and at the first chance I got I asked this question…