A great plugin for WordPress to try.. if you are using wordpress is "redirection"
Ya, Google outright says the that they will penalize you for this... don't do it. Read here...
Agreed with Anna, make sure your images have descriptive alt tags... you can use keywords in them too but don't go overboard. Another great tool...
Should be just fine... Do note that older IE browsers do not show this property correctly and other browser have different results. Only a big...
Just to clear things up a bit: Google uses "Backlinks" (links from other sites/domains to your site/domain) to rank your site in their results...
It takes a long time to start seeing backlinks in Google Webmaster tools... like sometimes a month so be patient. A great way to see if the link...
There are many things that can penalize your site such as getting backlinks from link farms or making round trip links from other sites that you...
Anytime you see a 404 error, you should also add 301 (permanent) redirect from the page that has the errors to a page that exists with similar...
Google will crawl your content. The difference is the amount of time that the crawl will take and the frequency of crawls there after. A Google...
If self hosted, WordPress is the way to go. It has tons of plugins that help you easily optimize your site and keep Google and other search...
If you are using "white hat" SEO techniques than how could a Google update hurt you? Personally, I dig the new interface... it is so much more clean.
Sure page rank is important, but if the link is a no-follow link than it really doesn't matter. You want to make sure you get a "do-follow" link....
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