http://www.tkg.com/tkgseoblog We're Changing our Domain Completely...What Better Reason to Start An SEO Blog? Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:23:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Guest Blogger: Corey Hammond A few months ago Google announced that it was working on a Wikipedia competitor that they were going to call Knol. Knol stands for "a unit of knowledge". Essentially, what Knol does is allows users to publish or generate articles about specific topics. Knol resembles resemble sites ... http://www.tkg.com/tkgseoblog/googles-knol/ Guest Blogger: Emily Croskey I recently participated in a free online webinar that Google put on called ‘The Google Trifecta', which included the three topics of Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer. The overall presentation ran smoothly, with a different presenter for each topic. The topic of interest that ... http://www.tkg.com/tkgseoblog/the-google-trifecta-free-webinar/ Guest Blogger: Corey Hammond Google's Webmaster Central Blog published a video done by Matt Cutts. Matt works for Google's Spam Team and has had a lot of interaction with SEO's. He gives some advice for small sites and their webmasters on how to compete with the big players in their industries. His ... http://www.tkg.com/tkgseoblog/success-for-small-businesses-online/ 7 days ago, Google was indexing 186 pages of TKG.com; this morning Google is only indexing 94!! As I've documented before, there have been some minor fluctuations and slow improvements over the last 12 weeks, but nothing as dramatic as this: Days 1 - 9 Day 10 Day 14 Day ... http://www.tkg.com/tkgseoblog/decline-googles-index/ It's been only 4 days since my last update of Google's index - but I wanted to document the small spike in the number of pages being seen by Google. Over the last 80 days, I've seen minor increases in the number of pages being indexed over several weeks; however, ... http://www.tkg.com/tkgseoblog/googles-index-of-tkgcom/ Guest Blogger: Chad Henderson Now that you’ve completed the initial site review, you should have a pretty good picture about what challenges you are faced with. You should also come away from post # 2, Initial Website Analysis, with a good idea of what you need to work on from a ... http://www.tkg.com/tkgseoblog/keyword-research/ About a 1 month ago, Google was only indexing 115 pages of TKG.com Today, Google is indexing 40% more pages! Google is still about 300 pages from indexing all of TKG.com, but this is trending in a positive way, so I'm not overly concerned at this point; I am getting a ... http://www.tkg.com/tkgseoblog/googles-index-update-day-76/ Guest Blogger: Chad Henderson As it relates to the recent discussion about the use of the long tail theory,  I'm nowhere close to abandoning the strategy as an important component in keyword targeting.  I thought it might be helpful to spend a couple of minutes expanding on my "yes" vote for ... http://www.tkg.com/tkgseoblog/long-tail-keywords/ The theory of The Long Tail, created by Chris Anderson, has recently been challenged by Harvard professor Anita Elberse. Anderson describes the Long Tail theory: The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of ... http://www.tkg.com/tkgseoblog/the-long-tail-theory/ Back on April 30th, I benchmarked the last 3 months of online conversions. There's been a decline in our conversion rates over the last few months. Since traffic is actually rising, it appears that the decline in conversions isn't necessarily attributed to our new domain! Online ... http://www.tkg.com/tkgseoblog/online-conversion-updat/