When businesses or freelancers decide to create blogs to supplement their websites, one question always pops up: “Where should the new blog be located?” Or in other words, should the blog be integrated into the preexisting website, or should it reside in a subdirectory, a subdomain, or on a completely new domain?

Google has been cracking down on websites which sell links by giving them heavy penalties. But how does Google find these websites? And is Google ever wrong?

The alt and title attributes, when used with images, are often the source of many questions because they seem redundant. But even more important, many wonder how the use of these attributes affect visitors and search engines?

One of our visitors raised an interesting question regarding the fairness of using search engine optimization techniques to manipulate rankings. He stated that companies with large budgets have an unfair advantage because they could pay for better SEO experts, and thus rank more highly for keywords regardless of whether or not they are indeed the best match. What do you think?

Our friends over at DollarShower.com just announced an SEO contest called the DollarShower SEO Challenge ’09, with $1500 in prizes! Winners will be judged based on improvement in their organic search engine traffic. Join today!

Most bloggers never update posts after they are originally published. In this article, we discuss 4 key reasons you should go back and edit your old posts.

Google is undoubtedly the best search engine, and in many ways an equally great company. It has an unchallenged marketshare that is steadily increasing. And it is always producing new products and making strategic acquisitions. But enough with all of the accolades! Here are 5 things we hate about Google.

Have you ever spied on a competitor? Perhaps you’ve checked out their pagerank. Or maybe you have just peeked at their Alexa traffic stats. And are you irritated that they seem to be getting more traffic than you, while putting in less effort? Don’t despair, there is usually an easy explanation.