http://www.slingshotseo.com/feeds/blog-category-on-page-seo-rss.xml Slingshot SEO's On Page SEO Ranking Factors RSS Feed en-US http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-write-a-meta-description-even-if-google-says-it-doesnt-matter Google has told webmasters that there is a part of your site that has no material effect on your ranking, and since, many webmasters and SEOs are ignoring it. They're wrong, and you can take advantage of it.In the early days of SEO, much was made of optimizing meta descriptions. As search engines evolved and on-page factors became less... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-write-a-meta-description-even-if-google-says-it-doesnt-matter#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:01:50 -0500 Jesse Laffen http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-write-a-meta-description-even-if-google-says-it-doesnt-matter http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/02/content-farms-strategic-investment-or-time-bomb I was almost ready to leave the office today when I noticed a tweet on my iPhone by Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land. He mentioned content farms, tweeting "the more publicity particular content farms get, the more likely they risk being targets in a Google "update" that wipes them out". I had an idea, but at first glance I wasn't 100%... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/02/content-farms-strategic-investment-or-time-bomb#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:50:27 -0600 Jeremy Dearringer http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2010/02/content-farms-strategic-investment-or-time-bomb http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/11/page-load-times-speed-as-a-ranking-factor I just watched an interview with Matt Cutts at Pubcon in Las Vegas. In this interview he discusses speed and website load times as possible ranking factors for Google's Caffeine search. We have known for some time that load times affect your quality score... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/11/page-load-times-speed-as-a-ranking-factor#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:47:30 -0600 Jeremy Dearringer http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/11/page-load-times-speed-as-a-ranking-factor http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/10/seo-checklist-for-landing-page-optimization Do you feel like you've reached a glass ceiling with regards to the number of competitive keywords you can get your homepage to rank for? Is it possible that traffic from some of your competitive keyword phrases might not convert well... http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/10/seo-checklist-for-landing-page-optimization#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:48:12 -0500 Jeremy Dearringer http://www.slingshotseo.com/blog/2009/10/seo-checklist-for-landing-page-optimization