Online SEO Information: Trick or Treat?

People come to SEO from other disciplines, such as development and design. Many think there are some magic tags you stick in pages to make them fly up search engines' results pages. They ask me about coding: can search engines read it, and where's the best place to put this or that tag for better ranking? They appear at a loss when I explain coding's just not that important, as long as a crawler can get to the pages and parse the text out of them.

Grehan, Mike. ClickZ (2005). Design>Web Design>Search

Search Engine Optimizing for Europe

There's actually quite a lot to take into account when targeting a new geographic territory. I asked my two experts to share just two or three of the most important tips they would give to someone launching in the German marketplace.

Grehan, Mike. ClickZ (2006). Articles>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization