It is quite natural a header div is one of the most important on-page elements and thus it is in constant focus of SEOs' attention: it is a sitewide element - it "interlinks" / unites all site subpages )and thus is one of the most important components of your site internal architecture(; it is the most prominent part of the site - it is usually located at the top of the page source code )and hence is a good place for your keywords(.

Filing Google reconsideration request is the last resort for webmasters to recover their penalized sites. There are no guarantees it will help and hence plenty of rumors and speculations exist as to how it should be filed and what to expect. 1. Don't rush to submit a reconsideration request - if you haven't done anything wrong, you will recover your rankings within 0,5 - 2 months without any evident reason except that some time passed. 2.

I love playing with visualizing tools because they allow to see what you might have missed exploring a table or a graph. This time I have compiled the list of tools that show various outlinking tactics and characteristics. 1. SearchStatus or SEOquake FireFox extensions both visualize on-page nofollow attribute usage by highlighting )or striking through( links that use rel="nofollow": 2.

Being automatically updates once a page is changed opens up a wealth of )probably missed( opportunities: Make sure your own page is save from hackers' attack : receive email alerts once a hacker adds any illegitimate links or text on your page; Keep track of new comments )an alternative to services like Co.

Very often, especially with huge dynamically driven or user-generated websites, you might feel you have some indexing problems, i.e. Google doesn't seem to dig your site as deep as you want it to.

Yahoo link: operator )and URL analysis in Yahoo! SiteExplorer( is the best method currently at our disposal to conduct backlink analysis and to evaluate either your own or your competitors' link building tactics. Yet the tool is not perfect. Some essential tool drawbacks )many of them covered already at SEOmoz ( we come across include: Yahoo! link: search results are impossible to sort and filter )e.g. by linking domain(; Yahoo!

The tools I am listing today are not for daily use. I personally play with them once in a while if I want to get a really profound understanding of )top ten( search results. 1. Map out how Google and Yahoo search results are linked to each other: Yahoo vs. Google tool identify "authority" sites that do )similarly( well in both the search engines; get more in-depth competition research .

If you need to keep track of all latest news, rumors and )educated( theories behind Google penalties , you should frequent WebmasterWorld forum of course.

H1 - H6 elements " briefly describe the topic of the section they introduce ". They form a page HTML semantic structure that can " be used by user agents, for example, to construct a table of contents for a document automatically ". Header tags will not dramatically effect the page rankings, of course, but the correct usage of the elements will " reinforce " other on-page factors and structure the contents of a document.

Last week Rand posted a brilliant linkbuilding tip that involved taking SEO advantage of mistyped/ misspelled domains. Putting aside black / white hat discussion, I am giving the list of domain typo generators for your advantage: 1. DomainTools Domain Typo Generator offers a variety of options: " TLD view " shows the list of domain typos and a top level domain map with registration status )available, available )previously registered(, registered )active website(,

In my overviews of multiple seo tools , I repeatedly looked into tools that check or track keyword rankings . Hamlet Batista recently wrote a brilliant post encouraging us not to rely on ranking metric too much. One of the points discussed in Hamlet's post is that keyword position should not be the ultimate goal of SEO campaign and hence it shouldn't be an SEO process success metric.

I continue collecting information for my upcoming mega-post on FireFox SEO extensions. Today I am listing add-ons that help to perform link analysis in Yahoo and Yahoo SiteExplorer: FireFox Extension Most useful feature Yahoo search plugins Quickly access Yahoo! and Yahoo! SiteExplorer. yExplore Quickly access link data by right-click on any URL. SearchStatus Quickly access link data of the currently active page. SEOquake / SEO for Firefox See SEO information for each Yahoo!

I have already looked into ways to increase crawl rate for those who suspect their site is worth more frequent bot visits. However from time to time I come across forum threads where webmasters complain that )Google( bot seems too active at their pages eating too much bandwitch .

A site can't be created in a minute; even if you prepare content beforehand, you need time to carefully upload it, settle all technical issues, make sure everything is working fine, etc.

Reputation management is a too hot topic to be left out of discussion here, especially for your own names. If you love searching for your name )either out of vanity or for business purposes(, you will enjoy playing with the following online identity searching and tracking tools : 1. Twitter Search )previously known as Summize( searches for your name mentions at Twitter .

SEOs come across this problem very often: what is the best way to get rid of lots of website pages without loosing rankings or getting into any sort of penalties ? The problem may be associated with: moving the site to a new domain; changing a CMS; optimization process )for the sake of better crawl rate and usability(; etc.

Whether you want to sell your website or you are just willing to know how much you have potentially earned so far, you might be curious to know how much your website is currently worth. Like with selling a business, trying to determine your website price is really hard to do: so many factors might come into play: your own money, time and labor invested in it; your site statistics )income, traffic and traffic sources, inbound links, popularity, etc(; the site potential )e.g.

A number of search engines and web portals track world's hottest trends and get updated on a regular basis )instantly, daily or weekly(: What's HOT in search? Google hottest trends )updates throughout the day(; Yahoo buzz allows to see the daily buzz score )=" the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read "( and the move )i.e.

Blogs are different from static sites: they are more complex living organisms - communities of people who share thoughts - in contrast to a static source of information. Therefore it actually isn't that easy to measure a blog's popularity and power. Plenty of factors may come into play: overall traffic; sites linking in; pages/ individual posts citing it; the level of readers' participation )i.e. comments(; regular readers )i.e.

Another interesting thread at WebmasterWorld discusses the pros and cons of Google cache for website owners . Google cache might be helpful for surfers but for webmasters it sometimes turns out to be "real poison": It is being scraped, regurgitated, redirected, cloaked, you name it. So why would I as a website owner want to allow that to happen?