SEO Bulletin

LeadingArticles.com is now part of “SalesPractice.com” one of the oldest, largest and highest ranking sales training communities on the Internet. SalesPractice.com receives on average over one thousand (1,000) daily visitors searching for sales training resources including sales and marketing articles. This means exposure to a high volume of targeted traffic for the trainers, authors and coaches who submit their quality sales and marketing articles to the directory.

For anyone interested in a free blogging platform you might check out Blog.com. We put together a basic blog which is hosted without charge. You can view our blog here: http://salestraining.blog.com/

An interesting read over at Smashing Magazine about Google PageRank. Visit: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/06/05/google-pagerank-what-do-we-really-know-about-it/

Stuntdubl Search Marketing Consulting Best Posts Roundup. Visit http://www.stuntdubl.com/best/

Collection of linkbuilding topics by Graywolf at Threadwatch. Visit http://www.threadwatch.org/node/8338

Domain Check and Value Estimation Tool - dnScoop.com attempts to estimate a value for an established website or a domain name by using factors such as:

Links pointing to the domain
Popularity of the domain
Age of the domain
Pagerank of the domain
Traffic to the domain
and more…

http://www.dnscoop.com/

This document is one of several resources created to assist the preparation of a business case for the implementation of Web accessibility. It describes the many business, technical and other benefits to the organization above and beyond the straightforward benefits to people with disabilities that can be realized by applying the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0) to Web sites.

Webpage: http://www.w3.org/WAI/bcase/benefits.html

XHTML 1.0 Strict
< !DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

XHTML 1.0 Transitional
< !DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

XHTML 1.0 Frameset
< !DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">

For Document Type Definitions [DTD] visit w3schools.

For keyword research check out these tools:

Microsoft adCenter Labs
Google Keyword Tool

Here is a list of validators and checkers from WDG: Validators and Checkers

Google Base is a place where you can add all types of information that we’ll host and make searchable online.

You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they search Google Base. In fact, based on the relevance of your items, they may also be included in the main Google search index and other Google products like Froogle and Google Local.

http://base.google.com/base/

What does this tool do? This tool analyzes a web page, searching for characteristics that search engines could consider spam. If you don’t know what “search engine spamming” means or if you want to know how this tool works, you can read the Spam detector FAQ.

http://tool.motoricerca.info/spam-detector/

Here is a link to a page where the author gives his interpretation of Historical Data and Google Ranking:
http://news.stepforth.com/whitepaper/google-patent-may05/google-whitepaper.php

Here’s a few links on information about PreSell pages:

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=530
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/1818
http://www.stuntdubl.com/index.php?p=177
http://www.seobook.com/archives/000710.shtml
http://www.linkadage.com/linkadage-info/newseo.htm
http://www.insideoutmarketing.com/index.php?p=pages&pid=8

I just came across this thread at Webmasterworld that some might find interesting.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum12/3047.htm

Here is an intersting article I found about how to build a successful site within 12m onths.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm

Browse the web and see the Page Rank of all links in a page at http://www.webmastereyes.com/

Here is a page on Google that gives an overview of how pages are ranked: http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/tech.html

Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You’ll be able to focus your marketing resources on campaigns and initiatives that deliver ROI, and improve your site to convert more visitors.

Source: http://www.google.com/analytics/

Use this Keyword Difficulty Check Tool to see how difficut it would be to rank for specific keywords, or keyword phrases.

http://www.seologs.com/keyword-difficulty.html