Search Engine Roundtable's 3rd Birthday

Today December2nd, is the 3rd birthday of search engine roundtable. They were born on December 2, 2003, There are almost 4,ooo blog posts, on an average of5 blog posts per week day.

In this year again they won the Best Blog on Search Marketing by Marketing Sherpa.

They launched their personal blog by Introducing the Cartoon Barry Blog in July of this year.

They started their own weekly podcast named the Search Pulse.

They set up a very successful Google Coop for Search Engine Roundtable,

Chris Boggs became their Associate Editor to provide forum coverage back on February 14st of this year. They released Search Engine Roundtable Supporter Seals which are being displayed proudly throughout the search community by many people.

In December of last year, Search Engine Roundtable Opens Forums, they have over 1,300 members and 6,200+ posts. Later on this year they won the KB Cafe Blog Awards and Best Search Engine Community Blog of 2005 by Search Engine Journal, another huge kudo for us.

There are very few times when we get a chance to witness all the great masters from the same field on a common platform. Recently, in an “Interactive Site Review” session held at Las Vegas Pubcon, panellists like Matt Cutts from Google, Tim Mayer from Yahoo, Greg Boser from WebGuerrilla, and Danny Sullivan reviewed various sites that stood out of the lot. After the review of these sites, these panellists gave few valuable suggestions that would help the SEOers to get a better ranking for their sites.

- Each and every page of a site is an entry point for the specific keyword that page targets

- Quality links would always have an upper hand over quantity links

- Avoid javascript, flash, templates and other such algorithms as they are a red flag to ranking algos

- Session IDs urls need to be blocked from crawlers because of duplicate content issues

- If you have a e-commerce based site then try and use original content in the description of the product rather than the description given by the manufacturers.

Always go for local directories rather than global directories for geographic specific websites.

- Content should always be unique and original rather than copied.

- Getting into the top 3 of Google Local ensures the front page entry of Google’s standard search even though the site is geographically based.

- Try and not to use redirects.

- Blogs are the most effective way of getting maximum traffic to your site.

Keeping these tips in mind will help SEO people to generate a better quality traffic and ranking for their site.

sources from google blog