SEO Best Practices

All SEO services performed here at SEO by the Hour is 100% organic, white-hat and can be backed by all major search engines. Everything from the overall process to the little technical things are performed because the search engines recommended it. If Google says don’t do it, we won’t. If Bing recommends we add something to the site, we will. Listed below is a list of very valuable SEO resources provided by the major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing).

Google Webmaster Guidelines – Design & Content | Technical | Quality

MSN Search Engine Optimization Best Practices – Read Article Here

How Google Collects Rank Results – Read Google Library Article

Matt Cutts: Google Engineer on Canonicalization – Read Blog Post

NOTE: These are not SEO strategies or best ranking factors proposed by other SEO companies. These are authoritative search engine resources straight from the search engines themselves.

Great Best Practices Resources

Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide – Google provides a step by step guide to optimizing your website. As you can see, it’s not rocket science. That’s the problem. Everybody’s doing it.

FREE SEO TOOLKIT by Microsoft Web – Start with the free download, review your website, and make changes fast. The SEO Toolkit with its detailed analysis and search engine friendly suggestions helps improve the relevance of your website in search results right away.

10 Tips for Enterprise Search – a best practice Tip Sheet by Google – Use these tips to find, index, and rank pages on your company websites more effectively as you improve your users’ search experience.

SEO by the Hour – White-hat SEO Company

We cannot stress this enough, We do not try to game Google. We DO NOT try to manipulate the search engines into thinking your website is the best. This billion dollar search engine companies have too much to lose to let a small SEO firm in San Diego compromise the whole integrity of the algorithm,. SO, we don’t even consider that route. We are professional SEO’s with vast experience with the search engines. We know the difference between white-hat and black-hat SEO practices and where the lines are drawn. We know what pleases the engines and we abide by their recommendations.

The simplest way to put it is, we use the search engines because they deliver results that are relevant. The #1 site is usually the most relevant site based on more factors than you can imagine. In short, these factors include site theme, citations from other websites, time spent on site and much more.

SEO by the Hour is here to service YOU. Please don’t hesitate to contact us. Thank You