Russ Jones Good Honest SEO

Russ Jones is one of those die hard SEO`s who has a strong ethical SEO foundation, a web developer by trade whose natural progression into the SEO industry has taken him to the top of his game.  Starting out over 12 years ago, Russ has a Bachelors Degree in Political Science and African American Studies.  His SEM strategies and SEO technique has earned himself and his clients at Virante.com strong SERP rankings and his role as CTO of Virante is an absolute bonus to them.

Good old fashioned honest SEO from another i will be following at SEOBegin.

You can read the latest from Russ`s blog along with other contributors (Sootle Directory)

Bounce Rates Don’t Matter In Google Algo - Wed, 24 Dec 2008
Bounce rates are being discussed regularly by SEOs Apparently SEOs have been having very heated discussions about the concept of “bounce rates” on SEO. Myself, I figured a high bounce rate is meaningless. Consider blogs. Most of the traffic to a blog arrives from a search engine and lands on a single view [...]

Is A Blog Useful For SEO? - Tue, 23 Dec 2008
Can a blog be useful for SEO purposes? It can, but blogs are a different animal than static websites, and must be treated as such. A blog is very useful because it provides a website with plenty of related fresh content. Considering many websites don’t have content that changes very often, a [...]

Redirecting A WordPress Blog From A Directory To The Root - Mon, 22 Dec 2008
Problem - You have an old blog in a directory and would like to move it to the domain, replacing your website’s content at the root. Solution: use mod_alias redirectmatch Scenario one, you move a blog from /blog/ to the root. Here’s the example code. RedirectMatch 301 ^/blog/(.*)/(.*)/$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$2/ Keep in mind this all needs to be one [...]

Google Backlink Update - Mon, 22 Dec 2008
It looks like Google has updated backlinks again in the last few days. They seem to running on a pretty tight schedule as far as backlink updates go. At least in the search engine. Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) also shows a backlink update, but this one was a lot longer in the [...]

Google 2009 - Keeping Us Logged Into The Internet - Thu, 18 Dec 2008
To me it appears Google has increased their strategy of getting users to log into the “internet” and stay logged in. OpenID and OpenSocial as well as Google Friend Connect are all steps in this direction. I’m okay with idea, too, as long as the “anoymous” internet doesn’t disappear completely. A more professional internet [...]

Ghana: Police gear up to prevent election violence - Fri, 21 Nov 2008
As Ghana counts down to its presidential and parliamentary elections on 7 December, the national police service says it has identified 1,399...

UN launches record appeal for humanitarian aid - Thu, 20 Nov 2008
The UN is asking for a record US$7 billion to help 30 million people in Africa and the Middle East.

LIBERIA: No relief as most Monrovians go without toilets - Wed, 19 Nov 2008
With just one in 25 Liberians having access to a toilet, most use the nearest bush or beach, unwittingly committing what the UN Children?s Fund...

SENEGAL: Weighing the benefits of solar stoves - Wed, 19 Nov 2008
Researchers have sold over 1,000 solar stoves to rural families in Senegal in a bid to prove that the ovens can improve child and maternal health and...

DRC: Rape crisis set to worsen amid Kivu chaos - Wed, 19 Nov 2008
Soaring insecurity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has raised fears of a new wave of sexual violence in a region termed ?the worst place in...

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