If you've been plying the waters of the web design community for a while, you might have heard people talking about your "text to code" ratio, and how it can affect your SEO rankings.

This is the idea that the more text and less "code" you have on your page, the easier it will be for the search engines to understand, and the better they will index it as a result. You'll see a lot of discussion on SEO forums and blogs about this, and you'll even find text to code ratio calculators...

For those of you out there battling to reword your PLR articles, or struggling to turn the articles supplied by merchants in their affiliates areas into unique works of art (fit for the SEO gods)... I just want to make sure you've seen this tool.

It's been lurking in the Affilorama Tools area for a little while now: Unembellished, unassuming, and possessing the most prosaic name one could possibly conjure into existence. But it's an indispensable tool for those of you trying to spin...

If you've heard any of the noise surrounding Google's supplemental results feature, you could be forgiven for thinking that some sort of plague had hit the SEO community. "But my site has lots of quality content! Those are my main information pages! Why are they being sent to supplemental?"

This isn't exactly a new issue. Google introduced their "supplemental result" directory in 2003. It serves as sort of a "last chance" reference for more obscure searches. If you search for something and...

Hi guys,

We've got a special guest post today from Marc Lindsay of PLRPro . Affilorama members will know Marc from his contributions to the Affilorama members area on SEO and private label rights article topics, and regular blog readers will know him from the interview transcript I provided a few months ago.

Marc has made a video showing what happened when he removed some high-PR links from a site of his. The affect on his traffic and search engine rankings was pretty dramatic.

Watch...