Google is Watching
Matt Cutts, a Google engineer, has called out an SEO company for spamming. Nothing new there, but what is new is that Cutts says that Google reads press releases put […]
Monthly Archives: March 2006
Who are You Related To?
Jim Boykin has a great post about link co-citations, and how search engines use that to help determine your site’s relevance to certain keywords. This is probably the clearest explanation […]
Prevent Home Page Link Value Leakage
As technologically advanced as search engines are, there are a few areas where they still don’t quite measure up. It’s well known that search engines don’t like duplicate content on […]
Book Review: Small Business Guide to Search Engine Marketing
Small Business Guide to Search Engine Marketing by Jennifer Laycock PDF E-Book, 94 Pages, $79.00 Published February, 2006 The cover of this book says it all: “The first guide to […]
Lessons From The Apprentice (5.3)
The Candidates Synergy: Allie, Andrea, Brent, Michael, Pepi, Roxanne, Sean, Stacy, Tammy Gold Rush: Bryce, Charmaine, Dan, Lee, Lenny, Leslie, Summer, Tarek, Theresa Prelude: Nobody was expecting Brent to return […]
How to Spam with Blogs: A Tutorial for Every Wanna-be SEO
I love blogs and blogging, but with all good things, especially those online, it comes with a whole new host of problems. Search engines love blogs and therefore so do […]
Google: Love it or Hate it?
Love it. Hate it.
Google Mars
Google updated their Labs page to include Google Mars. Only a small area of land is viewable, but Google lets you choose between Elevation, Visible and Infrared viewing settings. Planning […]
Are Search Engine Rankings That Important?
What’s more important, conversion or rankings? On one side you’ll get the argument that if you achieve top rankings (which drives traffic) but you cannot convert your visitors substantially, your […]
Do's and Dont's of SEO Copywriting
Karon Thackson has a great article over at Small Business Brief about the do’s and don’ts of SEO Copywriting. SEO Copy Is: * first and foremost – written for the […]
Content Thieves
There is a great rant thread over as the HighRankings forum about people who steal content. It’s a huge problem and one that might have serious negative effects for writers […]
Really Much of an Impact?
How effective is online advertising (discounting natural SERP as a form) within your daily life? Do all those pop ups, banner ads, sponsored search results, email ads, flash ads, etc. […]
Predictions Gone Wrong
“There is no likelihood that man will ever tap the power of the atom.” –Nobel Prize winner, Robert Milliken, 1920 “I think there is a world market for no more […]
Lessons From The Apprentice (5.2)
The Candidates Synergy: Allie, Andrea, Brent, Michael, Pepi, Roxanne, Sean, Stacy, Tammy Gold Rush: Bryce, Charmaine, Dan, Lee, Lenny, Leslie, Summer, Tarek, Theresa The Task: The teams work to put […]
Lessons From The Apprentice (5.1)
I’ve been a fan of The Apprentice since 1/4 way through the first episode of season one. I say 1/4 way through because I had heard about the show and […]