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I ask this question as both an SEO and a web user. I am very much into my Formula 1 at the moment, even to the point that I get up at 'stupid o'clock' to watch the qualifying and the race - because I live in the UK, the first batch of races are taking place early in the morning. Not great after a Saturday night out getting up at 7.00am, but I am digressing.
Last week we discussed how you can actually hurt yourself by over-using or abusing common SEO tactics on your sites. This week we'll talk about how going overboard with your linking strategy can cause problems too. We're not looking at spam here, we're looking at things like unnatural link profiles or anchor text d...
As the economic climate worldwide has shown uncharacteristic elements of strife and turmoil, I've been getting more and more questions asked about finding and keeping a job in the Internet marketing space. As a CEO, and someone who employs quite a few folks, I think I can give some fairly detailed, albeit personal, advice on this topic. So - if you want to keep the job you've got, or ea...
We all have our interpretation on what the future of search will be. Will it be more dependent on signals coming out of social media (Twitter, blogs, etc.), or will Google reboot the search mechanism by introducing something entirely new? Here are some points which will have a deep impact on search in the future:
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We recently redesigned and restructured a website for a client and witnessed a massive traffic spike the day after the new site launched. The traffic has stayed at about a 500% increase for the past month, and appears to be on a continual climb.
This post was written by James Svoboda of Realicity Search Marketing in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Google recently added a new “Local Search Volume” metric to their Keyword Tool that provides a...
Lately I've noticed a lot of questions in Q&A centering on purchasing expired domains. A lot of our members have expressed interest in buying old domains for a variety of prices (some are cheap, some are going for upwards of $50k) and want some advice on what to do with the domains once they've been purchased. I'm no domainer, nor am I an expert in such a business tactic, but I generally recommend one of three different options for an expired domain (and would love to hear more if you've got any).
I swear I did not rip the title of this post off from The Onion newspaper! After spending weeks locked in my basement reading SEOmoz with nothing but the light of the computer monitor to see, I decided it was time to try some on-site SEO techniques on my website selling locking mailboxes.
If I had to guess, I'd say this post is going to rank #2 in Google for [darren slatten] before the day is over. That means that anyone who Googles the name "Darren Slatten" will see something like this:
Monday, April 20th, 2009: Today I celebrate the completion of my first decade in search. I have been waiting for this day with some trepidation for the past 6 months or so. I am not really sure why or even what this anniversary really means. Does it mean that I am some sort of expert? Well, anything is possible. Or does it mean that I have wasted the past decade with little to show in an industry that my friends and family can hardly even understand? Hmm, I hope not. In truth, it means I not only have a job that I like, but a career that I love.
Twitter has changed the face of the way we communicate with each other in the webmaster world, and it's also changed the way links and content gets passed around. Rand already touched on this, but I thought I'd try and take it another step by looking at what if Google did count these types of links.
For the purposes of this thought experiment, let’s ignore the benefits of diversification and assume you can have either a million dollars worth of real estate (say an apartment building or a lot of land) or a million dollars worth of one or more websites. Which would you prefer?
Hello, my name is Tom, you've seen me guest blog here before but today I'm blogging and ill. So I'm going to dispense with the usual chit-chat approach and lay out the facts. Some of you may even like it that way! Shame on you. Still, here's the content.
Well, SEOmoz, I am going to come out of the shadows today. I have been lurking and learning without contributing for quite some time. While far from an expert, I know only enough to be dangerous. An issue arose when analyzing my companies feed to Google Shopping. We were sending two automotive related feeds to them, a part type feed and a year make model feed. Over the weekend Google decided it only wanted one feed and deactivated everyone’s account who was sending multiple feed types. Myself and my closest competitors lost our status until Wednesday, when our new feed was processed and posted.