Dealing with a Yahoo! Penalty
Yahoo! and I have always had an excellent relationship, which is why I was so perturbed to find that they banned a site I've been working with for several years - www.avatarfinancial.com. Last week, a ...
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The SEO/SEM's Industries Growing Pains
Nacho at SEW Forums has posted a thread entitled "SEM Industry Biggest Growing Pains". In it, you'll find some of the best responses to any thread at any SEO forum in the last several week...
How Big is the World Wide Web
Antonio Gulli, who I've mentioned before at SEOmoz, has an online report on the size of the world wide web. It's a detailed description of the process and results of his inquiries into the indexable portion...
Understanding Stemming
Xan Porter has an excellent blog entry on the subject of stemming in search engine indices. The article points to a terrific trove of resources on stemming, how it is performed a...
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What a Good Link Request E-Mail Looks Like
I got the e-mail I've copied below today. It's probably the best link request example I've ever gotten. Even after realizing that it was probably an auto-generated and mass-sent e-mail, I considered responding to let him know I appreciated the kind words. People are always asking how to phrase their link request letters, so here's a sample: ...
At a Hotel Bar in Boston
Rebecca Leaf Homepage - I'm teaching a cousin how search engines work while I'm in Boston. So here's her website, and shockingly, by next week, her site will be #1 for "Rebecca Leaf Homepage". Just watch......
The Changing Role of an SEO/SEM
A fantastic thread at Cre8asite focuses on the new role played by SEO/SEMs in website development and management. Although we have a very tight-knit and well organized online community (between all the popu...
Politics, SEO & the Forums
As most of you who see me in the forums know, I'm a Jon Stewart kinda guy. This can also lead people to make natural assumptions about my personal politics, which is certainly justifiable. Tod...
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Link Vault - A Tool for Link Building
As 3-way, 4-way and more-way linking has grown popular, particularly with the advent and overwhelming popularity of Shawn's Digitalpoint Co-Op Advertising Tool, other systems have popped up to attempt to create ...
An Average Conversion Rate
While conducting some research, I came across a brilliant website on the specific subject of conversion rates. Conversion Chronicles details a remarkable amount and depth of information on the subject of e-commerce conversi...
Ethics & SEO
I'm an exceptionally open-minded person and I like to look at everything in my professional life from as wide a vantage point as I can obtain. Recently, there have been several threads, posts & topics on the subject of ethics in the field of Search Engine Optimization (...
Integration of Craigslist & Google Maps
Craigslist's directory of real estate for rent and sale has long been the very best the Internet has to offer for those searching for housing in metropolitan areas. Now, Paul Rademacher has combined Craigslist's RSS...
An Achievement Worthy of Celebration
Bill Slawski, bragadocchio on Cre8asite forums, celebrates his 10,00th post today. A milestone by any stretch of the imagination, Bill has contributed literally 10,000 useful, creative, thoughtfu...
Gerunding & the Progression of Language
Today's International Herald Tribune has an article on the bastardization of English words into strange pseudo-related meanings in other languages. The piece, Meanwhile: The world is Englishing, den...