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Like most SEOs I know, I have a couple of sites that act as my side projects. They aren't monetised and I plan to keep them that way: I like to keep an eye on it for the purpose of experiments. By this I mean that I like to mess around with them and if one of them drops completely from every search engine, loses all of its PageRank and its server catches fire, it doesn't matter all that much....
I've talked in the past about the various possibilities of the future of search engines and the biggest threats to Google's dominance, and today I've been able to follow up on some of that prodding into that "vertical search fracturing" possibility. iMedix is one of ...
Jeff, our CTO and lead developer-with-a-beard, had recently expressed to me his desire to speak at conferences and events. Fantastic! ...except for one problem. There are no developer-centric tracks at any SEO conferences. SES? Zip. SMX? Zilch. Pubcon has had a smattering of developer-related sessions that were, according to Jeff, weak sauce. SXSW is the only conference to offer developer sessions...
If you are going to take up an SEO service it is important for you to understand that SEO is not something that can be done based on some set principles and then left at that. There is lot more to SEO than just building links or writing title tags. There is a whole lot of planning and execution that goes into building a successful SEO campaign and this takes time. There is time required to wo...
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Is this what your website visitors are saying? One of the sites that I work with has a very high "new visitor" percentage and while the visitor count continues to grow, there is clearly a problem in that the numbers are not growing exponentially as they should with a near 80% return visitor rate.What's the problem? Well, it's never just one thing, but here are a few...
I did a search for "plumbersurplus blog" today because I couldn't remember the URL of it off by heart. Of course, the link I wanted was right at the top of the Google results, but when I clicked through, I saw this: You searched for '...
As if SEO does not have a bad enough rap out on the Internet, companies go and create Link Building schemes like this:"In a nutshell, the WMC system will automatically create up to 5,000 unique search engine-friendly content pages (seen only by the search engines). Because your w...
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I had asked for an account for some time now, but today the email finally reached my inbox. And I was really excited about seeing what all the hype was about [true knowledge]™! Ps: getting really excited to test out a search engine, must mean I'm in the right job... So what is [true knowledge]™?In simple terms,...
Though I by no means consider myself an SEO "expert" (is there such a thing?) I try always to take a pragmatist-positivist approach to SEO techniques. That is, I research a technique; try it out on a personal site; observe the results; record the data; repeat the experiment; then publish the findings.Unfortunately for our industry, many SEO "specialists" have...
The FTC announced today that Valueclick has agreed to pay 2.9 million dollars to settle the charges. This is the largest cash settlement since the inception of the Can-Spam Act in 2003. In addition, Valueclick is barred from future violations of the Can-Spam Act. It must also place conspicuous disclaimers indicating that consumers are required to participate and spend money on other obligations in order to qualify for "free" promotions. The settlement also requires them to provide a list of the obligations – such as applying for credit cards, purchasing products, or obtaining a car loan – that consumers must incur to qualify for a free product. Valueclick must also put in place strict measures to protect consumer information. Valueclick's compliance with these measure must be monitored by an independent party for 20 years.
<p>One great way to get lots of links is to launch a massive media campaign. This works particularly well if you are a large brand. So this is not you? Well then, you are at a disadvantage. Massive media campaigns are great ways to get lots of links, and major brands launch these things without even blinking an eye.</p><p>Assuming that this is not an option for ...
Feb 17 2:00PM – In preparation for our product launch at SMX West, I came up with the idea of writing famous Google bombs on a T-shirt as a promotional giveaway. The idea was simple and funny—and, admittedly, only makes sen...
Before I was inundated with the responsibilities of running a company and managing a few hundred emails a day, I used to spend a lot of time testing theories about how the search engines handled certain elements on a site or page. I'd test the engines to find answers to questions like: Does a keyword perform better or worse if it's higher up in the code of a page? (yep)...
Natural search optimization. Organic search. Search engine optimization. White hat. Black hat. Gray hat. Which phrase means just make the site user friendly at the utmost level? This idea seems lost on many- though I realize not on those in this audience. I find myself frequently frustrated with the focus on meta tags, meta descriptions or keyword rich copy. Content is key! With go...