Mike Grehan Responds to Criticism of ClickZ Column
Remember early this week when I made a complete ass of myself by making personal accusations about Mike Grehan (instead of staying professional and on-topic). Well, ...
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SEOmoz Induces Blog Posting!
Early this week I called out some prominent SEO bloggers for not blogging enough. As of today, almost everyone has picked up the slack - I'm humbled and thankful... Now I don't have to cry myself to sleep without my favorite reading. Proving the Point: Dave's got 5 new posts since Tuesda...
The Big, Bursty Links
When I say "big links", I'm talking about the sites that drive incredible amounts of traffic to sites in a very short period. They include: Slashdot Yahoo! Picks Digg Del.icio.us/popular ...
Adding Link Bait to Services
SEOmoz has been very busy with requests for business lately, and I'm finding a lot of companies I'd actually love to work with. Thus, it's been neccessary to use both pricing and my own estimation of the achievability of projects and the good-naturedness of the client to help sort who to take on and who to refer. I've also started adding (as a component of the contracts) the development...
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Sandbox vs. Poor SEO for Google
I figured it's time to clear the air about identifying the Google "sandbox" penalty and comparing/contrasting it to other effects that can "appear" sandboxy. Here are the steps to take to determine if you're in Google's sandbox: Do a site: command at Google (example)If all of yo...
Vanity Rankings
I spoke to a potential client today about some desired rankings. The client was interested in ranking well for some moderate and a few heavily competitive phrases in a generally tough industry. Their end goal, however, was not to rank in order to convert visitors into sales or even leads, but rather, simply to impress and show off. Their products and services (and website) were not such that th...
Good Points in Designers vs. SEOs Thread
Good thread today at SEW on the subject of the Flash-designer portfolio set of web developers and their feelings on SEO. Glengara starts things off: I started a thread on whether all-Flash sites should be used in the commercial web, (my premise being that using Fla...
Sandbox Dodging Recommendations at SERoundtable
Barry, Donna, PK, Ben & Myself (the moderators from the new SERoundtable forums) are covering sandbox escape strategies in our first ever "Ask the Moderators" series for the forum. Some good responses and good information in the thread. As Barry noted to me, with mod-only threads, the signal-to-noise ratio is much higher than...
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Mike Grehan on Those in the Sandbox
NOTE: This post has been edited. It was originally written in haste and without foresight. My apologies to Mike, who has earned better than to be criticized publicly in such manner. Mike Grehan, who stands without doubt among the people I admire most in the industry, has a ...
Speculation on How Search Engines Apply Temporal Data
In my opinion, temporal based data is one of the most valuable kinds of information that feeds into a modern search engine's algorithm. With it, search engines know when terms are getting more popular, when new terms are being used by searchers a...
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Google experiments mixing country specific and global results together
A recent topic in SC brought up an interesting update with Google: they are adding country specific results to global resul...
Ferry Halim's Orisinal
No relation to SEO whatsoever, but Ferry Halim, a graphic and Flash game designer whose work astounds me has put together what is, in my opinion, his most addictive game yet. If you've never been to Orisinal, get ready to spend the rest of the ...
SEO A-Listers & B-Listers
Andy's hilarious post at SEJournal made me sit back and think. The SEO community, in my mind, centers around a few areas of mass congregation. In the offline world: ...
Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
Thomas Bindl threatened me with obscurity if I didn't note his new forum - OMTalk (brilliant name, BTW). Sadly, my German's all gone (I used to speak enough to get by, but now I only remember the words to 99 Luftballoons), but I have no doubt that he'll soon be competing with Germany's other top SEO/Web Marketing forum, ...