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OK... It's a new day in my office. I am changing my focus away from the standard SEO optimizing stuff and instead putting my focus where it really belongs - getting site visitors to embrace my site. Let's call this SEO for SITE VISITOR ACTIONS. I think that the search engine...
Everybody talks about recip link trades, directory submission and buying links. How about let's share a few unconventional link-building ideas here. I'll give you my best three and if every person who reads this adds just one more we will build one of the best collections on the web. Ask for the Link: If you have content that people will link to naturally then plant a seed in the mi...
I'm heading out of town for the weekend (and an additional two days next week). We're landing in Oakland, but staying near Union Square in San Francsico from Saturday to Tuesday. While I'm away, EGOL will be blogging ...
So-called "off-topic" links, those which are not directly related by subject matter on the linked-to page, have been getting some bad press lately. One of the problems with rejecting the idea of off-topic links from a search engine's perspective, is that the index of WWW would be unspiderable if they didn't exist. Besi...
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I've seen a lot of great comments here at seomoz.org since Rand turned on the comment buttons. I'd like to challenge all of the members to do a little brain storming on cross marketing. How can you make money selling "Product A" on a website that is all about "Topic B"? I'll give an example below and I ask you to comment with another idea on how this might work. It might open up some creative thin...
This sort of thing really scares me. Via Matt's blog, Google recently placed #1 in every category in a US government (actually from the NIST Speech Group) sponsored ...
My understanding is that the website Walken2008 is a joke and nothing more. However, it has the distinct privilege of being the fastest site I've ever observed coming out of Google's notorious sandbox. Despite being r...
The disgust blog has an entry from several months ago on a site's exit from the sandbox via a 301 re-direct to a new subdomain at an existing TLD. Pretty stark evidence of the box's effects and a good solutiong for those in desperate need of a way out. Here's the ...
DazzlinDonna has a pre-made SEO contract that might be useful for those who run smaller operations and need a hand getting started in contract design. It's by no means over-arching, but it's an excellent place to start and it's free. She also has a good, basic description of the specific tasks that fit into SEO work: ...
I've been noticing people's signature links at the major SEO forums more and more lately, especially when I ran this search - mesothelioma seo forum thread reply. That's a disturbing number of resu...
I've been building up a relatively large campaign across the PPC engines for a client of ours, and have noticed a disturbing trend with the AdWords vs. Y!SM numbers. Yahoo! is consistently half the price, and double the ROI. The site's conversion rate with visitors from t...
gVisit is a tool that you can install on your site to see where the last 20-100 visitors to your site came from geographically. It's nothing sophisticated, but it is another example of a site using Google's map API to create something unique, and building on the succes...
Aaron Wall has put together a very impressive link analysis tool. Sadly, I don't have time to check it out personally, as I'm deep in tool building myself. However, his review of the tool is exceptional and walks thr...
I stumbled across Professor Rich Ackerman's Theory of Information Retrieval Site today and found this excellent summary on the theory of normalized term weight. There's some nasty...