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I've asked Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR.com, with whom I spoke on the link building panel at SES Toronto, to stop by SEOChat and answer some of the members' questions. Luckily for us, Greg has a couple of spare minutes today a...
A website I stumbled across through del.icio.us today, Demon @ Thus, has a great short article on writing for the web. The article covers 10, easy-to-understand points, from which I shall paraphras...
Due to my work schedule being overwhelmingly busy today, I won't be posting much. I feel bad about this, since my loyal readers - you - have been kind enough to drop by. There are a few interesting things taking place in the SEO world that are worth reading about: Kim Krause-Berg is talking about...
Sifish pointed me to an article at the Wall Street Journal's Startup Journal by Sarah Needleman - Three Myths on Boosting Search-Engine Rankings. It a fairly primitive stab at explaining how the industry operates, and once again it pushes the pervasive view that most search engine optimization comp...
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Alex Frank, a German web designer has taken on the unique challenge of re-building the interface of the web, by removing the mouse click from his users' repertoire of interactive tasks. His example site for this surprisingly innovative project is don'tclic...
Donna Fontenot has posted another fantastic scoop fresh from the WebMasterWorld conference. The post covers how a Google engineer explained to the crowd how Google might monitor and penalize sites that appeared to use surreptitious techniques to boost their rankings - primarily via link spam (although in this specific example, t...
MSN's blog on web search yesterday featured the following fascinating paragraph on the subject of a shift in their technology (proba...
Reciprocal links have long been both the bane and salvation of the individual SEO working away on his/her own small website. Recip links get slammed in the forums and touted by others. Why is there no consensus? Why is this issue still around nearly 10 years after it first became and Internet marketing tactic? The answer is that some reciprocal links can and do help. The reasons are ver...
SERoundtable has a nomination process for the best SEO forum. Get your nominations in now and the vote will begin soon. All of my favorites have already been nominated, but smaller forums are welcome to join, too. I notice some well-respected forums still missing, so get going....
Some conversion rates are easy to measure - your site got 100 visitors from Yahoo! today and 3 of them bought your widget - a 3% conversion rate. Others, however can be very difficult to find. Promediacorp at SEW ...
Mark, over at Search-This.com e-mailed me today about a great new Flash-based tool called the PageRank Decoder that SEOs can use to determine the impact ...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created a Legal Guide for Bloggers that walks us through the important issues of having a online journal of events. It notes what opinions are legal to publish, what can get you sued an...
A great tool for those in webdev is Chami's favicon generator. If you're not familiar with favicons, they're the little images that are linked to a website in the browser and appear in the address bar in Firefox and the favorit...
To borrow from the Beastie Boys, Google's "crystal ball ain't so crystal clear". It appears that a successful sabotaging of a website is easier than one might hope. lots0 at Threadwatch points out that using the non-canonic...