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......
Fractals & Semantics - A Great Paper from Dr. Garcia
Dr. Garcia, known on the forums as Orion, has written what will surely become one of the most linked to documents in the SEO world over the next few days. The article - ...
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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...
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...
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The Top Converting Sites on the Web
An article from the DMA (Direct Marketing Association) shows us the sites with the highest conversion rates on the web (among major, non brick-and-mortar retailers). The report's list is the most important piece,...
Google Images & Concept Guessing Game
Nacho from SEW points to an excellent site that uses Google's image results in Flash to create a guessing game. The object is to determine, as quickly as possible, what the que...
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 (...
A Fascinating Use for SEO - Shawn of DigitalPoint fights Winn & Sims
Shawn Hogan, the operator of the DigitalPoint forums, tools & ...
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...
Link Building with Discounts
While in a particularly inquisitive mood today, I picked up my girlfriend's copy of Lucky Magazine, which is subtitled - the magazine about shopping. Sure enough, inside were "links" to hundreds of stores both online and off from which to ...