Archive for January, 2008

Take the SEO Industry Survey :: Search Engine Tools

January 30th, 2008 @ 5:33 pm by admin

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Note from Jeff: I’d like to apologize to those of you who took the survey within the first few minutes of release.  Since we released the blog post and sent out an email to our members, we’ve received a very quick & fast influx of traffic all at once - much higher than […]

Matt Cutts: Industry Leaders Are Incapable Of Performing Editorial Discretion :: Blog-O-Sphere News

January 29th, 2008 @ 8:42 pm by admin

So, why is it exactly that Matt Cutts thinks that anonymous employees over at Yahoo have better decision making skills than the search engine industry leaders?
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Towards a New Defintion of SEO :: Search Tools For Web Pros

January 29th, 2008 @ 8:07 pm by admin

 
While I promised you a redefinition of SEO when I started this blog, in fact it’s still my motto in the header, until now I delivered only an upgrade, a new version of SEO. Yes, SEO 2.0 until now does not entirely redefine SEO.
 
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Illegal & Illicit vs Who’s Getting Paid :: Web Optimization Techniques

January 28th, 2008 @ 2:21 am by admin

When the networks screw people over it is the fault of "users" or "the algorithm," but when the central networks do not like what we do we are "criminals performing illicit acts."
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Google Local Becomes a Destination :: Pay Per Click Campaigns

January 26th, 2008 @ 2:56 am by admin

As mentioned on SearchEngineLand, the Google Local onebox may now include up to 10 links in it. The increase from 3 to 10 results was allegedly due to usability testing, but them using text smaller than the rest of the text on the search results doesn’t really conform to good usability standards either.
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Community Begets Community :: Daily Search Engine Optimizations News

January 26th, 2008 @ 2:20 am by admin

There are a lot of pros and cons to having an online community associated with your site. The cons mostly center around having to manage people within the community (dealing with flamers, etc.). But the biggest pro, in my mind, is that community begets community. If you manage to get even a […]

Can You Hide Text & Links From Your Users, If Search Engines Won’t See? :: Page Rank Do’s and Don’t!

January 23rd, 2008 @ 8:27 pm by admin

Here is an unusual scenario for you. You have a web page, the web page is one page of many on your site. This specific page does not allow search engines to crawl them by using a robots.txt file to restrict access. Now, the webmaster wants to hide links or text on […]

Installing a DealDotCom Widget on a WordPress Site :: Keyword Campaign Tools

January 23rd, 2008 @ 7:48 pm by admin

I joined DealDotCom a while ago but I’ve not really done much with it other than buy an ebook. I wanted to promote them a bit more but their site did not make it easy to do so. Today after seeing a nice DDC widget on this blog I decided that I wanted one too […]

Q and A with Mr. Babyman :: Expert Advice on Web Site Optimization

January 21st, 2008 @ 2:21 am by admin

Digg’s top submitter answers some questions regarding the popular site
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Tables Vs DIVS… The couch model :: Expert Advice on Web Site Optimization

January 19th, 2008 @ 2:21 am by admin

Sadly, this question still comes up in the web design community … Why use DIVS/CSS when I can use tables? That’s like asking: why sleep on a bed when I have a couch?
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Writing for People (and Search Engines): How to improve click-through rates for organic listings :: Web 2.0 World!

January 17th, 2008 @ 5:54 pm by admin

Every search marketer knows that the higher you rank on the search engine results page (SERP), the more clicks you get to your site. What is not obvious, except perhaps to paid search marketers, is that it is possible for sites ranking slightly lowe
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Conferences & Affiliate Marketing :: Web 2.0 News and Comment

January 15th, 2008 @ 6:22 pm by admin

Lorna Li wrote a wonderful overview of my wife’s blog meetup speech. Jeremy Schoemaker announced the next Elite Retreat, which is on April 3rd and 4th. With Brian Clark speaking, I feel more like I am going to be an attendee than a speaker. Check out Brian’s post on creating leading edge strategic content.
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How to Troubleshoot Dropped Search Engine Rankings :: Link Juice Tips and Tricks

January 15th, 2008 @ 5:49 pm by admin

Ross Dunn of StepForth offers some tips for troubleshooting pages that have dropped in the SERPs. Its not definitive by any means, but its a fantastic checklist list to begin with.
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How to build links for crappy websites :: Link Juice Tips and Tricks

January 14th, 2008 @ 2:20 am by admin

Lots of companies will happily accept link building opportunities for just about any crappy website, because they only see the quick, short buck. For this group of companies, I’ll be diving into the art of getting links for crappy websites today.
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Wikia Search tested by a 11yr old… oh and her mum! :: Link Juice Tips and Tricks

January 12th, 2008 @ 3:40 am by admin

Wikia Search might suck in SEOs eyes but what about the average user say an 11 year old? 10 Users try out the new search engine with fairly obvious results!
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