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- SES San Jose 2008: Top stories for Day 3 of SEM Conference & Expo(August 20, 2008) So much was taking place on Day 3 of SES San Jose 2008, even attendees needed to use news and blog search engines to keep up with more than 75 articles and posts coming out of the SEM conference & exp...
- SEW Experts: The Beginning of the End? Or the End of the Beginning?(August 20, 2008) The state of the search marketing industry is almost always in flux. In today's Searching for Meaning column, "The Beginning of the End? Or the End of the Beginning?," Kevin Ryan takes a look at decli...
- SES San Jose 2008: Top Stories from Day 2(August 20, 2008) There were more than 70 news articles and blog posts on Day 2 of SES San Jose 2008. And that doesn’t include the video interviews from Day 1 which are being posted as we speak. Here are the some o...
- American Airlines Launches In-Flight Internet Access Service(August 20, 2008) American Airlines today began offering in-flight internet access on select flights. For $12.95, passengers flying Boeing 767-200 aircraft on non-stop flights between New York and San Francisco, New Yo...
- Local Online Advertising Does Best on Local Media Sites(August 20, 2008) When it comes to local advertising, the best conversions come from local media sites, such as newspaper and tv station sites, according to a new report from the Online Publishers Association (OPA). Lo...
- SearchIgnite Releases Version 3.0 of Media Optimization Platform(August 20, 2008) SearchIgnite has announced the release of the next generation of its media optimization tool. The updates featured in Version 3.0 are:
Full multi-channel media tracking and reporting: Track and rep...
- Website Optimizer Enables Pruning and Offline Validation(August 20, 2008) Google has released a major update to Website Optimizer, which contains new features that will have users breathing a sigh of relief.
First up, you can now disable combinations that just aren't wor...
- SEW Experts: What Are You Converting?(August 19, 2008) Think a sale is the only conversion worth measuring? You might want to think again. In today's By The Numbers column, "What Are You Converting?," Tim Ash goes through the various events worth measurin...
- AdGooroo Founder Authors Search Advertising Book(August 19, 2008) Richard Stokes, the founder of search marketing firm AdGooroo, has announced the publication of his new book, Mastering Search Advertising – How the Top 3% of Search Advertisers Dominate Google AdWo...
- Introducing Google Without All the Google(August 19, 2008) Want to search Google for results that don't include sites under the Google umbrella? Try Google Minus Google. The site shows YouTube-less, Knol-less, and Blogger-less results.
The site was starte...
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- Google Penalties : Manual vs Algorithmic(August 20, 2008) If you need to keep track of all latest news, rumors and (educated) theories behind Google penalties, you should frequent WebmasterWorld forum of course.
I do not encourage you to trust everything yo...
- Getting Vertical Search Right – SES San Jose(August 20, 2008) Vertical search seems to have been put on the back burner for many search marketers. With new buzz words like “Social Media” and “Local/Mobile Targeting”, who could blame them? But let’s not...
- SEO Through Blogs and Feeds SES San Jose(August 20, 2008) I am here at the first session of the day, yes i am up on time after the Google Dance! We have Rebecca Lieb, Contributing Editor, ClickZ moderating this morning.
The first speaker this morning is Aman...
- Google Tops Nielsen’s July Search Share Rankings(August 19, 2008) There’s a couple of interesting things to note in the July search share ranking released by Nielsen-Online. But first, yes as expected Google once again leads the pack garnering around 4.8 billi...
- 3 Domain Typo Generators(August 19, 2008) Last week Rand posted a brilliant linkbuilding tip that involved taking SEO advantage of mistyped/ misspelled domains. Putting aside black / white hat discussion, I am giving the list of domain typo g...
- How to Analyze a Page HTML Semantic Structure(August 19, 2008) H1 - H6 elements “briefly describe the topic of the section they introduce“. They form a page HTML semantic structure that can “be used by user agents, for example, to construct a ta...
- Google Webmaster Central Makes 404 More Useful(August 19, 2008) Google Webmaster Central has added a new feature that aims to make website visitors’ encounter with the perennial problem and most dreaded 404 “Not found” page a more pleasant if n...
- Google Tops Customer Satisfaction on Search and Portal Category(August 19, 2008) Latest report from the American Customer Satisfaction Index published by the University of Michigan shows Google topping the list of search and portal companies customer satisfaction survey. Based on ...
- Yahoo! Buzz Opens Up to Everyone(August 19, 2008) Finally six months after its launch, Yahoo! Buzz is now open to the public. The announcement follows several months of beta testing the service to selected sites, including the SE Journal. Yahoo claim...
- Everything But Google: Alternative Search Marketing Options: SES San Jose(August 18, 2008) We are sitting in on the Everything But Google: Alternative Search Marketing Options panel. Andrew Goodman is moderating the panel this afternoon.
First Up Sage Lewis, Search Engine Watch Expert &...
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- Video Content Tips(December 31, 1969) Have you done much audio and video recording? What are some of your favorite tips, and what courses/books/products/etc. would you recommend?...
- Anyone Doing Political SEO?(December 31, 1969) Do you know anybody doing political search engine marketing?...
- Decisively Average(December 31, 1969) Sometimes the rough edges of a brand are the best parts....
- Interviews & News(December 31, 1969) A few interviews and some interesting news links from the past couple weeks....
- Emotionally Engage or Enrage(December 31, 1969) As the web gets more efficient and search engines gather more data, those who evoke emotional responses will keep gaining marketshare while bland webmasters fall quietly into the abyss....
- Buying & Selling Websites(December 31, 1969) Some good tips about buying, selling, and flipping websites....
- Paying Competitors to Beat You & Steal Marketshare(December 31, 1969) Examples of short term cheap traffic sources that grew expensive as affiliates grew into competitors....
- Social Media Free For All Pages(December 31, 1969) How much longer will SEOs promote social media for? What comes next?...
- Which is Worth More: SEO.ME or SEO.CO.NZ?(December 31, 1969) The .ME domain name auctions are going for way more than I expected them to. Do the prices surprise you?...
- Google Insights for Search(December 31, 1969) Google just launched Search Insights, a cool new research tool for data hounds. Have you tried it yet? What do you think of it? How does it compare to your favorite market research tools?...
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- Guest Posts Like them or Dislike Them(August 14, 2008) Ok so I’ve run most of my guest posts, I still have two or three to run, but they won’t be going live until after SES San Jose. So what did you think? Like em? Dislike em?
Share your fee...
- Why Old School Real Estate Brands are Losing to New Web 2.0 Innovators(August 13, 2008) The following is a Guest Post from Joe Hall.
The internet is changing the real estate industry on a daily basis. And, not surprisingly, it’s the Web 2.0 innovators that are leading the revolution. ...
- Teaching Advanced Link Building and Why Pagerank Will Never Die(August 13, 2008) One of the difficult things of trying to share ideas, or teach a concept to large group of people is the different levels everyone is at. What some people consider advanced others consider intermediat...
- Viewzi - Interesting Advanced New Search UI(August 12, 2008) Last week Giovanni Gallucci sent me a link to Viewzi which has some interesting search UI’s that I think advanced users might actually use. Unlike Cuil I don’t think they spent 30 million ...
- Short Videos, Long Videos, and Don’t Take Everything So Literally(August 12, 2008) Many moons ago I wrote about how short videos are better than long ones, and I took lumps in the comments because I didn’t do a good job explaining myself and some readers took me far to literal...
- Are You in Violation of Google’s Double Serving Policy? You Just Might Be!(August 11, 2008) The following is a Guest Post from Amber Benedict.
A client of mine emailed me in a panic, saying two of their affiliate PPC sites have been “tagged” by Google Adwords for violation of th...
- Hey Google Can We Get a Clear Cloaking and First Click Free Explanation(August 8, 2008) One of the more common questions I get from people is how do I show my paid context to search engines, but not to non-paying/membership customers, and staying within search engine guidelines. The answ...
- Five Search Queries to Find Sponsorship Link Opportunities(August 8, 2008) And regardless of the fact that they are paid, Google doesn't seem to mind them so long as they are on-topic and coming from a reputable website. As the title suggests, this "link buy" comes in the fo...
- KISS SEO(August 7, 2008) The following is a Guest Post from Michael Martin.
When performing SEO its best to first implement the KISS strategy, Keep It Simple S…..
Forget about the old school keyword density equation...
- How to Use Twitter as a Marketing Tool with Tweet Pro(August 6, 2008) So my friend Cesar Serna launched his new site this week and is making his first tool Tweet Pro available. If you don’t know Cesar he used to work for Greg Boser aka Webgeurilla. I was in on the...
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- Wordcamp Wordgame(August 16, 2008) Sitting here with David Klein (mastermind behind the thinktank, who is selling an extraordinary door lock in the near future at Wordcamp playing wordgames - get the full scoop on them here.
So here...
- Internet Marketer’s Charity Party - IMCharityParty.com(August 12, 2008) SES San Jose should be a great time. I’m slotted to moderate a session on SEO friendly design and development, as well as do a site review session. I’m glad I didn’t have to create...
- Shoemoney Tools Board Member(July 29, 2008) Just a quick note to everyone to check out Shoemoney’s new Tools. I’m very proud to announce I’ll be on Jeremy’s Board to help out with the tools. They’ve got some grea...
- Competitive Webmaster Tools Presentation Tomorrow(July 21, 2008) Last chance to signup for the MarketMotive/ Search Engine Strategies Webcast tomorrow at 9am PST. You can read more about it here. Should be a doozy.
Related PostsSES Toronto and MarketMotive - Comp...
- Recent Interviews - Search Engine Journal and Voices of Search(July 14, 2008) I did a couple of interviews at SMX Advanced in Seattle that have recently been published. Thanks to Tom Schmitz, the Seattle SEO, for the interview on Voices of Search - You can check it out here We...
- SES Toronto and MarketMotive - Competitive Webmaster Tools Seminar(June 11, 2008) I’ve spent the last three weeks compiling the master list of competitive webmaster tools. I don’t think I’ve worked this hard on something in quite some time, and it’s definit...
- Upcoming Speaking Engagements - SMX Advanced in Seattle & SES Toronto Training(May 30, 2008) Just a quick note - if you’ll be in Seattle, I’ll be speaking on Buying Old Sites for SEO. I’ll also be doing an SES Training session on SEO Tools in Toronto. It’s a 4 hour pr...
- Contest - Help Redesign Weird Asia News - Win a Playstation 3 (and Guitar Hero!)(May 22, 2008) My buddy Brent over at Weird Asia News REALLY needs a redesign for his awesome content rich (yet amazingly fugly wordpress default edited) site. WAN has amazing stories, and gets tons of traffic, but...
- Interview About Link Baiting and SEO Consulting with David Flowers(May 21, 2008) I spent about 45 minutes talking with David Flowers about a variety of topics including seo consulting, linkbaiting, social media marketing, and a variety of other SEM topics. I think it came out pre...
- Why I Think People Like Twitter - and Me on Twitter(April 25, 2008) I originally knocked twitter - and in my mind, the jury is still out - but I AM using it - Click here if you feel like following my twitter nonsense.
Twitter is the opportunity for bloggers and nerds ...
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- 301 Redirect SEO(August 21, 2008) It’s not always that easy to manage a clients portfolio of sites. Especially if there are many people chopping and changing the collection of sites at the same time. I’m wondering just how...
- Search Marketing Consultant(August 15, 2008) A truly effective online marketing strategy can only be realised by having clear focus and direction. Build into the mix internal politics that many companies have with budgets and decision making an...
- Big Foot Press Conference(August 15, 2008) The truth is out there somewhere and with the Big Foot Press Conference today we will hopefully know the results of the DNA findings. Multiple tests are being carried out and will be announced. What h...
- Liz Taylor Dead Post(August 15, 2008) Google is doing some strange things, for eg yesterday we ranked No.1 in the .com for “Liz Taylor Murdered” now the page in the serps is at….wait for it no.63. Perhaps other blogs ar...
- adCenter UK 2nd Birthday(August 15, 2008) Yes that’s right it’s already the 2nd anniversary of the Microsoft adCenter launch in the UK. The mighty Microsoft gave life to the adCenter search Ads 2 years ago today.
One thing you c...
- Liz Taylor Murdered(August 14, 2008) Yet more link bait this week ? Throughout the course of the last week we have been picking up on stories which may be true or false. This one is “Liz Taylor Murdered” and seems to have bee...
- searchingforbigfoot : site down(August 14, 2008) searchingforbigfoot.com .. HAHAHA if you are going to linkbait at least make sure you have you have enough bandwidth,, :)...
- Google Georgia Maps Missing(August 13, 2008) Google claims it hasn’t made significant changes to its mapping software. Yet local data for the Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia is not appearing. This is in sharp contrast to Google Earth which...
- PPC Management Aston Martin(August 13, 2008) Don’t ask us why we were looking for an Aston Martin. But something rather critical about the Aston Martin PPC campaign caught our attention, in-fact we have witnessed the campaign error for the...
- Georgia Bigfoot Found(August 13, 2008) Searching is not always done through the net. Yes, there is a physical world out there too. Many have spent their lives searching for Bigfoot. Perhaps once thought a mythical beast it seems Georgia ...
Obtained from source. Tired of useless Top 10 Lists for ranking in Google? Looking for effective and insightful info? SEO Black Hat Blog offers articles on Blackhat SEO, Linkbait & Link Spamming. And if you need to escape White Hat SEO Whiners, check out he Private Black Hat Search Engine Optimization Forum.
- 9s vs 0s in Pricing: Value vs Quality(August 20, 2008) According to Small Biz trends Book Review of the Art of Pricing:
1. The Nine and Zero Effect. People associate the number nine with value and zero with quality. Look at the difference between fast foo...
- Marsian Technology Brought to Earch by the JPL(August 20, 2008) It's not quit as cool as plastic, but we've been overdue for some space aged technology from NASA. Now it's here....
- The Great [Fire] Wall of China(August 19, 2008) It turns out there are some disadvantages to living under a communism. Who knew?...
- Bolt - The World’s Fastest Man(August 17, 2008) Bolt - the perfect name for the worlds fastest man....
- Beijing Dream(August 15, 2008) Living the dream....
- No. It doesn’t take 10 years.(August 10, 2008) Wrong, wrong and wrong with a 2500 year old aphorism sprinkled in....
- Russian - Georgia War bombs Google Maps(August 10, 2008) In communist Russia, Google maps searches you....
- Two Important New Google Ranking Factors(August 8, 2008) What does Google consider scholarly?...
- SEOktoberfest Sold Out.(August 8, 2008) Like we didn't see THAT coming . . ....
- My Google Interview Answers(August 5, 2008) Am I hired?...
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- Digging out from SIGGRAPH and L.A.(August 18, 2008) I’m up to my ears in email from last week, but I had a great time down in Los Angeles and at SIGGRAPH:
I’ll try to write up a little bit about the trip, but for now I’m gearing up f...
- What to do in Los Angeles?(August 8, 2008) I’m going to be down in Los Angeles for the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference next week, but I hope to have a little sightseeing free time. What would you recommend seeing or doing in Los An...
- A Quick Tutorial on JavaScript Bookmarklets(August 4, 2008) Bookmarklets are very handy pieces of JavaScript code that you can bookmark. In HTML, if you want a link to open in a new window, you’d write it like this:
<a href=”http://www.mattcutt...
- Ben Gomes on Google’s user interface(August 1, 2008) This summer several people in Google’s quality group have pulled back the curtain on how people think about search quality at Google. We’ve had Udi Manber give an overview of search qualit...
- My schedule for late 2008(July 28, 2008) Every few months I like to give people an update on where I expect to be over the next few months. I apologize in advance if I have to decline other speaking invitations, but I’m genuinely tryin...
- Twitter/Summize search flaky?(July 27, 2008) I’ve started to post more on my twitter account recently. Less than two weeks ago, Twitter bought Summize. Good for them; I like both companies. But http://search.twitter.com/search?q=wordpress+...
- Best WordPress Plugin for Related Posts?(July 26, 2008) On my “Matt Cutts” twitter account a few days ago I asked other folks which WordPress “Related Posts” plug-in they would recommend. It seems like “Related Posts” e...
- I love my pedometer(July 24, 2008) I’ve written about my Omron pedometer once before, but I wanted to mention it again because I like it so much. Recent research suggests that using a pedometer can lead to more walking and better...
- New Toolbar PageRanks coming(July 24, 2008) Hey folks, I wanted to let you know that new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next few days. I’m expecting that also in the next few days that we’ll be expiring some ...
- Get your search fix with two videos(July 23, 2008) I was going to wait until part 2 was posted, but I’ll point people to part 1 now. The video from the SMX Advanced keynote is now live, so you can watch the first 25 minutes of questions and answ...
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- New Guide Release: The Professional's Guide to Advanced Search Operators(August 20, 2008) Posted by rebeccaLadies and gentlemen, another guide has seen the light of day! Hooray! Our newest debut is The Professional's Guide to Advanced Search Operators. Available in web and document format,...
- Google Refuses to Penalize Me for Keyword Stuffing(August 20, 2008) Posted by Darren SlattenWhat's up, YOUmoz! Ok, enough small talk. I'll get right to the point.
I have a 2-page website that I created for the sole purpose of having something to link to from my SEOmo...
- Examining The Internet's Top Blogs: What We Can Learn From Their Success(August 19, 2008) Posted by Danny DoverEvery day a fiercely competitive battle takes place online over capturing the attention of millions of readers. As a result the blogosphere constantly changes shape and different ...
- Sigh... More Ignorance About SEO(August 18, 2008) Posted by randfishAs I said, blogging is light this week, but I couldn't help but notice this thread at Metafilter. How can we fight against such entrenched misinformation and stereotypes?
SEO peop...
- Trademark SEO Update: Jason Gambert Loses Two Motions and Must Ask Permission Before Filing Any More Motions(August 18, 2008) Posted by Sarah Bird, EsquireMay It Please the Mozzers,
I have an update on the Jason Gambert Saga. For those of you wanting a refresher, please see my first post on the internet marketer trying to...
- The Top 10 Reasons Blogging Will Be Light on SEOmoz for the Next Week(August 17, 2008) Posted by randfishNo intro, just right to the content:
#10 - Jane's been on vacation for two weeks and we've gotten a bit behind with Q+A.
#9 - It's the two slowest weeks of the working year (apart ...
- Question for the Moz Community - SEOmoz's Twitter Account(August 15, 2008) Posted by Danny DoverDisclaimer: This post doesn’t include any information about SEO. If you are looking for SEO related content, please read the normal search related posts on this blog.
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- Whiteboard Friday - How the Link Graph Works(August 15, 2008) Posted by great scott!This week Rand gets a bit technical with a whirlwind walkthrough of how the search engine link graph works. Fully-qualified domains, pay-level domains, internal juice, exte...
- Roundup Thursday for the Week of 8/10/08(August 15, 2008) Posted by rebeccaStories, news, and other notable items from the past week:
Three star links:
Soxialize came out with Tweet Pro, a service that allows you to quickly and easily find Twitt...
Obtained from source. Keep up on search engines and search marketing through original views and thoughts from Search Engine Land columnists.
- What If It Isn't Linkworthy?(August 20, 2008)
Some client scenarios can be uncomfortable. Among them is when the client has worked especially hard to create a content area that they feel is linkworthy, and thus should attract links, but yo...
- Search Illustrated: People Streams(August 19, 2008)
A common misperception about search marketing is that it consists only of on-page optimization. In reality, SEM touches countless online channels with the ultimate goal of bringing targeted traffi...
- Optimizing Google OneBox and Yahoo! Shortcut Local Listings(August 18, 2008)
If you have a site you want to optimize for local searches, you generally want the site to appear in the web search local listing (Google Onebox or Yahoo! shortcut). Creating a page for your loca...
- Search In Pictures: Ask Rafting, Yahoo's DJ, & Jerry Yang Looking Pretty(August 15, 2008)
In this week's Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toy...
- Human Hardware: Searching With The Basal Ganglia(August 15, 2008)
In the last column, we explored how navigation can become a habit. Ann Graybiel’s work shows how regular paths become etched in our basal ganglia, limiting the need for conscious interaction. When...
- 6 Common Website Mistakes That Are Costing You Money(August 14, 2008)
As I'm reviewing company websites to prepare for our August SEO Training Class, I'm struck by how often I see the same website mistakes.
Since we've been offering the SEO classes over the past 7...
- Bidding On Competitors’ Branded Terms: Moral Dilemma Or Business Decision?(August 13, 2008) Admit it. You know you’ve thought about it. Yet you hesitate. Chances are, you’re probably conflicted, wondering if it’s morally right, or if you really want to “go there” – even if it is...
- Link Development Realities Versus What We Tell Our Clients(August 12, 2008)
This week I'm seeking some feedback for a future column with a working title of
"Link Development Realities Versus What We Tell Our Clients"
The idea for this column came from a client confe...
- Really Boring Products That Rocked In Social Media(August 12, 2008)
One of the most frequently asked questions we get while speaking on social media marketing at conferences is “How can something boring be successful in social media?"
Well, there is really ...
- Can Newspapers Be Saved?(August 11, 2008) Have you noticed the number of layoffs being announced by newspapers of late? When the New York Times announced in February 2008 that they were cutting 100 positions from their newsroom, it was a sad...
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- Black Hat / White Hat: Playing Dirty with SEO(August 20, 2008) Black Hat/White Hat: Playing Dirty with SEO Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2008 Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:15p - 5:30p Speakers: Jill Whalen, HighRankings.com Bruce Clay, BruceClay.com Dave Naylo...
- Facebook, Feeds and Micro-Blogging(August 20, 2008) From Facebook to MySpace, Twitter to FeedBurner, social software and feeds are reshaping the world we live in and streamlining our online experience. Networking sites like Facebook and social messagin...
- Maximizing SEO Returns with User Generated Content(August 20, 2008) When your catalog has 200 million products, grows at $3M per week, and contains content created by users, how do you optimize it? · Capture the long tail by balancing a user-contributed folksonomy wi...
- Advanced Paid Search Techniques(August 20, 2008) How can you best tap into long tail terms? Are there targeting techniques you're overlooking? This session examines these and other techniques to help you get more out of paid search. Moderator: Richa...
- Social Media Analysis and Tracking(August 20, 2008) Moderator: Marshall Sponder, Senior Web Analyst, Monster.com Use comscore Conversational media category - dont forget that the numbers are panel based Let google do it for us - Trends down to the site...
- Keywords & Content: Search Marketing Foundations(August 20, 2008) How many keywords do you need in your paid search account? What keywords are your customers searching for? How do customers find products after they reach your site? How to target the right terms in y...
- Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues(August 20, 2008) More and more site owners are concerned that they might get penalized accidentally or overtly because of duplicate content. If you run mirror sites, will search engines ban you? If you have listings t...
- Link Building Basics(August 20, 2008) Discover how search engines rely on link analysis as an important component for rank web pages. Learn also how to increase traffic to your site by building quality links in an appropriate manner. Mode...
- Searcher Behavior Research Update(August 20, 2008) Searcher Behavior Research Update How do searchers interact with search engines? New research is constantly coming out revealing how searchers act. This session explores the latest studies and finding...
- Daily Search Forum Recap: August 20, 2008(August 20, 2008) Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
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- Search Engine Friendly Flash(July 1, 2008) With the recent new releases by Google and Yahoo concerning advances in crawling flash, we are very pleased to share this timely and very informative article by V7N SEO Blog guest author
S. Emerson of...
- Industry Specific Buzzwords(June 23, 2008) Take a long hard look at your site. How often do you use words that only someone very familiar with your industry would understand? If your readers cannot easily understand what you are saying, they w...
- Does Google PageRank Matter?(May 11, 2008) I find it difficult to understand how topics involving the importance of Google PageRank continue to be an ongoing debate in forums. Interestingly enough, often those people claiming that PR has nothi...
- 10 Ways to Prevent Increasing Links(May 2, 2008) Don’t bother adding comments to popular blogs. It’s a waste of your time. You are about as likely to write anything interesting enough to drive a reader to your website as I am likely to s...
- On the Importance of Communication(February 24, 2008) For the most part, I’m not inclined to explain myself. If I do something, I know why I did it and if others can’t understand, or if they misunderstand me, I tend to think of that as their ...
- Stepping Away(February 17, 2008) For active members of the V7N Forums, the announcement that I’ve stepped away from V7N’s daily operations is not new news. For several months now I’ve been less and less active.
Ada...
- Tips on Advertising(December 24, 2007) I’m no expert on advertising. I do tend to be greedier than many advertisers, though, and my approach to advertising has served me well. So think of it as a guerrilla marketer’s guide to a...
- What Determines Link Juice(December 10, 2007) Whatever determines link juice, it sure as hell ain’t PageRank.
This comes as no new news to most SEO’s, but the myth of PageRank being the dominant factor in link juice is still quite po...
- Blog Action Day: Environment(October 15, 2007) Christ almighty. Bloggers saving the world - whatever next?
Carbon offsets? Ridiculous. Won’t solve a thing. Why? Here’s why.
The natural environment is indeed precious. Who could possibly...
- SEO and Web Hosting(October 1, 2007) A month or so ago HostGator bought some banner advertising on the v7n forums. Not for HostGator.com, but for their SEO hosting division, aptly named SEOHosting.com.
A few people have asked, what does...
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- SES San Jose 2008 - See ya at Night!(August 15, 2008) Sunday morning I’m heading out to San Jose for the Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference with 7 other ninjas.
I’ve actually got a pretty busy week…
Monday night there’s th...
- (Non-SEO) Exploring Rocks and Streams and Life.(August 13, 2008) OK readers….I’m going to warn you…it’s another one of those "after 1am…I’m still at the office" posts ….
A Space of my Own - Written May 28, 1988 -...
- (QualityGal) That page fails at meeting user intent. No, really.(August 12, 2008) * Jim’s note: Feel free to Sphinn this.
Tough love. It’s something I’m going to have to start getting used to as the office consultant on user intent.
It’s hard to tell someone...
- (QualityGal) Your mom doesn’t know SEO.(August 6, 2008) Part of my job, as I understand it, is helping to keep Jim honest. Not to imply that he would ever be intentionally dishonest – nor would most respectable SEO professionals – but I think ...
- How should Search Engines treat Paid Links?(July 30, 2008) Eric Enge did an excellent interview with Priyank Garge, the director of product management for Yahoo Search Technology (YST).
The interview was almost exlcusively centered around to topic of "li...
- I Feel Lucky and have big Dreams, and we’re up to 40 now.(July 29, 2008) Ok, I’m at the office after midnight again, but I’m taking a break and posting a nostalgic "I’m feeling lucky rant" - hope ya enjoy my happy rant. …
At times like these...
- What if a Human Reviewer Looked at your Backlinks?(July 29, 2008) So last night I gave my "Quiz" asking you to find the "unnatural" link.
I’ll admit it….those pages don’t link to any of our clients, nor to any sites we own It wa...
- Jim’s “Where’s the Unnatural Links?” Quiz.(July 28, 2008) Jim’s Quiz
Some of these pages might link to some sites we work with.
Can you spot any links that don’t look natural?
http://www.gg.caltech.edu/~monty/monty.shtml
http://www.dougbedell.com...
- QualityGal’s First Conference Call(July 28, 2008) I feel all "grown up" now. Jim had me called into the conference room to consult on a conference call with a client. Oh sure, there were five other people already in there, but none of them ...
- If I’d been at BlogHer, it wouldn’t have been to hear Graywolf speak(July 22, 2008) No offense at all to Graywolf, who believes it was sexist of BlogHer not to have male speakers at its 2008 conference, but I wouldn’t have gone there to hear him speak. If I’d gone at all...
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- Creation and Ranking of Annotation Suggestions for Images and Other Media(August 18, 2008) The ability to annotate pictures, songs, video, and web pages is growing as site owners attempt to find new ways to build communities and attract visitors to their sites.
Enabling people to add the...
- Google Translate and User Feedback(August 16, 2008) One of the challenges that a search engine like Google faces is that in order for it to be useful globally, it needs to provide search for an audience that speaks many different languages.
It’s ...
- How a Search Engine Might Handle Singular and Plural Queries(August 12, 2008) When you’re searching for something on the Web, does it matter whether you use the singular or plural version of a word in your search?
For example, let’s say that you are looking for a ...
- Google Stopwords Patent(August 5, 2008) When someone searches at one of the major search engines, they often type in keyword phrases, composed as if they were written for human readers. Those phrases may contain words or phrases that show ...
- The Entropy of Search Logs and Personalization with Backoff(August 4, 2008) Does it matter that Google knows about a trillion Web Addresses?
Is it important that new search engine Cuil has 120 Billion pages indexed, according to them, “three times more than any other ...
- How Using Categories for Queries Can Help Searchers, Writers, and Search Engines(August 1, 2008) You search for “Foo Fighters,” and the search engine takes your query and starts searching its databases to identify results. It might look through a video database, to see if there are a...
- Pro Bono Opportunities for Non Profit Web Site Marketing and Development(July 29, 2008) There are many web sites for nonprofit organization online that could use a little direction, a little help from people in the web design and internet marketing communities.
I came across a site thi...
- Yahoo Robots Combat Spam and Phishing(July 27, 2008) How much of a responsibility do search engines have to police the internet, and protect their users from email and instant message and web spam, phishing fraud, and misuse of chat rooms? How can sear...
Obtained from source. Intrapromote Looks Under the Hood of Search Engine Optimization
- Twitter and the "Black Box" of Reputation Management(August 18, 2008) Why do companies frequently use social media to apologize for more traditional forms of customer service that garner complaints, instead of propagating these rapid-response techniques across their tra...
- The Difference Between Crawling and Indexing(August 8, 2008) Crawling and indexing are different processes but related. Here is a brief description of each along with a look at some related timelines....
- What We're Reading: Summer 2008(July 29, 2008) What the Intrapromote staff are reading this Summer....
- Google's New Cache Look(July 25, 2008) I may be late in seeing this, but I recently noticed Google is sporting a new Cache file look for sites. The new cache files for sites look like this:......
- Google Adwords Certification Exam - More Than Just A User Manual(July 24, 2008) Last week a colleague and I took our re-certification exams for Google Adwords and we had an 'interesting' experience. Over the last two years there have been countless improvements and additions to ...
- Reputation Management Tool: Omgili(July 18, 2008) Another cool tool Omgili to aid reputation management specialists in finding a plethora of sites that are potentially influencing their clients brands online. I took the site for a test drive today an...
- Track Corporate Blog Activities Online(July 14, 2008) There are a variety of paid tools available to marketers regarding what bloggers are saying about their clients. For people who are looking for a free alternative to seeing what's being said about the...
- Google Adwords Automatic Matching - BETA(July 9, 2008) Recently Google Adwords released automatic matching beta. This is a very brave approach to take with advertisers considering Google automatically opts your account into the program. Account holders wi...
- Google Maps Abroad(July 2, 2008) The inclusion of Google Maps in natural search engine results is nothing new for queries such as Ohio, Indiana, United States, etc. but I just noticed something new today. Google is now showing maps o...
- Micro-blogging Submission Tool: Brabblr.com(July 1, 2008) Trying to keep up with friends across the myriad of micro-blogging communities can be quite difficult if you have many profiles created in this space. Rather than trying to go to each one on a daily b...