Entries Tagged as 'SEO'

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Keyword Research for Different Purposes

Recently, I got asked:
What was the best article about keyword research you’ve read in your life?
Guess what my reply was? I said there was no such thing as best article about keyword research. Here’s why.
Keyword research can be done for all kinds of different purposes. Keyword research for PPC is not the same as […]

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

What Is the Value of MySpace?

Recently I have read StuntDubl’s post about MySpace SEO (highly recommended, he provides a good sum up on all pros and cons there). Seems like this topic doesn’t fade away like some expected but only gets people more interested in it. Even those who at first grumbled about MySpace’s ugly design and screwed up usability […]

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Site Rankings: Progress Report

Like I posted before, as of May 17, 2006 this site is unbanned by Google. I see the picture changing in the SERPs consequently: if before my other blog used to rank #1 for my own name (ok not that big a term to rank for but still) now this one is #1 and the […]

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

This Site Is Unbanned!

I am happy to announce the end of my little experiment on getting a site unbanned without usign the reinclusion request in Google. As you might remember, at the time I got this domain it’s been banned by Google. It took me exactly 4 months to get it unbanned. I am not going to list […]

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

How Good Is Your Landing Page?

Seth Godin posted a very comprehensive explanation of landing pages today. Accomplishing what Seth talks about is pretty straightforward for static sites that rely on Google Adwords for traffic/customers. in this case, everything is more or less predictable and controllable. It is even more or less easy for sites getting traffi from both search and […]

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Is There Such Thing As Sandbox?

The discussion about the sandbox is one of those SEO “theological” discussions that have been going one for a long time without an answer that everybody would agree upon, along the lines of “do outgoing links bleed PR” or “is Google evil“.
The opinions range from treating the sandbox as a thing to blame for all […]

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

Weekend Lite: Where Will All the SEOs Go Next?

SEOs are exploring new opportunities and conquer new spaces on the web - but it appears that they’re not the first ones to see the opportunity in many of those places.
Here are a few examples where we made to recently:
- Google Base - but porn marketers got there before SEOs
- MySpace (also here) - but […]

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Site Evaluation - Part 2: Link Evaluation

As we have seen in the first part of our series, not all links are created equal because of the quality of sites they sit on. Now, let’s look closer at the links themselves to discover other things that make them differ in quality.
(When looking at links, we need to look at the source code […]

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Site Evaluation - Part 1: a Checklist

When running a link building campaign, you want to make sure the sites you get the links from (be it through directory submission, or link exchange, or buying links, or even links obtained through linkbait / viral marketing efforts) are good quality sites. Links evaluation will be covered in part 2 of this mini-series, now […]

Monday, March 27th, 2006

What Is Google Base Good For?

Graywolf has posted about creating his entry in Google Base to experiment with it and see what it does for him. I thought I’d do the same. IrishWonder
What I’m interested in is:
1. How soon this will get indexed
2. How soon it’ll get picked as a backlink to this site.
3. How much traffic it can drive