Entries Tagged as 'SEO'

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Directory Marketing Reborn Ebook Second Release Out!

I am happy to announce that the updated version of my Directory Marketing ebook is out! It now contains close to 5,000 directories in the bonus list, with a few hundred new ones added and all the pageranks updated. Based on the customer feedback we have received, I have also added a special worksheet to [...]

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Directory Marketing Reborn Ebook Update Soon Out

It’s been one month since the release of my Directory Marketing Reborn ebook. It’s been a great success, with over 4,000 visits from almost 100 countries and 600 cities. Over 200 copies sold in the very first month and a number of plausible reviews from the industry authorities. Out of all these copies sold, we’ve [...]

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Directory Marketing Reborn Ebook Launch

A while ago I did a post on different link building strategies and mentioned which ones of them do not work any longer or with a traditional approach. People have been asking me which methods do work – but that’s not such an easy question to asnwer as there are too many variables one [...]

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Anatomy of a Site Ban

Since one of the services I specialize in is investigating site bans, I often get approached by site owners who think their sites have been banned. However, it is not always true and very often, site owners take a penalty for a ban.
Of course, to a site owner, both are equally bad: the site stops [...]

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Ask Adds Canonical Meta Tag Support

Ask.com has announced this week that they are going to support the new canonical URL meta tag.  Thus, Ask has become the fourth search engine that intends to support this new meta tag, after similar announcements earlier this month from Google, Yahoo and MSN/Live.
However, even though each search engine gives detailed explanations as to their [...]

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 [...]