Entries Tagged as 'SEO'

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

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Press Releases Go Social

Well, people were waiting for it, Steve Rubel was writing about it, now we got it. PR Web has officially announced the new trackback functionality for the press releases published on its site. We’ve yet to see all the good points and weaknesses of this new technology, but it is certainly an innovation worth mentioning [...]

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

The Power of Linkbait

Well, it all started with USA Today publishing an article on SEO which was so poorly written that it didn’t stand any criticism – and of course people in the SEO community picked on it and posted about it and certainly linked to it – Aaron Wall posted about it on Threadwatch, Lee Odden posted [...]

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Social Bookmarking and Tagging for SEO

Social bookmarking and tagging come to play an increasingly large part in today’s Internet. It is not only an online community thing any more as it concerns a much larger audience than any particular community alone. To understand why, let’s look closer at the concepts involved:

Social Bookmarking Services – online services that let you save [...]

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Matt Cutts on SEO Rockstars

As I type this the show on webmasterradio.fm is running – the topics discussed ranging from sandbox and 301 to subdomains, Bloglines and Viagra. The chatroom Webmasterradio is packed!

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

Writing for SEO: Where to Get Ideas

Recently, I did a class for a group of copywriters on how to find ideas for site content, press releases and other SEO-related types of writing. As I thought this might be interesting for the rest of SEO community I am posting here my keynotes for the class, slightly edited and expanded.
Whatever it is you [...]

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Sitewide Links Issue

After the last Google algo update, sitewide links are not treated the same any more and it’s no secret to anybody who hasn’t been living under a rock for the last few months. Infact, I have heard people referring to what happened as “sitewide links penalty” – even some well respected and known SEOs with [...]

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Investigating Site Bans

So you’ve bought a new domain and built a new shiny site on it but no matter what you do you can’t get it indexed by Google? Congratulations, most likely your domain has been banned due to something the previous owner did with it! And before you read any further, let me tell you that [...]

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Yahoo and Nofollow Links

Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal posted yesterday about Yahoo indexing and displaying nofollow links – an issue that was widely noticed due to the V7ndotcom elursrebmem SEO contest. Well, this doesn’t come as big news to me as black hat SEOs have noticed this peculiarity of Yahoo a while ago and those smarter ones [...]

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Starting a Public SEO Consulting Services Site

I have decided to start a public site offering my SEO services. I still have to build the site itself but this will be the blog that I will use for this site where I will post my different thoughts and observations about SEO and SEO consulting.
If you are interested in getting my help concerning [...]