Many people new to blogging wonder just what the benefits are and how this helps SEO. I’m going to give you my short list of benefits. Fresh content – the search engines like fresh content. Why? Because fresh content is a signal that you actively maintain your website, you try to engage visitors and basically...Read More
Ask.com has decided to roll out RhymeRank saying this new technology will help out rappers and poets and lead Ask into head-to-head competition with the major search engines. According to Ask, “Aspiring rappers and poets are a huge, untapped market,” said lead engineer Keith Hogan. “Someone will win a Grammy one day using this product....Read More
On the lighter side of things, Search Engine Journal is holding a t-shirt competition with many humorous entries. So far, many of the t-shirt ideas revolve around Google and PageRank as can be expected, but some wander off into other areas as well. You can also check out my entries, number 56 on the list....Read More
In order to be a part of the Chinese search market, Google will need to censor certain results from the eyes of the searchers. This is according to Google co-founder, Sergey Brin. At the World Economic Forum in DAVOS, Switzerland, Brin said that Google has had a change of heart and will now censor some...Read More
Well, I don’t usually report on this sort of thing, but there has just been announced a new SEO contest in the works similar to the “nigritude ultramarine” contest a few years back. The new keyword phrase will be announced on January 15, 2005 at noon, PST. This new SEO contest targets Google and the...Read More
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah and a most Merry Kwanza! I hope it has been a good year for everyone from an SEO and Internet marketing perspective. My wishes are that for 2006 we all find the prosperity we are all looking for online and continue to build upon what we’ve learned in 2005....Read More
There is a debate raging right now about whether or not publishers should or should not have sponsored links on their websites. Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo gives sponsored links the thumbs up and Matt Cutts of Google gives them the thumbs down. Many publishers feel that they have the right to monetize their own websites...Read More
Most people who have businesses on the Internet know about Google and Yahoo / Overture PPC programs. These are considered first tier advertising programs for those who need to receive targeted traffic to their website. Google and Yahoo / Overture also have publisher programs so that web publishers can place ads on their websites and...Read More
First there was PageRank, then TrustRank and now there is Spam Mass. Because today’s algorithms rely more upon off-page factors such as back linking, spammers have taken advantage of this by putting up tens, hundreds and even thousands of spam site all aimed at delivering links back to a host site, improving its PageRank and...Read More
With the latest Google and Yahoo updates I’ve heard many people say they think reciprocal linking is dead and it’s a waste of time to trade links now. I’ve even heard that it may be unsafe to trade links. I think differently. Reciprocal linking may now have been devalued somewhat but that does not mean...Read More
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