Buying Links is Shallow, Short-Term Thinking. Buying Blogs? Now that’s a Strategy.
Buying Links is Shallow, Short-Term Thinking. Buying Blogs? Now that’s a Strategy.
Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by admin in SEOmoz
I’ve been running an experiment with some dark-hatted links for several months, consistently hoping Google will catch them and remove their value. So far… Nothing. Well, except top 3 rankings for all the anchor text pointed at those pages. Google’s webspam team has all the incentive, brainpower and money in the world, yet their bets seem [...]
Weekly Webinar Roundup 2/22/2012
Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Journal
Many of the webinars this week offer basic techniques for the web programs or services the company provides. Raven Tools and SEOMoz both give in-depth webinars concerning their programs. For the hour it takes to watch, is well worth the time to try and figure the program out for yourself. Enjoy and learn something new [...]
Geek Chic: Augmented Reality Google Glasses To Go On Sale This Year
Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Land
The mystery of Google’s stealth consumer product has apparently been conclusively solved. The NY Times is confirming earlier reports that Google is going to release “heads up display glasses” by the end of the year. The glasses — or literal Google Goggles in this case — will utilize a range of Google technologies and databases [...]
SES London 2012 – Day 1 Coverage #SESLondon
Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Watch
An amazing keynote by Avinash Kaushik kicked off SES London 2012 today, and what followed was a day filled with tips on landing page optimization, PPC, link building, and more. Here’s a roundup of today’s live blogging and coverage of SES London 2012. SES London Keynote – Avinash Kaushik – #seslondon – State of Search [...]
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 21, 2012
Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by admin in SE Round Table
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. Search Engine Roundtable Stories: Google AdSense Earning Predictions Based On Simulated Experiments A senior member at WebmasterWorld forums says that he received a message from Google within the [...]
How Well Does Your Website Work for You?
Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by admin in SEOchat
Is your website doing its job? Before you can answer that question, you need to know the answer to a different one: what, exactly, IS its job? Once you know what it’s supposed to do, you can consider the issue of how it does it. The answer to these questions might be less obvious than [...]
Matt Cutts Videos Organized by SEO Genre
Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by admin in SEMPO
To our clients, friends, and followers in the industry… we love you! As an expression of our love, we want to share our library of Matt Cutts videos, organized by SEO genre so it is super easy to find exactly what you need. For years, Matt Cutts has been providing webmasters with answers to their [...]
The New SEO Process (Quit Being Kanye)
Posted on 21. Feb, 2012 by admin in SEOmoz
The responsibilities of SEO practitioners have changed to include far more of the digital ecosystem, yet for so many, much of the SEO process remains the same. Currently there are several segments of SEO strategy seen as optional that are actually absolutely imperative to the success of an SEO campaign, as well as to the [...]
Google Purchases Patents From Former Competitor
Posted on 21. Feb, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Journal
When Cuil launched in July of 2008, they claimed to be the world’s largest search engine and to have figured out a more advanced method of generating web results than Google’s PageRank. The search startup, which was founded by industry veterans from Google and IBM, claimed that they could crawl the web at 10% of [...]
Yandex Starts To Drink From The Twitter “Firehose”
Posted on 21. Feb, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Land
Yandex is the next in line to gain access to the Twitter “firehose.” This morning the Russian search engine is announcing that it will begin integrating the Twitter feed into its search results. Twitter reported the deal to us late last week but declined to disclose its terms. As part of their agreement Yandex will [...]
