Google is getting smarter, along with all the other search engines. Think Skynet from the Terminator movies. Well, not really, Google really hasn’t mastered the whole human genocide thing yet, but Google and other search engines have begun to understand the whole link-exchange phenomenon that so many sites have been preaching. Link building still works for high-traffic sites, but simple link exchanging really doesn’t do that much to help anymore. However, what has been noticed is that if …
SEO News Roundup for September 3, 2010
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Our Greatest Hits For August 2010
SEOboy’s most visited and, hopefully, most helpful posts from August 2010. Check out these posts and catch up on things you might have missed!
3 Easy Online Reputation Management 101 For Newbies (Why Am I So Nice?)
Every once in awhile something happens in a work week so jaw-dropping, so utterly unbelievable that it puts the rest of your week into perspective and makes you feel better about your own skill sets.
Take for example the exchange I had with a potential online advertiser my employer is considering using. And “yup,” if one of the middle-management guys over there wasn’t a buddy of mine, I probably would have been evil about it.
Me: Hey, is this link important?
(15 …
Local Search: The Landing Phone Call
If you think for a moment that SEO stops at the click, I’m sorry to say that you are still in the thick of the battle. How many times have you landed on a page after clicking a top result and found yourself stuck on the homepage wondering what to do next? On Page Optimization can help a ton, but what if you are in a hurry? You don’t want to submit a web form, you need to …
SEO News Roundup for August 27, 2010
There happens to be a little confusion in regards to NoIndex. One of the major questions concerns whether or not NoIndexing one page will negatively affect the rest of the pages. The answer is not black and white—NoIndex will definitely take the page you specify off of the search index, and it may also take the pages that NoIndexed page links to. Also, a gray area appears in regard to the rest of your pages that aren’t necessarily linked …
Keyword Dilution – the Guiding Light in Website Architecture
I absolutely love going down to Blog Indiana every year. Not only do I get to talk shop with industry peers who’ve become friends, but there’s always one conversation I have that completely changes the way I think about content and keyword strategies.
This year’s conversation occurred Saturday afternoon in the lobby at IUPUI after the event was over. Just me, Douglas Karr, and Chad …
Any Excuse To Do Competitive Research
We all understand that SEO isn’t performed in a vacuum. In addition to the on-site optimizations you must continue refining and expanding throughout the life of a website, there are external linking opportunities, linkbait campaigns, social media integration, and all of the other relationship-building activities that help your site gain respect and popularity. You have to interact with other people and understand what they need from you in order to …
SEO News Roundup for August 20, 2010
Frank Reed at Marketing Pilgrim highlighted a recent study on Social Media. To summarize the study, keeping up with the fast pace of Social Media is difficult. Frank’s blog talks about why it is so difficult, how he finds it hard to believe when people say it’s not a challenge, and where to find the information we need to keep up with Social Media and it’s steep growth curve.
Your page content is without a doubt the most important aspect …
Meet My Old Friend, Bounce Rate
In an SEO agency, one of the most difficult challenges is relaying SEO actions and improvements back to client contacts and their teams. Whether it is a lack of SEO understanding or just the overwhelming excitement over the possibility of an increase in search conversions, clients inevitably (and quite understandably) want to see SEO results immediately. However, the SEO process is a long distance run when compared to its short distance PPC companion.












