Danny Sullivan posted an interview of Jimmy Wales, in which they discuss Wikia's plan to launch a new search engine. Danny asks a lot of great questions, and provides some good analysis. Danny points out in detail how hard it will be for them to succeed in holding off spammers if ... Read More >
Archives for 2006
7 tips on writing good content for the Search Engines
Brian Clark at Copyblogger recently put up a post about how to write for Google. In his post, Brian quotes the Google guidelines, including the well known: "Always focus on the users and not on search engines when developing your optimization strategy". Brian also promises to offer ... Read More >
Blogs that I read
I have now seen numerous people put out there their list of blogs that they read. I saw one excellent list from Brian Clark at Copyblogger, a blog that is on my list below. Here is my list: Bruce Clay (Lisa Barone) Cartoon Barry CopyBlogger Cre8pc David Naylor Eric Ward - Link ... Read More >
Stats About Blogs and Link Development
Blogs make for a great promotional tool. You have probably heard it many times. But does it really work? I think we can answer that question with a resounding yes! This post will provide you with some basic stats, showing the results achieved by SEOmoz in the last year, and our very ... Read More >
Backing up your Blog
It was a very scary moment. I was looking at the home page of my blog, and there was nothing but a Wordpress database error of some sort. The irony of it was that I had just gone in, for the first time, to try and protect the history of the blog with the first backup I have ever done of ... Read More >
Google Data Updates and Algorithm Updates
Matt Cutts takes a fresh cut at trying to explain Google algorithm updates and data refreshes. In a nutshell: Algorithm updates affect the methodology that Google ranks sites. These are very infrequent. Data refreshes involve changes in the data set which the algorithm processes. One ... Read More >
Wikipedia Launching a New Search Engine – Wikiasari
Quick Pre-Christmas post - Frank Watson at Search Engine Watch reports that Wikipedia and Amazon are teaming up to launch a search engine early next year. The story originally broke in the London Times where Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was quoted as saying "Google is very good at many ... Read More >
Using a Site Map to Increase Traffic
Building a good site map can be challenging (for clarity's sake, I need to point out that we are not talking about the Site Maps protocol here, but an on site, site map). But I find that there is a lot of confusion out there about what makes a good one. People are locked down on the ... Read More >
Weighing in on Link Buying (again!)
The debate continues to rage on about link buying. Rand posted yesterday that he disagrees with Danny and Google, and Jim Boykin adds his comments early this morning. Clearly there is a lot of confusion over this. So here we go again ... in this post, I will try to put forth what I ... Read More >
Adam Lasnik Clarifies Google Stance on Duplicate Content
Google's Adam Lasnik has offered up a post today on Dealing Deftly with Duplicate Content. In it, he offers up the official Google stance on the issue. In this post, he addresses the following key issues: What is duplicate content? What isn't duplicate content? Why does Google care ... Read More >
Improve your Google web search box in 10 minutes or less
This post will give you an idea of how to use Google Custom Search Engines to improve the web search tool you offer on your site. It's really cool, and it's really simple. Follow the five steps list below, and you will have the same web search you already have on your site, except your ... Read More >
Google’s Stance on Reciprocal Links
Search Engine Watch put up a post about Google saying No to Reciprocal Linking. In this post, Chris Boggs does a good review of the statement by Google in their Webmaster blog, and discusses the nature of the ambiguity in Google's policy, and suggests that Google clarify their stance. My ... Read More >
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