Posted on 29 January 2007
Wikipedia finally wised up to the PR link spamming rings, and has added a no follow tag to all of their outgoing links. The no follow tag was removed back in Nov. 2005 but just recently re-added it to help combat all the spammy links. A quote from the great Matt Cutts:
“I think [...]
Posted on 12 December 2006
Just found a really cool new search engine that lets you visually search for a term: Quintura. The technical term is called “Latent Semantic Indexing”. And there are actually many search engines incorporating this technology into their algorithms. You can navigate through the cloud of related terms and refine it by clicking [...]
Posted on 01 December 2006
Is anyone as sick as I am of receiving reciprocal linking requests in the form of spam emails? I read a fantastic article by Mike Banks Valentine of SearchEngineOptimism.com. Yes the article is a bit controversial, but that’s what makes it a fun read! The title is: “Reciprocal Linking is Dead”
Here are some excerpts that [...]
Posted on 27 November 2006
One of my favorite SEO/Webmaster blogs is SEOMoz.org. The content these guys put out is outstanding.
The founder: Randfish recently posted on the pubcon 2006, and based on some of the things he learned, he made some predictions for the next 6 months. (You’ll even notice a mention of Zillow, which shows me the [...]
Posted on 19 November 2006
Just found a funny but useful robot online. He is an expert on SEO, and claims to have all kinds of industry secrets and gossip. Here is the link
You can refresh the page to get him to speak again. His name is promo and he was created by the gang over at Search Engine Worshops
Here [...]
Posted on 15 November 2006
I found a great site recently… forgive me if you already knew of it’s existence. I was absolutely thrilled when I found it. There are many services out there that can assist you with finding niche keywords. The purpose in finding niche keywords is to weed out the competition from the more [...]
Posted on 05 October 2006
Google has just launched a specialized Blog only search portal. http://blogsearch.google.com From what I can see it looks like a very cool way to search for blog content. So often blog content can get watered down and not rank well in the standard serps. It seems like Google is trying to [...]