Maybe this is the reason General Motors went “mental” and pulled its Facebook ad budget.
Tag: seo
Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz Challenges the Web to Take Down His Site | Site Reference – Internet Marketing Articles
According to Google’s original guidelines, it said…
“Can competitors harm ranking? There’s nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. If you’re concerned about another site linking to yours, we suggest contacting the webmaster of the site in question. Google aggregates and organizes information published on the web; we don’t control the content of these pages.”
In November, Google changed its tune a little bit…
“Can competitors harm ranking? There’s ALMOST nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. If you’re concerned about another site linking to yours, we suggest contacting the webmaster of the site in question. Google aggregates and organizes information published on the web; we don’t control the content of these pages.”
Did anyone catch the slight difference in this new entry? You don’t have to be a professional writer to see this one.
Then, on March 14th…
“Google works hard to prevent other webmasters from being able to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. If you’re concerned about another site linking to yours, we suggest contacting the webmaster of the site in question. Google aggregates and organizes information published on the web; we don’t control the content of these pages.”
Brains And Bots Deep Inside Yahoo’s CORE Grab A Billion Clicks | Fast Company
The company started work on a powerful personalization algorithm four years ago. Now it’s paying dividends. The system generates 45,000 totally unique versions of the Today module every five minutes. (All five screenshots in this post were taken within minutes of each other, using different Yahoo accounts.)
Internet Marketing: How-to | thinkingserious.com
Our friend Elmer Thomas of Thinking Serious has come up with one of the most exhaustive lists for anyone thinking about internet marketing that I’ve seen. It’s some nice work and you will benefit from reading it.
The 30 Free SEO Tools You Must Know | SEOptimise.com
If you’re struggling to understand how to optimize your website, this article discusses some cool tools (or to use the author’s phrase, ‘tools that don’t suck’) for improving your hits and click through.
Tip of the hat to Elmer Thomas for this great reference.
Hidden gay slur, search terms, get campaign site blacklisted | Ars Technica
If you haven’t heard of the term ‘keyword spam’ this is a good example of it. Some web site developers that promote making your site more visible to internet search engines like Google and Yahoo use variants of the technique described in this article.
Through the Looking Glass…Killer SEO Tools
Through the Looking Glass…Killer SEO Tools
DISCLAIMER: As far as the internet goes, I am a hack. I know very little about what most of the stuff I’m going to share with you.
On the other hand, I think the information provided by these tools does provide insight into how your website is ranked and what you can do about it. At the very least, it provides enough understanding about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) that you will have a better shot at knowing what your web consultant is saying.
The sites below provide tools for understanding how your keywords are working, the density of them, how the web crawlers find and rate your content. For example: Content is king, so much so that if you pack your content with keywords you may find your site sliding down the rankings. The search engines are looking for a balance of 3 to 7% of the text being keywords. Anything past that is considered keyword spamming. I didn’t even know there was such a thing.
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