Search Engine Marketing Tips, Tricks and Tutoring
Excerpt from Leslie Rohde . com: In the StomperNet forums today I responded to a member who noticed a Google post here. Reproduced here is my acidic response. That was the most useless, vague, non-actionable and *irresponsible* post I have EVER seen from Google. It looks like something from webmasterworld or the warrior’s forum. The [...]
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Excerpt from Leslie Rohde . com: UPDATE: So I’m a bit out of touch on this one, but McAfee actually backed away from what they were doing, in no small measure it seems from the stink she rasied. Read the full story at Cresta’s blog. Oh, and I’ve restored the image to commerce websites. I [...]
Excerpt from Leslie Rohde . com: Two SEO questions I get asked a lot: How important is the URL to ranking and Which is better, sub-domains or directories In general, both have only minor impact on ranking (I think they are important to click-through) but I just saw an example of the latter that is [...]
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Excerpt from Leslie Rohde . com: McAfee has done something with the HackerSafe logo that I think totally crosses the line. Thanks to Cresta’s Blog post and subsequent Tweet for pointing this out to me. Today, I am pulling the seal off of my sites; disabling all the domains in the ScanAlert control panel; and [...]
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Excerpt from SEO Revolution Blog: Yahoo! announced today that they have an update rolling out. According to the posting, they will be making changes to “crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days and expect the update will be completed soon.” Yahoo! has a history of completing the updates BEFORE they announce them, [...]
Excerpt from SEO Revolution Blog: Earlier this week Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang called it quits. The results? Their stock soared. It is bad enough thinking the company would be better off without you, it is another to have that reality confirmed by Wall Street the next day. Yang’s “downfall” was pinned on his inability to [...]
Excerpt from SEO Revolution Blog: Sometimes when you ask for something and you get it, sometimes you regret asking so hard. And right now, many SEOs are doing just that with Google’s release of their Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. The guide is 22 pages and here is my take on the guide: Notable Quotes: [...]
Excerpt from SEO Revolution Blog: If you haven’t seen it yet, check out this service from Google which allows you to have both video and voice chat through Gmail.
Excerpt from SEO Book.com -: eBay has recently seen a sharp drop in traffic as they cut their affiliate stream and Google ad spend. When you are a default category leader you no longer compete against others in your category. You compete against other categories. Google and Amazon.com understand that. Microsoft maybe. eBay no. eBay [...]
Excerpt from SEO Book.com -: “All Truth passes through Three Stages: First, it is Ridiculed… Second, it is Violently Opposed… Third, it is Accepted as being Self-Evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer (1778-1860) A business model that contains subtle white lies that are familiar and easy to like is often far more profitable than a business model [...]
