Posted December 27th, 2006 by John
I just finished reading theGoogleCache’s response to seo questions by rand fishkin and have to appreciate the time and effort that went towards running the experiments necessary to prove their points, however like most SEO experiments this one is flawed to an extent. First, I’d like to summarize the results as I do believe most [...]
Tags: Google
Posted December 23rd, 2006 by John
Over a month ago, Google announced there would be a change in the algorithm that calculates landing page and site quality score. This change was intended to benefit AdWords users, advertisers, and publishers. However, Google never actually offered insight into what elements comprise a ‘quality’ landing page until now. According to the Google AdWords Blog, [...]
Tags: Google, pay per click, ppc
Posted December 22nd, 2006 by John
Well I previously listed the top Google searches for 2006, so now I will list MSN Live’s top searches of 2006 according to the Live Search Blog: Ronaldinho Shakira Paris Hilton Britney Spears Harry Potter Eminem Pamela Anderson Hilary Duff Rebelde Angelina Jolie And here are the top Yahoo searches of 2006: Britney Spears WWE [...]
Tags: MSN, Yahoo
Posted December 21st, 2006 by John
Duplicate content has plagued webmasters over the recent years because of its adverse effect in Google search rankings. For those of you who have not come across the duplicate content issue, here is a quick definition. Duplicate content refers to large blocks of web content that is exact or extremely similar to each other. This [...]
Tags: Google
Posted December 18th, 2006 by John
Google has recently released the top filtered user search terms of 2006. You may ask why are they filtered, well there is a simple answer to that. Otherwise they would all be sex related search terms! I’m sure everyone at Google gets a good laugh at those ones . Well without further adieu, here are [...]
Tags: Google
Posted December 17th, 2006 by John
It’s about time that Google offers webmasters an accurate snapshot of their websites’ Pagerank. At SES Chicago 2006, Rand Fishkin interviewed Google sitemaps key member Vanessa Fox on Webpronews (video found here). During the interview Vanessa informs webmasters that creating a sitemap specifically for Google sitemaps will only benefit the website by helping the search [...]
Tags: Google, sitemaps
Posted December 14th, 2006 by John
One of the most important aspects of SEO is link building. There are two main reasons why. First, they offer passages for a web user to find your web site, and second, search engines use links within their ranking algorithm. Nowadays there are many different types of links and values associated with a link. I [...]