Online Marketing

Matt Cutts on BigDaddy, linking, crawling etc

Matt Cutts just recently wrote a major post, Indexing timeline. In it he explains a great deal about the new BigDaddy infrastructure, new rules for crawling and how relevancy in regards to links now has become a lot more important. I will quote below what I personally find very interesting from his post and his [...]

The invaluable SEO Guide

Rand has been updating his invaluable SEO Guide some months ago and today I printed it out from his word doc (26 pages) and read it on the bus while travelling. I must say that I am really impressed. Altough I know a great deal in the SEO business I still encountered a lot of [...]

Link Building Wiki

Wow, found another very great SEO resource. It is just released. Let me present the Link Building Wiki. There you have most of the things you need in the area of link building, collected by one of the most prominent in the link building business, TextLinkBrokers.com

Never leave AdWords unattended

If you ever are too busy … make sure you still keep an eye on AdWords. I have been very busy lately, especially the last 2 weeeks. I checked AdWords and wow – burned $300 in 7 days, usually it is running on $20 per week or something for all my campaigns. (I use AdWords [...]

Evidence of related text with links giving rank boost

EDIT: April 30, 2006: What I was seeing below was Co Citation in full action, it was not “related text with links” as I thought. Thanks to Gustaf for the heads up (below) and thanks to Jim Boykin for explaining Co Citation. – One of the keyword terms that I track is “Jim Westergren”. I [...]

Effective Google Ads for AdBlindness

Check this! It was shown in DigitalPoint Forums for SEOs and Webmasters – those that are most blind to ads and that includes me. But this one I definitely saw In actual fact it is done by a DP member himself with his referral URL of the link program to get credits and more weight, [...]

Where do I buy and sell web sites?

Aaron Pratt asked in a comment where do I buy and sell so here comes the answer. SitePoint: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=56 Serious place. DigitalPoint: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=52 Second best place. Sorting by thread start time here NamePros: http://www.namepros.com/developed-sites-for-sale/ Good place to buy cheap web sites. Whenever I have “too much” money I will go to those three places and [...]

retsambew dash klat for Charity

My friend Praveen sent me a tip about the latest SEO Contest hat is hosted by Webmaster-Talk. Link love goes to charity and someone actually thought about the rules this time. For example you have to have a new domain but not have the keywords in it … interesting. Here are full details: http://www.webmaster-talk.com/seo-talk-forum/44465-webmaster-talk-com-seo-contest.html Not [...]

Matt Cutts answers questions

The latest blog post of Matt Cutts of Google is a Questions and Answer post. There he answers a lot of questions including the RK parameter and gives a lot of valuable info for an SEO: Here: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/q-a-thread-march-27-2006/ Thanks Matt. EDIT: Some more info about his post: http://www.seo-scoop.com/2006/03/30/tidbits-of-google-knowledge/ http://www.irishwonder.syndk8.co.uk/2006/03/29/matt-cutts-selected-quotes/

Some observations of Googles fresh boost

Site A Article site that ranked extremely well starting just some days after it went online with 20-60 daily referrals from Google between 10th December 2005 to 4th February 2006 then suddenly nothing. Literally 0 Google referrals after that. 8 weeks before hitting the sandbox. Link building: Agressive and many PR 4-5 links and also [...]

BigDaddy export completed

The new BigDaddy infrastructure has now been exported to all or almost all of the datacenters. Now the strange shift between datacenters when searching is over. Coverage: http://www.seo-scoop.com/2006/03/25/big-daddy-rollout-complete/ http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bigdaddy-status-update-almost-there/ Let’s see if something more interesting will happen.

Main BlackHat joined blog of main WhiteHat

It is true, no kidding. Geoffrey, aka as G-Man, who is probably the most known BlackHat spammer there is has joined the blog of SEOMoz, administered by RandFish – one of the highest profiles in the Pro SEO industry. RandFish introducing him: http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=931 His SEOMoz profile: (he has 100K spam sites) http://www.seomoz.org/profile.php?user_id=7277 His first post: [...]

Keyword Research Tool from AdWords now open

Just some days ago the incredible Google AdWords Keyword Research Tool became available for those that somehow does not have an AdWords account. Also interesting seasonal data was added. If you are not already using this in your keyword research, then it’s about time. More info covered here: Inside AdWords I am also happy that [...]

Forums, Branding and Public Relations

If you are an SEO Consultant that charges $80 per hour like me, have too many clients and too little time – why would you go to forums and spend 15 minutes only to answer some guy asking SEO questions on a forum, for free and giving out valuable information? Why? And why would you [...]

Socializer – Automatic Social Tagging

This I can highly recommend, especially for bloggers. Social bookmarks is probably the most powerful means of online marketing existing today. Socializer is a service in which you only have 1 link instead of a link to all of the social bookmark sites. See the link below on the left to test it on the [...]

Interviewed by Aaron Pratt

Aaron Pratt is a friendly guy and runs SEO Buzzbox, a very interesting blog. On this blog he has interviewed known profiles in the SEO/SEM industry. And so far in the SEO/SEM field he has interviewed: Aaron Wall Greg Boser Jeremy Zawodny Jill Whalen Jim Boykin John Scott Lee Odden Michael Gray Mike Grehan Rand [...]

Raderad / Erased

Denna post är raderad på grund av hot och tjafs om stämning från en viss person. Se denna tråd istället: http://www.webmasternetwork.se/f8t13353.html När du har läst den tråden så läs sedan denna tråd och denna artikel i IDG. Det förklarar allt … För er som är intresserad av riktigt SEO så har jag just nyligen startat [...]

Buying and Selling Links – Session at SES NYC

Want to know what the pros are thinking about buying and selling links? What people like Eric Ward has to say? Here is the write-up from SE Roundtable. Nothing really new but it is interesting to read what they have to say.

SE Algorithms – RandFish’s session at SES NYC

From the Search Engine Strategies in New York there are perhaps 50 pages blogged already by SE Roundtable, Matt Cutts and many more. From what I have read so far the most interesting is the presentation by Randfish on the Search Engine Algorithms. See this blog post from Rand. The powerpoint presentation can be seen [...]

Postal address adds trust?

Google and the other engines are getting more and more sophisticated. It is no longer just relevans and popularity (links, PR) but the factor of trust is now a major factor. It has been speculated that by placing your postal address on your web site you add to the trust factor which seem very logical. [...]

New $25K SEM/SEO Contest

ShoeMoney just recently posted a teaser on a new original contest he will launch. “something original…”, “different…” and “a new approach”. Well, I might as well also win that one

<RK> as Internal Live PR; Evidence and Findings

March 27 update In Matt Cutts latest post: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/q-a-thread-march-27-2006/: Q: Is the RK parameter turned off, or should we expect to see it again? A: I wouldn’t expect to see the RK parameter have a non-zero value again. Q: What’s an RK parameter? A: It’s a parameter that you could see in a Google toolbar [...]

Link Bait

Link baiting (or linkbaiting) is the latest buzz word in the SEO world and has come to be the preferred way to natural link building. It means to create something that naturally attract backlinks for your web page by getting people to talk about it, discussing it on forums, blogging about i, posting it on [...]

SEO Test Finalized – How to write the URLs?

The way I learn SEO is by observing and testing. I don’t listen to all that junk on forums and articles except the very few sources that are my favorites such as randfish. In my tests I have all of the test pages with an exact amount of generated random Lorem Ipsum to not hit [...]

ShoeMoney introduces IPU

Affiliate and adsense marketer Jeremy Schoemaker (known as ShoeMoney) introduced in a blog post today about IPU – Income per unique. His own acronym. We know about CPM, CPC and CPA but by reading his post you get more insight in how to measure your revenue in a new way. Interesting.