SEO

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

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Lady Google

In a forum thread of StatCounter Robin posted an answer to a person that was impatient with Google in regards to ranking. This is what he wrote: Lady Google does not provide immediate gratification. She considers that kind of thing to be undignified. She expects to be romanced for a considerable time. She’ll pay attention [...]

Carcasherdotcom Seocontest

This is a white hat Carcasherdotcom Seocontest SEO Contest page, managed by Jim Westergren of SEO Fusion.

WordPress users – sharpen your URLs with Google!

Update: October 1, 2009 This article is from january 2006. In new versions of WordPress all the things in this article is being taken care of automatically. DO NOT USE IT ANYMORE. First of all you must enable the permalinks, but that you probably already have done. Now to the point. Did you know that [...]

V7ndotcom Elursrebmem

This is a white hat V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO Contest page, managed by Jim Westergren.

Releasing SEO Fusion!

I am happy to announce that I now have a SEO Site for my international clients set up with all my services and their info listed! Let me present: SEO Fusion This will start my SEO business for real and moving into english speaking clients. I found it much easier doing link building for english [...]

Google Sandbox – All Latest Data

What is the Google “sandbox”? In my own words I would say it is an observation of an algo effect implemented by Google in March 2004 that makes new sites not rank at all for a period of many months. It is a dampening effect that was most probably created to stop spam sites from [...]