SEO

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

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 query. Some people outside of Google [...]

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 del.icio.us/Furl/Digg/Shoutwire [...]

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 the [...]

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 to you only [...]

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

First of all you must enable the permalinks, but that you probably already have done.
Now to the point. Did you know that these are all different URLs for the same blog post?
http://www.myblog.com/my-blog-post
http://www.myblog.com/my-blog-post/
http://myblog.com/my-blog-post
http://myblog.com/my-blog-post/
Google sees this as 4 different URLs and 4 different pages when in fact it is only one. One of them will rank higher [...]

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

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 sites with for [...]

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 getting [...]

Is Google detecting and penalizing unnatural link growth?
Case Study
Sites used for the test:

NetMarketing.us
WebRelatedArticles.com

Release dates of the two sites:

November 27, 2005
November 25, 2005

Both sites are new domains that was not before indexed by Google.
Links added to the sites within the first 3 days of release:

Links from 35 unique web sites + around 0,7-1,2K coop ad weight.
(Details: [...]

SEO For Real - all the latest SEO information for SEO Professionals automatically collected in one place. Instead of checking 5 different SEO blogs and news sites daily - you just have to visit this one.
I paid a person on DP that was offering to set up these kind of sites and then I put [...]

How is the correct way to check backlinks?
This is what I have learned from own observations and I feel like it would be good to share.
First I can tell you that Google only shows a random fraction on the backlinks they know of - so it is totally useless using Google for this purpose. Probably [...]

There are 7 different tools and one new discovery that can be used in additional to looking at backlinks if you are interested in finding out what your future PageRank will be.
I say already now that they are not accurate …

Backlink and PR prediction tool from online-utility.org
Comments: This is the only PR prediction tool that [...]

Right now you can buy very cheap text links at LinkJuice.net and get some good discount. Boost your PR with some real Link Juice!
Yesterday evening I made a new simple site to serve as a place to sell my text links. I will start to promote it in the beginning of January.

There will be a new SEO Contest starting on the 15 January.
Remember nigritude ultramarine?
Here is the forum thread announcing it.
I will be playing and it would be fun to get as many as possible participating.
Will you participate?

Here are some valuable SEO reading with data coming from Google that or not on their official Google pages.
Matt Cutts (Senior Engineer):

SEO/Google section from Matt Cutts blog - regularly updated and is worth a daily reading
Nick Wilsons interview and blog post: “Exclusive: Google Teaches Bloggers How To Rank” (December 13, 2005)
Interview by Philipp Lenssen (November [...]

Just noticed it, it must have happened in the last few hours.
Google is not updating the backlinks regularly like MSN and for some strange reason only shows part of them and in a random manner.
My advice is to always use MSN when checking links. It also seem like MSN is listing the backlinks with the [...]

Google knows probably a lot more than you think.
This is a blog post by Matt Cutts (Google Engineer): “Tell me about your backlinks”
Google might not like that text links are being bought but in my opinion I see no problem with that. You pay for advertising, just like adwords.
Now, I agree that Google should take [...]

A few days ago Yahoo updated it’s algo.
My Swedish company web site went from #3 to #1 on the keyword webbdesign (swedish for web design), so I am pleased.
But it is interesting that I have not done any changes at all on the site since months, I have just been adding backlinks.
By looking over forums [...]