Welcome to the kick-off interview of Industry Insiders! As much as I’m getting to know more people through Twitter, I’ve found that because we all have our own lives and only communicate in 140 character tweets, or when possible, at conferences, that there’s really so much yet to learn. So it’s my hope that through …
I can’t recall how many times a prospective client has come along where my initial thought was “wow – this one’s going to take 250 hours of SEO to get them to even compete with all the sites that have been there for years”. Sometimes that turns out to be the case, while at other …
UPDATE: 1/16/2010: Over on Nichola Stott’s blog it’s been mentioned that Google seem to have pulled back from the edge of the abyss on this, and are no longer forcing lingual butchery. At least for the time being. Monitoring will need to continue to see what’s up with that. And there’s no way of knowing …
Boy, don’t you just love to hate my article titles? I know this topic has been discussed numerous times. Seriously though – for all the short term talk that happens every time we take a hit from someone who gives our industry a bad rap, we’ve never yet come to a clear consensus as an …
I got a call today from a close friend that one of our other friends had a stroke earlier today and was in the hospital. As soon as I heard, I jumped online to get the phone number for the ICU unit of the hospital where he’s at so I could coordinate visiting him. I …
Andy Beal tweeted yesterday how he saw an interesting find. Google displaying THREE subpages in the SERPs. For as long as I can recall, Google had a rule that they wouldn’t ever display more than two pages out of fairness. So when I read Andy’s tweet, I went right to Google and sure enough, I …
Just because someone with a huge following claims this or that, isn’t good enough for me when it comes to knowing whether to implement some SEO strategies or not. I’m not a sheep to slaughter. No matter how many other sheep are around me, nor how “trusted” the sheep-herder. I want to find out for …
Well the rumor mill can find new ground to breed in. This morning Microsoft and Yahoo held a conference call to announce their having come to an actual, bonafide ten year agreement to do business in the search arena. Bing will become the search engine that Yahoo uses, Yahoo will be the global sales force …
In my last article, 8 Key Points to Multiple niche Sites And Controlling Back Links, I cautioned that you need to be careful that a niche focus site might overtake the main site in the SERPs for a particular phrase. One question that came up in the comments of that article was how to prevent …
Lately every time I turn around, another new search engine comes out that’s supposed to be innovative and better than Google in some way or another. The latest announcement came from Google themselves, where they let the world know about the new Google Squared. Why Google would do this I can only guess is because …
