Do you really want a disavow links option? I don’t. With the recent Penguin update, the SEO community has been talking a lot lately about negative SEO and disavowing links. (For the record, negative SEO doesn’t just refer to links, but for this article, let’s assume it does.) SEOs afraid of getting penalized for “bad …
If you haven’t already heard, Google’s Matt Cutts and Bing’s Duane Forrester recently did a SXSW session with Danny Sullivan where they addressed questions from the audience. About 1/3 of the way into the audio though, Matt let slip a comment about an upcoming rankings change designed to target “Over Optimization” in an attempt to …
“Why are our hamburgers square? Because we don’t cut corners.” – Dave Thomas A long time ago I did an article on my personal blog comparing airline cuts to the fast food industry. I accused them of using something I call sesame seed economics. Three years later I’m still seeing that type of thought process …
By now you’ve most assuredly read about the Google Chrome fiasco. You know that Google threw Essence, their video ad agency, under the proverbial bus. You’ve probably even read that Google gave themselves a penalty and reduced the PageRank of the chrome page. They also removed all of the sponsored posts and admitted responsibility. In …
There’s been a lot of fearmongering talk lately about Google’s human quality raters and just exactly what they’re used for and how their ratings are used internally at Google. Discussion was running rampant at Pubcon where I witnessed several SEOs grill Matt Cutts about the subject, and seems to have spread like wildfire across the …
Hey #pubconners it’s snacktime again so that means I’m doing what everybody else is – rushing to the conference room so I can snag a seat next to a power outlet. A snack sounds good though, so if you’re coming to salon F I’m at the last row of tables and I’ve saved a seat …
Welcome back to #pubcon. It’s been a long night playing blackjack (and an even longer night playing craps after that) but we’re back and semi-conscious enough to jump back into it. Up next is the Convergence of analytics and SEO featuring Alan K’necht, Tom Critchlow, and Mark Knowles. @lisabarone is in here liveblogging this too …
Ok boys and #girlsofpubcon here’s the session you’ve been waiting for. Black Hat Tactics and and Preventative Measures with Ziv Dascalu – and if you don’t get here in the next minute or so you won’t have a seat. Ziv just asked me if he could borrow my laptop for a minute, but there’s no …
Welcome back to day 2 of #pubcon liveblog coverage. There’s a lot of rocking sessions going on right now and it was extremely tough to choose between this one with Kate Morris and Joanna Lord, Chris Winfield’s session or the algorithm proofing session going on. To be honest, I couldn’t really pick so I chose …
Up next we’ve got the enterprise level local search panel with Brian MacDonald, Will Scott, Chris Tolles, Alan Bleiweiss, and Arnie Kuenn. Will Scott just offered to pay me for a text link in this post, but I had to turn him down. Anyway, first up is Alan Bleiweiss – You’ve probably seen some of …
