The recent PageRank™ updates by Google stirred up quite some talk within and outside the search engine marketing industry and opened room for many more or less far-fetched speculations about what this could mean. There is in my opinion no need to panic just yet, but it also does not mean that you should do …
You can just sit there and wait and you can be sure that every now and then somebody will come along who has the urge to bash the whole SEO industry. First Mr. Pasternack who started a series of attacks against the industry last November to continue this year to go into round two and …
This is part two of the article: ”Reign of Bread and Whip. The New Google Aristocracy“. Now here is a misconception that I would like to correct. People that buy links do this to gain ranking for a term that is relevant for that page. Even links on sites about Linux that say “buy Viagra”, …
One of the most interesting SES SJ panels last week was definitely the panel “Are Paid Links Evil” with Matt Cutts (Google), Michael Gray (Graywolf), Todd Malicott (Stuntduble), Todd Friesen (Oilman), Greg Boser (Web Guirilla) and Andy Baio (Upcoming.com). The panel started with a funny, but off-topic video by Matt Cutt’s and made it clear …
Are you tired of typing into your browser “Google.com”? Would you like to enter something else, but still get the same results as if you went to Google.com? … How about XXXDisc.net? Heather Paulson noticed something odd during a test of the SEM/SEO/AM research service Syntryx, which is currently in beta. She stumbled across a …
Robert X. Cringely, in his I, Cringely, blog at PBS writes about the final days of Google. This is sort of what I’ve been saying: that the company who’ll take on Google hasn’t come into existence yet, or at least haven’t revealed themselves. I figure we will know in the next 4 years, that they’ll …
Bill Slawski over at SEO by the Sea wrote an interesting post about the Google patent application for their new “Plus Box” feature in the search results. There are several valid concerns regarding what and how much content from another site should be shown by Google to still qualify as “fair use” and how much …
How to fix what is broken and not break what is not This post is part of a series. See Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 What to Make Out of It Some results should make the link being ignored completely and even reflect poorly on the webmaster (trust), some should get full voting …
How to fix what is broken and not break what is not This post is part of a series. See Part 1, Part 2 and Part 4 “Jagger” and “BidDaddy” Aftermath What came with the Jagger update [i] was something called “TrustRank [i]” and the “Google Sandbox Effect[ii]”. The “Sandbox” was a hot topic and …
How to fix what is broken and not break what is not This post is part of a series. See Part 1, Part 3 and Part 4 Collateral Damage A change in policy would only result in two things. One, the people that traded links for the wrong reasons are SEO and on top of …
