Sphinn is a brand new player in the social media space that many of you are already familiar. It’s still young, but the calling of new, fresh data to analyze got the better of the math geek in me and I built a few Yahoo! Pipes on their RSS feeds. [This post is a continuation …
Although all external Wikipedia links are using the nofollow attribute since January of this year, links from the encyclopedia are still important because of other reasons than ranking in search engines. Next to generating human traffic from people who read Wikipedia articles, external links from Wikipedia also reinforce the authority of a site for the …
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 …
How to fix what is broken and not break what is not This is a series of four posts in total. See Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 I wrote in December that PageRank is Dead[i] and that something such as abusing the NOFOLLOW attribute for other purposes (The intention for NOFOLLOW were not …
Just for the sake of it did I create a simplified version of the much more detailed search engine ranking factors 2007 document, which was compiled and published by Rand Fishkin from SEOMoz.org. The SEO ranking factors document contains the opinions of 37 contributers, who are considered leaders in the world of organic search engine …
End of last week did Google acquire a large amount of domains around the phrases: “Claim Your Content”, “Claim My Content” and ”Claim Our Content” CLAIMYOURCONTENT CLAIM-YOUR-CONTENT CLAIMMYCONTENT CLAIM-MY-CONTENT CLAIMOURCONTENT CLAIM-OUR-CONTENT Registered TLDs: .COM, .NET, .ORG Country specific TLDs: .FR, .DE, .CH, .CO.UK etc. Tweet Buffer
…. the question if Canadians require a Visa for the U.S. or not. I will come back to that is a second. I don’t know, if SEO Rock Star Greg “WebGorilla” Boser found a web developer yet … oops… I mean of course WebGuerilla (sorry, long term affects of Darin’s supplemental “Monkey Boy” injections into …
Search Engine Watch published an interesting case study today about a site that remapped all dynamic URLs via a tools such as mod-rewrite/.htaccess file (Apache Webserver) or Helicon ISAPI Rewrite (Windows IIS Webserver) to static URLs and 301 redirected (Not 302!) all dynamic URLs to the new static looking ones. For example “site.com/category.aspx?Cat=991″ , which is a .NET …
