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Debra Mastaler of the Link Spiel looks at the value of link building within general social media sites like MySpace or Facebook as opposed to participation link building in niche social networks.
On General Social Networks:
Social media sites aren’t good for much else when it comes to linking.
Places like MySpace and Friendster allow a clean […]
Before SES NY we announced that Search Engine Journal was giving away a free pass to the Future of Online Advertising conference in New York, which will be held on June 7th.
After reviewing the entries for the contest, who answered the question “How do you think social media has changed the online advertising landscape?”, Pablo […]
According to market research firm Millward Brown Google is now the most powerful brand in the world overtaking last years winner Microsoft.
From the press release:
Google has risen to the top of this year’s ranking, taking the number one spot with a brand value of $66,434 million. This was followed by General Electric ($61,880 million), Microsoft […]
Sure, content is king but when you have a site chocked full of thousands upon thousands of pages of content, can it be too much?
Does too much content dilute the powerful incoming links which you have earned into miniscule citations? Or is this a navigation issue?
John Scott has an interesting case study of how […]
Over at Search Engine Roundtable, Barry Schwartz points to a Webmaster World thread which compares the Google AdSense information from each of Google’s quarterly earnings reports dating from Q4 2003 until Q1 2007.
The comparison shows a dip in total revenue share for Google AdSense publishers from Q3 2004 until Q3 2006, then a sharp increase […]
MySpace is now rotating presidential candidate profiles in their “Cool New People” section located in different places throughout the site including the homepage.
They seem to be featuring candidate profiles that are also featured in their new political section, Impact. Kudos to MySpace for not only giving exposure to high profile candidates like Barack Obama and […]
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.
Search Engine Journal’s Ahmed Bilal has an article at Marketing niche SEO and how the industry will change in the next two months. It’s part of the scholarship contest, and an excellent read, as well as a launching point for this article, which looks at some organic linkbuilding activities.
Recently, one of my clients that I […]
Digg is probably the only company which got loads of online buzz when it hit the one million user mark. Come to think of it, there is even a story on the Digg.com homepage today about Digg hitting a million users even when the date they announced their millionth user was a month and a […]
