SEO

Trust is one of the factors in web rankings that is the least understood. Partly this is because the simplicity of the days when Google’s PageRank algorithm was all you needed to know are long gone. Now there are many other factors that enter into ranking, with the 2 major new ones being relevance and […]

This past week I have the chance to interview Market Motive’s Scott Milrad. Our discussion covered a lot of ground regarding the internet marketing certifications offered by Market Motive. One of the more interesting things is that this Tuesday Market Motive is having the finals for the program in a broadcast conference call on Tuesday, […]

There are scores of online marketing techniques that are effective in building relationships that can lead to links to your site, but there is no reason to stop there. Do the major influencers in your space speak at conferences? Then go to it, and introduce yourself. This can include not only bloggers but other people […]

This week I have the pleasure of publishing my recent interview of Motoko Hunt of AJPR. Motoko is an expert Japanese SEO, and we dug into some of the unique aspects of performing SEO in Japan.

Since Motoko established in 1998, she has been providing Japanese SEO/SEM services to companies from around the world, helping them to enter the Japanese market using the Internet. Motoko’s search marketing consulting services with her extensive knowledge of Asia and the Japanese market has been highly valued and made a big impact on some of […]

Angus Norton is the Senior Director, Live Search, at Microsoft Corporation. Angus previously has had several other roles at Microsoft, including Senior Director, Developer Platform Evangelism, Director, Windows Mobile, and Group Product Manager, Enterprise Servers & Tools. Angus was one of the few that have won the Microsoft Circle of Excellence award. This is an […]

This week I am publishing a recent interview with Microsoft’s Angus Norton. We start by exploring the recent Silk Road initiative announced by Microsoft at Pubcon 2008. After that, we spend some time speaking about Microsoft’s initiatives in search moving forward, and their plans to improve their market share in the future. Check it out!

One of the things that is critical in doing link building work is developing tricks for finding the right contact info. Here is the scenario: You have backlinked your competitor You have identified the high-value pages that link to them You now need to figure out how to contact that site and get a link […]

Alex Chudnovsky is the founder and managing director of Majestic-12, a UK based firm that specializes in cross-platform .NET/C# development of scalable high-performance data analysis applications with a primary focus on the creation of the World Wide Web search engine. Majestic also uses the trade name Majestic SEO which publishes a backlinking tool that is […]

I recently did an interview with Alex Chudnovsky of Majestic SEO. After my recent interview with Rand Fishkin about Linkscape Alex contacted me to discuss his backlinking tool. Majestic SEO offers a competing tool to Linkscape, and therefore it made for an interesting discussion. It looks like this market is heating up!

Eric Ward founded the Web’s first link building and web promotion services, called NetPOST and URLwire, in 1994. Today Eric offers those services as well as training and private consulting to help companies learn how to generate links, publicity, and online buzz for their Web content. Eric has developed content linking strategies for PBS.org, WarnerBros, […]

This week’s interview is with Eric Ward, aka Link Moses, the person with arguably the longest running history of link building of anyone in the business. Eric and I focused the conversation on the process of reaching major influencers. If you are shooting for the big time with your web site, then reaching the major […]