SEO

Yesterday I attended the MAGS 2006 Conference, put on by the Magazine Association of the Southeast. The conference was attended by a wide range of Southeast US-based publishers. Some of the publishers in attendance were quite sizable publishers, such as Rodale. I spoke on the topic of SEO, and the session was well received. The […]

Search Engine Strategies in New York was once again a good show. It seems to have grown again this year, and I always enjoy the opportunity to catch up with different people in the biz. Here are & major impressions I have following the show: There is really so much opportunity out there. New things […]

The following is the transcript of an interview of Rajat Mukherjee, product lead for Google’s Custom Search Engines project. Dr. Rajat Mukherjee is a group product manager on the search team at Google, Inc., working on several products, including Google Custom Search. Prior to joining Google, Rajat was senior director of product management, Yahoo! Search […]

My blog will be post free for the next week (as will contributions from me to Search Engine Watch). I am on a real (I mean real) vacation, and all blogging activity will shut down here until the week of the 23rd. Try not to miss me too much! Well OK, try to pretend that […]

Yesterday I attended the Podcast Optimization session at SES in NY. Chris Sherman was moderating and speakers were Amanda Watlington, Daron Babin, and Rick Klau, all of which provided very engaging presentations. It was a great and informative session, and here are some highlights from it: Market The Podcast marketplace is expanding rapidly Feedburner is […]

SEOMoz just released version 2 of its Search Engine Ranking Factors article. The content in the article is based on a survey of a number of leading and well-known SEOs. The content is truly great. If you want to get a fast primer on what matters most, and what matters least, you can do that […]

Google Webmaster Tools recently added the neat capability of seeing a good solid list of inbound links to your site and allowing you to download the entire list in a spreadsheet file. However, we recently noticed that these links include links from Yahoo! Answers. So here’s the kicker. These links are NoFollowed. So Google is […]

SES New York begins on April 10th, and as usual, I will be there. A few sessions stand out as being of particular interest to me: Tuesday 9:00 am: Video Search Optimization Tuesday 11:00 am: Podcast and Audio Optimization Wednesday 10:15 am: Web Analytics and Measuring Success Wednesday 3:15 pm: SEO Through Blogs & Feeds […]

Let’s have a little fun today, shall we? Google Maps is providing some fascinating directions, such as this one from Stanford University to KTH-hallen, Stockholm, Sweden. Take a look at step 33 below: Here is a visual look at your swim: That’s one heck of a swim! But at least they have an idea that […]

Recently I had a chance to speak with Rand Fishkin about the recent changes at SEOmoz, and got an update on the progress. Rand is the well known and popular CEO of SEOmoz, and it was great to be able to sit down and talk to him about it. I have also generated a transcript […]

Rand Fishkin recently put up a post titled: Wasting Time or Clearly Incompetent – The SEO Consulting Debate. In it, Rand refers to a post by Brian Provost at ScoreBoard Media Group titled: The First Question You Should Ask Your SEO Consultant. Brian has since published an update titled: Attack of the SEOmoz Clones: More […]

Site Architecture is a critical component of SEO. When you are starting on a new site design, you have to begin by thinking through the SEO plan as part of the design. Here are 12 quick tips on how to get your site architecture right: Complete the steps below before writing 1 line of code […]