SEO

WebmasterWorld has a nice thread going about 25 signals of crappy sites. Fribble starts the thread with the notion that we spend a lot of time looking for signals of quality. But it’s also useful to look at the inverse. It’s a pretty good list, and forum members chip in a few other good ideas. […]

As we have all heard, Wikipedia has placed “nofollow” tags on their outbound links. This was greeted with a fair amount of dismay by the SEO and Webmaster world at large, as well it should have been. But it turns out that Wikipedia links still have great value. Why? Because other people go to Wikipedia […]

I am pleased to announce that I now have a role as a blogger for the staff at Search Engine Watch. You can see the announcement here. I will continue to put new articles and blog posts on this site as well, as I enjoy doing so. On SEW, I will cover 3 major vertical […]

The SEO world has been abuzz with the announcement of “accurate” link information from Google. This is, in fact, really good news for webmasters. If you care about building traffic to your site, you care about links. And having the tools to find out when you have new links is very good news indeed. It […]

Big changes are taking place over at SEOmoz. A while back, Rand Fishkin (its CEO), announced that he planned to offer paid content services in the near future. Well, the change has happened, and the new SEOmoz site is launched. Premium Membership costs $39 per month or $299 for a year. What you get in […]

Wordtracker is now offering a free keyword tool. The tool provides data on 100 keywords related to your query. Here is a quick look at the interface: And here is the output of a sample query: It’s actually some great initial data, available at no cost. This should serve as a great promotional tool for […]

Now, this is really cool. According to Yahoo News, Sweden plans to open an embassy in the virtual world of Second Life. For those of you who are not familiar with it Second Life has more than 3 million “inhabitants”. We first blogged about Second Life in December after SES in Chicago. The success of […]

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dennis Mortensen of IndexTools. IndexTools is an analytics vendor based in Hungary. We are currently evaluating their tool as part of a study we are doing comparing 6 different analytics packages. Dennis has been heavily involved in the analytics business since 1996. Back then the model was one […]

Are you underneath the radar? Do you plan to stay there? This is a really good question to ask when you are thinking about your SEO strategy. Let me talk a little bit about why. I was talking to a friend of mine earlier today. He is doing the webmaster work for a local daycare […]

Recently we had the chance to speak with Tim Mayer about Yahoo’s Search Builder product. Search Builder is the vertical search engine offering from Yahoo, that competes with products such as Google Custom Search Engines, Live Search Macros, and Eurekster. In the discussion, Tim reveals that sites that use Search Builder on their site may […]

I have seen two great posts about link building in the past few days. One of these is by Jim Boykin on the limitations of link bait, and the other is by Eric Ward at the Search Engine Land blog about the “Circle of Trust”. Jim focuses on the importance of getting high-quality links from […]

Over at Webmasterworld, they are discussing a situation where Yahoo is not always using the web page’s title tag as the title it shows in its search results. Barry Schwartz also provides some good data on this situation at Search Engine Land. It’s quite easy to spot. Once you do a search, if you see […]