What Does SEO Mean To you?
Search Engine Optimization. A bit rubbish, really, as far as descriptive terms go. Of course, search engines can’t be optimized, or at least they can’t be by anyone outside the search engine. The term SEO originated at a time when all you needed to do was hack the underlying code of web pages in order to make them appear higher …
Do Outbound Links Help Your Site?
Many SEOs speculate on the precise formulas that the search engines use to evaluate sites. Many, of course, haven’t a clue. They’re repeating something they’ve heard from someone else, who heard it from someone else, and so on, and so on. Ask ten different seo’s if outbound links help, you’ll get a wide variety of answers, some of which might …
Are You A Search-Massage Consultant?
I don’t know about you, but for me, that description conjures up some weird visual imagery. Someone going by the name of “John Scott” gets a write up here about some contest he is running. Apparently, “The young, geeky types who are behind this enhanced way of boosting a Web site’s Google juice let off steam with practical jokes, including …
Textbook SEO Dead?
Is textbook SEO dead? Some of the best minds in SEO posting there, so forgive the long-winded posts.
SEO is Fun
Occasionally a business or website owner will drop by the V7N forums and ask, “who is the best SEO?” I am rarely willing to endorse one SEO as “the Best SEO“. And, honestly, I do not know who the best is. Some of the better known SEO’s are better known because they talk at SES and Pubcon. But that would …
Google Notifying Webmasters Of Penalties
Webmasters have been wanting this for a long time, and it seems that some may have had their wish granted. Matt Cutts says: “If you don’t want to read the full post, the executive summary is that Google’s Webspam team is working with our Sitemaps team to alert some (but not all) site owners of penalties for their site”. Matt …
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