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The nofollow Tag – Spam Protection & PR All Wrapped Up in One.
The notorious nofollow tag. Sometimes called the Link Condom, this tag is supposed to keep Google from passing PageRank and from following the link to give the link credit in Google’s “link Popularity” search engine. The tag is added to an HTML link tag like -a href=”link-here” rel=”nofollow”– This is what Google has asked Webmasters […] -
SEO Conspiracy Theories & Search Engine Updates
These are theories discussed in the offline SEO arena with several different SEOs this week. Nothing is proven, just possible theories based on experienced SEO opinions. I call them conspiracy theories because they are just that. Paranoid theories from people who see too much in the results pages of Google. These are created out of […] -
Google Gains, MySpace Grows, SEO Perspectives
Google gains more popularity and search market share according to sources at Hitwise: Data from 2006: Search Engine – Search Volume www.google.com – 60.29% search.yahoo.com – 22.58% search.msn.com – 11.56% www.ask.com – 3.63% Source – Hitwise -
Declining PageRank in Web Directories
Editor’s Note: This post is old. PageRank, by Google, is a Google marketing strategy of the past, it is useless today. PageRank made Google a more popular Search Engine as all of us marketers touted it. It was a fun gauge of quality until it became a commodity. Have a read and ignore the PageRank […] -
Search Engine Optimization as Marketing
In today’s world of online marketing, businesses need to go beyond standard SEO services and embrace the recommendations of modern search engines to seek higher quality SEO strategies. SEO firms that give their clients an added benefit to their service, or offer viral marketing services as an additional package, offer their clients the ability to […] -
Google’s Marketing, Learn from leaders.
Recent newsletters showing people unhappy with Google SERPs, forums and colleges trying to analyze Google’s PageRank, tools that calculate Googles PageRank, theories on Google algorithms, theories on ranking strategies, anything good or bad about Google seems “Good for Google.” -
MSN to Buy Yahoo?
The latest news buzz is MSN’s proposed talks with Yahoo for a buyout or M&A. This would be a very interesting takeover, as the combined searches of MSN and Yahoo would be 33% of all online searches and Google would still lead with 49%, according to a Nielsen Net Ratings April 2006 report. This would […] -
301 Redirect and Canonical Redirects Tutorial Launched
SEO Image has launched a new tutorial for 301 redirects and canonical redirect programming for SUN, Windows IIS, Apache, ASP, .NET, and PHP. -
MSN Announces the Official Launch of MSN AdCenter
It’s official: As of 10:00 A.M. Pacific time on May 4, adCenter is live and in full production, traffic is at 100%, and anyone can register for an adCenter account! -
Google Promotes Firefox Browser on its Home Page
Google is now promoting the usage of FireFox on its home page. A trip to Google’s home page will turn up the FireFox browser showcased with a link to the download page. Seen as a strategic move against Microsoft in the never ending battle of search engine dominance.