I notice that many powerful blogs when they post will gain rankings for as long as the specific post remains on the home page. Constantly changing content will lead to constantly changing rankings. While blogs do archive content, by nature, they devalue content with age as the more powerful PageRank and backlinks are generally coming from the main blog page.
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SEO Image will have a small presence at Search Engine Strategies in Manhattan this year. This has been a year of growth and we are expanding and focused on the company and our current clients. We will be networking and meeting several firms and industry partners at the convention.
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SEO Image is pleased to announce that it will, through new strategic partnerships with Google, Yahoo, Digg, Del.icio.us, Squidoo, the New York Times and MSN, be guaranteeing the #1 position, plus a few home pages, for the month of April 2007, for an extremely low price tag of $1,000,000 per term.
A French (according to the whois) site called Dark SEO Team at DarkSEOTeam.com has hacked Matt Cutt’s blog and taken it over.
I expect they will be PR 0’d very soon for this. I would be quite surprised if they are not banned. Personally, I am not for anyone who would go to this effort for any reason. I like Matts Blog and feel that it is a valuable resource for the SEO community. Whether Google likes SEOs or not I believe is based on several factors.
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The infamous and theoretical Google Sandbox Effect, where new domains are reported to take 9 months or longer to rank. Notice something interesting about the 9 Months? 9 Months is a life cycle of humans. We are in the womb for 9 months before we are born. Google uses this timeline in its sandbox effect so that all websites must be born into Google.
Interesting how life and Google are handled the same. For some of us, life and Google seem to cross paths quite often. So what is the Sandbox? The Google Sandbox is a theoretical gateway into the Google index. Apparently, this gateway is somewhat square or boxlike in nature. Getting out of the box and into the index to be seen by the rest of the world, can be a big challenge and well worth the effort to anyone that wants to see traffic from the Search Engines.
Age is a very important factor in Search Engine Optimization. There are several different types of age that can play roles in how Search Engines rank websites. Knowing these factors can be helpful in determining how long it will take for a website to rank well. Keep in mind age is only part of the algorithm, as other factors such as link popularity and keyword rich content will play a major role as well in rankings.
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