I’ve been tagged by Mr SEO, in this never ending game that seems to have been started by Jeff Pulver over a week ago (good link bait idea!). This has since made its way through the SEO community. So, here it goes, if you really want to know…
Continue reading
SEO Image, a leading search engine optimization company has been named the top SEO company for December 2006 by TopSEOs.com and the third-best by PromotionWorld.com, ending the year as one of the premier quality SEO firms.
NewYork, NY (PRWEB) December 5, 2006 — SEO Image, Inc. is ranked one of the best search engine optimization firms in the world by topseos.com, a trusted and well-respected resource for evaluating Internet marketing vendors. PromotionWorld.com is also trusted as a resource for promotion tools and marketing companies.
For those of you who do not know, SEO Image is one of the most plagiarized websites. Our content is stolen and rewritten every day by new and novice SEO companies throughout the world.
One issue we have is that these novice SEO companies not only copy word for word, but some cause the same effect that the proxy search portals do. That is a duplicate content filter. For those of you new to my blog, I have been very anti-duplicate content filter since its unleashing in 2005 as an overly aggressive filter. Continue reading
I am amazed at the number of supplemental pages that are caused by Google’s duplicate content filter. Good sites that do NOT understand that they are in fact having duplicate content problems, nonetheless, here’s how to resolve them.
We have seen good quality sites loose good internal pages because they change currency, have a dynamic naming convention, use a similar contact form for hundreds of products/listings, and have been duplicated by competitors.
We were very big on the updates we have seen with MSN, we felt they were moving in the right direction with Live.com and the suggested search results. We also liked how they had less emphasis on paid search and more on the natural results.
Continue reading
One factor in SEO is what we now call “Market Share”. This term, coined at NYC Search Engine Strategies conference in 2006, is about how important the anchor text is when a website is first born.
This means that the way we link to a site can outweigh what is on the site, the real strategy here is not just using “anchor text”, but rather the way we first use it.
Like it or not the World’s most popular Search Engine is old and has bugs. Since 1998 Google has been unable to fix its weak canonical handling and 302 hijacks that actually deteriorate website rankings if not found.
Continue reading
This is a topic I will discuss choosing the right SEO Company. We took on a client in the Legal industry that hired a “Specialty” Legal Search Engine Optimization Firm. The company only worked for sites in this specific industry. Apparently, this company had owned its clients’ SEO and used techniques that banned other SEO companies clients in the past. Like all clients linking to each other and all links to clients came from the SEO firms own properties.
Editor’s Note: This is an old post:
We just installed the Mac version of FireFox, and after a snail 1.5.0.7 version which got hung up on every corner, we are happy to report a screaming fast version in 2.0.
Firefox is screaming around every corner and appears faster than Camino, Flock, and Safari by a long shot. It feels like we have a faster internet connection.
Continue reading
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 to use when selling ads so that their search engine can figure out that this is not a link to credit. While the idea of Google using it for Ads is the reason for its creation, most webmasters use it for one purpose – to stop a spam penalty for linking OUT to a bad neighborhood. Continue reading
