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.
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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
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 the SEO haze that happens towards the end of the week to those of use to busy to be on the forums. Continue reading
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
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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 references, but what it basically says still holds true. One thing to note: In 2012, Google penalized millions of domains for bad link building practices. One bad practice was considered the overuse of directories in their linking strategy. Read on…
One thing I have noticed recently is the dramatic PageRank drop from directory home pages to directory internal pages. This may be a sign of the decline of directories.
Since many SEO firms use directories when starting client campaigns because they are easy paid links, we have seen an incredible increase in the number of new directories popping up. Continue reading
