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Post about efficiently overinvesting into a topic up to the point of becoming exceptionally inefficient.

We just wanted to wish you all a Happy New Years! From all of us at the Search Engine Roundtable, thank you for reading, thank you for commenting and thank you for creating that awesome 2005 community buzz in the…


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The best possible time for me for Google to do their maintenance is probably tonight at 11pm. But either way, it is not about me, its about the tons of publisher out there. The Inside AdSense blog reports Site maintenance…


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Another random questioning whinge post about political bias and its effect on SEO.

This started with a little list of things I thought had changed between 2005 and 2006 and turned into a large list of brainstormed ideas of things to keep in mind for the upcoming year. The first 30 I tried to compare the evolution somewhat. The rest didn’t quite fit anything, and the […]

I owe a big thanks to Search Engine Journal - the source for fair and balanced SEO News, and all the wonderful folks who gave me favorable votes in the SEO blog contest. I’m honored and humbled to have been mentioned among such a fine bunch of my industry peers. Thanks to those […]

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SearchEngineWatch recently had another thread about the Google Sandbox.

Post about the NYT linking at book reviews by bloggers.

I haven’t seen too many (any?) sites from 2005 in the wayback machine until today, and I do tend to check it quite often.

Jim mentioned a while back that he had not seen it update since November 2004. Maybe they were reading his site, because it seems to have a a bunch […]

Bobbie Johnson a technology correspondent wrote an article for the Guardian this week about his test of what he calls black hat manipulate. He used what he called “black hat SEO unethical strategies” and a “spoof site” to get a test site to rank first place for the …

This must be a question every blogger asks themselves in their blog lifetime. If I just dropped seemingly sagely one liners and a link from time to time, would that be more valuable than long-winded articles? Would I get called out if I was wrong? Would I get more links to what […]

I went wild on Amazon for future reading. In deference to GrayWolf’s post on his library and because I’m excited about havin’ a bunch of new books, I thought I’d post my new found future reading list. I like to build nice long lists on recommendations that I receive from people who I […]

Well there is another fresh round of discuss and posts in the SEO community about text link ads and the nofollow tag due to Jermey Zawodny a high profile Yahoo employee selling text link ads with out the nofollow link.

I have posted a few of the main links below on …

Tough question, “What is SEO?”. As with pretty much all internet-related terms, concepts and notions, that of “SEO” does not have a unique definition and it is a blurry concept in most people’s mind….

Learn how to optimize a Dynamic Website. What are the problems that search engines face in indexing Dynamic URLs? And what are the search engine optimization techniques we can use for for Dynamic URLS?…

link:domain -site:domain

Not that Goggle link: command means much any more but you can now use the -site:www.seocompany.com and even see less links with their link: commmand.

link:www.seocompany.ca shows 387 links.

link:www.seocompany.ca -site:seocompany.ca shows 57 links.

Both Yahoo and MSN have had this switch available for as long as I can remember.

Myla Kay Marks, my long time friend and business partner who was our lead consultant for keyword research, passed away on Sunday morning after a long illness. Memorial services will be held this Saturday, December 17, 1pm at the Church of the Epiphany in Houston, TX.

I’m sorry to bring anyone down, but a lot of folks around here have worked with Myla and gotten to know her. I’ve decided to just

If you ever ask me what my favorite link building method is, you may be surprised to learn that it’s article syndication. It’s worked for me before, and it’s worked for many of my clients, as well. To recap my…

I got an email for an ebay auction of a site wide banner ad placement on a Web directory this morning. It’s amazing how distracted I can get over one email. I ended up Googleing up some interesting stuff.

I have found by combining good design and relevant placement …

Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz.org has come out with a 29 page SEO Guide in HTML and Word format. The 3 pages of resources at the back alone make it a worth while read. I have printed it out and will be working on a full review which I …