In my previous post, I pointed you to some tutorials by Orion that are quite intense. However one tiny link in one of those tutorials led me to a couple of other posts he’s made that are simply hysterical. Orion has created a few new words that help define some of the things […]
I’ve created a specialized search engine using Rollyo to search through 25 of my favorite SEO/SEM blogs. I don’t know about you, but there are so many times I’ve forgotten where I’ve read an interesting post and it takes me forever to find it. Now, I’ve got my own little search engine to […]
Similar in vein to Overture’s and Wordtracker’s keyword suggestion tool, Bad Neighborhood gives us a keyword suggestion tool based on the AOL search data recently released to the public. The tool is interesting in that it estimates the number of searches each of the 3 major engines would have produced during one month, based […]
Just got an email from Trellian regarding a new version of KeywordDiscovery that they are going to be releasing soon. Not sure how good it will be, but the features definitely look interesting. Check it out.
Trellian’s KeywordDiscovery has once again cemented its position as an inovator and industry leader by offering new and […]
eKstreme has a cool new tool that runs through a site’s backlinks, and then profiles their geolocation. This backlink geolocation tool can help pinpoint why some sites do well in country-specific searches (think competitive analysis here). Nice one, eKstreme.
Technorati Tags: backlinks, seo tool, geolocation
About two months ago, I posted about HitTail (here and here). I think it’s time for another followup on this tool.
Looking at my HitTail stats today, it shows:
Top Ten keywords are 23.4% of all your search traffic.
Long Tail keywords are 76.6% of all your search traffic.
Total unique keywords collected: 2099
Wow, those numbers totally […]
Back in May, I reviewed the first issue of Search Marketing Standard. Although I thoroughly enjoyed it, my biggest beef was that it was geared too much towards newbies and PPC.
The next issue is due out soon (in August), and I’m told that it will be 30% larger than its predecessor and will contain […]
SEOmoz has come out with a new tool for SEOs, and as usual, it’s a good one. The Page Strength tool describes itself as supplying:
The Relative Importance/Visibility of a Webpage
The Potential Strength/Ability of a Page to Rank in the Search Engines
Data on Popularity, Links & Mentions of the Page Across the Web
In […]
Aaron Wall (seobook) has updated his Backlink Analyzer tool. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should. First of all, it is free, and free is always a good thing.
What is Back Link Analyzer?
A free link popularity / link analysis tool. It shows what anchor text is linking into a page or site. […]
Matt Cutts in an update to this post says “We saw so many urls suddenly showing up on spaces.live.com that it triggered a flag in our system which requires more trust in individual urls in order for them to rank…“. Now, I might be misinterpreting this statement, but it sounds to me like a […]
Just when I thought I had 95% of the house packed up and ready to move, I remembered the attic. Just finished hauling everything down from there and have started the process of sorting through it all. Most of it is Christmas decorations, but there’s quite a few boxes of old memories. […]
The holiday season is fast approaching and users are already starting to get into the swing of things. I am seeing a marked increase in users searching for Christmas keywords, with Halloween and Thanksgiving phrases rapidly increasing as well. If you have not yet started working on holiday promotions on your sites, don’t […]
Justilien Gaspard is an SEO who, in his words, is looking to “make SEO a little more meaningful”. He is generously offering free SEO consulting to help rebuild the economy after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita down here along the Gulf Coast.
His goal is to help businesses that feel they can create new local jobs […]
For a while now, I’ve been beating the drums about concentrating on the long tail. Of course, 70 million others have done so as well. If you still haven’t listened to me or any of those other folks, maybe you should stop for a minute and reconsider embracing the concept.
Matt Cutts had a […]
I have nothing to say today, but other bloggers have posts today that you shouldn’t miss. So I’ll just link you over to them.
How Much is Link Bait Worth?
The Adsense Game (this was fun)
Failure to Fail
12 Different Types of Links and How to Get Them
Link love…trust…getting noticed. That’s what it’s all about these days. And one of the best, most trustworty places to get noticed (and get links) is from the media. Here are 5 tips for getting all of that, and hopefully, these 5 will spur you on to think of many more.
1. Do […]
Back on July 27, 2006, Neonblitz asked SearchEngineWatch members for help in discerning why a client’s site was showing up with some porn related phrases when searching for the domain name in Google. Those phrases were nowhere to be found on the site, yet it appeared as if they were, when looking at the description […]
Ian at SEW made an excellent post that is worth reading. In it, he gives examples of different strategies one might use, with the focus on content vs. links.
He explains the likely outcome of using a content-only strategy, a links-only strategy, and a content + links strategy, using a musical artist analogy. Each […]
Orion has kindly created several tutorials (and is in the process of creating more) to shed light on Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), as well as Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). LSI has been discussed in SEO forums for a few years, but I’m not sure anyone has ever really understood it. (I never even […]
Googleguy finally showed his face again over at WMW, and is discussing a few things that may be of interest to SEOs. I’ll do a quick recap of some of the things he said so far (or at least my interpretation of what he said):
Datacenter 72.14.207.104 is undergoing a new infrastructure, that is “orthogonal/independent […]
We all know we need to get trusted links, right? And Google trusts DMOZ, right? Surely, a DMOZ editor page is even more trustworthy, right? Oh, how easily Google can be fooled!
Hat tip to Michael for discovering some juicy examples of DMOZ editor spam. I’ve taken screenshots, and saved the page […]
Came across a forum thread today that I thought was interesting, concerning one man’s opinion that Google is broken.
Ah, the old “Google is broken” thing again. How many times over the years have people said that? I’ve even said it a few times, I’m sure. So, normally, I wouldn’t link out to […]
A friend of mine, Michael VanDeMar (aka mvandemar), alerted me to a situation that highlights the sub-subdomain spam problem that Google “supposedly” fixed, but apparently has not. Here is his research and report.
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Last Saturday, June 17th 2006, an article was posted on how to get 5 Billion Pages indexed in Google in less than […]
Wow, big news. Hard to believe Danny Sullivan is leaving Search Engine Watch and SES conferences, as of December 1. Good luck in any new ventures, Danny.
Technorati Tags: Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Strategies, SES
I love getting to know fellow SEOs a little better by reading interviews of them. So, today, I went on a quest to find as many SEO interviews as I could. I tried to only list interviews done over the last year or so, but after my eyes started blurring, I stopped paying […]