SEO For Real

Paul Graham was recently interviewed on TechCrunch.

A post about how many sites fail to profit or get ranked because they do not build enough profit opportunities into their business model.

What is the difference between cloaking, IP delivery, link blogging, and thin content meta journalism?

Greg Boser posted an example of when and how having more backlinks can be a negative force well worth considering before investing heavily in a project.

Most people probably do not have to worry too much about the effects of scraper sites if they are building legitimate content that will get many legitimate inbound links, but if you are writing vanilla content that is extracting profit from a well established domain it may be worth considering a page title change if you believe the scrapers may have whacked your page.

Friends don’t let friends go without using a meta description on their home page.

Danny Sullivan announced he is likely to be moving on from SES and SEW.

So I am going to Europe for a couple weeks. Most of the time in Amsterdam. Which should be fun.

Thinking of ways to consider how much Google trusts an older domain.

SEO for Firefox has been updated to use the Yahoo!, MSN, and Technorati APIs.

Traffic Power recently dropped their lawsuit against TrafficPowerSucks.com.

The harder it is to find a piece of information the easier it is to grab a chunk of the market if you provide a quality answer to that associated problem.

SEOFM.com recently did a podcast interview with Matt Cutts.

Many large pharmaceutical companies are looking to boost their online marketing spend. Some have already looked to well known publishers to create custom exclusive ad friendly content.

Google Base recently started displaying item impressions, clicks, and CTR.

Post about determinging how to balance investments between pay per click and organic SEO efforts.

I recently wrote a quite lengthy article comparing the algorithmic differences in relevancy between the major search engines. Feedback is welcome and greatly appreciated.

While I would describe myself as financially secure and profitable I still am a bit wet behind the ears on business partnerships. These are some of the general attributes I found in partners in good business partnerships.

Brian & Jeffrey Eisenberg were recently interviewed by Mike Grehan about user conversion after they search.

Todd Malicoat and Bill Slawski posted on duplicate content creation and detection.

Post about how website credibility plays a heavy role in both website conversion and search engine optimization.

Post about why I firmly believe the cost of a good design is negligible when you consider all the benefits a nice site design offers.

Guest post by Tony Spencer offering tips to help you redirect your files via your .htaccess file or other common redirect methods.

Post about a free Firefox extension that helps webmasters measure link quality.

Post about how much more expensive a domain was at auction than it would have cost if I would have tried buying it before it went to auction.