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I have heard from a few potential clients before that even though their own website does not rank for many searches they are OK in the SEO department because their various directory listings rank, so people will find them anyways…. This is a really bad decision and will most certainly guarantee a long-term unsuccessful foray Read more about But I Already Rank…Kind Of[…]
I found an interesting blog post on DigitalPoint and that combined with some local research really has me concerned about the current and future state of SEO. Almost every new client I speak to has one or two horror stories under their belt from dealing with SEO in the past. Btw, here is the post: Read more about The Future of SEO[…]
I just spent a few minutes perusing the computer services category of my local Craigslist to see what the local competition is up to….and let me tell you – they are up to no-good! Usually it would make me feel good to see so many clueless folks calling themselves SEO and SEM experts but I Read more about A Look at the Local SEO Competition[…]
Now that Google is coming to terms (publicly) with the fact that SEO is real and important it seems they released their own SEO Report Card internally. Very interesting report and you can download the entire thing here.
You know search engine optimization has gone mainstream when it shows up in a Dilbert comic strip!
I received a private message at a forum I have been a member of for many years and it was from a relatively senior member that was promoting some discounted listings reviews in his network of web directories. The directories themselves look pretty nice, good templates and category structure but I took a quick look Read more about The Importance of Checking Backlink Profiles[…]
John Dvorak over at pcmag.com wrote an article yesterday where he complained quite mightily about how SEO is ruining Google search results by: “tricking Google or Bing or Yahoo into ranking your particular Web site higher than the competition by reverse-engineering the tricks used by Google, et al to rank sites in the first place.” Read more about John Dvorak Stirs up the SEO Hornets Nest[…]
This is my first time seeing this in action and I guess I like it, but only for news results. I wonder if it will be coming up for more regular type searches.
If your website was getting a lot of visitors searching for the weather or sports scores then, YES! As Google attempts to become stickier how many websites will it hurt? Or does the fact that they are actually helping the searchers make it a wash because that is their core business? But they make money Read more about Does Google Want to Put your Website Out of Business?[…]
Not Google!