This category is for breaking news regarding search engine optimization.
It seems SEO’s are fairing well these-days, even in a bad economic environment – salaries for SEM/SEO related positions were up in 2008 and that just shows that decision makers are continuing to see the relative value we bring to the table. 2009 yearly salaries for an individual contributor with 1-3 years relevant experience range Read more about Good News from SEMPO Report[…]
Search engine optimization (SEO) has really taken corporate Canada by surprise or a better way of putting it would be bewilderment. Most decision makers in this country know that SEO is important but are not sure exactly what it is and how it can ultimately effect the bottom line of their companies. Because of this Read more about The Truth About In-House SEO – It is a ‘Secret Weapon’[…]
There is a long standing rumor that Google wishes to ‘take over the world’ – now that might not be exactly true but they sure as heck got their fingers in a lot of different pies! While the title is a bit ‘tongue-in-cheek’ at the moment, it might just be the future? While this post Read more about Google to Offer Free SEO?[…]
Many SEO’s and Google themselves have been preaching the relative un-importance of visual page rank for ages….now it appears Google is finally ready to put its words into action – they have removed Google page rank from being reported in Google Webmaster Tools and here is the official explanation: Susan Moskwa from the Google Webmaster Read more about Google Page Rank to go Poof!?[…]
It is official, Yahoo! is not longer considering the ‘keyword’ tag when ranking websites in their search results. Google stopped paying attention to these many eons ago but it seems Yahoo! has finally followed suit. It was just too easy to manipulate so I am not really surprised. This tidbit of info came out Tuesday Read more about Keyword Tag Means Even Less Now[…]
The LA Times is reporting that the judge in the MySpace Mom’s suicide killing case has overturned his decision about the ‘criminality’ of breaking the Terms of Service of a website. And that is really good news for all those SEO’s out there that have ever purchased a link. I know a few SEO’s that Read more about SEO’s that break ToS will not be getting 10 to 20 years…[…]
Spinning articles has become a favorite pass-time of overseas link sellers and I find it very annoying, here is a little excerpt from a blog post titled: The best with. Real estate of loan of financing of UNO to find comment conditions By against the, strong one of agreement of like and well the loan Read more about Article Spinning at its Worst[…]
For those of you new to the SEO world you can rest assured that if the sky has not fallen yet – it soon will, any second, maybe…this same drum has been beating for the past 5 years and every few months a new SEO Prophet has some newfangled reason for it to be the Read more about SEO is Almost Dead…Just Barely Surviving…(cue the death rattle)![…]
A few weeks ago one of my Google Knols was chosen as a Top Pick Knol Award, Top 10 SEO Tips.
In 2008 it is interesting to see that paid search efforts outspent organic optimization 10-1, my thoughts are that this will drastically change over the course of the next 5 years because many competitive industries are hitting extremely high costs on a pay-per-click basis and even though SEO can be harder to measure and can Read more about Optimization vs. Paid Search[…]