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There have been rumors of such techniques floating around for ages and there are even some black-hat SEO’s that specialize in this type of “link bombing”. The gist of the deal is that you create organically or through purchase ‘bad’ links to your competitor’s websites in hopes of causing their search engine rank position to Read more about Sneaky Webmasters can Sink their Competition[…]
Yahoo has been busy as a beaver (as we Canadians would say) with a slew of new announcements yesterday. The most interesting one is the launch of Yahoo! Circular, an online retail marketing program modeled after newspaper circulars/inserts. This activity blitz comes just as Yahoo’s annual shareholder meeting was set for August 1 where Corporate Read more about Yahoo! Busy Beaver[…]
For those of you following my progress you would know that I have been doing SEO for about 3 years but only for in-house clients and my own websites. I recently decided to take on a few new projects, hence the development of this site. www.createdigitalgrowth.com first went live on May 9, 2008, just over a week Read more about Quick SEO results[…]
Not to say Ask.com is anything like a pimple but we are talking relative size here. The question is, can a search engine that is 1/17th the size of the industry leader run a profitable business model? The answer is, YES! Forbes is reporting that Jim Safka, head of Ask.com announced his company will acquire Lexico, the owner Read more about Ask.com wants to be more than a pimple on Googles’ butt[…]
Google Friend Connect was showcased at a Campfire One gathering of 3rd-party software developers at the company’s “Googleplex” campus in Mountain View, California a couple of days ago. The plan comes just days after top social networking websites MySpace and Facebook broke down barriers of their online communities to let members share profile information at Read more about Google Wants a Hand in the Social Networking Pie[…]
I have been a critic of Google’s posturing and seemingly indiscriminate awarding of penalties for a long-time. There has been a ton of speculation around the industry of -20, -50, -60, -100 penalties (for those laypersons this is a SERP penalty that subtracts ranks you should be awarded, so if you normally should rank number Read more about Proof of the -60 Google Penalty?[…]
The usual smoke-and-mirrors we are used to from Google were put away for a brief period this week during an interview Udi Manber, VP of Google Search had with Popular Mechanics. Manber mentioned that Google had tweaked its’ algorithm 450 times last year. This explains some of the really weird disappearances and resurrections of many Read more about Interesting Insight from Google VP[…]
Our original website, www.OnlineBusinessStartups.com concentrated on web design, advertising and promotion solutions. We began providing SEO services to our in-house clients over three years ago, since then our company has matured to the point where we are now able to accomodate additional SEO service clients. Over the next few months we will be able to take on a limited number of new SEO clients. Read more about Welcome to our SEO services website[…]