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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[…]
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…[…]
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[…]
-We had a quick page rank update a couple of days ago and it pretty much surprised everyone. Even though page rank does not seem to mean a heck of a lot these days every update still seems to get the webmaster and SEO community up and jump’in! Personally I am wondering if my weird Read more about What is the SEO Buzz?[…]
Craigslist seems to be a potpourri of bad SEO’s – take a gander at this advertisement: Affordable SEO – 1 WEEK TO THE TOP (Toronto and area) Affordable SEO – 1 WEEK TO THE TOP of major search engines. Stop wasting money on pay per click . Being ranked PR9 will halp you grow your Read more about More Bad SEO’s[…]
I have been wondering how SEO’s that don’t speak or write English are able to do a proper job optimizing for it? I know you can pretty much learn most SEO skills in any language but since much of SEO is reading, writing and optimizing for the English language I just don’t see it being Read more about SEO’s that Don’t Speak nor Write English[…]
I will briefly touch on one of the most important things to look for when hiring an SEO company. Look for a company that includes a portfolio or case study section on their site. It is important to have at least a glimpse into the type of work the firm has done in the past. Read more about What to look for when hiring an SEO firm[…]
This fad started a few years back and it seems there is no end in sight. As long as ‘pretend’ SEO’s and newbie webmaster chase the ole might ‘green bar’ I guess the business of buying dropped domains with page rank will continue. Here is one of my favorites that I just found on DP Read more about Dropped Domains – Enough is Enough[…]
This question has been floating around the web for years and the myth still looms quite large. Does a high page rank help me get a high search engine ranking? The simple answer is a big, fat NO! But it gets much more complicated. A high page rank could be representative of many other high Read more about Does Page Rank Help in Search Engine Ranking Position?[…]