Archive for the ‘Linking’ Category
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
In the past few years, we have seen a flurry of articles celebrating the forthcoming death of SEO (AKA linkbait) and an even larger flurry of angry rebuttal articles from the SEO community (AKA retweetbait).
So not wanting to be left out of that link party, I decided to weigh in ...
Posted in General, Google, Linking, SEO | 31 Comments »
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
In between having an awesome time at Pubcon and having not so awesome time catching pneumonia, there are quite a few articles that have gathered in my Reading List bookmark folder. So here are the articles that have caught my eye in the last few weeks.
If you think I ...
Posted in General, Google, Linking, SEO, Weekly Reading | 7 Comments »
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
In between the whole nofollow-gate affair, SMX Advanced, Google indexing links in Java and a velvet revolution in Iran, there was a Google I/O conference. The conference sounded like a pretty cool place to be, especially with the Google Wave announcement and the Android phones being given out to all ...
Posted in General, Google, Linking, SEO | 5 Comments »
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
OK, so not so long ago Rand put out a post saying that Google will count only one link to a URL from any given page. This is a phenomenon that was originally noticed by Michael VanDeMar but many an eyebrow was risen at both posts. That particular facial hair ...
Posted in General, Google, Linking, SEO | 117 Comments »
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
It's been a while since the last post, mainly due to the echoes of the conference, we are getting involved in several exciting SEO projects and there is less and less time to do experiments and build pretty graphs everyone liked so much. :) I am hoping that in the ...
Posted in General, Google, Linking, SEO | 26 Comments »
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
When we analyze incoming links, we tend to focus on more or less the same set of link parameters: PageRank, anchor text, relative position in linking document, surrounding text, etc. However, sometimes looking beyond the regular, can provide the opportunity to not only succeed in link building, but even dominate ...
Posted in Linking, SEO | 81 Comments »
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
So I hear there is this thing going with Google not wanting people to buy links from other people and lowering their toolbar PR, taking away their ability to pass link juice through links. Terrible stuff! There are even frightening reports of adult SEOs getting lumps in their throats at ...
Posted in Google, Linking, Science, SEO | 13 Comments »
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Any webmaster/SEO has reached the same inspirational rock bottom when it comes to getting links to a website close to his heart - link source exhaustion. With all the directories submitted to, hundreds of emails sent to webmasters, thousands of comment/signature spam links left, you have the will, you have ...
Posted in Google, Linking, SEO | 13 Comments »
