Natural Link Building

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 ...

Tapping into Unconventional Link Attributes

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 ...

Designing SEO Experiments - a different angle

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

  I have thoroughly enjoyed SlightlyShadySEO's post about designing SEO experiments. If you haven't read it yet, go do that now, it gives quite a comprehensive list of all the variables needed to be controlled when creating a sterile environment necessary for isolating and testing the individual ranking algorithm parameters. I ...

Google vs. Paid Links - how will it end ? Lessons from Mother Nature

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 ...

Sphinn gets your site indexed in Google in just a few hours

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

How long does it take for a page on a brand new domain to get indexed and showing in Google's SERPs ? Weeks, if not months. Well, not if you Sphinn them. Here is a study case of my new blog and the super-fast indexing it experienced in last few ...