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Chris Baldwin @ March 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
There is a very interesting discussion thread over at Google Groups involving Matt Cutts.
Basically, a website owner complained that his website was penalized by Google and many rankings where lost (-xx penalty). After a leangthy discussion, Matt Cutts joined in and pointed this out:
ShyBoy, have you been collecting backlinks in any unusual ways? It
looks like […]
Chris Baldwin @ March 20, 2008 # One Comment
I recently discovered (shame on me!) that Yahoo Site Explorer allows a webmaster to actually tag an inbound link to their site as ’spam’ and reject it as being counted as inbound link weight. Well, I checked to see if Google allowed this same feature within their Google webmaster tool and fair enough they did […]
Chris Baldwin @ March 18, 2008 # One Comment
Have a limited online marketing budget? Here are a number of ways to promote your website for free!
Free Online Marketing Tips and techniques:
Start a blog. Use a free service like WordPress or Blogger. This is an excellent way to attract targeted visitors to your domain. It is a long term project, so be patient. Traffic […]
Chris Baldwin @ March 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The results of a recent Google experiment was released over at seomoz.com regarding the weight of anchor text on the same page pointing to the same destination.
What they found can nicely be summarized in the image below:
So let’s say you have 2 links on your home page that are both pointing to your blog. The […]
Chris Baldwin @ March 7, 2008 # 2 Comments
A case study:
You hear it and see it all the time in the domaining industry. A hyphen in a domain will decrease the value of that domain name and search engines often devalue hyphenated domains as these are often ‘copycat domains’ or 2nd grade content domains. Although I agree this is true in some cases, […]
Chris Baldwin @ March 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This is something I have been giving considerable thought to the past few months. I did not get around to sharing some of my 2008 SEO and online marketing predictions yet but since it is march already and there is about to be a big shift in the seo and online marketing industry this year […]
Chris Baldwin @ February 23, 2008 # One Comment
Link Baiting is in essence an advanced form of link building. Link Baiting is pretty much like baiting a hook: A fisherman would bait up a hook so that a fish would be more inclined to take a bite. It is the same with link baiting. You throw out a link somewhere, like on one […]
Chris Baldwin @ February 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Wikipedia did it 12 months ago and del.icio.us 6 months ago and now Flickr is also following suit. Nofollow tags have been placed on all external links (links pointing to other websites). This is in response to people (spammers included) using these sources as a form of link building playground to point links from these […]