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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 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
HA! Found it :) Here is the full Google Human Editors Manual and Guidelines! Its a very interesting read actually and tells you what Google human editors (apparently around 13,000+ human editors!) are looking for in oder to penalize websites listed where they should not be.
I like the final note on spam (Web Spam):
When trying […]
Chris Baldwin @ March 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This came to my attention today and I wanted to share. You can geo target your website via the Google Webmaster Tool (upon site verification) so that your site will rank higher in a particular country or region! This will only work for generic international extensions like .com, .net and .org. It will also only […]
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 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Firefox browser if fast becoming the most popular internet browser and rapidly gaining market share from Internet Explorer. This is mainly due to the endless useful plugin extensions that can be installed into firefox, which extends the browsers functionality in ways we never imagined.
Here are some must have SEO plugins for firefox!
SEO for Firefox […]
Chris Baldwin @ March 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A couple of weeks ago at SES London, a very nice interview came out with Google Search Evangelist Adam Lasnik on several important SEO and webmaster relevant topics. Adam answers some questions about Flash, JavaScript, duplicate content (especially with press releases) and he also suggested uses of internal site nofollow tags and website architecture to […]
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
The Search Marketing Expo (SMX) West conference took place this week. I was reading up on some of the highlights and came across this very nice interview with Matt Cutts (google’s public figure and main google engineer) which is definitely worth the watch. Although the first half of the interview was quite personal (which […]
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 29, 2008 # 2 Comments
Yahoo! just announced the new approach they are about to implement for returning search query information. This is quite interesting and actually makes a lot of sense to me. I applaud them for the foresight they are displaying and really hope with this new implementation that they can re-gain some of the market share lost […]