Is PageRank Dead?
Google had a PageRank update this week. Most of us have been sitting with anticipation for months looking for it. It finally happened. Well, I've got to say that I fared pretty well across the board. Almost all of my websites went up in PageRank. Some other people, however, didn't fare so well. John Chow comes to mind: Well you know what? PageRank is caught in the 90’s, and that’s why I’m going to go out on a limb and claim PageRank… stuff it… BackRub, to be dead. Dead as a Dodo. Dead as an Alexa rating. Dead! Why John Chow Is Angry About PageRank Is this just an angry rant or does John Chow have a point? Is PageRank dead? I say it's the proverbial Yes and No. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Social Bookmarking For SEO
Social bookmarking is one of the best traffic tools I've discovered. You write a blog post or build a web page and bookmark it at your favorite social bookmarking website. Then you share it with your friends. They share it with their friends and so on and so on. But did you know social bookmarking also provides you with some SEO benefit? It's true. When you bookmark your website you get a link back to your web page or blog from the social bookmarking site and you get all the PageRank benefits that conveys. Whenever someone else bookmarks your site then you get another link. I'm not sure if there is a limit to the number of social bookmarking links you can have (I'm sure there CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
The One-Page Wonders Of SEO
I had an argument with an acquaintance of mine about one-page websites. Her take was that they don't do well overall because of the link factor. Since Google, and now all search engines, value links, especially internal links and inbound links, then it seems to reason that one-page websites shouldn't do well. They would have to build a huge volume of inbound links in order to make any waves at all, she said. A second reason my acquaintance discounted one-page websites was because of the search engine saturation factor. Her take was that search engines like big websites, therefore smaller websites don't do as good overall. The Disappointing News About Pages, Links And SES Well, I hate to the one to disappoint, but that's not true at all. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Two Search Engine Improvements Worth Noting
From time to time I like to talk about what's going on at the search engines. Especially when they make changes or update their business practices and if it leads to an improvement of some kind I'm really excited about that. Recently, both Google and Yahoo! have rolled out some new policies that I think are quite exciting. I'll talk about Yahoo!'s first: According to TechCrunch, Starting today, visitors to Yahoo’s homepage will start to see links going to blogs and media sites that don’t have a syndication deal with Yahoo. I think this is a good move. It shows good faith on the part of Yahoo! Will I likely be one of those linked to by the search portal? Probably not. But this is a good CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Why Is Organic SEO So Important?
You hear so much about SEO these days that you almost want to do something else. Before 2000, most people didn't give SEO a second thought. SEO, for all extensive purposes, didn't really exist. There was Internet marketing and people did market their websites to search engine marketing. But SEO as we know it didn't really exist. Now it's all you hear. SEO this. SEO that. SEO, SEO, SEO. But is SEO really all that necessary? I think it is. And not only that, I think SEO is the most important aspect of running a business on the web. Sure, you can run a business without ever performing or thinking about SEO. You can engage in social marketing and pay per action type advertising, but I CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Link Buying: Is It Necessary?
A couple of days ago, several bloggers reported that Google has dropped the PageRank of some high profile websites for selling links. Today, WebProNews reported on it as well. It seems that none of the sites who lost PageRank saw any corresponding loss in traffic. This news tells me two things: PageRank and traffic are not really connected. You can have a high PageRank and low traffic or vice-versa. You can have high PageRank and high traffic or low PageRank and low traffic. One does not lead to the other, therefore, why are link prices connected to PageRank when the only real benefit you get from buying links is the traffic. I mean, seriously, PageRank is nice and all, but traffic can lead to more CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Spaced Out On Google, Cerf
(Source) Vint Cerf, an Internet visionary, has predicted that we’ll have developed an interplanetary web that will allow spacecrafts, satellites and planets to transmit information back and forth to each other, as well as back to earth. With Cerf having been hired by Google some two years ago, it’s been largely understood that the search engine to power all of the organization of this data being exchanged will be coming from Google. The problem with this is we haven't even begun to colonize space yet. The statement I found the most extraordinary is this one: As Cerf spoke fondly of Google, he mentioned that he thinks the company will become the interplanetary backbone over the next 20, 30 or 40 years. OK. It's going to take that CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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