Google Includes Blog Search In Web History
This isn't exactly brand-spanking-new news, but it's worth mentioning. If you are a Google Personalization user and you make regular Blog Search searches then those will be included in your Web History. That's nice to know. I'm a big fan of personalization despite the obvious privacy issues. Yes, Google knows what kind of searches you make. What have you got to hide? Personalization is about providing you with the search information about which you have the most interest. Not interested? Turn it off. Or don't sign up for it in the first place. That's OK, no one will hold it against you. But if you research a particular topic a lot then Personalization can improve the results that get. If anything, it filters out the spam CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Content Still King Though Network Links Be Dead
(Source) For those who didn't hear the news, a major change to the Google algorithm has punished blogs and sites that heavily cross link in networks. There are suggestions by some that the change is related to punishing sites that offer paid links, but so far the evidence doesn't support that. I've found a broad range of sites selling links who haven't had a page rank change, whilst a number of prominent sites which have never sold links have seen big page rank drops. Yes, I agree. I've written about this before, just recently. And I do think there is some confusion on this subject because Google made two changes at once. They seem related, but they're really not. It's common knowledge that Google took CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Content, Links, Relevance, Popularity: WebProNews On SEO
WebProNews conducted video interviews of some of the top SEOs in the industry. Sadly, they didn't interview me. But they did interview some folks I admire. Included in the interviews were: Rand Fishkin Eric Enge David Brown Brian Mark You know they say great minds think alike. Well, there seems to be some consensus and, of course, it agrees with me. Four of the most important things to keep in mind in your SEO efforts are content, links, relevance, and popularity. The bottom line is your on page content is a big, big factor in SEO. So are inbound links and all of these guys said it doesn't matter where you get them from. Relevance and popularity are also important and refer to the content and reputation of the sites linking CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Is SEO Dying?
(Source) “Yahoo is ready with a new social-networking service that would let you update and play around with your friends’ profiles.” With Yahoo! and Google both getting into the social media arena, does that mean SEO is dead? Will search engine optimization be replaced entirely by social media marketing? Already, you can see people online who succeed primarily from their social marketing efforts, with their SEO acting as a supplement to the social marketing. Will that the trend of the future? I don't think so. It's been said before, and every once in awhile someone else will pop in and start telling us all why SEO is dead or dying and will soon be replaced by social media marketing. It's usually done by someone who isn't CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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