Oh, Those 2008 LiveSearch Search Trends
Search trends can be enlightening, funny, or downright scary. While fanning through my RSS reader this morning I came across a blog post at Live Search that gives some insight into search trends for 2007 and 2008. It seems that Americans really love turkey (and have serious love-hate relationships with their spouses). This paragraph from the blog post had me laughing: Last year people in the U.S. were learning to cook turkeys and to brine them. To argue with their spouses (maybe about whether to cook or brine the turkey) and to improve their marriages (probably after getting too worked up about the turkey). They wanted to learn how to make money and how to save it, how to lose weight both in general CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Boston SEO Meetup’s Speaker takes on Affiliate Marketing
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The Cambridge Search Engine Optimization Meetup Group!
By Brian Hawkins Affiliate Marketing Manager for www.Pingo.com & Ast. Organizer for BostonSEO.org
Boston SEO networking group held its monthly meeting with a packed room of event attendees. The room was filled with regulars that see the benefit in coming each month to network and gain a dozen solid tips to apply to there websites. Mark from AmericanRamp.com said that he was able to get his website to rank for a dozen targeted keyword phrases, simply by applying the tips that he learned from attending the seo meetups. Now I’ll try to remember all that was discussed for this review of the event.
Guest Speaker: Nick a Super CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Do The Search Engines Favor The Popular And “Rich”?
It's no secret that Google built the popular web. Link popularity is the name of the game and has been for some time. The question is, does Google's link popularity algorithms reward those with a lot of links already with even more links while those who are struggling to survive get fewer? A very interesting article written in 2004 about that very subject says "Yes." But I think there is some reason to suspect that the article inherently correct in its assumptions. Nevertheless, it appears to be true that the search engines do favor big (and older) websites above smaller and newer ones. So is that the same and saying that they favor the link rich to the link poor? Honestly, I think they CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
StepRep – Reputation Management Monitoring Product Review
StepRep is a new reputation management tool aimed at keeping an eye on what the search engines are saying about you or your business with information including the social networks such as Twitter. StepRep is a one stop shop allowing you to manage your online reputation from every angle possible. StepRep will take things a bit further than most reputation tracker tools by digging deeper and finding out what pictures and images others have been tagging and what the various social communities might be saying about you when you are not looking. This type of information is very valuable in order for businesses, individuals and organizations to take the proper steps in order to clean up their online image as quickly as possible. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Google Can Remove Third Party Content – But Not For Libel?
Some of us already knew that Google would take the time to remove third party content from its index. But this seems to be news for WebProNews readers. I read this article with real interest expecting to see something related to personally damaging material that might be construed as reputation damaging at least or libelous at the worst. Not so. It appears that Google may not really care if people are telling lies about you. What are some reasons you can have third party content removed from Google? If it is spam If the site is selling links to for PageRank If the site is stealing your content If the site is involved in phishing or distributing malware If it contains your personal and private information such as SSN, credit CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Use .htaccess To Block Scrapers, Hackers, And Other Nefarious PITAs
Has your website been hacked? Do you have an onerous scraper stealing your content. Or maybe you've been trolled or otherwise snizzled upon (don't ask me what it means, but it sounds nasty doesn't it?)? You can take care of those pesky little pains the arses (PITAs) once and for all just by adding a little snippet of code in your .htaccess. Before I tell you what the code is, let's review what an .htaccess is. It's a little text file that allows you to overwrite some directions within your directories. You can do all sorts of things with your .htaccess including forbidding robots from crawling your site, redirecting some URLs to others, and protecting some pages with passwords. It's a useful document. You can create CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Are TinyURLs Bad For SEO?
An interesting article at Search Marketing Standard purports that tinyURLs are bad for Web business. Specifically, the article cites three negatives associated with tinyURLs. Those negatives include: They scare readers They dilute your brand They tend to squander link equity I'll have to agree on all three counts. But I'm reasonably sure that the alternative offered by the article's author, Jaimie Sirovich, is no better a solution. Scaring readers is such a vague argument that I won't address it here. It really boils down to some readers not being familiar with tinyURL services or having been burned before by clicking a link that led them to a warez site or caused them to download a virus or other destructive file. That's understandable. But the real issue for CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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