seo

Plug-in for Encouraging Personalization of Search

Now you may notice a box above my blog post that encourages you to subscribe to my blog using Google Reader. This is the WWSGD plug-in mentioned above. It should stop showing after only two visits, thereby not annoying anyone all that much.

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Hitwise to Write Regular Columns for TIME Titled: Science of Search

Hitwise has been asked by TIME Magazine online to write a regular column titled “The Science of Search”. If this isn’t an indication of the mainstream appreciation for search marketing and search data analysis, I don’t know what is.

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How to Spot an SEO or Search marketing Scam

Anyone in the “great” and “fantastic” category doesn’t have to look for work either. In-fact, these are the people who are likely to turn you away and refer you to someone else because they are so busy it would be physically (or temporally) impossible to take on another client unless they gave up some of their terrible habits – like eating and sleeping.

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First Page Fitness, LLC Has Accepted Its Last SEO Client

Some of the exciting sites I will be working on with Gaiam:
Gaiam Yoga, Gaiam Community, Natural Habitat Eco Tours, Billy Blanks Tae Bo, Real Goods Green Products, LOHAS Magazine and Conference, Good Times Media, The Firm, Spiritual Cinema Circle, and a number of other exciting projects!

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The Biggest Google Ranking Myth of All – Clicking On Your Result

I just got an email from my wife’s Denver Roller Derby Team asking how they could rank better for the term Roller Derby Denver. Within the conversation thread (it went through a few people before making its way to me) someone said they thought Google ranked pages based on how many times people clicked on the link everyone on the team should search for the term and click on their result – which was on the third page.

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Google Updates Algo to Combat Google Bombs – Why?

If your search engine algorithm was as altruistic as you like people to think, this would not be happening. It is a slippery slope you’re on Matt. How far down the rabbit hole are you going to go? What’s next? What algorithmic change are you going to make when some other group blames you for fixing the results? Are you going to change a SERP because a company threatens to sue you after thousands of unhappy consumers link to their page using words like “scam” or “bad customer service”?

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Is Yahoo Mucking Up My 301 Redirect?

I am redirecting page A to page B using a 301. The http status code comes back as Page A redirects permanently via 301 to page B and page B looks fine (200 OK)…

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