How to Approach a Company About their SEO?
Cre8asite Forums
"It's time to trot out my favorite Peter Drucker quote again, 'Help is defined by the recipient'... I've never had any luck in telling companies even about the most damaging problems with their websites."
Google Confirms Mid-Page "See Results For" Section No Longer A Test; Suggest A Name!
Search Engine Watch Forums
"Those funky 'See Results For' links in the middle of Google search results are now a permanent feature. Like them? Got a name for them?"
Should SEO Be Part of Journalism 101?
Small Business Ideas Forum
"...in a world that increasingly turns to the Internet and search engines to search for news coverage, newspapers can no longer afford to ignore search engine friendly tactics like keywords in story headlines and text."
AdWords Editor (Beta)
Search Engine Watch Forums
"Thoughts and experiences on Google's new AdWords Editor software."
Hidden Links On Colgate-Palmolive Site
Search Engine Watch Forums
"Colgate-Palmolive products freshen your breath, clean your skin and, um, hide links from search engines. Another big brand gets attention for going outside search engine guidelines. Another debate erupts."
Question On Tracking Conversion Rates
High Rankings Forum
"I think in the long run it's more valuable to know that your traffic is up or down X% when compared to yesterday/last month/last year/whatever, or that of the people you can measure, X% of them clicked on Link A on your page while Y% of them clicked on Link B. In the end, you're going to get more actionable information from that than from simply 'knowing' that a particular page of your site got 'so many' visitors today."
Google Algo Moving Towards Site Traffic Patterns
Webmaster World
"We have been talking about the Google Toolbar data set for years and how it could possibly make a major impact on Google's search listings. More and more people are beginning to believe that Google is - and has been as far back as the Florida Update - using toolbar generated site traffic patterns to influence search listings."
Google Buys Search Algorithm Invented by Israeli Student
Webmaster World
"The importance of related words is something I see as the future -- algorithms using the entire semantic ecology of the online neighborhood where the page lives."
Social Book Marking
High Rankings Forum
"So each social bookmark is an opportunity for some unknown number of people to discover the site via the recommendation of someone they trust. That won't raise your rankings, but those who blog about you will, and all of it functions to expand your audience within your targeted niche and some tangential ones."
Search Engine Forums Spotlight courtesy Search Engine Guide.
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