It seems a few “innocents” may have be caught up in this (though, honestly, it’s easy to blame Google for not ranking your site), and some pages that shouldn’t be ranking are now, according to various reports in forums since last night.
A recent Search Engine Watch forums post made public an email that went out from another big retailer – Home Depot – asking their partners to link to the Home Depot’s website. The types of links to your website (sources such as directories, forums...
If you have a natural linking pattern from social networking sites, forums, and blogs, then strongly consider hiring an evangelist to become your "face" online. Many times when I'm trying to answer people on the SEW forums about 301 redirects and...
We've been having quite a discussion about reciprocal links over at the Search Engine Watch Forums in our Reciprocal Linking: Dead or Alive? Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the...
Search Engine Forums Spotlight - Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: What's Your Favorite Search Engine Marketing Book? SES Heading To Stockholm, France, Chicago + SEW Forums Live Hits Disneyland!
No comment boxes were contaminated, no mailboxes, no Usenet forums, and certainly no one spent a single byte of extra bandwidth (with the exception of the links from If it wants to spam, then it pays the same price anyone else pays if they want to...
Join the As We May Think discussion in the Search Engine Watch forums. As we kick off our largest ever Search Engine Strategies conference today, it's well worth the time to read this remarkable essay and reflect on how amazingly far we've come in...
Barry Schwartz (aka Rustybrick) needs to be commended for the excellent coverage of SES Chicago 2004 he has provided in the SEW Forums. The problem bloggers face has already been an issue for those who run forums, guest books or any other type of...
This came up on our forums recently, when someone was asking about having an area just for black hat techniques. For those interested in more, Jill did an excellent article on the subject fairly recently: Black Hat/White Hat Search Engine...
Namebombing: Linking To Influence Results For A Name Search Engine Watch Forums, Oct. Search Engine Watch Forums, July 22, 2004 Aggressive Linking - The Only Search Engine Optimization Strategy You Need?
Search Engine Watch Forums, Aug.http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/ showthread.php? However, another thread with debate can be found at the ihelpyou forums. The new group sparked quite a discussion on WebmasterWorld about whether the group was...
While various webmaster forums have lots of discussion about the recent Google changes, specifics about particular situations are often lacking. Google has expressly said that it doesn't penalize for hyphenated URLs in the past and once again...
However, those who dropped are more likely to complain about this in public forums that those who've benefited from the move. That comment is typical of many you see in the forums. There's a huge amount published for webmasters, and even more is...
Keep an Eye on iPhrase & Search Engine Forums Spotlight SearchDay, Mar.http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/03/sd0310-iphrase.html iPhrase Technologies, which powers both Yahoo and Lycos Finance search, has been chosen to power the search...
I'd bet that these were inexperienced yet vocal participants posting to search engine forums. Is an aggressive linking strategy alone sufficient to garner high search engine rankings? For those that still doubt the importance of a linking-only...
I'd bet that these were inexperienced yet vocal participants posting to search engine forums. Is an aggressive linking strategy alone sufficient to garner high search engine rankings? The site is operated by a search engine marketing firm that has...
