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05
May

NPR, All Things Considered: Good Times For Google Advertising

PPC in the news on NPR. A decent piece on the basics of using Google Adwords. Hopefully this will drive more and more advertisers to PPC and SEO. Maybe this is why some SEOs are seeing the growth of their businesses while traditional advertisers are hurting?

10
Apr

What happens to the SEO value of a 301 redirected domain?

If you do a search for “301 redirect seo” you’ll find all sorts of how-to guides on how to create 301 redirects, the right way to create them, and you’ll learn a lot about the value they provide to the site you’re redirecting to. What I can’t find is what a 301 redirect does to the old site, or the…

27
Mar

Does SEO Pick Up in a Down Economy?

I don’t know about you (please chime in), but since the beginning of the year my SEO firm’s business has been picking up. Maybe it’s just a fluke, but the same factors that make search engine optimization a good marketing tool in any economy make it especially good in a down economy. That is, SEO is relatively inexpensive compared to other…

07
Mar

Comment Links on TheOrganicSEO.com Are Now DoFollow

Just added the DoFollow plugin to the site here, so your comment profile links are no dofollow instead of nofollow. The funny thing is I actually thought they were dofollow to begin with. Enjoy!

05
Dec

If you use Web CEO, SpyFu, or SEOmoz’s Rank Checker then you are dishonest.

Warning: If you’re the type of person who would rather remain in ignorance because you think that makes you innocent of any crime because you don’t know if you’re committing one or not, then you probably won’t want to continue reading. Of course now that you’ve read this it’s too late.

I’m not necessarily accusing you of being a liar, unethical, or…

01
Dec

How to get a link from Search Engine Land

From the folks who brought you What’s a Link from Wired.com Worth? and How to Get a Link from CNN.com now comes How to Get a Link from SearchEngineLand.com!

1. Set up a blog, just like this one.

2. Spend 100+ hours writing posts.

3. Spend another 20+ hours building links to your posts.

4. Give up and don’t bother to update your blog for a…

01
Dec

Ranking for Company Names – OrangeSoda’s Idea of SEO?

Disclaimer: The author of this post has a company that competes directly with OrangeSoda, so beware of competitive bias.

Update: Since posting this, it has come to my attention that there is no “About OrangeSoda” paragraph at the end of the press release, although there is one for REMAX, which might indicate that this press release wasn’t even issued by OrangeSoda, but perhaps…

21
Nov

How to get a link from CNN.com

Except I’ll burst your bubble right now and tell you the link isn’t followed. But it can still generate some traffic and perhaps some links will come from that. This technique has been out there for a while, this is just the first time I’ve had it be successful for me, hence the post at this late date.

Yesterday I was…

06
Nov

Seeking Authors for this SEO Blog

This blog has been up for some time, but we’ve let it languish this year. We’re interested in getting it back up and running and turning it into a valuable resource, and if you’re an SEO professional with a penchant for writing we’d like to invite you to become an author. Of course there’s no pay involved, but we don’t…

21
Apr

Why Google Shouldn’t Discriminate Against Paid Links

Because it can’t accurately identify them. Frankly, I don’t have much against Google having something against paid links. It’s their search engine, they can do whatever they want with it. Of course I’d prefer they live and let live when it comes to paid links, for my own self-interest as someone who occasionally uses paid links as a way to…