Whenever we perform our own search engine optimization research or find interesting research, including SEO experiments, we post about it here.
Ever done something stupid? Well, read this post on Google penalties, and then come back and finish reading here. Oh, and read the 3rd and 4th comments.
Yeah, stupid. I’ve found when you make a mistake the best thing to do is to own up to it, and then find something interesting you can learn from it. Aside from…
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…
For those of you who may be new to SEO and don’t know if you really believe that search engines can impact your business’s bottom line, here’s some interesting data from my own SEO company, based in Utah. You see, over the past years I’ve gotten quite a bit of business from search engines, especially when people were searching…
Apparently in as little as five days. My SEO firm launched a website, actually a microsite, for a Utah-based law firm towards the end of last week at ShoulderPainPumpLitigation.com. A few days later and the site is already indexed in Google, and not only that, but it’s got the #1 rank for “shoulder pain pump litigation”. Yes, I…
Article distribution is one method of gaining links to your website. Although it is not near as effective as it was in the past it can still be worth the time. One of the most difficult aspects of using articles for SEO is getting the articles distributed on the right websites. We tested 3 different services, you can see the…
What if the elections were today, and whoever had the best search engine rankings for their campaign website was the winner?
“I’m kind of suprised at how many people are still stuck in some SEO technique timewarp of what was effective in 1999.” That from Jim Boykin’s SEO blog, and amen to it. What Jim’s talking about is Google’s PageRank, which a Google rep labled as being “for entertainment purposes only.” Like Jim, I have seen more…
I just read a “help wanted” headline written by someone looking for an SEO specialist that read “I need a real seo specialist for my upcoming website. Please mention how much time required for a brand new site to hold top page position in google and what methods will be adopted.”
My SEO firm gets asked this same type of…
I’ve noticed a number of people searching for the terms “drawbacks of seo” or “drawbacks of sem” which I find interesting, because there are really only two drawbacks to either one, and those drawbacks are common to anything you do in business and life–time and money.
According to a number of search engine optimization experts, duplicate content (having essentially identical content in more than one online location) is a bad thing. My attempt here will not be to give my opinion or to conclude the argument one way or the other, but merely to catalog what everyone else is saying, and I’d like to enlist your…
I recently conducted an informal SEO survey on behalf of MWI through my personal blog. 124 individuals responded, and the complete results (sans personal info) are posted in the files below, and the summary results are displayed in HTML in the extended portion of this post.
Questions covered what respondents knew about search engine optimization or…
This is somewhat of a debate in the SEO realm, here is where I stand, feel free to post comments.
Here is a list of how many times people searched for ‘search engine optimization’ related keyword phrases last month according to Overture. If you want a list of keywords for your website we would be happy to get you one…
What is link popularity and what does it mean in terms of SEO?
Have you ever got frustrated because Google or Yahoo used a description from DMOZ or the Yahoo directory for your website when it is displayed in search engine results? Here is MSN’s answer to that:
If you use Google’s AdWords for pay-per-click advertising on Google you might have questioned the validity of the numbers AdWords gives you, like I have. Today I saw something, once again, that I find hard to believe and which causes me question whether AdWords is entirely accurate.
We always tell our clients that they can’t rank #1 for every keyword or keyword combination they want. The opposite is true as well. You can’t not rank for every keyword you don’t want either.
For example, here are some of the rankings my firm has that stump me at first until I start looking at the details:…
