Best Lines: Carolyn Shelby: I don’t usually no-follow. I only do it if it’s somebody I really hate and I use it as sort of a digital middle finger ‘Hi’ Lawrence Coburn: Sharing is Caring but Google is King. Search: 97%. Social 0.55% Joe Laratro: [After giving URLs for Google & Bing Webmaster tools] You […]
When new tools create new opportunities it’s important to think about: The eternal truths of the underlying concept How those truths are best applied using the current technologies [youtube]7vThuwa5RZU[/youtube] For example, take Social Media. It’s networking, or relationship building. The most fundamental rules of Networking are: Give before you take. When somebody does something for […]
Since Derek Powazek wouldn’t allow my comment on his blog, I’ll put it on his SideWiki and briefly discuss the issue here. Derek projected all his darkness on to the SEO community, calling them “cockroaches, bastards, evildoers, spammers, and jerkwads.” Then when they replied he called them touchy. He then played the victim when people […]
Rand Fishkin started a nice debate when he attacked the old canard “For SEO: Design for Users not Search Engines.” Rand blasted that as terrible advice. Search Engine Land attacked this twice: Danny Sullivan took Rand on in the comments section, and Jill Whalen blasted him in her weekly column, saying that Rand’s piece “could […]
I enjoy reading Seth Godin and Lisa Barone so I found their recent smackdown compelling. For anybody who missed it: Godin launched Brands in Public where he puts up a page for each brand highlighting what’s being said about them on the web. To gain control of your company’s page you can pay Godin $400 […]
I’ve been working on SEO this past week. The Pet Wiki is a pretty new site, and needs a lot of work to increase the page rank so that it will show up higher in search engine results. One of the best ways to do that is to have others link to the site. Search […]
I’ve been having fun. To set up my blog just how I like it, I’ve been looking for useful widgets to add. There are a ton of great ones out there. Here’s a list of my favorites: Akismet – Spam is a huge problem with any blog. The amount of spam seems to grow every […]
I’ve been playing around with a number of themes on the new blog site – I want to have it up and ready before I do the big switch – and it seems like Thesis wins out. I’m one of the cheaper people out there, so for me to plunk down $87 for a theme […]
If SEO is part of your life and you missed Rand Fishkin’s session at SMX Advanced a few weeks ago, you now have their must read Updated SEO Policies Based on Correlation Data (where Rand says the comments section is now also filled with important info) and a video where Rand essentially interviews one of […]
SMX Advanced was fantastic. Here’s the best of the best … Best lines: Christine Churchill: “Anybody in this room not on Twitter? One person? Wow, let’s all applaud the last holdout.” Matt Cutts when asked “how do I know if I’m getting penalized?” : “If you disappear from Google. That’s what we call a leading […]