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If you’ve been in the SEO world for a while, let’s say…oh…at least 2 years, do you still get any real SEO surprises? Maybe you try something different, and see results you weren’t expecting? Or is everything pretty much “expected” by now? Just curious on a hot, muggy Saturday afternoon.
An old client of mine got in touch with me about three weeks ago, begging for help. Over the last couple of years, their site has lost all its rankings and they were desperate for change. I agreed to help with the following terms:
During the last few weeks, the training has taken up a large portion of the time, which…
Three years ago today, SEO Scoop was born. Much has changed in the SEO world in those three years, and SEO Scoop has changed with the times as well. To honor you, the Scoop readers, I held a contest this year and the lucky winner is …
Congrats, judith.lewis! (I won’t list the entire email address here for obvious privacy reasons).
Enjoy your 2 months of free SEOmoz Premium membership. Please let us know what your experience with it is.
For the rest of you, thank you all for spending a little part of your days here with me. I appreciate your time.
Although it’s…
If you laugh at geeky humor like I do, you’ll laugh at this Goo Goo Ga Ga onesie available for your baby. I’m not sure I would dare attempt to put a Google-inspired outfit on any of my grandchildren, but I’d sure be tempted to try and slip this one on. I mean, c’mon… Goo Goo Ga Ga! How funny is that! It is funny, right? Right???
Please laugh so I don’t feel like a complete dork.
Thank you.
Final Reminder: Less than 48 hours left to get in on the contest. Also, if you have newbie friends or family who are looking to get into the whole Internet game by having a site of their own, and you want to avoid extensive hand-holding, you might want to point them towards a new ten-part series I just completed over on my DazzlinDonna blog. It’s called How to Make a Living in Your Pajamas, and it’s aimed at the average person (not you) who wants to create their first site and make some money from home. In other words, it’s…
A couple of months ago, I participated in a charity meme, and today I want to link to a site for a different, but similar reason. G-Man, our old bud who has been fighting cancer for years, is hoping to get the word out about how everyone can help find cures for cancer and other diseases. He’s got all the details about how you and I can help find cures, and I absolutely HAVE to pass on some link love to him for that.
Search engines be damned! I don’t care what anyone thinks of me linking to a well-known…
I admit that I’m not one of the big social network gurus with a ton of “friends” on places like Facebook. But I’m savvy enough (I think) to understand the difference between a real connection and a fake one. If you and I are complete strangers, and you are going to waste your time and mine in attempt to befriend me via some social network, at least have the brain cells to fake some sort of connection between us.
I am constantly being bombarded with “friend requests” from social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. Most of them are from people…
Just wanted to remind everyone to get in on the SEO Scoop 3rd Birthday Contest where the prize is 2 free months of an SEOmoz Premium membership. You have less than a week to get in on the contest. Two months of a premium SEOmoz membership will get you a lot of value out of Rand and his gang of hoodlums. They’ve added some new goodies to the Premium membership, so you’ll be able to benefit nicely. Official contest announcement is here. But really, all you need to do is click on the Subscribe to SEO Scoop by Email link…
Social media is influencing and impacting business results in incredible ways. Some businesses are finally beginning to understand this and are starting to ask how they can use social media to drive positive results. Cymfony has released an interesting, free white paper that does a good job of outlining the enormous impact that social media is having. For example, they note that 24% of online car shoppers have changed their mind about a vehicle purchase based on social media. That’s a pretty astounding statistic, I think. So, what do car dealers do to have an impact on that? How do they…
Ok, the title of this post sounds a bit Digg-ish, but honestly, DomainsBot is truly the best domain name search service I have ever seen. Let me explain why I think that.
Let’s say you want to start a site dealing with Linux software, and you want the domain to be keyword rich. So you type in the phrase [linux software] and click Search. You’ll get a nice long list of domains with various .tld’s, and in various states of availability. You can then start whittling down the choices by creating some filters. Filter out some of the .tld’s for example, and…
When did Google’s “reinclusion” request become a “reconsideration” request? I suppose when they decided to allow webmasters to beg for forgiveness for actions that resulted in penalties rather than outright bans, they realized the term needed to be changed. In any case, I was pleased to see the new terminology in Webmaster Central. It makes sense now.
Despite the fact that I am about to link to a post that is nearly 2 months old (gasp! the horror!), this post made me laugh today, so today you get to laugh at it too. I don’t care if you laughed at it 2 months ago. Laugh again!
Here’s a taste of what you’ll find.
The website mentioned above sells paid links - I know because I paid them to link to a competitor of mine
For a while now, I’ve been noticing a referrer in my logs from a search on Ask.com for [Search better now], which has been sending visitors to an old post of mine. It’s been nothing more than a passing curiosity for me, until today. Today, I came across an Ask ad. See below.
Ah-ha! So THAT’S why so many people are searching for that phrase. Ok, so I headed over to see what results Ask is giving for that. Yes, there I am, in the #2 position for that search. And oh my goodness, the results for that search across the…
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