DazzlinDonna’s take on SEO news, tips and theories.
Meet Paul Steven, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post called Google Keeps Rolling With New Tools To Play With. Is there anything more fun to an SEO geek than SEO tools? We do love our tool toys, don’t we?
Meet Phil Bradley, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post entitled, Facesaerch for Finding Faces. Phil often brings new (or new to us) search engines to our attention, and I really think we should be paying more attention to this. Sure, we all focus our attention on those that bring the most traffic, but we need to at least check out the alternatives.
Right off the bat, I want to disclose that I’m not an SEO guru. Yes, I’ve studied it and I do know something about SEO, but my expertise is actually in generating great content. I work for a magazine and write articles each month, but I also have a website with lots of info and I make some good money off it as well. While I am not quite ready to quit my job and work from home in my pajamas, I have had some great success with my website using article marketing, and I want to share some of the tricks I’ve learned with you.
Meet Pierre Far, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post called What Do You Do With Unauthenticated Search Engine Bots?. Pierre brings up some interesting thoughts about what to do with those pesky bots. He just blocks them, but he mentions that others will either ignore them or feed them bogus info, which could get them banned (if they are MFAs that are just scraping). What about you? Do you even deal with them at all? If so, do you do things differently? Why? Let’s get this conversation going, because it’s a good one. Go read Pierre’s post, and then comment there.
Although I don’t usually do “announcement” type posts, I had to throw out my congratulations and best wishes to the Search Marketing Standard Magazine. The company has been acquired by iNET Interactive, and the staff of the magazine will remain in place. They are all jazzed about the future of the magazine, and as an avid reader, I am too. I wonder if this means we can convince them to move to a monthly print schedule (hint, hint). Anyway, if you haven’t yet subscribed to the magazine, you’re really missing out. It rocks. Go get your subscription now.
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Meet PPCHero, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post called Top Google Adwords Quality Score Misconceptions. Remember the old days when all you had to do was buy your way to the top of Adwords? Right, and despite the fact that those old days are long gone, people still have that misconception. PPCHero debunks that and more in this post which is just one of a series of Adwords Quality Score posts. Go read it and make sure you aren’t still living in the past, or have just completely misunderstood something. Then go read the rest of the series, or any of the other great PPC posts they’ve done.
Meet PPCBlogger, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post called Why I’m Not a Fan of Submitting Sitemaps. PPCBlogger lays out three reasons why submitting a sitemap can be a bad idea, and it’s probably not for the reasons you think. Some good arguments are made, so head on over and read the post. Do you agree with PPCBlogger? Do you have evidence to the contrary? Join the conversation by commenting on the article.
Meet Raaj Paatkar, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post called Site-wide Links Can Hurt Your Rankings. Raaj explains what sitewide links are, and then discusses the value of these links, going so far as to say that they can actually hurt your rankings. Do you agree? Have you tested the effects? Raaj also wonders about blogrolls, since these are often sitewide. Go read Raaj’s post, and then chime in with your thoughts about sitewide links and blogrolls.
Wow, I just had a bizarre thing happen to me while reading an article over on Money-Hacks.com. I’d been on this page for about 30 seconds or so, and had read half the article, before suddenly I was whisked away to another page…no, another site…a Google error page! What The … ?? Here’s where I was…
And here’s where I got redirected to after about half a minute of reading the page…
I dug around the source code and saw that Money-Hacks is using Google Adsense, Google Custom Search, and Google Analytics. I don’t know which of these error’d out and caused the…
Meet Richard Dewick, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post called Google Local Business Center: Local Search Engine Optimisation. Richard gives some quick tips on how to optimize your local business site, using Google’s Webmaster Tools, Local Business Center, maps and videos, and local business directories. If you’re looking to rank better for local searches, and provide more targeted information to your visitors, following Richard’s tips is a good move.
Apparently, about a month ago (not sure of the exact date), About.com did a major redesign, and sadly, it went largely unnoticed. I could find a few mentions of it in a handful of blogs and a forum I visit, but it didn’t cause the kind of stir that a major redesign of a major site would normally cause. In a way, I’m not surprised, because About.com has always been the kind of site that many people hate, and yet, it’s still a huge presence on the Internet. How sad is it to own one of the largest sites, do a…
Meet Richard Burkhardt, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post called Reciprocal Linking for Ranking is Anything But Dead. What do you think? Do you still see value in the old recip links game? Do you still have a links page on your site?
Meet Roderick Ioerger, the Search Blogger of the Day. Today I’d like to highlight a post entitled Top Lists Are The Pits. From the post… “The truth is top lists have become over saturated as a product and are also now viewed mostly as watered down content. Is a single sentence or two really all that useful?”
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