You bet your first place rankings they are! There are MANY people in the Internet marketing community that will tell you that paid links are dead and that it is merely a matter of time until all link buyers will get caught and penalized. Well I have news for you all, Google doesn’t and never [...]
June 2008
I love it. A great post over at Cartoon Barry the other day about the recent announcement of ICANN and how they will be offering custom domain TLDs. He poses the question of who will get the .SEO and .SEM domain names. The new custom domain TLDs will cost anywhere from $100,000 on up and [...]
Yes, there is! A 2006 study from Cornell University studaied the distribution of clicks on a SERP. How many more clicks does a #2 spot get over a #3 spot, etc.? They used eye-tracking to conduct the experiments, as well as a sample of undergraduate students performing 397 queries on various topics like music, movies, [...]
Well, its all wide open now. In a huge announcement today from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) custom Internet domain suffixes have been approved. They have backed an initiative that will introduce an unlimited number of TLDs (top level domains). In the past they have approved such TLDs as .com, .net, [...]
Today I Sphunn across a great post from site that I had not visited in a while but used to really enjoy, www.searchengineguide.com. The post was about how to safely move a site to a new domain and is a wonderful post with the proper advice on doing so. There are various steps, that Stoney [...]
I have been reading around the Web that there is a big to do about some statements that a Google employee has made regarding the fact that Google does not like long URLs. The conversation started over at Google Groups. The comments came from guy named JohnMu and specifically used this URL as an example: [...]
There has been much debate in the past few months as to whether or not Google recognizes, and passes link equity, to multiple links to the same page with different anchor texts. There is a recent post at SERoundtable that has re-sparked this debate and some of the comments disgust me. But first, here is [...]
