Archive | June, 2008

30 June 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Is Link Buying Still A Good SEO Technique

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 [...]

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29 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Barry Schwartz Says We Need to Ban Together

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 [...]

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28 June 2008 ~ 3 Comments

Is There a Big difference Between #1 or #2 in Google?

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, [...]

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27 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

New Domain TLDs Approved Today

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, [...]

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