Spam Twitter!
Monday, August 30th, 2010Good news! Twitter spam might boost your Google ranking! Feel free to build your spambots today and watch your Google rankings soar tomorrow. You may also want to start investing in large bags with dollar signs on them to handle your new windfall.
Now, if I were actually advocating Twitter spam, I’d probably be in a [...]
What Google Thinks About Your Link Building Efforts
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Ask 10 different SEO firms about link building strategy, and you’ll get 10 different opinions. Some will stress social media, others may value content creation, and a few will even promote paid links and link exchanges. Frankly, however, the only opinion that really matters is Google’s.
Because Google decides which links matter and which don’t, we [...]
Google Caffeine – Big, Fresh and Here
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010It’s now official, Google Caffeine is live universally. Google posted about this on their blog last evening. Matt Cutts also sat down with Danny Sullivan at SMX in Seattle in this video as well. (With all that caffeine I wonder if they were sleepless?)
What becomes most apparent at first look is that this update is [...]
New Statistics Illustrate Local Search Optimization’s Importance
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010Today, Google announced that it has changed the name of the Google Business Center to Google Places. While the announcement itself may not have raised many eyebrows, the statistics that Google included with the press release certainly have.
According to Google, 20 percent of all searches are related to location. Since comScore reports that 14.3 billion [...]
How a Deer-Hunting Photo Diary Can Help Online Reputation Monitoring
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010I’d like to share a funny story about a how a client of mine has gotten some recent reputation-monitoring help from strange places.
Background
This client is in the consumer electronics industry, but the name of its business happens to share a name with:
1. a medical iPhone app
2. a .net website belonging to a farm
The Rankings
As [...]
