Search Marketing Blog from Cincinnati, Ohio
Rants and Raves about the SEO, Social Media and Search Marketing World
SEO Analogies Help Us Understand
From time to time I come up with some nice SEO analogies. Analogies really help the lay person understand why people in our business do what they do. They are also a great form of humor in some aspects for some of the more seasoned SEO's out there. ...
Improve Rankings Without SEO
Chris Boggs has a great post on SEW entitled:
Top 5 Non-SEO Ways to Increase Your Search Rankings
Yes you can improve your rankings without doing traditional SEO. I have always preached that the first thing your business should be doing before SEO is being the best at what they do. ...
SEO Blog RSS Feed List, The Ones I Personal Follow
Did you ever wonder what SEO and marketing blog feeds I follow. Sure you did. In honor of RSS day (which was yesterday May 1st by the way) here are all of them directly from my feed reader in Outlook:
From the Search Engines:
These are all must subscribes for ...
Today is RSS Awareness Day
From the fun minds at Daily Blog Tips this holiday awareness day was born.
If you dont know what RSS is you can learn it from Common Craft:
RSS awareness day even has their own website:
RSSDay.org
OK if you read this blog you have now been made aware! I must admit RSS ...
Twitter Company List
Are you a Twitter nut? I must admit I am getting more and more into it. I have not went as far as to hook it up to the cell phone yet, but I am thinking about it.
I do use a cool piece of software called Digsby that ...
Just Another Crappy SEO Article
Here we go again. SEO guidelines or advice that sucks, is not true or is just poop on a page being published on a big popular website:
PC World: Understand Google's Guidelines
This time it is PC World. The author is Jon Rognerud and "is a recognized authority on SEO ...
Get Answers From All Three Search Engines
Back in the day it was unheard of to get feedback from the search engines about their algorithm updates or more specifically what was happening with your particular website.
Thankfully those days are long behind use for all three major search engines. Previously when you have problems with your website ...
Find New Backlinks With Google Alerts
I found a new and very simple methods to get notified when someone new is back linking to a website.
Go to Google Alerts: http://www.google.com/alerts.
Once you?re at Google Alerts simple add the following operator into the Search terms box: link:www.yourdomain.com, choose comprehensive, once a day and your email address. Those ...
xRank by MSN Live Search
Ever wonder who is hot right now in entertainment? Sure I do :)
Actually this new xRank feature at Live Search is pretty cool.
Live Search xRank
Here is how Live Search calculates it:
* The xRankTM list that is based on search volume. Honest, we're not ...
SEG Small Business Marketing Unleashed Conference
SEG conducted their Small Business marketing Unleashed Conference in Houston this the last couple of days.
They posted recaps to a lot of the sessions. Here are the ones I found particular good and interesting:
1. Unleashed: Blogging for Businesss
on the topic of company blogging, thought this post fit well:
Examples of Great ...
Google Set Geographic Target Tool
As most of you know you can set your targeted geographic location in Google Webmaster Tools. Susan Moskwa posted a helpful video today describing how and who would be able to take advantage of this fully:
The video gives great examples of those people that own one .com domain and ...
Jim Killeen and Google Me The Movie
I am sure most of us have done it. Gone to Google and type in our names. It's an ego thing. What websites rank for our names, our nick names, your friends names, your enemies names.
I do it everyday through a standard search or through Google Alert ...
NoFollow and PR Sculpting, Making Sense Of It
As most of you know I have complained about PR Sculptor and the nofollow attribute for sometime on this blog. I have also posted most all other blogs that cared to bring it up as a topic.
Recently John Andrew posted his Q and A session from Domain Round Table ...
Music and Videos Rule YouTube Searches
According to Compete March samples, visitors search YouTube primarily for music videos and artists. The data is available here:
Top 25 YouTube Search Terms: March 2008
Here are the Top 5 searches done on YouTube:
1. Sex
2. Lil Wayne
3. Low
4. Chris Brown
5. No Air
So does this leads us to believe that most ...
20 Answers from Google Search Guru Udi Manber
Spotted a post on popular Mechanics today where they asked Udi Manber 20 questions on how Google search works:
20 (Rare) Questions for Google Search Guru Udi Manber
Highlights and feedback:
I?ve noticed, anecdotally, when watching people search, that they will rephrase their query over and over again until they get a proper ...