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SEOs Fight Fat For Charity - Like Reality TV but not. Watch us. Laugh at us (privately, please don't hurt our feelings on purpose). Bet on us. Support us. Cheers us on. Hope that we raise lots of money for [...]

By |2013-06-05T06:46:36-04:00January 31st, 2008|Content|

David Ogilvy on SEO

"The most important word in the vocabulary of SEO is TEST." "Never stop testing, and your SEO will never stop improving." "SEO people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals." David Ogilvy  on [...]

By |2009-02-24T11:10:19-05:00January 29th, 2008|SEO|

You May Be a Search Spammer if …

Along the lines of Jeff Foxworthy's humour, lets start off the week with a fun post ... You may be a search spammer if ... 1) you know what a Markov Chain is 2) you use an image editor to [...]

By |2009-02-24T14:34:20-05:00January 28th, 2008|SEO|

How Search Really Works: Keyword Stuffing

This post is part of an ongoing series: How Search Really Works. Last week: Keyword Links. Left to their own devices, people will assign keywords (tag or link) as they please. They paint a rich picture of the linked content. [...]

By |2013-05-08T12:34:33-04:00January 25th, 2008|SEO|

Using Yahoo Answers To Capture Long Tail Searches

Credit: Bocavelhma Yahoo! Because We've Got You Too Yahoo answers is a great resource for Q&A when you just can't seem to find the information you're looking for. Aside from authority sites such as Wikipedia or dedicated niche forums, where [...]

By |2008-01-25T08:08:01-05:00January 25th, 2008|SEO|

Matt Cutts, Why Am I Still Being Punished?

I dumped text link ads. I nofollowed paid links. I javascripted links that might be mistaken for paid links. I canceled my sponsored review accounts. I switched to a different method of monetization (Scratchback) that serves Google-friendly, nofollowed links. (And [...]

By |2013-06-05T06:44:19-04:00January 24th, 2008|PR|
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