SEO Tip #439 – How to handle linking to questionable sites

March 29, 2006

If you are concerned about linking to a possibly “bad neighborhood” that has relevant and helpful content for your site users, there are solutions.  You can of course use the nofollow tag (which Captain Sprite is a big fan of).  However there is some evidence that the engines are still following these links. 
What is a paranoid [...]

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March 30 – Talking SEO with Daniel Boberg

March 27, 2006

We’ll be chatting with the industry veteran Daniel Boberg, Senior Director of Strategic Alliances for Yahoo! Search Marketing about search engine optimization. 
I’m sure you’re curious so tune in and listen at 4pm (Eastern Time).

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Personalized Search is Coming, Too Late It’s Here

March 27, 2006

Personalized search is here and you shouldn’t be worried.  The search engines have been experimenting with personalizing the search results for each individual users for several years.  Google has been making the most public progress.  If you sign in for GMail or some of there other offerings, they will keep you logged in until you [...]

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Real or Fake eBay Ads?

March 23, 2006

After reading SugarRae’s Polling via MSN IM: Real or Fake I decided to have some fun. Here are some eBay ads that were on Google.  Can you find the fake ones?
Lies
Whatever you’re looking for
you can get it on eBay.
www.eBay.com
Hurt Me
Whatever you’re looking for
you can get it on eBay.
www.eBay.com

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SEO Tip #983 – Don’t link to pages just because they link to you

March 23, 2006

Several years ago people would find a search that they ranked #1 in Google and then link to that Google serp.  The logic being that the googlebot would follow the link and then realize that a mighty and powerful site like Google is linking to your site and thus pass huge link popularity to you.  [...]

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March 23 – Researching Keywords with Christine Churchill of KeyRelevance

March 22, 2006

Christine was a member of the founding Board of Directors of SEMPO.  She serves as the Associate Editor for e-marketing-news and is the Chairman of the Dallas-Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association.  She is also a regular speaker at Search Engine Strategies, WebmasterWorld Conferences, High Rankings Seminars, (to name a few).   This lady knows her [...]

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Beta Test – Google Base added to serps

March 21, 2006

It appears that Google is testing the concept of adding a Google Base search box in their serps.  Below is a screen capture of what Google is showing for the keyword “homes for sale”.  Since they are already showing three paid listings on top of the organic search results it is interesting they would take [...]

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March 15 – CSS Conversation with SuzyUK

March 15, 2006

CSS Goddess SuzyUK is going to be talking about how Cascading Style Sheets can help load pages faster, improve SEO and increase a website’s usability.  Make sure not to miss this one at 4pm Eastern Time (9pm GMT) or download it from the GoodKarma podcast archive.

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Follow-up on Google Sitemaps with Vanessa Fox

March 10, 2006

Somehow Vanessa found time in her crazy busy schedule to answer some follow-up questions.   Thanks Vanessa.   If you have not yet tried Google Sitemaps, you are missing out.

If Google’s search engine was not available, what would you use to find things?
I’m very glad Google is around. I remember the hours and hours I spent in the [...]

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GoodKarma/Webmasterworld Conference Pass Week 3 Winner

March 9, 2006

Congratulations to Mike Goldberg, the winner of a free full conference pass to WebmasterWorld’s Boston Pubcon.
Don’t worry if you didn’t win. We are giving away one more pass. Just go to WebmasterWorld.com and look in the Google Adword section and find out what Elsewhen is talking about then submit the answer at http://www.goodroi.com/goodkarma. Good luck [...]

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