Why WordPress ISN’T A Good Choice For Your Website
Last month I did a guest article for Jemima Gibbons monthly newsletter on Freshbusinessthinking.com about Social Media Monitoring and Analytics. In that same newsletter Nikki Pilkington argued why WordPress is a good choice for your webs…
Google Adwords and SEO: Beware of the Fraudsters
Most of you probably already know this, but I thought it worth mentioning here that SEO fraud appears to be increasing rapidly, along with Google Adwords fraud. Businesses across the spectrum are anxious, to say the least, to increase business. This might be one reason that the amount of daily calls, emails and other detritus [...]
Google: Stop the War on SEO and Get Some Better Algorithms
Interesting post on Quora (are they posts or questions?): Is Google intentionally trying to kill rank checking (SERP lookup) by closing their Web API? I found it as a result of doing some research on how to get Google search results programmatically–turns out you have to cheat as Google really is working overtime to obfuscate [...]
Google’s New Algorithm Puts Content in the Driver’s Seat
I saw the difference Google’s new algorithm was making to reduce spam the very first time I tried one of the searches I do very commonly. Almost all of the old favorites I was used to ignoring because I knew that a quickly through would buy me nothing were gone. A host of new sites [...]
Is SEO Dead or Just Misunderstood?
If you’re involved with your company’s web strategy you’ve probably heard at least a few shots fired these past few days in regard to Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The opening salvo came from Chris Dixon’s post SEO is No Longer a Viable Marketing Strategy for Startups. Of the many that followed, the most notable is Danny [...]
Silly Rabbits: Google is for Spam not for Search
I’m watching with some interest the growing meme about Google passing on too much spam in the search results. Mathew Ingram does a good overview while claiming Google is on a collision course with Demand Media. He mentions: – Paul Kedrosky’s rant – Vivek Wadhwa, who says we desperately need a new and better Google - [...]
Google Instant makes SEO Irrelevant? Who cares?
Steve Rubel makes an the argument that Google Instant will kill SEO because: Here’s what this [Google Instant] means: no two people will see the same web. Once a single search would do the trick – and everyone saw the…
10 Ways People Find Relevant Information
Image via Wikipedia Louis Gray has a dynamite post listing his view of what the 5 ways people find relevant information are. He missed some, which I will add to my list, but this is a valuable list. In fairness, I’m not sure Louis sees this list as extending to search, he is focused on [...]
The Googlization of Business
Recently Google announced they would be using website speed more heavily as a “signal” in their ranking methodology. “Signal” is just a nice way of saying “important variable”, but it also indicates how Google thinks about the world. They believe that there are a certain set of things that “good” websites (and thus “good” online [...]
