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Those who are practicing standard SEO without applying advance techniques have no future. It is true that standard SEO have a diminishing return of the effort spent on optimization. However, almost every SEO are already applying social bookmarkings to create additional influence with the search engines. With every update, and every algorithm change, SEO’s will […]

The state of search continues to grow as more people venture onto the internet for thing they would normally associate with brick and mortar locations. Whatever you want to sell will be sold through various sales channels considering the internet casts such a wide net across a broad audience. PPC is […]

I had previously thought the subdomain issue was bad on Google from earlier assumptions. On selecting a keyword that a client had been trying to optimize for, the main branded site takes 3 out of the top 20 spots in Google.

Compared that to 5 out of 20 in Yahoo. And a disastrous sub domain spammed […]

Google bowling is a term for negative SEO where competitors can do harm to your website. To this day I have not seen anything where a competitor can point many spammy links to a website and bring down its natural rankings. Google would like you to believe this phenomenon does exist thus you will be […]

If you read Matt Cutts‘ recent post on search manipulation “selling links with pagerank”, you will get a sense that search engines are losing the battle or extending too much resources to fight paid links. Search engines are all of a sudden educating the easily swayed and impressionable surfers that the 4 static page brainturmortreatment.org […]

As an advertiser (not the publisher), you should never be afraid to buy links because if search engines ever start passing out penalties to advertisers who buy links there would be havoc in ruining your competitors’ natural search rankings by building bad links to them. Search engines know this, and simply cannot stop the link […]

In honor of all the pagerank penalties that have been handed out by the pagerank updates recently, the ZERORANK AWARDS is born. Some blogs have dropped from a pagerank of 5 to zero with no warning whatsoever for trying to monetize their web properties with alternatives such as sponsored links, sponsored ads, rich media display […]

I love how people pay so much attention pagerank especially when it has degraded to such a big joke. One site in particular that I have optimized for earlier in the year and haven’t touched in months all of a sudden got assigned a PR 5. Totally unexpected with the way Google continues to assign […]

http://seoblackhat.com/2007/10/23/amazon-patents-search-strings/
This has got to be one of the sillier patents issued by the USPTO office. Maybe all the garbage in does mean garbage out.

How can JohnChow.com rank so low for the term John Chow? It is #1 in Yahoo, and MSN. However, it is on page 4 of Google. Imagine if this kind of hand edits on search results for Coke.com, it’s lawyers would certainly cry foul. It is widely believed that John Chow had done things to […]