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Calling the Twitter race early like news networks did for the 2000 elections. AplusK is the winner, approved by all independent bloggers. Good night.

Even though everyone including myself had high hopes of the rouge CNNBRK bot winning. However, after CNN bought the account, it changes all the dynamics of who people are rooting for. Some of the early Twitter adopters will stop CNNBRK as a result because it is now officially a corporate entity lost in the shuffle […]

Yup, let’s say that again: Top Twitter User CNNBRK is a bot, and a damn good one. It puts the other CNN properties on Twitter to shame because it provides a solid service of tweeting important headlines without the call to action of visiting the CNN web property through shorten URLs. Let’s all follow the […]

Have you tried putting up your profile and joining a couple of groups on Meetup.com? After one week or two those profiles will quickly rise to the top as meetup.com has done a great job on SEO and internal linking throughout the site and its subdomains. At some point that it is too strong where […]

SEO has turned into more than increased natural rankings for expanding business operations. Corporate 500 companies are turning to search engine optimization companies for reputation management where the majority of search results are positive websites and articles created for the sole purpose of trumping negative first page results. Call it media propaganda or whatever, but […]

Lowering Wikipedia Rank

Search engines are catching on that listing Wikipedia very high on natural search damages their own relevance for certain keywords especially if the majority of searchers are not necessarily looking for information, but to buy the items from merchant. For example, the natural search results for the term ipod is pretty poor in terms of […]

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 […]

Break Google Rules

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 300

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 […]