Ahhhhh, yes. Another great plugin! Thanks Nick.…

Interesting to get the legal POV. I can understand why domainers stick to the "real estate" analogy though. First it hints at the fact it is limited, i.e. the prime real estate will go first. Secondly it helps in the arguments people throw at them for parking domains. They are right, if you owned a …
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This article is a good example why total number of backlinks reported by Yahoo should not be taken at face value - at the very least number of external domains linking to that site should be checked and better actually to see what are those domains. Our stats allow us to look at this full picture in…
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When search engine crawls website it first looks Meta tags and description. There is some debate that how important the meta tags are when comes across SEO but my point is Meta tags shouldn’t be ignored.…

@Brett, sorry to hear about your problems... we should ping Joost on that issue...…

Are you improving your SERPS though? Are they competitive phrases coming up or just meaningless gibberish that nobody's targeting? And are you sure that other links to the pages aren't affecting the behavior?I mean, it's like reading and commenting on a story on Sphinn without voting for…

@ LittleMissSEO - I agree that the content writing advice may not fit into the mold of most eComm sites, but there are a few such as Dell that does use a simplified version of this. For example their Studio 15 laptop. It provides an intro and provides pros (simplified outline form), but replaces the…
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Interesting idea.  You are in a way challenging Google on their self touted altruism.  They want to "do no evil" and one could postulate that taking your mea culpa and then still punishing you for it would be evil.  However, at the end of the day  the hypothetical company still broke their TOS a…
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Without proof this is just another big rubber gorilla suit in a freezer. When you find bigfoot really, bring me his head on a plate.…

Combining analytics with actual business data makes a lot of sense, and should be done more often. Nice perspective.  Hoping to see a lot more.…

Hamlet... great post. very insightful…

Without any tangeable evidence, this post is nothing but hearsay. Remember all the controversy around the second link anchor text not flowing juice? That "test", though repeated and well-documented, turned out to be inaccurate. BTW, nofollow links flowed anchor text previously in rare cases; accordi…
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Installed the redirection plugin yesterday. Working great.…

Mindy, I wish I could provide examples, but it would expose my clients and some of our methods (especially to this crowd). I can respond to some of the things you said (which make total sense to me).The point is that you shouldn't be able to improve your SERPs via anchor text inside nofo…

This is interesting, but if you won't give examples, it's hardly to be taken as fact. More details would be helpful - such as examples of the nofollow anchor text in blog comments.Is it possible that Google is using the link text to understand how people are describing a site (i.e. impor…

This is major honkin' news!  Why is this not on the front page?! 7 Sphinns?!  Are you kidding!?…

This is an amazing and simple tool that brings analytics closer to the big-boys in functionality.  Very cool.…

@saurav, you also can't underestimate the issue of competitors using online reviews and sites that allow users to post content to attack good businesses - I've seen it happen. You can also run into particularly surly or unreasonable customers with a vendetta - I've seen businesses conten…

Great find.  how is this not getting sphunn?  Sphinn it!…

Saurav,For every "scumbag" or scammer trying to cover their tracks, it seems like I speak with two or three who appear to be normal, ethical people or businesses afflicted by a reputation problem that they don't quite deserve. For instance: a young female professional wh…

Traditional news orgs are just determined to be as stupid as possible when it comes to the web.  How else can you explain such previously successful content deliverers ignoring all the common knowledge of how the internet best works even in the face of everyone telling them those failings are the e…
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Cool…

I think 20-30 per review is not bad, reasonable even. As a blogger who accepts work through that service, at $22.00 I only get 14.50, the rest goes to the service. So keep that in mind when you are using Sponsored Reviews, as a blogger or as an advertiser.Personally, I prefer SR over man…

How would you know? You just got here ;)…

Great Post.…

How much the tips worked for you?…

None of the three metrics are central to any of my campaigns. I do track them all but what really matters is what you're putting into the black box not what's coming out. If you already know doing X results in Y you don't need to track Y, just X. For example, you know posting frequently generally le…
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Doesn't look too bad to me. …

A great collection for people who just don't want to keep looking and want everything in one place, the lazy kind I would say. But it also works good as a qucikreference and it does entail work to put it togethers. thumbs up.…

Oops, valid point! thank you!…

Very nice theme!! Great place to submit :)…

Online reputation management is being viewed by many as means to hide their 'dirty linen'. In today's Internet savvy world, word spreads fast and is very difficult to suppress, with so many voices to deal with. Apart from this, I personally believe that Online reputation management company should al…
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ok - good theme - but really sphinn not the right place to submit. …

nice styling.…

Links. Links. Links.  You're majorly obsessed with links. …

They are headings, not headers.…

Here's another link to Joost's WordPress SEO Guide, if you missed it the first time round. …

I think you've made a very good point there.  The battle for search is over.  Google won that round.  And to think, Ask.com could have really done better if they had done their marketing... why Google it when you could simply "Ask" it!  Anyhow...But the battle for online activity is …

From a corporate branding point of view "keywords in domains" are almost impossible to compete with if they are also well optimised and have equal links. When, for example, you look for almost any sector on Google, the keyworded domains pop up at or near to top. My personal view is that all three en…
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It seems like the big corps and big media can sometimes be the slowest to change to "new" (term used very sarcastically in this specific example) ways of presenting information online. It reminds me of so many corp. sites that are still using flash, or just had the flashlight go on a year ago that "…
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Kate Dickman has posted an interesting update about the current subject. Thanks, Kate.Update on Serp Spam: Other (Random) Keywords Targeted…

It's definitely effective.  It gets me a really high opt-in rate so it's hard for me to justify taking it down.  You should only see it once.  What was "nasty" about it exactly?…

Answer: http://www.freshgeeks.com/blogging-tips/how-to-tell-dofollow-from-nofollow-the-easy-way.html…

I would imagine that it is the trust rank of the links that really do the trick.  Tried linking back from link farms?mmm.... how quickly can you burn a domain? :P…

that pop up is a nasty one…

I just read a blog post by Jonathan Arrow yesterday which talked in depth about how to make you content visible. He put is as 'it is not what you know but who you know', a aspect that palys an important part in social media marketing. Sure if you have good content and you don't market it, then it wo…
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I have o say domain names should be easy to remember and catchy that way people can recall your site easily.…

great post! I guess SEOmoz is trusted by Google that's why it is not really penalized that easy.…

B2B link building is very important in the success of your business.…

Great tips on how to make the most out of marketing conferences.…