November 18th, 2008 Mike R. Posted in Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
At PubCon, Bruce Clay, Inc. President Bruce Clay presented at a session entitled "Top-Shelf Organic SEO" in which he discussed the approaching future of SEO as search engines evolve into more modern ranking methods through more personalized search results. Bruce was good enough to take the time to speak with our own Michael McDonald in a one-on-one interview about personal search, which can be viewed in the video below.
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November 18th, 2008 Mike R. Posted in Link Building | No Comments »
In the "Blow Your Mind Link Building Techniques" at SMX Advanced in Seattle, Roger Montti, founder and owner of MartiniBuster.com spoke about link building techniques.
(Coverage of the SMX Advanced Conference continues at WebProNews Videos. Keep an eye on WebProNews for more notes and videos from the event this week.)
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November 18th, 2008 Mike R. Posted in Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
Recently, during a live chat Q&A, Googlers Matt Cutts and Maile Ohye, among others, faced the burning questions of webmasters around the world. Together, they put to rest some fears and myths, and confirmed some speculations. 
November 18th, 2008 Mike R. Posted in Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
WebProNew’s Mike McDonald caught up with Matt Cutts of Google at the Hofbrau House in Las Vegas during PubCon to get his views on a number of topics.
When asked about ranking being dead Cutts said that it’s not as important as it used to be and that there are other factors to consider than just ranking.
On Google’s Universal Search Cutts said that in 2009 it will continue to expand and people will have to go beyond basic SEO. As an example Cutts cited Google’s Image and Book Search.
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November 18th, 2008 Mike R. Posted in Link Building | No Comments »
Out in Las Vegas at PubCon, Mike McDonald of WebProNews spoke with Eric Enge, who was one of the speakers at the session entitled "Real-World Low-Risk, High-Reward Link Building Strategies." You might be familiar with Enge. He’s been a WebProNews blog partner for some time. He’s the StoneTemple Consulting guy, and he’s developed a reputation over the years as a reputable source for information about link building.
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November 18th, 2008 Mike R. Posted in Link Building | No Comments »
Link building is an essential ingredient in ranking your website highly on the major search engines.
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May 15th, 2008 Mike R. Posted in Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
Mark Cuban suggested Yahoo or Microsoft could payoff the top five sites for each of the top 25,000 queries on Google, have those sites leave the Google index for good, and bring Google’s normal traffic for those sites into the rival fold.
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May 15th, 2008 Mike R. Posted in Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
Within the mass confusion that can erupt when there is a blog controversy, occasionally a thoughtful post will emerge.Last week ShoeMoney wrote about the Death of SEO and here on this blog Greg Howlett supported that theory, while I spoke up to disagree with those opinions.Others have also been discussing the topic and Joost de Valk, has chimed in as well, after
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May 15th, 2008 Mike R. Posted in Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
Google has had a longstanding policy against advertising liquor, along with guns and gambling. Frank Watson at SearchEngineWatch found it surprising, then, when a search for [vodka] brought back Google Shopping results.
The search brought back results from various vendors, along with prices. "Now that does seem like they are contradicting their own rules," writes Watson.
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April 3rd, 2008 Mike R. Posted in Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
I can’t get enough of Chuck Lewis aka Poetic Prophet. He just doesn’t rap and rhyme using phrases we all know, but his rap tells a good story on what and how to do things in SEO, marketing and design. His next video called Design Coding is a good example of that.
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