How SEO complements your PR

… keywords will be effective.   An SEO worker may even have some … relations, and vice versa.   Building links   Quite often, a PR team … other organisations.   Now, if the SEO exec has at least spent … by getting more involved with SEO – it will give them measurable …

3am site goes from swearing off SEO to keyword stuffing in 3 months

… gone to the other extreme ... SEO, titles and personality 3am definitely … this combine good on-page SEO with useful content for readers … the title is rubbish for SEO. Google can't tell who … in headlines or on-site links. Google penalizes sites that stuff …

Six inconvenient truths about SEO

… returns before then. SEO is not fair. Paid links work and … mechanics, from page structure to link building, there's something beyond … strategy is "viral marketing". Yet "SEO" isn't much better. Sure … average person just starting out, SEO should be looked at as …

Will paid tweets become the new paid links?

… to become the new paid link. Services like Sponsored Tweets and … are the Twitter equivalent of link brokers. And plenty of money … they might sites selling paid links? Should they also smack down … laziest of greyhat and blackhat SEOs will likely turn to Twitter …

Four tips for analysing SEO Google Analytics style

… and pick another date before starting your SEO work to compare this number: 2. … and pick another date before starting your SEO work to compare this number: 3. … properties driving your traffic - Other websites linking to yours AND driving traffic are …

10 reasons people criticize SEO

… actually applying your knowledge in practice, SEO, like most things worthwhile, requires hard … of the important aspects of good SEO (content, information architecture, design) aren't … as the foundation for SEO skepticism. They're master link builders. What's …

SEOs are not spammers, evildoers, or opportunists

… , however, when he writes: Occasionally a darkside SEO master may find some loophole in the Google … all pointing to your site, linked from specific keywords. This is called Google bombing. SEO cockroaches employ botnets, third-world labor, and zombie …

Buying or selling SEO links? Look at the trouble you’re causing

… sound business logic by selling advertorial links. Right on cue, specialist advertorial … to ensure that it fully discounts links intended to manipulate search engine … probably take their 'forbidden' advertorial link sales underground and into clandestine …

Are relevant links overvalued by SEOs?

… in the test had consistently low relevant link counts. Instead, authority factors such as … are finding it difficult to acquire links from authoritative websites relevant to yours, … . So are links from relevant websites overvalued? In SEO, there are very …

Q&A: Matthew Don on Flash and SEO

… be aligned when creating a site. Leaving SEO to a beleaguered search specialist after the … who are applying the principles of Flash SEO optimisation. Fallon, in the UK, is … with individual pages appearing in SERPS linking to separate Flash states.  For a …

Are paid friends the new paid links?

… building found paid links to be an easy SEO solution, paid … and Propeller. As with paid links, buyers should beware. Facebook's … those who buy and sell links, individuals who sell their social … company that uses/abuses paid links extensively and has top SERPs …

What are the most important SEO factors today?

… how recently it was published). Links to other pages on the … it comes to link building, the surveyed SEOs found the five … the value of an external link are TrustRank, authority, anchor text, … of competition you face, different SEO factors may play more or …

Foundem vs Google: a case study in SEO fail

… proposition. The site itself resembles a link directory. The homepage contains more than … have are lots of outbound affiliate links. Take this example, which provides a ‘ … (not least in our ultra-comprehensive SEO Best Practice Guide, which Foundem could …

18 observations on Twitter and SEO

… tweets. Frequency and reach! Some outbound links are Nofollowed… Big deal. Step back … in turn generated yet more traffic, links, interest, and Econsultancy subscriptions / registered users … the end of the world in SEO terms because… Twitter usernames are …

Scribd and SEO: live by the sword, die by the sword

… and external. Internal. Scribd's own SEO optimization techniques were both a blessing and … are a few important lessons here: Aggressive SEO tactics are often not sustainable. This … ' but now SEO aggression and pirated content are directly linked to its …