Consumer Data

Let's start with a quick quiz - which of the following statements is true? A) My pages are in my XML sitemaps file, so they must be getting crawled B) My pages have been crawled, so they must be in the index C) My pages are in the index, so they must be able to show for queries D) None of the above ...

One nofollowed link could very well gain you several followed links! A couple of the questions have asked about links from specific sites, so some research was done while answering their questions. From this I found a few sites that I wouldn't have thought to pass link juice... but low and behold ...

But I'd love to see a version that puts the "What does Silverback do?" graphic in the text bubble spoken by the Gorilla. Kayak Homepage Popular travel site Kayak technically has multiple foci, but the strength of the homepage's conviction that you want to find airline pricing and their ability to ...

My course of action was forced to change from simply updating the site, to an almost near revamp from the ground up. After all, only having the homepage show up for specific generic terms is no where near ideal. So I was forced to change gears, and focus my attention on the SERPs. A whole new ...

These search terms are alwasy going to be affected most by real-time search and SEOs working in this field are likely to already be used to working with QDF search results and various By counting only links between domains (and, to make a crude analogy, squishing together all of the pages on a site ...

I would like to start this post by admitting that I went against the NoFollow recommendedation in Danny Dover's excellent SEOmoz post "SEO Best Practices: SEOmoz's New Policies Based on Updated Correlation Data" I also flew somewhat against the wind being generated by Great Scott's great post ...

Not necessarily actionable information, but definitely fun to stay on top of. Please let me know if there are any specific tweets I may have missed. See you all again tomorrow! PS. Please say hi if you see me! I can sometimes be shy. Unfortunately I don't have yellow shoes or anything like that, so ...

As I note in the video, it's a rollercoaster ride, it takes up incredibly amounts of time and it's massively stressful, but hopefully, at the end of the day, worthwhile. For some additional good reading on the topic, see Paul Graham's "Ramen Profitable" as well as Fred Wilson's post on why the VC ...

I recommend using the hCard format as Google seems to do better with this information. 3.) Informal Keyword Rich Business Name Change - While we do use the actual business names in the listing (luckily he has some keywords in his business name) we added a " - location + keyword" after his business ...

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