In response to a recent press release by Anthony Fallon which states: Anthony Fallon, CEO of Warrington Web Works, a UK web publishing company, proved this week to his clients and readers that search engine optimisation is a waste of time and money to businesses...
Industry Dictionary for SEO/SEM
It includes interesting facts about various search engines, experts and websites, in addition to commonly used terms and phrases. You’ll also find reference links throughout the definitions, which are helpful for more in-depth information and theory. Aaron doesnt just define industry terms - he basically offers a growing reference guide to anything search-related...
Part 2 in the SEO Series
A quick update on the 10-part SEO Series that I mentioned last month… Paul has now published Part 2 in this series, focusing on PageRank and how it works. In this post he explains ranking criteria between two similar websites. All things being equal between two competing sites, the one with the higher PageRank or popularity score will rank above the other in the search results...
New Adsense Alternative
Last week I mentioned MegaGlobe, which is an up and coming international search engine… and this week I have a new piece of news on them. The latest press release states that they will indeed be offering a contextual advertising option for webmasters that rivals Google Adsense. They are getting the attention of website owners everywhere by promising higher payouts and better compensation plans…
Latest Version of Keywords Analyzer
I updated my Keywords Analyzer program to the latest version today - Ver 5.20 SEO PRO 2006 - and was floored… This new SEO Pro version has even more features, many of them geared towards analyzing SEO data, Adsense profitability, competition analysis and more. I was just about to fire up Camtasia and walk you through it…
Megaglobe: International Search & PPC
Megaglobe spiders are already crawling the web for content to add to their new international search engine (coming soon)… so if you havent already submitted your site(s), it might be a good idea to do just that...
Linking & Link Exchanges
I’m probably what you would call a Lazy Linker, focusing more heavily on internal link structure and quality content. Of course, this is the white hat approach, which I prefer. Obviously a proactive link exchange campaign can be very beneficial, but I also find it somewhat frustrating. People simply dont respond to these requests like they used to…
Search Marketing News
Apogee Search has a Search Marketing Blog that links out to most of the major sources for search marketing related news. It’s a good blog to bookmark or subscribe to if you want a quick rundown of industry talk...
Aaron Wall on Paid Networks…
In a recent post on Aaron Wall’s SEO Blog, he discusses the current debate on blog networks that broker deals between advertisers and bloggers. I have to admit, it was nice to see a realistic point of view on this coming from a well-known and highly respected blogger...