Stephan Spencer at of NetConcepts on bot herding: On Blogs: herd bots to permalink URLs Include sig line and headshot photo at bottom of post. Link to original permalink URL. Ecommerce site duplication: Selectively append tracking code for humans Probably herd bots to “View All” pages but you will need to test how many products […]
Michael Gray: Use it to block the passing of PageRank to pages you don’t want indexed Adam Audette: Don’t use it because who knows how the engines treat them now and how they will treat them in the future? Here are his thoughts in more detail.
From Roger Montti: Look at the following for a given site/page: Age Backlinks Frequency of Updates
Stephan Spencer of NetConcepts. High Value Link Targets: Find PR10 /9 Sites: ercim.org, w3.org, usa.gov, etc. Look for sites one click away from Google They have a new tool that involves the Google Directory. Use a Backlink Anchor Text analysis tools: SEOMoz SEOBook Jim Boykin’s Tool Networking in the Blogosphere: Comment on “dofollow” blogs Submit […]
According to Jay Young of LinkFish #1 Message: DON’T BE AFRAID TO BUY LINKS! Best directories: Best of the Web Yahoo DMOZ Joe Ant Blog Catalog Non Profit Sponsorships are great. Social Media: Digg, Redditt, Stumble, etc. Brokers: According to Jay text link brokers still work Big Name Text Link Brokers Blog Advertisers Smaller Brokers […]
Roger Montti aka MartiniBuster on Webmaster World illustrates some techniques to find good .edu pages to get links from by tracking .edu pages that link to your competition. On Yahoo do the following searches: linkdomain:competitor.com site:.edu “bookmarks” linkdomain:competitor.com site:.edu “links” linkdomain:competitor.com site:.edu “favorite sites” linkdomain:competitor.com site:.edu “your product or your service” (add modifiers to get […]
Google is the elephant in the keynote. When I worked at NBC we were negotiating with Microsoft to create a WebMD-like service. I remember the MS guy across the table at one point said “we don’t think you’re prepared to lose money for ten years”. He was right. Sounds like Microsoft is prepared to lose […]
So I think I am going to try and encapsulate each session I attend in only one or two sentences since there will be plenty of other bloggers giving you the blow-by-blow.
I am heading up to Seattle this afternoon for SMX Advanced. One of the main reasons I am going is because a lot of the SEO/SEM social network is converging there. When I started this blog, these guys were the ones who helped me get it off the ground by welcoming me into the 24/7/365 […]
Don’t you hate it when another blogger beats you to the punch on writing about a good idea? Well, Steve McStud Espinosa kicked my butt this morning with his post, Take Advantage of Trusted Sources – Local Search Tactics. In the post Steve talks about how to link to other webpages that the search engines […]