If anybody can put shady SEOs to shame with blanket statements I’m sure it’s Jason Calcanis. But one thing confuses me because to a complete newbie like myself Jason Calcanis would make a very excellent SEO if he isn’t actually one already. Just look at the two things he’s most famous for: link-baiting: he’s better [...]

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In an ideal world, you write good content and people come flocking to your doorstep. In an ideal world, everybody gets their share. In an ideal world. Well, welcome to the real world. When the internet first came to the forefront many people claimed that this would indeed level the playing field. Now everyone would [...]

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I’ve been doing some investigation to follow up on my previous piece how Digg is being taken advantage of by spammers. No doubt some of you have read Alister’s piece on how a virtually unknown site called Knuttz.net which posts unusual pictures suddenly shot to fame with the help of Digg. In the article, Alister [...]

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An interesting discussion on backlinks and Google. Google’s algorithm is well known. Despite the billions of dollars of revenue and R&D money being poured into fine tuning the search engine algorithm it is still built on the fundamental principle of valuing backlinks. It’s based on the insight the founders and supervising professor had on how [...]

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Looks like today’s topic is link baiting. The word “bait” doesn’t really summon the most flattering connotations. Care for “bait and switch” or “sex baiting”? It’s either that or I visualize a poor, helpless work impaled on a grimy fishing hook being dipped in water. Luckily, that’s not the case here. As the founders of [...]

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Looks like today’s topic is link baiting. The word “bait” doesn’t really summon the most flattering connotations. Care for “bait and switch” or “sex baiting”? It’s either that or I visualize a poor, helpless work impaled on a grimy fishing hook being dipped in water. Luckily, that’s not the case here. As the founders of [...]

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I’m only now realizing the strange world of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and its impact on the web. Just taking a peek at it reminds of Star Wars and the Jedi knights. It’s almost like a sub-branch of hacking (in the cracker sense) with black hats and white hats. Seems like a lot of SEO [...]

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Find out just how much that keyword is worth. SpyFu

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Matt Cutts, the googler of the moment and master of all things search, has a video series where he answers questions. Peter T Davis has made these available as transcripts and Caydel is doing a nice job of adding value by proofreading them and putting it into a more readable format along with the original [...]

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Matt Cutts, the googler of the moment and master of all things search, has a video series where he answers questions. Peter T Davis has made these available as transcripts and Caydel is doing a nice job of adding value by proofreading them and putting it into a more readable format along with the original [...]

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