I ask good questions. Really good questions. Even Matt Cutts says so. Best Question at SMX Advanced The You&A with Matt Cutts at this year’s SMX Advanced covered two main topics: Caffeine and May Day. After a humorous back-and-forth between Danny and Matt the public Q&A period started. Danny asks about Caffeine update and HTML5. […]
There’s a new unlinking meme going around that contextual links are a bad thing for web content. That they’re a distraction and take away from the prose of the journalist or blogger. It’s amazing that so many smart people actually believe the myth that people are reading their content word for word. They’re not. People […]
As we begin 2010, it’s time for me to go on the record with some predictions. A review of my 2009 predictions shows a few hits, a couple of half-credits and a few more misses. Then again, many of my predictions were pretty bold. This year is no different. The Link Bubble Pops At some […]
The real estate bubble popped. Will the link bubble be next? The real estate bubble was the product of greed, low interest rates, loose lending policies and derivatives. Nearly anyone could get a house and people bought into the idea that real estate would always be a good investment. The result of this irrational exuberance? […]
In late October Google launched a new type of search result for brand queries. Noted on Google Blogoscoped, a brand search result takes up an enormous amount of real estate and is composed of one regular listing and two indented listings. When are brand search results shown? The brand result is only triggered by certain […]
Twitter finally got around to launching lists and immediately created a whole new competitive mania that may render them useless. Listed By simply showing Listed as a major metric Twitter encourages comparisons. Listed will be the new Followers. We’ll see Followers to Listed ratios cranked out by the companies who traffic in these sorts of […]
The SEO community was thrown into a tizzy by the announcement at SMX Advanced that Google had changed the way it dealt with nofollow links. The details were a bit fuzzy. Conjecture ran amok. Was nofollow page sculpting dead, or just crippled? Nofollow page sculpting is dead A post by Matt Cutts cleared up any […]
Last week David Risley wrote a blog post for Search Engine Journal that recommended that you forget all about SEO and write for readers, not search engines. His advice borders on dangerous, in part because some of it is accurate. My recommendation is to write posts designed to help, provoke or inspire your reader. That’s […]
The latest from Hitwise and Comscore show that the growth in paid search is slowing. In the four weeks to May 9, 2009, 7.25% of search engine traffic to All Categories of websites was from paid clicks. This compares to 9.84% in the same four week period in 2008 – representing a 26% decline in […]
Is Google’s Vince Change SEO Affirmative Action? The recent ‘Vince Change’ by Google has been discussed, debated and well documented by Aaron Wall. In essence, the Vince Change gave brands more trust for short queries. At first, the Vince Change didn’t bother me too much. Change is part of the business (keeps many of us […]
