Hundred Dollar SEO

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Looking back at some older post I revisited the SEOmoz post on government susceptibility to cross site scripting. The results of their test over 2 years ago make me curious how government sites interact with the search engines today.
So I went to Google and searched: “robots.txt” “disallow:” filetype:txt [...]

Last week I saw an influx of Advanced SEO posts. I think that they are all off the mark in one sense or another. To me they all seem like this guy:

What Shimon Sandler thinks is Advance SEO:

An Excerpt:
“A silo is a vertical page linking design. You have your landing page, or your main page, [...]

You should search Nielsen NetRatings. You will notice that they own the first 4 spots in Google.
Guess which one is their current site:

All three sites have the same content. Why would Nielsen NetRatings create three duplicate sites? Why would they maintain 3 different domains but not different content?
Your gut reaction is that they have made [...]

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The withdrawal of Microsoft’s offer for Yahoo! will surely spark a quite a bit more content on what is the future of search. I can’t help wondering whatever happen to Search 2.0?
Way back in 2006 there seemed to be a serious play being made in alternative search engines. Almost 2 years later and [...]

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In the early weeks of April there has been an explosion in a very odd phrase, Bacon Bra, go search it. I’ll wait. There is quite a bit of content. But alas, no image content. The web results contain numerous versions of the original image from Flickr, but image search doesn’t [...]

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Does a combined Yahoo! Microsoft make sense? No probably not. Both have structural issues that make integration likely to compromise both of them. Neither company is particularly search motivated these days. They make money from advertising through their portal aspects, news, mail, etc. and search is just one of the channels. If [...]

According to a young woman I met this weekend you are, or will be. Everyone eventually gives up the long hard road to their dreams for the comfort of immediate reward. The real question is how much have you sold?
Search has 3 major players makers, rankers, and searchers

Makers build content: Bloggers, web designers, game makers, [...]

An excerpt from comments at Cornwall SEO March 7 - 11, 2008:
Carlos Del Rio:
The major weight of links and references are to things that are accessible, not exceptional. Pages that amass large amounts of links are often remarkable (comment worthy) content that is not on the high end of the value spectrum.
Lyndoman:
Carlos if something is [...]

How do search queries come into existence?
For anyone following Eliot Spitzer a new phrase appeared this morning Ashley Alexandra Dupre. Ms. Dupre is the second most searched term for March 13th on Google. She is the intended result of 6 out of the top twenty searches. Think about that for a minute, a significant portion [...]

One session that I wish I had attended at SMX West is Avoiding PPC Pitfalls. One of the speakers, Amy Konefal of Closed Loop Marketing, put her Powerpoint online so I read through it. I’m not sure how I feel about the things that she points out.
The basic premise is solid — broad match can [...]