Comments for Hundred Dollar SEO

Comment on Anchor Text For Internal Links by MikeTek

MikeTek — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:00:23 +0000

I think it’s safe to assume that 710 words of anchor text was a mistake - although I’m sure the SEOs in charge of major websites in the upper traffic brackets play with all sorts of things we don’t notice on an average day. They’ve got so much attention from the bots - they can go from SEO theory to fact in less than a day (links from other websites being the exception, of course). When it comes to internal PageRank distribution I’d assume a site like Inc.com is able to see the effects almost in real time after making a change to anchor text or other factors. Reason enough to play around and see what the deal is.

For conventional purposes, though - I’d assume linking 710 words won’t help you much (and certainly won’t make for a great user experience). When it comes to search engines, though, I almost always find that what seems like an obvious spam filter trigger ends up either unnoticed or rewarded.

Comment on Filtering Yahoo Mail and Live Mail in Google Analytics by Hundred Dollar SEO » Anchor Text For Internal Links

Hundred Dollar SEO » Anchor Text For Internal Links — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:26:10 +0000

[...] you should be linking with an appropriate description of the content that you are linking to like: filtering mail in Google Analytics. If you need a full sentence to describe a link something is suspect — both as a reader and [...]

Comment on Internet Marketing And SEO Best Practices by Carlos del Rio

Carlos del Rio — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:07:31 +0000

Not only do people associate the left hand side with navigation there is a clear preference on the left for scanning procedures. Movement through a layout and site architecture are simplified by putting the important actions in the place where most people instinctively begin their scanning, the upper left corner.

Comment on Internet Marketing And SEO Best Practices by Jeremy Lim

Jeremy Lim — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:18:27 +0000

Is the left-handed navigation argument still really true? Ever since I can remember, Wordpress blogs have used right-aligned navigation bars. I’ve read the studies where people associate left as navigation and right as advertisements, but I can’t help but wonder how valid those studies are.

Jeremy Lim
Internet Marketing Services at Outcome3

Comment on Building A Better Site: Internal Link Structures by Cash Tale » Focus on Your Users

Cash Tale » Focus on Your Users — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:21:58 +0000

[...] process of the web site. In any designing decisions and conclusions the user should be the top priority of the web developer. Usability is the framework that determines how users perceive your site and [...]

Comment on Internet Marketing And SEO Best Practices by Wise Observer » Is the Customer Right?

Wise Observer » Is the Customer Right? — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:02:56 +0000

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Comment on Traffic For a Year - SEO Efforts, or SMO? by Carlos del Rio

Carlos del Rio — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:55:35 +0000

“I’ll take any PageRankless and untrusted site that gets lots of relevant traffic under my wing any day of the year.”

Micheal you are a funny man. I would take that kind of site eight days a week. But, of course, you wouldn’t be wasting time on SEO if you already had lots of relevant traffic.

Comment on Traffic For a Year - SEO Efforts, or SMO? by Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:35:11 +0000

From a WEB MARKETING point of view you absolutely need to look at social media, to determine if it can help promote a site.

But social media is no more critical to search engine success than submitting a site to directories, dropping links in blogs and forums, and other tactics many people still use.

Social media should be engaged for the potential traffic, not for the links. Links are easy to get and you can obtain helpful links more easily than by asking people to click on your blog buttons.

People are too obsessed with PageRank and trust. I’ll take any PageRankless and untrusted site that gets lots of relevant traffic under my wing any day of the year.

Comment on Why Does Google Nofollow Internal Links by Carlos del Rio

Carlos del Rio — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:40:58 +0000

I must have been awake too long today. I thought I saw both robot and rel=nofollow. Thanks for correcting me.

Instituting an automatic robots=”noindex,nofollow” on the longer versions of urls could be a hedge against cross site scripting that could spoof the main site; like putting an outbound link into a help section search.

It is possible to introduce content into certain types of search systems by altering the way the search is performed. Specifically changing html forms from POST to GET can be used to insert html, and consequently, links into search queries. Example: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/xss-how-to-get-20-gov-links-in-20-minutes

Your point that GET commands are marked noindex,nofollow lend some value to Micheal’s theory that the blanket nofollow is there to discourage attempts to hijack Google pages.

Comment on Why Does Google Nofollow Internal Links by lazar

lazar — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:08:32 +0000

huh, don’t quite understand what you mean by ‘doubling’. there is only nofollow meta tag, and there are no nofollows in links. if you are using FF addon that shows nofollows, it also detects metatags…

as for ‘database injections’… didn’t understand that either!