The Game Is Up – Five SEO Excuses Destroyed…

With the rankings of 5 seo excuses lasting several days before the inevitable buzz destroyed the rankings, I’d say it was a success. Thanks for everyone out there who thought it was cool and blogged about it! If you missed it, here are links to each section. Five SEO Excuses P1 Five SEO Excuses P2 Five SEO Excuses P3 Five SEO Excuses P4 Five SEO Excuses P5

Using Google as a Top 10 List – The Power of SEO

After being in the SEO industry for about 2-3 years (at Virante, Inc), and the online industry for nearly a decade, I was growing wary of folks who claim that Search Engine Optimization is dead. Traditional marketers, ethics addicts, and stingy business folks have joined in a chorus that Google has won the game of SEO. Similarly, I got sick and tired of posting top 5 lists to my own blog. Sure, everyone loves them (especially digg), but wouldn’t it be better to post your own top 5 list to Google instead? So, not only would you prove that SEO is very much alive, but you could use Google as a platform to dispell the SEO myths altogether. So, here it goes, my top 5 reasons that you should avoid SEO. Or, if you want to do it the long way, just search google for...

Digg.com Duplicate Content Issue…

While webmasters around the world still remain frustrated at Google’s inability to understand that www.site.com and site.com are by-and-large, identical, it appears that Digg.com never got the memo. Luckily, this helps us put into perspective exactly how out of hand it can get. Right now, digg.com is showing about 1.5 million duplicate content pages due to not establishing a site-wide redirect from www.digg.com/{anything} to digg.com/{anything} Google cached for digg.com: 6.69 million http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adigg.com Google cached for www.digg.com: 1.42 million http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.digg.com Duplication Example: Digg’s Privacy Page...

Will Trade Sponsorship for Backlink…

After Egol over at SEOMoz posted a story on brainstorming Gov backlinks for SEO (http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=1307), I wrote a brief comment and decided to dig a little deeper for some nice queries to find link possibilities through sponsorship… site:.edu || site:.gov “friends of the library” site:.edu || site:.gov “sponsor list” site:.edu || site:.gov “donor list” site:.edu || site:.gov “volunteer list” site:.edu “club sponsors” site:.gov “chamber of commerce” site:.gov “business resources” This is just a few, but you get the idea. Happy linking!

Dear Google, You Are Giving Me a Poverty.

After reading that Google sent a blogger some acetaminophen after he wrote an article entitled “Dear Google, You Are Giving Me a Headache”, what the hell – thought it was worth a shot.