Search Engine News

Does Google Sell SEO Advice To High Paying PPC Advertisers?Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Monday, 19 of November , 2007 at 8:25 am

Scott Buresh at Medium Blue wrote a piece on Google’s pay per click services and whether or not they influence search results. It’s very interesting and enlightening article. Just a few tidbits are reprinted below:

It has long been rumored that Google will offer technical assistance in achieving better organic search engine placement to those who spend more for paid search results. I know for certain that these rumors are true in at least two instances. In fact, I actually have the minutes from one of these technical assistance meetings after the company met with Google engineers.

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5 Search Engine Optimization Myths I Like To Laugh AtWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Friday, 11 of April , 2008 at 12:13 pm

Seomul Davis wrote a great article on SEO News about 10 myths of Search Engine Optimization that webmasters perpetuate among themselves. I agree that all 10 myths are very prominent and he is right to debunk them. But there are five that are so wrong and funny that I just laugh at them uproariously as many of the people perpetuating these are Search Engine Optimization experts and should know better.

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WebProNews, Is It Really The Only News There Is?Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Sunday, 3 of February , 2008 at 8:34 am

Warning: This is not an SEOd blog post. It IS a WTF?

Admittedly, when news first broke of Microsoft’s offer to buy Yahoo!, it was interesting news. I wrote a blog post about it. I ate it up. I giggled. I snorted. I jumped for joy. I spat on the ground and clinched my fist. I raged. I ranted. I smiled. I chanted. And now I’m feeling like Dr Seuss. But I gather you get the point.

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Many web companies significantly profit from the appearance that they are open, but anything of value eventually needs to have some limitations placed on it. In spite of no longer having MovableType installed on this server, the mt-comments file is one of my most requested files. Registration moves you away from The Tragedy of the Commons to something more sustainable.

Asking people to register suddenly makes them nicer because it makes the audience less robotic, and the most mean spirited people are not like to remain once anonymous disappears. It is harder to leave anonymous troll comments without being figured out if you have to create an account to post them. And who has time to set up 100 different accounts?

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Is A Custom Search Engine Worth Your Time?Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Friday, 7 of March , 2008 at 10:01 am

Do you have your own customized search engine? Should you?

A customized search engine can do three things for your website:

It can allow your site visitors to find what they are looking for on your website more easilyIt can be used as a marketing tool since you can opt to have your custom search engine be listed in the public search engines indexIt can assist your site visitors in finding the information they are looking elsewhere if your website doesn’t have they are looking for

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Posted by randfish

I’ve got to say that I’m immensely proud of Rebecca. When she first applied here at SEOmoz, we failed to even call her back for a second interview. But, she convinced us to take her on as an unpaid college intern, knowing that once we had a taste of her sweet work ethic, creativity and smorgasbord of pop-culture laden sarcasm, we’d have no choice but to bring her on board full time.

Recently, however, she’s put together a project of immense proportion, deserving of praise - SEOmoz’s new premium article, “The Professional’s Keyword Research Guide.” Rebecca and I built a detailed outline for the article together, but over many edits and re-edits and combinations of our writing, it turned into an enormous, 75-page behemoth on the subject. I blame myself for the girth - we’d put together something brief and valuable and I’d want more. Rebecca dug deep, I dug deep and then I made her dig deeper. She ruthlessly scraped every piece of value and function from 10 different keyword tools, dove into the world of keyword targeting and wrote an ode to brainstorming that would make Dan Thies blush.

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Posted by randfish

It may come as a surprise to some that I’m in direct opposition to Rebecca’s viewpoint in her post from last week - Hey, I’m Blogging! Pay Attention to Me! She wrote:

…another (obvious) reason for the increasing onslaught of blogs (currently nearly 60 million tracked by Technorati) is because bloggers, quite simply, want attention. Obviously, I’m not providing you with some profound secret you didn’t already know, but the comic strip made me think of a good number of blogs written by vapid people who think that everyone wants to read about the minutia of their day-to-day lives, when in reality they’re too wrapped up in writing about themselves that they don’t have time to read or care about what their family and friends are doing. It’s a “Well, I’ll just blog about the events in my life instead of picking up the phone, and the people who truly care about me will take the time to read it.”

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Content, Links, Relevance, Popularity: WebProNews On SEOWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Thursday, 1 of November , 2007 at 2:41 pm

WebProNews conducted video interviews of some of the top SEOs in the industry. Sadly, they didn’t interview me. But they did interview some folks I admire.

Included in the interviews were:

Rand FishkinEric EngeDavid BrownBrian Mark

You know they say great minds think alike. Well, there seems to be some consensus and, of course, it agrees with me. Four of the most important things to keep in mind in your SEO efforts are content, links, relevance, and popularity.

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Well, after this morning’s little rant about Matthew Rankin I thought it might be nice to speard some good cheer. And so we launched another tool.

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The Decline of Public Forums

About a year ago I decided to close Threadwatch so I could focus more on expanding this site. The Searchguid forums and site went away, and the domain name was recently auctioned off for $8,655, and it redirects to SEONews.com. John Scott, the owner of V7N, recently announced that he was stepping away from the site, and currently has it up for auction for $400,000 at SitePoint with a $500,000 buy it now price.

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