Link-building can be a long and often frustrating task, but unfortunately it’s a necessary one and an integral part of good SEO. Whilst it can be tempting to abandon organic link-building in favour of less labour-intensive automated solutions, you should ensure you overcome this temptation – automated link-building is a poor replacement for a focused [...]
AOL Buys Huffington Post To Keep Up
With the relentless pace of technology forging on, it is inevitable that you’ll be left behind if you’re not careful. A prime example of this is AOL. From 1991 to around 2000, you couldn’t move for AOL CD’s. At the peak, America Online had over 30 million subscribers, all using the same hideous software. Sadly, [...]
Matt Cutts Suggests Bing’s Denial ‘Doesn’t Ring True’
It didn’t take long for Matt Cutts to respond to Yusef Mehdi’s insistence that Bing do not copy search results, posting on his blog yesterday in direct response to Mehdi’s outburst. The post, which also includes a 40 minute video of Matt Cutts (Google) and Harry Shum (Bing) facing off over this very issue (well [...]
SEO News: Bing Categorically Denies Copying Search Results
The ongoing argument between Google and rivals Bing took another twist yesterday, with Yusef Mehdi (Senior Vice President Of Online Services For Microsoft) categorically denying copying search results from Google. In a post published on the Bing Search blog (in reply to Google’s accusation that Bing has been stealing their results), Mehdi stated: It was [...]
Superbowl Weekend Brings Advertising Madness
It’s that time of year again, where the entirety of America and maybe 6 or 7 people from other countries tune in for the Superbowl. The culmination of the NFL and AFC seasons come to a head in the largest annual sporting event next to the Champions League Final. It is estimated that this year [...]
Wikileaks Gets Nominated For The Nobel Peace Prize
Yes, you did read that correctly – as of yesterday, according to VOA News, Wikileaks was nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination came via Norwegian lawmaker Snorre Valen, who claimed the website was a ‘natural contender’ for the prize; offering one of the most crucial contributions to freedom of speech this century. [...]
SEO News: Blekko Removes Content Farms From Index
As the debate around search engine spam continues (in particular reference to Google and the countless spam sites carrying AdWords ads, although they diverted attention away from it nicely before the FutureSearch conference by accusing Bing of stealing their search results), the increasingly popular Blekko search engine has taken the rather bold step of removing [...]
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Designbysoap Gets An ‘A’ [Infographic]
No, we haven’t gone back to school, but I’ve just noticed one of the infographics we designed for a client has been submitted to Infographics Showcase. Renowned for their honest and often scathing ‘report card’ review system, they were rather nice with our design, giving us an A for design and an A for content. [...]
Bing Steal Google’s Results And Google Demonstrate They Can Fix Their SERP’s
Well, it’s been quite a day in the world of the search engines. Google, in no uncertain terms, have accused their rival Bing of copying their search results for a myriad of different phrases. It would appear they’re right too (check out Danny Sullivan’s SEL article), as specifically placed honeypot pages (pages returned specifically for [...]
Does Letting Your Domain Come Close To Expiring Affect SEO?
In one of Google’s granted patents, there’s a section that discusses different domain elements and how they might affect the classification and subsequent treatment of that domain. One such domain element included in the section is the length of time before domain expiry – the inclusion of which has led to one of many SEO [...]
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