DanThies

Avatar Posted By: DanThies 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://alwaysbetesting.com)
Category: SEO
Mad scientist Andy Edmonds offers some insight into the meaning of TFIDF by exploring several sites with TheRarestWords.com - a truly copacetic tool with numerous interesting applications. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 19, 2008 - 6:55 am
Posted By: DanThies 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: SEO
If you haven't read the 2007 edition, because you've been waiting for this, now is the time, and yes it's still free. If you've already read the 2007 edition, don't get too excited, because not very much has changed.

Sorry if you were expecting s read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DanThies 96 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mail.google.com)
Category: Google
April Fool's Joke from Google... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DanThies 111 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Why does everyone think that landing page load times are going to affect their search ads, when Google's documentation tells us that they won't, other than minimum bids? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DanThies 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.serpzone.com)
Category: Google AdWords
This post went by a month ago, UnSphunn and unloved. If you run Adwords, it's worth a read. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 22, 2008 - 2:35 pm
Posted By: DanThies 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Not satisfied with fooling Adwords advertisers via expanded broad matching and "free campaign optimization," Google has invented a new way to empty your wallet. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DanThies 139 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Search Marketing
SEO Fast Start presents a new feature... please let us know if we're doing good or bad. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DanThies 178 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Google Other
Building a great search engine just might be harder than Wikia's Jimmy Wales thinks - are they up to it? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 9, 2008 - 2:09 pm
Posted By: DanThies 179 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Google SEO
Stop words, one of the oldest and most useless "features" of the SEO landscape, are on their way to dinosaur status. When did this happen? Did I miss a memo? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 9, 2007 - 1:26 pm
Posted By: DanThies 240 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Google SEO
Forget about the green pixels for a few minutes if you can. This is about the real PageRank score, not what they show you on the toolbar. It's about why Google can't just get rid of PageRank, why the Supplemental Index exists, and... just for fun, w read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DanThies 252 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Google SEO
The toolbar PageRank for my new site is now PR4 - up from zero... have I been rewarded? Have I been penalized? Were any of the PageRank penalties real in the first place? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2007 - 11:33 am
Posted By: DanThies 270 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Link Building
There are two important aspects of successful link building. Finding the right balance between building authority and PageRank vs. getting anchor text is key to making the most of your SEO efforts... and renting links is not the only answer. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 11, 2007 - 2:09 am
Posted By: DanThies 300 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Google Other
Google says the FTC wants us to label paid links - Why Google's nofollow plan can't work, observations on what we can expect from the FTC if they do weigh in. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 10, 2007 - 4:49 am
Posted By: DanThies 302 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Dan Thies reports that emails containing references to Sphinn.com are now being blocked as spam content by SURBL.org, which feeds SpamAssassin. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 7, 2007 - 2:01 pm
Posted By: DanThies 303 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Google SEO
Dan Thies follows up with two illustrated examples of how to use nofollow on internal links... and feels just a little dirty for Sphinning himself. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DanThies 314 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Dan Thies expresses slight gratitude to Yahoo for the recent "enhancement" to Site Explorer, but points out that it's meaningless until all the search engines come together on a standard. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: DanThies 337 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: SEO
I wrote this in response to a recent marketing campaign that "debunks" the Long Tail of search... by using a fallacious argument that has become typical of the Internet Marketing world. The long tail is real, and I've seen it. read more »
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