KenJones

The most common question I get asked about Google's ranking is "how do you do it?" Of course, there is a lot that goes into building a state-of-the-art ranking system like ours, and I will delve deeper into the technology behind it in a later post. read more »
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Most bloggers recognise the importance of search engine rankings. Search engines deliver the highest quality/most qualified traffic on the web. And best of all… it’s free. Thus, establishing visibility within search engines for relevant keywords & p read more »
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Does your content creation and management plan consist of merely a fire-and-forget-it perspective? Then you may be missing out on ways to not only strengthen existing rankings but bolstering new ones. You may be making costly mistakes without even k read more »
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Pop quiz – If you could choose between 1,000 social media visitors and 1,000 search engine visitors for your blog or business, which would you choose? It’s a no-brainer right? Everybody knows that search engine traffic is of a far higher quality!
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With all the great posts about link building that have been going around recently, Wiep's done the logical thing and compiled a post listing links to them all for your reference. read more »
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There's nothing like a bit of healthy debate to encourage people to think seriously about what advice to follow and what to rel=nofollow ;-)
Here's Michael Martinez's take on Rand's recent statement regarding PR Sculpting and the use of rel=nofollo read more »
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Shana's getting help from guest bloggers and this is James Duthie's contribution - a great lesson on the principle of building good karma through social media and the benefits it can bring both to the submitter and the submittee. read more »
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Does this remind you of anyone?
I know this is probably asking for trouble, but it's just too funny to pass up.
Sean Maguire fires of a warning shot not to mess with Texas with this story of an un-named man from Cornwall and his master-baiting ant read more »
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Ask.com seems to be stepping out of the spotlight to focus on specific markets, and in early March 2008, Microsoft began attempting to purchase the Yahoo! search engine.
If there are just two top search engines with which to be concerned, what does read more »
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Darren Rowse's own take on the situation that developed around the "Problogger goes bankrupt" April Fools' Day Joke.
He handles the matter very maturely and gives some good advice to would-be pranksters regarding the risks of ill-thought out "joke read more »
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Rand Fishkin put up this very informative post about link building and evaluating the authority of sites you may want to get links from. As the man himself states, "It doesn't get much more relevant than this." read more »
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The eagle-eyed boys over at PPC discussions spotted this little slip up on the YSM Blog.
Especially ironic as the screenshot illustrating it is from their recent post about new guidelines for questionable products. Hee hee! read more »
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Having witnessed the success of Ask-Kalena's recent outing of a site scraper, I was hoping that the community here on Sphinn might be willing to help me out with a scraper problem of my own. Any advice on what to do would be more than gratefully re read more »
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