Phil

Avatar Went Hot: November 25, 2008 - 5:43 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoblackhat.com)
Category: Google SEO
SEO continues to evolve. Need more evidence that Google uses bounce rate to test their SERPs?

Here’s are screenshots from one of my sites (it’s a “white hat” site or I wouldn’t be posting the footprint here). The first shows overall traffic: read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Phil 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: SEM
If there is one thing that I can take away from the search engine analysis industry, it’s that cheap tricks are not the way to get far commercially. You might fool a search engine at first, you might achieve a bout of good rankings, a spurt of traff read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Phil 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: SEO
There are so many ways to go about structuring the internal link map of a site. Optimising this can win you positions in the ranking results, but sometimes can affect your site badly. How worth while is spending time on this tactic? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Eish 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google AdSense
The Google Blog has big news -- Google and Yahoo have decided to kill their advertising agreement. The reasons cited are that the government has been reviewing the agreement but they are not happy with it... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Phil 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: Networking
I had no idea my Twitter messages could be read by anyone. That's a scary thought, but now that I know about it, I can use it to my advantage. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: stvalentine 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.newbornbusiness.com)
Category: Google AdSense
If you are a google adsense publisher, you may have heard many frightened stories about the banned publishers who suddenly found their account disabled and their businesses are destroyed even before start because they depend on Google to earn money. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Phil 66 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Hi Sphinners. My post is about bounce rate, could all you gurus, pundits and veterans please pull in for a mo and bring your experience to the table? I wouldn't mind a thorough discussion to bring light to this topic. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 28, 2008 - 7:41 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 69 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Search Marketing
"Economy through obscurity is as bad as security through obscurity. Unfortunately it’s precisely what a search engine, or rather our way of using it, has to offer to the majority of businesses listed ." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 27, 2008 - 1:06 am
Posted By: Harith 71 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts posted the following comment on his blog on September 24, 2008: "I wouldn’t be surprised if new PageRanks started showing up this weekend or so."
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/traveling-light-posting/#comment-133935 read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 11:55 am
Posted By: paisley 73 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Hrmm... so what about all thos DNN, Joomla, TYPO3 rewrites i've written, do i have to change them back? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Phil 82 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: Social Media
Concepts that spread can be divided into those that stimulate memory and familiarity in people, those that are a brand new experience to people, and those that are a balance somewhere in between. Titillating the senses sure helps. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Phil 120 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: Google Other
Wall Street Journal predicts release of free Google web usage stats product, set to rival Hitwise and Comscore. Where is this product I ask? Emily Steel please respond. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Eish 122 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Yahoo
Sharad Verma of Yahoo Search said, "'ll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index, but e read more »
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Avatar Posted By: AntC 129 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: Google SEO
Phil looks in to the myth of the Google minus 950 penalty and invites others to bring their experiences to the table. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Phil 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: Blogging
A beautifully written post by Sandy, detailing the why, when and how of using humour in writing.

Humour is one of those rare things that has global appeal. While it is true that humour does differ from nation to nation (think dry British humour read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SpostareDuro 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jonathancrossfield.com)
Category: Water Cooler
There are a few different ways that misinformation occurs. The problem is that the internet amplifies each of these errors to dangerous proportions. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: pringlebrett 137 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: Mobile Search
South African Mobile provider Vodacom, takes a big step in the right direction towards being a mobile content provider with the recent launch of the Mobile Soapie: SoLikeLife. Are they creating the foundations to increase the mobile search market de read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Eish 143 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: Online Marketing
Methods for creating brand awareness through online communities; the only cost, is your time. There are two specific ways mentioned in the post. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Phil 178 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: Web Analytics
For many years, Google has influenced the lives of their loyal patrons. That patronage, however, may have detrimental consequences in the long run, as privacy grows more threatened by the day. Will the end be true to Tim Berners Lee, and Google's cu read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Eish 178 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: Google SEO
Many people believe that their results drop in rankings because Google has penalised them, others believe that these penalties don’t exist and that a drop in rankings can be attributed to Google’s re-indexing. Both sides have valid points, as well a read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Phil 184 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Yahoo are developing a distributed columns SQL database, roughly tens of millions of gigabytes in capacity. They claim it will lower their app development costs. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: pringlebrett 191 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: Online Marketing
What levels will we actually stoop to to get the traffic/links we need? Do we stop to think of the backlash when caught out? What happens to our client's reputation? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Phil 197 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: Yahoo Searching
What do us optimisers do when we want to rank sites in foreign countries, or a range of countries? Besides using Google's country specification in Webmaster Tools, who do we optimise for? With limited time, who gets our best attention? We shouldn't read more »
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Avatar Posted By: pringlebrett 198 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: Web Analytics
Small insight into how current use of standard analytics options does not show the complete picture when it comes to the status of your website traffic. Have we taken into account that mobile search is increasing? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Caitlin 204 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.mvisearch.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Three-word generic straplines? Please, no. Craft your opening words to clients, readers, friends and intelligent strangers with some finesse. Just...uhm... do it. read more »
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