
As part of their 10th birthday celebrations, Google recently released a 2001 index, to show us how much things have changed.
It is fascinating to look into the past, especially from an SEO point of view. Has the nature of spam changed since 2001? How has Google changed in order to nullify the affects of spam?
When Google filed their registration statement prior to IPO, Google identified a number of risk factors.
One of these risks...
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Rick Schwartz, one of the leading domainers and creator of the TRAFFIC domain conference, highlighted the value of descriptive domains from a brand perspective:
NATURAL BRANDING or BUILD and CREATE BRANDING
This alone is worth the price of admission. Brad told us his story of spending millions and millions to advertise and brand with his original 3 word creative domain name. When he switched and used a fraction of those ad dollars to buy a category killer domain name, he...
Webmaster World's Pubcon in Las Vegas from November 11th through 14th is the only mainstream SEO conference I will be speaking at this year. I have a session on link buying and a session on making money from contextual ads on November 13th. Brett Tabke gave me a 20% off coupon code to share with readers. Registration is currently $899, but if you use the discount code wa-67720 in the next 2 weeks you can save $180 off your conference admission price.
And I worked out a special...
Pricing a Link
When trying to understand the value of a link a variety of factors can be considered, including:
PageRank / link equityanchor text (if you can influence it to align with your keywords that increases the value significantly)link location (inline links are more likely to be trusted than links in the footer of a page near a bunch of other obvious paid links) direct traffic the link sendssite quality & brand exposureendorsement value (if any is given)Risk ToleranceSome links...

Canonicalization can be a confusing area for webmasters, so let's take a look at what it is, and ways to avoid it causing problems.
What Is Canonicalization?Canonicalization is the process by which URLs are standardized. For example, www.acme.com and www.acme.com/ are treated as the same page, even though the syntax of the URL is different.
Why Is Canonicalization An Issue For SEO?Problems can occur when the search...