While I loved that Google provided links to answers.com for some search quires they stopped using it in December 2009. They’ve replaced it with Google Dictionary (http://www.google.com/dictionary) and at first it seemed like a logical step in the right direction. It does make more sense from Google’s point of view to use their own technology [...]
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New Website SEO Scoring Tool
Over the past year we’ve been working hard, at Eyeflow Internet Marketing, on a new SEO scoring tool. The problem we had is the existing SEO tools weren’t; consistent, accurate or used outdated or incorrect data. We’ve worked really hard to try to get fast and accurate feedback for your website. It’s been tested across hundreds [...]
No Budget SEO Experiment Conclusion
About 3 months ago I decided to do a little SEO experiment. My goal was to find a way I could get a site built, hosted and search engine friendly without spending a dime. The results are in and besides the worth of my time I didn’t spend any money. Using weebly’s website builder I was [...]
Starting an Online Community that Contributes
Lately I’ve been working with some websites that are trying to create a community within their site. When helping build and optimize these websites I think about what community sites I visit and why. When I was in highschool I got involved in online First Person Shooters. To be more specific, Quake 2 was the [...]
No Budget SEO Experiment
Lastnight I was reading “Crush it” by Gary Vaynerchuk, who’s known for using social media to grow his brand and wine library tv. While I was reading it I came to a section where he was talking about choosing a blog platform. The two he really focused on was wordpress, which was no surprise, and [...]
New Year and New Pittsburgh SEO Group
At this Friday’s Pittsburgh SEO Group meeting I’ll be leading a group discussion on Recent Google Updates including: real-time search, personalized search for everyone and the New 3 Panel Google Design. We’ve been talking about these google updates around the office over the past month, especially the real-time search. It will be really great to [...]
Tracking Google Algorithm Updates
Subscribe to Major Search Engine Blogs Part of being an SEO professional is keeping up to date with major search engine updates. To keep things simple I’m just going to talk about tracking Google’s algorithm updates. Of course one of the best places to start is the official Google blog. Subscribe to the feed using [...]
8 Advanced Search Engine Research Papers
Recently I’ve been collecting online resources that look deeper into the science behind search engines. Here are some of the papers I’ve read that I felt like really provided me with a much deeper insight into SEO. When you start out learning about search engine’s optimization you get caught up in many of the tips [...]
Guide to On-Page Optimization
Monday Rand Fishkin make a great post on the SEOmoz blog titled “Perfecting Keyword Targeting & On-Page Optimization“. I usually pass over these on-page checklists as it seems they are a dime a dozen and usually there’s a lot of opinion that over shadows the core principles. This article really stuck out
Optimizing Yourself for an SEO Career
This Saturday will be my last day of class and my completion of the MBA program at Point Park University in downtown Pittsburgh, Pa. I have always had the urge to keep learning and this is one of many reasons to why I have found myself in the field of search engine optimization. I often [...]
