• Brett Snyder Brett Snyder

    March 8, 2010

    ADAPT for SEO Success in Our Constantly Changing World

    In a recent blog post, the Google Search team announced that 540 quality search improvements were made to the ranking algorithm in 2009 alone, an average of 1.5 improvements per day.  In an industry that literally changes on a daily basis, it is vitally important for SEOs to constantly question our tactics, and subsequently adjust …

  • Wil Reynolds Wil Reynolds

    December 14, 2009

    Develop buying guides & glossaries – get SEO rewards

    Today SEO Blackhat actually showed yet another threat to the traffic you get from your top rankings – Google answering queries that are in the form of questions in Google suggest – meaning for those of us that get “what is XYZ” queries driving traffic might see less traffic coming from those terms.
    Being a good …

  • Rachael Levenson Rachael Levenson

    December 8, 2009

    Google Real Time Search

    Among the many exciting exciting announcements Google in the past 24 hours (Google Goggles, favorite places, Chrome for Mac, extensions for Chrome), the one that has people all a-twitter is Google Real Time Search. And now we can all see it live.
    To see Google Real Time Search results, go to http://www.google.com/trends and select one …

  • Rachael Levenson Rachael Levenson

    December 4, 2009

    Google Visual Search and “Inside the Mind of Google”

    During CNBC’s hour-long special, “Inside the Mind of Google,” Google Product Manager Harmut Neven demoed a potential new product: Google Visual Search. With Google Visual Search on an Android phone, a searcher can simply use the smartphone to take a picture then search with that image. Google should be able to recognize …

  • Rachael Levenson Rachael Levenson

    September 2, 2008

    Who’s Searching for Google Chrome?

    How do you know when something’s “gone hot” online? We’ve all been reading about Google Chrome, looking forward to the big launch today. There’s been steady buzz online, then Google actually released Chrome for download. The result?
    Google Trends says that Google Chrome is “on fire.”

    Looking at the top 100 terms being searched …

  • Wil Reynolds Wil Reynolds

    April 15, 2008

    Being Arrogant – A great way to lose on the web (Omniture Vs. IndexTools)

    Since I don’t really “DO” web analytics and instead advise from a distance, maybe I am uninformed, but after reading this blog post it got me thinking about this quote in particular from a person at Omniture on the recent purchase of Indextools:

    “We at Omniture congratulate IndexTools and welcome Yahoo! back to the Web analytics …

  • Wil Reynolds Wil Reynolds

    March 24, 2008

    Content is NOT always King & SEO is not always bad

    Ok if I put two sites side by side and I told you that one ranked much better than the other given these stats, which one do you think would rank highest?

     
    Site A
    Site B

    Site Theme
    General Dircectory
    Wine ONLY

    Advertising
    3 Adsense Blocks + Banner
    None

    Last content written about wine
    2 years
    Yesterday

    Comments per year
    1.25
    456 in 3 months

    Del.ici.ous
    1000 (generic site)
    1500+ (niche site)

    Subscribers
    ??
    11,000+

    Technorati …