Admit it, you suck at sending link requests. When you send a link request, you say something like, “hey dude, check out this link, link exchanges are cool too, and if you want to be cool you should link to me.” You’re pathetic. We’re all pathetic. Which is why we could learn a thing or …

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7 Reasons Why You’ll Click on Everything I Post — It’s all about the avatar, baby. Don’t believe me? Well yes, content is king, but it needs to be noticed. Improving Your Site Through Metrics — If you’re stuck in metrics information overload, then check out these questions you should be asking about your site. …

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Proxy Servers are used for many different reasons. Services like AOL use proxy servers for Internet traffic load balancing, while others use them for a thin layer of privacy. The most common or preferred use of a proxy server is for privacy (aka anonymisation). That’s often achieved through a large network of various servers located …

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Collin Winter, an old Sitening employee and now Google engineer, alerted me to how excruciatingly cute they are in Googleville. Apparently, in a night of programming madness, they added the ability to include number of horns on a unicorn into any equation. Don’t believe me? See for yourself. Sample Equation

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Imagine a world where buying and selling links actually added value to your site, where writing white text on a white background actually improved your SERPs and was a legitimate way of building a keyword rich site. Hundreds of pages with the same content is an awesome way to get more people to view your …

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Interview with Google’s Matt Cutts at Pubcon — Stephen had the pleasure of sitting down with Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team, for over a half hour last week at Pubcon. 24 Do-Follow Social Bookmarking Sites That Actually Work — We’re building up our own private list in Raven’s SEO Forum, but here’s 24 …

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What’s the least likely place you would go to find something? Your old girlfriend’s apartment? A landfill? Utah? Actually, it’s not any of those. The least likely place you would go is obviously page 87 of Live Search. Which of course is why you should go there. So let’s get right to it. I will …

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SEM Pricing Stuctures & Business Models — This post explores the pros and cons of common search-focused advertising agency models and the profiling of potential clients. Also the panelists, all seasoned SEM business veterans, named prices and shared freely. Smart Ways To Monetize Your Blog – BlogWorld Presentation — ShoeMoney’s presentation on smart ways to …

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Sometimes clients can often have unrealistic expectations when it comes to SEO work. The market has become saturated with “Guaranteed top 10 placement – get listed overnight!” fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants SEO companies. Those who are familiar with good, solid SEO techniques are all too aware that these companies almost always fail to deliver. And if they do …

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I was one of the first Google Answers Researchers when they first launched their service several years ago. At the time, it seemed like the future of knowledge aggregation. The best part about Google Answers was that it allowed anyone to ask a question for a nominal fee and approved researchers could jump at the …

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