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Raven SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 40

Google and Mozilla Agree to Extend Default Firefox Search Deal Choice – something that Google is willing to pay for to deny others, but has no qualms about using double standards. TechCrunch are reporting that Google has extended a deal to be the default search … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 101

  Google Suggest — Will Greatly Change Keyword Referrers Google Now Searching for Synonyms — Experimentation to Improve the Search Interface Leveraging Small Resources for Traffic — Cultivate Your Listings Five Ways to Re-Purpose Content for Blog SEO — Resource Strapped Bloggers Take Note Google … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 100

You may have noticed that we’ve been sitting on 99 SEO Daily blog posts since last Thursday. In honor of the high amount of client work that we have, coupled with the centenary edition of the SEO Daily Reading, we have a small competition. Here’s … Read More

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management Presentation on SEO & Search Marketing

I want to thank Corey Cleek of Uloop and Erick Goss for inviting me to present on SEO & Search Marketing to their Internet Marketing class at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. I found the class to be even more inquisitive than the … Read More

Raven SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 39

Yahoo! Announces Redesign for Site Explorer Yahoo!’s Search Blog announced this week that they are testing a new design for their Site Explorer. The new design involves a plethora of new stats about the websites including number of pages crawled, number of inlinks, number of … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 99

  Making the Business Case for SEO — Selling Your SEO Efforts to Management or Clients Doing Some Link Building? — Maybe These Would Interest You… Maximizing SEO Returns with User Generated Content — Search Engine Optimization on a Large Scale Why SEO Should Never … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 98

Secret SEO Secrets — Should Remain Secret SEO Sauce Google Translate and User Feedback — Just How Many Languages Does Google Speak? Yahoo! Grouping Results — Groups Results Together and Indents Listings 7 Proven Ways to get Listed on Page 1 Organically — Then it’s … Read More

Google Changes Rules On Nofollow – Forgets To Send Memo

Oh sweet “nofollow!” I use you on my blog to keep my link juice from spilling out onto the shady, dark world of the Internet underbellies. I even use you to sculpt my sites, hoping to wrangle PageRank and content into my own little silo … Read More

EDU Links! EDU Links! Get Your Red Hot EDU Links!

There’s a belief among many search engine optimizers that links from college websites (aka EDU links) carry more link juice than typical COM, NET and ORG TLD links. Because of that belief, many SEO specialists spend a ridiculous amount of time and energy trying to … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 97

  How to Overcome Social Media Scare Tactics — Instead: Understand, Have a Goal and Experiment Make Your 404 Pages More Useful — Direct Them Where They Need to Go with Google’s Addition to Webmaster Tools Linking Out Gets Links In — Visitors More Likely … Read More