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Optimizing Content for StumbleUpon

DoshDosh brought an interesting blog entry to my attention on Sphinn — How to Write Posts That Set StumbleUpon on Fire. As most people in the industry know, StumbleUpon has the uncanny ability to drive a lot of traffic to a website. In addition, I … Read More

Live Search Team Announces Significant Updates, Also Changes User Agent to “msnbot/1.1″

Fabrice Canel, part of the Live Search Crawling Team, announced on Tuesday (February 12, 2008) significant updates to the Live Search Engine crawler, MSNBot. The updates significantly improve the efficiency with which they crawl and index websites. The two biggest updates were improvements with HTTP … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 28

  54 Headline Templates That Sell — Jump Start Your Headline Writing Success Healthline Beefs Up Content, Features — Provides Vertical Search Are Google Searches Malicious? — 1.3% of Google Searches Return at Least One Malicious Result 5 Lesser Known Google Analytics Features — Get … Read More

Raven SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 13

Google Search Tricks TechTracer has some interesting tips on ensuring your search queries are at peak efficiency. Finding what you’re looking for on Google can sometimes be an art form, but a little help can go a long way. Aarron Walter on Findability, SEO, and … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 27

  Top 10 Social Media Site Lists — 2008 Will be the Year of the Meta Lists Is BigNews a Big Ask? — Uses BigFactor to Rank Stories Did Google get Duped? — Massive Comment Tag Stuffing Ploy Needs Answering Boost Organic Results — Link … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 26

Updated July 2012 by @Ravenjeremy: Looking through this issue, unfortunately most of these posts no longer exist, so I’ve removed the links so you don’t waste your time on a 404 page. Here’s some of our more recent SEO blog posts for you to enjoy. 23 … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 25

  Podcasting Becoming More Popular — Advertisers Take Notice Baidu Under Fire for Music Piracy — Major Music Companies File Court Proceedings Five Simple Linkbait Metrics — And How to Measure Them Cheaply Three Important Reasons for SEO and SEM — Three Reasons Why Businesses … Read More

SEO Daily Reading – Issue 24

SEO and the Hesitant Webmaster Syndrome — Overcoming the Fear of SEO Techniques How to Call to Action — Elements of a Successful Call to Action Google Running Scared? — Finds Microsoft’s bid to Buy Yahoo! Troubling SEO Pilot Projects — Why They Are a … Read More

Raven SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 12

Google’s Final Score Google’s fourth quarter and fiscal year 2007 financial results have at last been revealed. The Search Engine Journal has the full lowdown. It’s interesting to see that the expectations were short of some market bystanders. It’s staggering to me to see just … Read More

Microsoft Looks to Upset the Search Engine Balance with Offer to Buy Yahoo!

Microsoft has a history of either arriving too early or too late to the party. In the case of search engines, they were too late. However, Microsoft has a not-so-secret weapon — money! Regardless of when they get to the party, they often times simply … Read More