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Five SEO Myths

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 … Read More

How Will Google’s “Knol” Affect SEO, Yahoo! and Ultimately Google?

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 … Read More

Raven SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 6

News from the SEO world this week includes Google adding blogs to Universal Search, using YouTube as a search method, and questions to ask when doing a social media campaign. Google Adds Blogs to Universal Search An intriguing news item from PC Magazine this week … Read More

Will Ask.com’s AskEraser Impact the Edison Algorithm and its SERPs?

Search Engine Land today posted news about a new feature on Ask.com called AskEraser which grants users the ability to search anonymously. Users concerned about their online privacy now have an advocate. But how will this affect Ask.com’s search results? Ask.com combines both Teoma and … Read More

Google’s Subdomain and Subdirectory Change is Nothing to Get Excited About

There’s been a lot of misinformation going around regarding an algorithm tweak by Google. The tweak affects subdomains and subdirectories, which for an SEO specialist can be quite alarming. Fortunately, there’s not much bite to this update. The algorithm tweak was relatively minor and was … Read More

Matt Cutts Offers Insight Into Site Building

Michael Dorausch transcribed the audio from a video recorded at PubCon 2007 that featured Matt Cutts discussing the best methods for building a website. In the dialogue between Matt and Guy Kawasaki, Matt suggested his three step process for creating a really good site and … Read More

Raven SEO Weekly Digest – Issue 5

With PubCon and SES Chicago going on at the same time, there is plenty to review in the world of SEO this week. Sub Domains to be Treated as Folders by Google Fresh out of PubCon this week is the intriguing development that sub domains … Read More

Google Finds Dead Man Alive

The Guardian Unlimited UK reported that a dead man was found alive with the help of a Google search. After not returning from a canoeing trip in March 2002, John Darwin was declared dead in 2003 — thought the victim of a tragic canoeing accident. … Read More

Article Title Tips for SEO and Social Media

Jon recently blogged about Michael Gray’s top 10 social media marketing tips and number one on that list was ‘create eye catching titles’. If you’re struggling to come up with creating eye catching titles you may want to check out the 22 World Class Headline … Read More

Rand Fishkin’s Link Building Tips from PubCon Las Vegas 2007

One of the best resources from PubCon (so far) came from Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz. Although Rand requested that the audience not publicly publish this list, I thought it would still be a good resource for Raven users. I published his list of links that … Read More