The Google Sandbox Effect Theory

March 29th, 2007 by Alan Rabinowitz

The infamous and theoretical Google Sandbox Effect, where new domains are reported to take 9 months or longer to rank. Notice something interesting about the 9 Months? 9 Months is a life cycle of humans. We are in the womb for 9 months before we are born. Google uses this time line in its sandbox [...]

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The Top 4 Age Factors for Search Engine Ranking

March 28th, 2007 by Alan Rabinowitz

Age is a very important factor in Search Engine Optimization. There are several different types of age that can play roles in how Search Engines rank websites. Knowing these factors can be helpful in determining how long it will take for a website to rank well. Keep in mind age is only part of the [...]

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Quantity vs Quality and Blog Spam or Linkbaiting for Fame

March 26th, 2007 by Alan Rabinowitz

One obvious route to fame and blog celebrity status is somewhat related to two factors, the quality of posts and the quantity of postings. One tends to feed more on the fact that people are always looking to aggregate news or re-syndicate content for ad purposes. The other is geared for serious readership. Looking at [...]

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Increase PageRank and Quality Content Factors

March 25th, 2007 by Alan Rabinowitz

Content, considered king by some, is currently proven to effect the PR of a page. For instance, pages with more content and well written content generally get a PageRank boost. If the content is original and high quality based on a “Microsoft Word-Like” word processors that Google uses, then pages gain an additional boost. If [...]

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Why You Need to Design Sites for Search Engines – NOT Visitors

March 23rd, 2007 by Alan Rabinowitz

For years we told users to design sites for their visitors and not the search engines. Today we actually state the opposite. Due to Google’s overly obsessive duplicate content filter and its parameters for spam being so close to natural content and template usage, we now believe it is imperative for sites that want to [...]

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Industry Popularity Factors in Search Engine Ranking

March 13th, 2007 by Alan Rabinowitz

In a recent post, I discussed the topic of “Industry Popularity” as a ranking factor. In this post I will elaborate on it and how it crosses into Search Engine Optimization. Industry popularity is simply what it says, the popularity of a site in relationship to its specific industry as a whole. Part of the [...]

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Google February and March Updates Show “Dancing” Results

March 5th, 2007 by Alan Rabinowitz

February and March were busy months for activity on the Google Datacenters. With thousands of sites in a constant flux, many marketers have been theorizing the end of static rankings as Google seems to be turning itself into a constantly changing algorithm similar to how MSN was a few months ago.

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