Search Engine Strategies NYC and SEO Image

April 5th, 2007 by Alan  

SEO Image will have a small presence at Search Engine Strategies in Manhattan this year. This has been a year of growth and we are expanding and focused on the company and our current clients. We will be networking and meeting several firms and industry partners at the convention.
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SEO Image Guarantees #1 for 1,000,000

April 1st, 2007 by Alan  

SEO Image is pleased to announce that it will, through new strategic partnerships with Google, Yahoo, Digg, Del.icio.us, Squidoo, the New York Times and MSN, be guaranteeing the #1 position, plus a few home pages, for the month of April 2007, for an extremely low price tag of $1,000,000 per term.

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Matt Cutt’s Blog Hacked by Dark SEO Team

April 1st, 2007 by Alan  

A French (according to the whois) site called Dark SEO Team at DarkSEOTeam.com has hacked Matt Cutt’s blog and taken it over.

I expect they will be PR 0′d very soon for this. I would be quite surprised if they are not banned. Personally I am not for anyone who would go to this effort for any reason. I like Matts Blog and feel that it is a valuable resource for the SEO community. Whether Google likes SEOs or not I believe is based on several factors.
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The Google Sandbox Effect Theory

March 29th, 2007 by Alan  

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 effect so that all websites must be born into Google.

Interesting how life and Google are handled the same. For some of us, life and Google seem to cross paths quite often. So what is the Sandbox? The Google Sandbox is a theoretical gateway into the Google index apparently this gateway is somewhat square or boxlike in nature. Getting out of the box and into the index to be seen by the rest of the world, can be big challenge and well worth the effort to anyone that wants to see traffic from the Search Engines.

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The Top 4 Age Factors for Search Engine Ranking

March 28th, 2007 by Alan  

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 algorithm, as other factors such as link popularity and keyword rich content will play a major role as well in rankings.
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Quantity vs Quality and Blog Spam or Linkbaiting for Fame

March 26th, 2007 by Alan  

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 the biggest bloggers (blog celebrities) that syndicate over 10 posts a day and comparing that to other sources whose staff write original content, and then of course, to smaller firms that elect a staff member or executive to post, definitely shows differences in quality and quantity.
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Increase PageRank and Quality Content Factors

March 25th, 2007 by Alan  

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 the numbers of words on a page are small, then the pages seem to get less priority and are more inclined to trip the overly-aggressive duplicate content filter. So in effect, what we see as on-page content is now playing much more of an important role in the recent Google algorithm change.
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Why You Need to Design Sites for Search Engines - NOT Visitors

March 23rd, 2007 by Alan  

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 have top search engine rankings, to maintain up-to-date page and navigation structure so they do not fall into Google’s ever-growing supplemental index.

If you do not design and structure your sites for Google, Google will erase you. Yahoo and MSN are much friendlier to content repeated in a template while Google seems to fumble and cause webmasters to re-write templates and pages that have repeated content.
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Industry Popularity Factors in Search Engine Ranking

March 13th, 2007 by Alan  

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 industry popularity method includes social network use as a trigger.
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Google February and March Updates Show “Dancing” Results

March 5th, 2007 by Alan  

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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