Link Popularity Building through Link Types & Link Quality

July 19th, 2007 by Alan

I have written a 3-Part tutorial on the Search Engine Journal where I have been putting up weekly tutorials based on my SEO experience. For those of you who are unaware, I have been working professionally in the SEO industry since the late 90’s. I am very technical and have been a beta tester for […]

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Search Algorithm Popularity Factors and Types

June 15th, 2007 by Alan

Alan’s latest post is online over at Search Engine Journal.
It categorizes popularity types and gives a brief intro into each. In defining popularity types, we can determine the best methods of optimization that would benefit websites by utilizing these popularities. Knowing that if we are well-rounded and utilize every aspect, we can get websites […]

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Supplemental Index - Why are big sites falling victim?

June 2nd, 2007 by Alan

The supplemental index has become a tool for Google to place less valued pages into to try and fine-tune the quality of its main index. In fact, the current supplemental index is growing rapidly and may be trying to get into the “Size Wars” of Millions of pages indexed. - OK, so I may like […]

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Top 4 Popularitiy Types for Search Engine Rankings

February 22nd, 2007 by Alan

There are many factors that effect Search Engine Rankings. If we take away the site’s content, what things would make a site show up on the Search Engines? We have defined 3 factors of major importance for today’s Search Engines.
Link Popularity, Social Popularity, Industry Popularity and Click Popularity, these are all current factors in ranking […]

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Digg vs. Google Which Top 10 ranking is better? Official Poll

December 21st, 2006 by Alan

We’re in a day and age where buzz travels online faster than the speed of search. Is news and buzz becoming more desired than static search results?
Here’s an interesting topic for discussion from a marketing perspective. Is it Google marketing gone haywire and sending millions to Digg it! Where do you become famous? Which Top […]

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