Rand Fishkin has put together a SEO guide for beginners. While most of the information may be old news to seasoned veterans, it does offer a foundation for newbie SEOs. … [Read more...] about Beginner’s SEO Guide
Search Communities
Search has become an indispensible part of our lives. With the plethora of information available at our fingertips, how do we wade through the increasing amount of information on the internet if we don't know exactly what we're looking for? Online communities offers a possible solution. Interesting discussion about online communities such as Google Base, Yahoo 360, … [Read more...] about Search Communities
Link Context in Classifier-Guided Crawlers
Search engine watch's Gary Price points to an interesting paper on Link Context in Classifier-Guided Crawlers Here's the abstract: Context of a hyperlink or link context is defined as the terms that appear in the text around a hyperlink within a Web page. Link contexts have been applied to a variety of Web information retrieval and categorization tasks. Topical or focused … [Read more...] about Link Context in Classifier-Guided Crawlers
Hand-Editing for Spammy Results?
Search engines aim to keep the search index clean - after all, if the results are worthless, few will continue to re-use their service which means lower profits through search ads. Mid this year, a German SEO reports on Google's Secret Evaluation Lab at eval.google.com. On the Yahoo front, Search Engine Watch also revealed that Yahoo was recruiting Relevance Analysts. Now … [Read more...] about Hand-Editing for Spammy Results?
Article Distribution Services
Creating an effective online presence is crucial to internet marketing success. Article writing and distribution is a great way to brand yourself, your business, generate click-throughs to your site, and get tons of free links. Many webmasters starting out should consider submitting their original articles to article directories. It builds a lot of free links in the … [Read more...] about Article Distribution Services