Posts by: Dave Keys
I’m as much in favor of article syndication as the next anti-Panda advocate but thin content is thin content. I’ve seen competitors in recent months for keyword Orange County SEO expend resources on creating more and more spin content and thin and even unintelligible, out-of-control so-called article marketing that is really just spam, trying desperately [...]
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This article is syndicated from my real estate SEO blog and Activerain, but I wanted to add here that the website observed here has moved in and out of the top ten pages of SERPs. Today, it’s at the bottom of page four. It may yet recover but the obvious takeaway here is that at [...]
Continue Reading →Today the lights went out on Yahoo Site Explorer and the free alternative to analyze and evaluate back-links. This may come as bad news to a lot of DIYers but the quality of this method of evaluating the SEO clout of a website leaves a lot to be desired as Google continues to scale down [...]
Continue Reading →Buyer intent. Commercial intent. Those kind of terms are tossed around marketing circles like dwarves in a 1930s circus. It’s regarded as just a tired trick by some who know that SEOs like to use the long tail in their marketing. What they completely miss is the power of the story and emotion that, in [...]
Continue Reading →Google Will Break A Lot of Tracking Tools and SEO Hearts With This One
October 18, 2011: Announcement on the Goog-O-Blahg-oh in the name of “Making search more secure”:
We will stop all third party tracking services in their tracks, or more mildly put, “we are encrypting search for signed in users and [...]
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