I’m going to sidestep a morality judgment against Eliot Spitzer and his patronage of an elite prostitution agency. This post offers no opinions on the former New York governor in particular or the escort business in general. Instead I’m interested in the site structure and content of what is now the most famous escort website…
This is the first political post on this blog and I have no intention of making a habit of writing about politics. I do wish to share the presidential candidate calculator from vajoe. I have no idea what Joe’s policital leanings are, but he has created an excellent non partisan site for comparing presidential candidates.…
Google has confirmed that landing pages hosted on slow or unresponsive servers will be devalued. PPC Quality score, the algorithmic factor that can make or break a paid search campaign will be affected by shaky web hosting. See AdWordsAdvisor post in major search engine optimization forums: WMW SEW What do you need to do to…
Everyone wants a number one position in search engines, but just how valuable is the top spot in Google? Cornell University did a study on click behavior on search engine result pages showing click percentages for each of the 10 positions on a search engine results page . The result is staggering – the difference…
Search engine optimization starts with quality HTML. On page optimization uses existing text, images and links and structures them in a unifying format. This is a general guideline for the HTML structure of a webpage. The most important information should be at the top of a page along with an image. Note the proper use…
The search engine optimization field came of age when savvy SEO’s read Google’s backrub patents and figured out it was all about the links. Back in the early days of early millennia Google, all you needed to do was spam acquire some links and you could easily get on Google’s front page. Now, forget links…
It can be frustrating to deal with search engines and their keyword bidding rules. Here is an overview of paid search ad trademark policies. Google: Allows trademarks as trigger keywords, but trademarks in the visible ad text is not allowed. So you can add trademarked keywords, but you cannot write ads using these keywords. Yahoo…
The European Union really has it in for Microsoft and has just fined them $1.35 billion euros, bringing the total amount of Microsoft fines in Europe to approximately 1.7 billion E or $2.55 billion dollars. This is a staggering amount, which equates to about $2.75 per european citizen. This is only about 2 weeks of…
Get a coupon for the Search Engine Strategies SEO conference in New York. I have been to previous SES conferences and they have been worthwhile events. When attending conferences I find the most important indicator of quality is the individual speaker. A qualified search engine optimization expert can make any panel topic interesting and informative.…
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