White Hat SEO
- How Amazon Turned a Mobile Phone into a Cash Register
While there were numerous reports of Amazon being one of the few retailers who were positive this holiday season. One of the things that was didn’t receive a tremendous amount of press was the release of Amazon’s iPhone application. This program harnessed the power of the mobile platform, turning a mobile phone into a portable [...]This post originally came fromMichael Graywho is anSEO Consultant.
- Google Guide to SEO - Are Social Media Links on Death Row?
I was reading Google’s guide to SEO (pdf) , and it’s actually pretty good from a website or business owner perspective. However here’s a quote I found interesting, this is something they recommend NOT to do on social media websites:involving your site in schemes where your content is artificially promoted to thetop of these services.For [...]This post originally came fromMichael Graywho is anSEO Consultant.
- Who Else Wants to Make Money from Social Media?
Hi there. I suppose since this is a guest post, I should start with a little introduction. I’m Tim Woodin, and I’m going to talk about how to use social media to make money.Firstly though, let me give you a bit of background info. About five years ago, I created a course on copywriting. I [...]This post originally came fromMichael Graywho is anSEO Consultant.
- Blogher 2009 Looking for Speakers
Blogher announced they are looking for speakers, looking for ideas for sessions and speaker nominations. I’m not sure why they can’t just say“call for speakers” like everyone else but hey that’s their thing not mine.Anywho if you know of someone who you think should be speaking at the Blogher conference or have an idea [...]This post originally came fromMichael Graywho is anSEO Consultant.
- Re Inclusion Requests Only For Verified Sites
I’ve submitted more than one reinclusion request over the years, and the process was education in some ways (what you don’t think you can experiment with that too under the proper well planned and thought out conditions?). However I was looking at something in webmaster central recently and was reminded of something that bothered me. [...]This post originally came fromMichael Graywho is anSEO Consultant.
- So I Made it Onto Some Silly List
So while I was away I made it onto the Most Influential Online Marketers of 2008 list. Not that I don’t appreciate everyone who was nice enought to vote for me, and all the hard work that went into putting a list like that together, but I wonder about the culture we create and want [...]This post originally came fromMichael Graywho is anSEO Consultant.
- Mapquest v.2: Google’s Attack On SoundClick.com
The Borgle is doing it again - after Google Maps ripping off MapQuest, Youtube is out to jack SoundClick.Before I got into the search marketing community, one of the first online communities I really got involved with was the hiphop community. I’d seen 8 Mile, loved the’seize the day’ message in its theme song [...]This post originally came fromMichael Graywho is anSEO Consultant.
- Michael Gray on Video
While most of our time is spent online, conferences are the one spot where people are in the same spot, so it’s a perfect spot for interviews. As we all know interviews are perfect tool for shameless ego stroking and linkbuilding symbiotic cross promotion. Here are some recent video interviews I’ve done in the past [...]This post originally came fromMichael Graywho is anSEO Consultant.
- How Google Treats Trusted Sites Differently With Duplicate Content
One of the things that a lot of people don’t get about the new Google is the over-reliance on trust in the algorithm. It’s this over-reliance on trust that puts wikipedia at the top of so many searches. However if you have this trust it’s like having a laminated get out of jail free card [...]This post originally came fromMichael Graywho is anSEO Consultant.
How Google Treats Trusted Sites Differently With Duplicate Content
- Philip Rosedale From Second Life on Information Retrieval
The following is a video from Philip Rosedale of Second Life speaking at TED. From a search engine and information retrieval perspective the video get interesting at about minute 9:00 . He poses the thought that things are going to change that the text web will eventually be replaced by imagery and symbology in virtual [...]This post originally came fromMichael Graywho is anSEO Consultant.
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