January 2008

A birdie told me today that Worio is sending out beta invitations to students in selected universities (I am not going to even pretend which schools these guys are talking about at this point). On the paper, Worio is an interesting concept. Worio is a semantic search engine that uses machine learning techniques to rank [...]

So let’s have a pop quiz here. What’s the most important part of any search engine optimization initiative? Bingo! It’s keyword research. Before you write any title tags or any META descriptions, you should do your keyword research. So what do I mean by keyword research? It means finding the right keywords that are right [...]

You may know that Google and other search engines look at 302 redirects in a non-friendly kind of way. The reason is that there have been so many Black Hat SEO techniques that have taken advantage of HTTP 302 redirect method. But can you get in trouble for using 301 redirects? The answer is yes [...]

I am sure you have heard stories of individuals who struck millions by selling well known domains such as iPhone.com or creditcards.com. In fact, Business 2.0 had an article on these guys a few months back, and how cellphones.com fetched over $4 millions in cash. Of course, acquiring such domains is so difficult that you [...]

I am sure you have heard of SEO professionals who claim magic pills that will push you to No. 1 on Google if you take them twice a day for a week. If you haven’t, then you are better off. SEO is no magic pill and in general there are no overnight winners in SEO. [...]

I know. I know. You have probably heard this question before, and nobody seems to have a definite answer to this question. But the funny thing is that nobody asks why this questions comes up so often when discussing search engine optimization. Search engine optimization has become one of the hottest field and a few [...]

Search Engine Optimization is one area that many companies have not mastered yet. In essence, not only it is hard to quantify by corporations, it is mostly underestimated and overlooked. Of course, ignorance of top managers contributes to this phenomenon. However, analysts are now claiming that Search Engine Optimization is getting the attention it needs [...]

I decided to do a quick research, out of curiosity of course, to find out what people are searching for the most. I used WordTracker to figure out the top terms on the Web: Nos Keyword Count 1 sex 239278 2 porn 208356 3 myspace 188475 4 google 160177 5 youporn 151344 So it seems 3 out [...]

If you have a WordPress blog, you know how hard it is to get the search engine optimization process right for your blog. Search engines are essentially very friendly towards blogs and forums due to the frequent updates that bloggers make on a daily basis, but if you don’t get the title tags, and other [...]

You all know that the SERPs usually show 10 results. According to numerous sources, the first placement gets you about 20-25% clicks for a specific term. The number then decreases as you go further down the page. So it just goes to show that you need to go for that No. 1 spot as the [...]