July 2008

Who are the real heroes in our hyper competitive industry? Are they those who you see at Search Engine Strategies giving lectures about the latest development in our industry? There are a lot of these people who I have the most respect for. Most of these lecturers have paid their dues and have been good [...]

You have probably heard already that Cuil by ex-Google engineers is finally out and open to public. They claim that they have indexed over 100 billion pages and are the largest search engine on the planet. That is al fine and dandy. But let’s see how Cuil stacks up in design and algorithm: Design: Simple [...]

It’s true. Matt Cutts mentioned it a few days back, and now I understand why one of my blogs went from PR of 3 to PR of 0! PageRank is not really as important as it used to be but going from 3 to 0 in a couple of days is depressing. Having said that, [...]

Well, if you haven’t heard the news yet, then you should know that Google is pretty much close to buying Digg for about $200m (Kevin, can you spare a bother a mil?). So what does it all mean for people who have used Digg to drive traffic to their sites? It’s tough to say. I [...]

If you know anything about SEO, you know that article submission is a major part of link building campaign for any SEO campaign. Of course, we have link buyers who take a shortcut, but if you have an article handy and submit it to the top article directories, there is a good chance that sites [...]

I am sure you have already heard of the idea of searching socially. In essence, companies such as Scour allow you to search for what you are looking for, but on the SERPs you get a chance to vote for the results. It’s a very good idea on the surface. In essence, by being part [...]

That’s the million dollar question. What happens if you Digg your own article? According to Digg, you are free to submit your own articles. But in general, it’s a good idea to your readers submit your articles to Digg. Now I did submit my article to Digg a couple of months ago and in 3 [...]

Now that Google is trying very hard to make Flash readable to its bots, should you invest in a flash website in hope that it will be readable to Google in the future? My answer is a quick no at this point. Google’s announcement was great for our industry. Flash sites do look better in [...]

If you have worked in the SEO industry for even just a little bit, you know the reputation that search engine optimization professional have in other industries. Many think of SEO professionals as gamers: a group of folks who spend days and nights figuring out shortcuts to the top of the SERPs. In fact, many [...]

Here is an update on the post that we made about Worio tag-based search engine. At the time, Worio was under construction, but now Worio Beta is live. I’ll write a full review of this service in the upcoming days. However, Worio’s tag based approach is very interesting. When you search for a keyword, you [...]