Graywolf performed an interesting test on his site for outbound linking effect on improving rankings. While not a big enough test to draw concrete conclusions, it certainly offers some insight to how linking works and the possible effects on rankings. One of his "findings" was: What does this mean from an SEO standpoint, well I wouldn’t be linking out from pages that … [Read more...] about Outbound Linking Case Study
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SEO BlackHat Economics
Why are there still spammers in the search results even though search engines continually delist and penalize such sites? Well, to give you some insight into this, get the inside scoop from SEO BlackHat on Why Spam Works. Interestingly, he ripped off the content from Earl Gray's syndyk8.com's article on Interview with a Blackhat SEO. From the profits they can generate, … [Read more...] about SEO BlackHat Economics
Yahoo Site Explorer Site Feeds
Yahoo's Site Explorer has been a great tool to: All subpages within a URL indexed by Yahoo as well as subpages under a path. Display inlinks indexed by Yahoo to a URL. Submit any missing URLs to Yahoo. You can use their free submit if any URL is not found and can even upload URLs in bulk. Now, site feeds can be submitted via their site submissions in RSS and … [Read more...] about Yahoo Site Explorer Site Feeds
Beginner’s SEO Guide
Rand Fishkin has put together a SEO guide for beginners. While most of the information may be old news to seasoned veterans, it does offer a foundation for newbie SEOs. … [Read more...] about Beginner’s SEO Guide
Hand-Editing for Spammy Results?
Search engines aim to keep the search index clean - after all, if the results are worthless, few will continue to re-use their service which means lower profits through search ads. Mid this year, a German SEO reports on Google's Secret Evaluation Lab at eval.google.com. On the Yahoo front, Search Engine Watch also revealed that Yahoo was recruiting Relevance Analysts. Now … [Read more...] about Hand-Editing for Spammy Results?