Here are the nation’s 10 largest newspapers based on circulation and their websites. Every newspaper has seen circulation decline over the past few years. Newspapers face a special challenge in transitioning from print to the web. While it seems clear…
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Did the NYT take a SEO Play from Wikipedia Inlinking Strategies
The other day on twitter I mentioned a dramatic change in the way the New York Times was creating their content and the start of a new in linking strategy for them. Wikipedia does have an incredible internal linking structure.…
Domain Age as a SEO Factor
Domain Registration Date: Per Google’s patent(s), the Age of a Domains Registration is a factor. However, the value of such is, like all other factors, open to speculation. More important is for how long the Domain Name is currently registered.…
Google Sandbox Patent
United States Patent Application 20070143345 Kind Code A1 Jones; Michael T. ; et al. June 21, 2007 ENTITY DISPLAY PRIORITY IN A DISTRIBUTED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM Abstract A system for ranking geospatial entities is described. In one embodiment, the…
Ranking Domains Using Domain Maturity
Ranking Domains Using Domain Maturity Invented by Janine Crumb, Krishna C Gade, Rangan Majumder, Vishnu Challam Assigned to Microsoft US Patent Application 20080086467 Published April 10, 2008 Filed October 10, 2006 Abstract Ranking domains for search engines is provided herein.…
Banned By Google? How to tell if Google penalized you
Although, as a rule, I do not practice “blackhat”, sometimes we have doubts about whether Google has penalized a site. Especially when we are expecting the index to be included in any new website just launched. Google usually takes a…
Everything You Know About Link Farms is Wrong
FFA and Link Farms FFA sites (Free For All) are web pages that include a link to the website you just point free. But it has two drawbacks: 1) Usually you have to register or provide personal information. Many of…
Google Ranking Factors – SEO Checklist
1. Alleged POSITIVE ON-Page SEO Google Ranking Factors (38) (Keeping in mind the converse, of course, that when violated, some of these factors immediately jump into the NEGATIVE On-Page Ranking Factors domain.) The term “Keyword” below refers to the “Keyword…
The Importance of Backlinks
If you’ve read anything about or studied Search Engine Optimization, you’ve come across the term “backlink” at least once. For those of you new to SEO, you may be wondering what a backlink is, and why they are important. Backlinks…
Top Myths About Google; how you really rank and why
Myth #1: The Higher Your Google PageRank (PR), the Higher You’ll be in the Search Results Listing – PageRank has nothing to do with the ranking of web pages, it has to do with the level of authoritativeness the page…