The Sitemap, Your Hostess with the Mostest
Friday, 24 July 2009
I had a great conversation the other day with a friend who was asking about the importance of a sitemap. While a protocol exists, prompting an easy answer to most questions, it was proposed that following it didn’t really matter with Google owning search. Fine opinion to take if you are the type to put
- Published in Natural Search / SEO
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Is SEOmoz Building a Search Engine? – Live from SMX
Tuesday, 07 October 2008
Vintage Bath & Tub‘s Allan Dick hosted a fantastic dinner last night; bringing together the cream of the crop of search for a few hours of fun and food. I had no idea the fun would serve to validate my assertion that SEOmoz is on to something big. The annual dinner always features an innovative
- Published in Conferences / Events, Fun, Search
Rand Announces Advanced SEO Analytics Engine Linkscape at SMX East
Monday, 06 October 2008
I’ve just seen the future of link analytics and it is SEOmoz. Perhaps the most engrossing and entertaining presentation at SMX East was Rand Fishkin’s introduction of Linkscape, an advanced link intelligence engine delivering rich data to website owners and SEOs regarding inlinks, related anchor text, trust, and rank. SEOmoz has indexed over 200M domains
- Published in Analytics, Insights / Research, Natural Search / SEO, Search, Vendors / Agencies
The Library Analogy Takes Hold
Monday, 08 September 2008
The turn of the year brought us Christmas, New Years Eve, and one of my favorite favorite ideas: The Library Analogy. The premise is simple, the easiest way to explain SEO to someone unfamiliar with search engines, websites, or optimization, is to compare the practice to managing a library. I won’t go into the detail
- Published in Natural Search / SEO, Search
Social Search Networking
Friday, 05 September 2008
Full disclosure! This post completely violates the laws of link baiting, enticing industry leaders and bloggers to come to SEO’Brien just to see how/why I’ve linked to them; so to you I say! “hey there” I’m not doing that intentionally but had such a fantastic time with the folks at the Search Engine Strategies, WebmasterRadio
- Published in Conferences / Events, Fun, Search, Vendors / Agencies
Is the media helping or hurting our understanding of SEO?
Friday, 25 July 2008
CNET’s Stephen Shankland has written a thorough review of Microsoft’s BrowseRank, “Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank” but its this perspective that really tells the story. It’s maddening to see yet another naive or deliberately misleading article on an innovation in search ranking, that perpetuates persistent misunderstanding of how search works and what makes search
- Published in Insights / Research, Search
The Top 10 SEO Myths (& Priorities)
Thursday, 03 July 2008
iMedia Connection, Associate Editor Michael Estrin has pulled together a must read SEO article with contributions from SEO Superstars, Kevin Ryan, Paul Bruemmer, Danny Sullivan, Aaron Wall, Shimon Sandler, and Google’s Adam Lasnik. The article reviews what I think everyone would agree are the most widely believed myths as well as the most important considerations
- Published in Natural Search / SEO, Search