Is PPC Competition Related to SEO Competition?

This post was made Jan 12, 2009 by Carlos del Rio


credit: Mareen Fischinger No, PPC competitions is not the same as SEO competition. Let's use my name, Carlos del Rio, as example. Organic Search Competition Organic content is a relatively slow moving target. As time passes there is increasing competition, and even stale content continues to compete for placement. The mass of accumulated links can keep out-of-date information high in search queries. Assessing your organic competition involves looking ...

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Google Landing Page Standards

This post was made Sep 22, 2008 by Carlos del Rio


credit: Mark Strozier It has now been a while since the new landing page assessments have been rolled out on Google. How have they affected you? Compare two directory sites, both show Google Ads and buy Google Ads: SourceTool.com & Business.com Which has a better landing page? One clearly has more content. Next let's look at the search results from the two sites: SourceTool.com - Green ...

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Why Does Google Nofollow Internal Links

This post was made Sep 05, 2008 by Carlos del Rio


Today while administrating an e-mail account I discovered that Google is nofollowing all of the links on GMail for Business: Every single link: Privacy Policy, other Google Apps, the whole page. The question is why? There aren't many reasons that someone might link to their mail login page (that lives on the Google top level ...

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Reputation and Blame On The Web

This post was made Jul 29, 2008 by Carlos del Rio


: peasap Last week there was a rather large dispute created by a post contributed to SEOmoz by Marty Weintraub (aimclear). The fallout is an interesting observation of reputation management: Tiers of Transparency: The Ethical Brand Ambassador -- This post started it all, the current version has been edited to be less sarcastic/critical. ...

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How Do .Gov Sites Use Robots.txt

This post was made Jul 02, 2008 by Carlos del Rio


photo credit: ph0t0 {is on the move} Looking back at some older post I revisited the SEOmoz post on government susceptibility to cross site scripting. The results of their test over 2 years ago make me curious how government sites interact ...

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