Creative SEO

This post was made Apr 17, 2008 by Carlos del Rio


Today's SEO review is of James Kinloch site. Yesterday he stopped by to comment on "Are you Doing Opt-in Wrong?" and invited me to check out his site. He wants the phrase creative SEO. What is Creative SEO? To qualify as creative you need to be doing something that is notably out side of the norm. Link dropping in comments & forums, optimizing titles & tags, or building a site map are not really ...

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Building A Better Site: Internal Link Structures

This post was made Feb 06, 2008 by Carlos del Rio


Continuing from my post on nofollowing internal navigation I want to discuss, theoretically, how to design internal structures to selectively drive value. This will necessarily be a partial explanation because I am not going to cover content issues, only links structure. As such don't throw these recommendations at your favorite site unless you are sure that you are a competent content creator. That said architectural changes have a greater possible positive effect and less ...

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No Follow – Gaming A Broken System

This post was made Feb 04, 2008 by Carlos del Rio


Use of nofollow has been a hot topic last week, SEOmoz tentatively claimed that nofollow changes in their architecture may have been the reason that they saw an increase in search traffic over the last few months. Tempers flared in the comments and many people responded directly about PageRank sculpting and siloing some people responded about higher content standards or seo standards. I think that it is good that Rand brought up ...

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Demand An SEO Standard

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


Today I started my daily blog reading with SlightlyShady's primer for black hat networks and decided to travel through the blogroll and comment links. Every once in a while it is good to stretch into the corners of the business that I don't read often. I found that many of these people frequent SEO-Theory. I am happy to see that. Michael has been on a consistent message about links being overvalued because of Google ...

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How Do Search Engines Work?

This post was made Jan 25, 2008 by Carlos del Rio


Three posts about how search engines work: Rand Fishkin - covers how databases are likely used and what are dependent and independent variables. At the core it is a good question. He should continue this line by talking about how Yahoo! and Google work differently -- especially since he places high value on links. Micheal Martinez - says that Google doesn't work. He also points out that what ever it is that Google is doing ...

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