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Why Do We Care About Pagerank

by Jonah Stein on March 5, 2010

SEO’s frequently talk about PageRank (not Page Rank).  To prove we aren’t noobies, we quickly add that PR is not important anymore and to stop thinking of it as magical green pixie dust™.  While other external signals are just as important and ToolBar PageRank (TBPR) doesn’t represent the actual value Google puts on a page, [...]

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Is Google Cloaking Results to Firefox Users?

by Jonah Stein on February 26, 2010

I discovered this morning that Google isseems to be cloaking results for some users based on either your browser ID user agent or possibly based on the extensions you are running in Firefox.
Like many search marketers, I frequently use Google custom queries.  By far, the most common query I use is the site: [...]

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Vince Update Explained

by Jonah Stein on October 20, 2009

Back in February, Aaron Wall wrote about a “minor” Google algorithm change that Todd Malicoat labeled the Big Brand Bailout. After a bit of controversy, Matt Cutts issued a video response to a question and labeled the change Vince after the engineer who worked on the change.
While the above conversations were interesting and [...]

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SEO Means Optimize For Users

by Jonah Stein on September 30, 2009

SEOMoz Misses Target

SEOMoz gives some terrible advice about SEO and user focused development. Rand presents some graphs about different optimization components and how their effect on ranking has evolved over time and magically draws the conclusion that SEO should focus on engines, not users because additional SEO tactics are required to rank.
I am not [...]

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White Knight Checks Google Cash

by Jonah Stein on September 11, 2009

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It would be arrogant to say all the credit belongs entirely to White Knight SEO, but it looks like Google has taken notice of our efforts and decided to block advertising on the keyword google cash and google money tree.
For advertisers playing the Google cash game, this is at best check, not mate. [...]

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