Search Engine Marketing

Google Using Location To Rank Sites?

by Jonah Stein on April 30, 2008

This evidence suggests that Google may be adding geographic information to the algorithm along with reverse IP lookup to help rank sites for regular results

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Yahoo Buys Indextools

by Jonah Stein on April 9, 2008

IndexTools announced today that they have been acquired by Yahoo. IndexTools has been one of my favorite Analytics applications since last years Analytics Shootout. Not only did they show the best results of all the tools we studied, they were also among the easiest to configure and offered a robust range of custom reports. What [...]

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Spammy Off Topic Widget Link Bait

by Jonah Stein on April 8, 2008

The difference between great link bait and a spammy off topic widget is basically whether someone complains.

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Google Onebox Cheating to Promote Real Estate

by Jonah Stein on October 27, 2007

Remember the uproar over Google self promotion less than year ago when Google tried to promote Picasa within natural search by using a “Tips” graphic? How is it that we have all turned a blind eye when Google uses Onebox to promote their verticals? Why is a tip graphic bad, but no one even talks [...]

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The other Pasternack still doesn’t get it

by Jonah Stein on February 28, 2007

Dave Pasternack dropped by again, this time to respond to my endorsement of Greg Boser’s elegant solution to the Threadwatch – Did-It SEO showdown. This Dave Pasternack seems to be getting desparate as it becomes obvious that he isn’t going to win this one. Ironically, Greg has provided him with a respectable second place showing [...]

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