SEO, Popularity And The Way Forward

April 18th, 2009

Google’s Eric Schmidt identifies one of Google’s core problems:

…you’ve got somebody who really is very trustworthy, but they’re not as well-known and they compete against people who are better known, and they don’t “in their view” get high enough ranking. We have not come up with a way to algorithmically handle that in a coherent way

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The Future of Selling Media Online - Free then Pay for Popular Content

March 18th, 2008

Select Distribution

I recently mentioned the Sigur Rós Hiema video, which was featured on the YouTube homepage for a day and probably got about a million pageviews. An SEO Book reader named Satish discovered that after the video built up a lot of viral media and link exposure the video was set to private mode.

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Why Many of the Best SEO Ideas Are Not Found on Popular SEO Blogs

December 22nd, 2007

Bad Dated Advice

People who are well established can trade on reputation and attract strong enough clients to not need to perform tests to learn the algorithms intimately well.

Recently another well known marketer put out a video saying domain names were irrelevant to SEO. Then they got feedback from viewers who said they thought that statement was wrong. And then their reply sent to thousands of members on their list included

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Five Reasons Why It’s Better to be Big & Popular than Small & Niche

October 2nd, 2007

Posted by randfish

Today we wrapped up our first ever SEOmoz training seminar - covering topics from keyword research to technical issues to search algorithms and social media. Despite the 7 straight hours of speaking on stage, I feel pretty good - the people in attendance appeared to have a terrific time and our after-hours party was still going strong when I left an hour ago.

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200+ Diggs and Still Not Popular WTF?

September 28th, 2007

Related PostsDigg.com Poison URL’s and Poison AccountsRecently I’ve been doing some testing and experimentation and have come to the conclusion that not o…Is P9 Back at DiggHas P9 of Digg changed his mind and gone back to Digg?So I was cruising around Digg this morning…Social Media - It’s Read the rest of this entry »

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