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DazzlinDonna has a pre-made SEO contract that might be useful for those who run smaller operations and need a hand getting started in contract design. It's by no means over-arching, but it's an excellent place to start and it's free. She also has a good, basic description of the specific tasks that fit into SEO work: ...
I've been noticing people's signature links at the major SEO forums more and more lately, especially when I ran this search - mesothelioma seo forum thread reply. That's a disturbing number of resu...
I've been building up a relatively large campaign across the PPC engines for a client of ours, and have noticed a disturbing trend with the AdWords vs. Y!SM numbers. Yahoo! is consistently half the price, and double the ROI. The site's conversion rate with visitors from t...
gVisit is a tool that you can install on your site to see where the last 20-100 visitors to your site came from geographically. It's nothing sophisticated, but it is another example of a site using Google's map API to create something unique, and building on the succes...
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Aaron Wall has put together a very impressive link analysis tool. Sadly, I don't have time to check it out personally, as I'm deep in tool building myself. However, his review of the tool is exceptional and walks thr...
I stumbled across Professor Rich Ackerman's Theory of Information Retrieval Site today and found this excellent summary on the theory of normalized term weight. There's some nasty...
Many of us have heard rumors about Google banning IP addresses or even entire blocks of IPs based on spamming or manipulative activity coming from them. Here's a case of an SEO whose found exactly this to be the case. From the post: Google will not cache the index pages for any of the sites Incomming tra...
Came across an interesting site today called SearchLore. There's an older but excellent article there on the subject of deep searching and deep indexing - it covers a wide variety of issues and has a great 3D mod...
For those who may still be reticient to believe in the sandbox's existence at Google or think that a variety of non-related factors or filters may be affecting sites and that the SEO world has simply "created" this term. In defense, I offer up evidence that I can't reveal - that of hundreds of sites experiencing exactly the same type of penalization/filtration effects at Google. I receive dozen...
Traian, a member at SEW, is asking for help in what to do regarding a client who will not pay for a verbal contract which he completed. The discussion is fascinating as both ethical and legal issues ari...
Aaron Wall has an important blog today on the subject of war in Uganda. Don't think to yourself "hey, it's not my problem," just head over to the post, read it, and form your own opinions. There's a chance for the online world to make a big difference, so let's get to it. In other news, I'm leaving for San Jose tomorrow morning ...
Return to the roots of design for a moment and remember that the art of our development is inherently tied to specific principles that have been forged over centuries of observation and creation. Digital Web Magazine has an ...
Todd (stuntdubl) has a great post at SEW on how to make a successful re-inclusion request to Google. He notes, first off, that a customer of his got banned specifically for using Link Vault, which is new informat...
The lazy days of summer crawl in North America & Europe, creating a bevvy of webmasters who fret and furrow their brows, wondering where the traffic has gone. This "summer slump" is an observable phenomenon every year in industries of all types as workers in t...