Search engine rankings were quite the rage some 10 odd years ago but SEO matured as a profession, as did the learnings and the KPIs (not to mention search engine technology). I have seen countless #1 rankings for highly competitive search spaces that didn’t make any money. I’ve also seen[...]
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April 8th, 2010 - 9:47 pm § in SEO & marketing
Rankings are not (that) important
Tags: Google, Google search, Henry Ford, Internet, Internet marketing, Internet search engines, marketing, Nick Wilsdon, personalised search engine results, Pete Young, products/services, Recommendation systems, search engine optimization;, search engine rankings;, search engine technology, search spaces, search terms;, Twitter Inc, Web search engine, World Wide Web 9 Comments
March 24th, 2010 - 6:32 am § in SEO & marketing
The new SEO: Visibility strategist
SEO has moved on in the last 5 years (considerably some might say) yet I still see the same skill requirements and the somewhat vague job descriptions in job listings. It isn’t easy to hire for the role of SEO if you’re not an expert in it, so word of mouth does go a long [...][...]
Tags: Business, Google, Google Inc., information management, Internet, Internet marketing, marketing, search engine, search engine optimization;, Search engines, search space, Semantic web, SEO analyst, social media;, Social networks, strategist, Technology_Internet, Visibility strategist, Web development, World Wide Web 5 Comments
September 4th, 2009 - 8:45 am § in SEO & marketing
The end of SEO: an interview
Fran Molloy of the Nett# magazine interviewed both myself, Kate Gamble and Glenn Murray a little while ago. The interview has been published and is available for you to read now. It’s called “The end of search engine optimisation”, I hope you find it interesting. Do you think t[...]
Tags: a sociologist, Aaron Bradley, Angie Haggstrom, David Harry;, Fran Molloy, Glenn Murray, Google, Google Inc., Internet marketing, Justin Parks, learning algorithm, machine learning;, marketing, Mel Nelson, online marketing, Python, RDF;, Scientist, search engine, search engine optimisation;, search engine optimization;, search engineers, Search engines, search engines ones, Semantic web, SEOs, Suh, Technology_Internet, Terry Van Horne, web pros, Website promotion, World Wide Web 1 Comment
May 6th, 2009 - 8:23 am § in SEO & marketing
SEO Superheroes revealed
It is no secret that I love comic books and their superheroes. They aren’t all for children, take Vertigo comics with Sandman and the Preacher, for example, or the Watchmen even. “A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a fictional character of unprecedented physical[...]
Tags: A. Rand Fishkin, Ann Smarty, Bruce Banner, CEO, Clarke Kent, Crimson avenger, Danny Sullivan;, Donna Fontenote, fellow web crawling buddies, freelance writing site, Google, Google Inc., huge green giant, Joker, K.A. Rand Fishkin, Kansas, librarian, mild mannered reporter, Ms Marvel, Peter Parker, Physicist, Preacher, Ralph Tegtmeier, Rand Fishkin, Scientist, search engine, search engine optimization;, Search engines, Selina Kyle, Sue Storm Richards, The Hulk, twitter, Vertigo, whip, x-ray 14 Comments
April 8th, 2009 - 12:46 pm § in SEO & marketing
Which SEO’s should not read IR or search papers
There has been a lot of chat in the past about whether SEO’s should read research papers around information retrieval and search. I think it is important, but perhaps not for all of the SEO’s out there. We don’t approach the business in the same way necessarily so for some it w[...]
November 7th, 2008 - 8:59 pm § in Uncategorized
Patent for SEO software (2008)
I came across a patent for seo software. The inventors are Ray Grieselhuber, Brian Bartell, Dema Zlotin, and Russ Man. It’s called “Centralized web-based software solution for search engine optimization” and it was published on the 12th June 2008. They have patented a piece of [...]
