Dylan, Jeremy and nofollow

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: June 2nd, 2006 Published in: Blogging, Google, Link Building, Rants n Drama, Search Engine Optimisation, Spam

Nofollow no good? - Jeremy Zawodny based on a blog post by Dylan Tweeney - Google’s embarassing mistake.
Dylan quite logically points out the flaw with nofollow (ie, it’s simply easier to just moderate comments with links in them as blogging software such as Wordpress allows you to do), but goes a step further to claim that nofollow […]

15th International WWW conference - Edinburgh May 2006

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 26th, 2006 Published in: Google, Link Building, MSN, Search Engine Optimisation, Spam, Yahoo

The 15th International WWW conference took place in Edinburgh this week with keynote speaker, Tim Berners-Lee and Yahoo (Yahoo blog link) in attendance.
“The World Wide Web Conference is the global event to bring together the key influencers, decision makers, technologists, businesses and standards bodies shaping the future of the web.
Organised by the International World Wide Web […]

Link Building 101 - free directories submissions

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 25th, 2006 Published in: Link Building, Rants n Drama, Search Engine Optimisation

OK let’s think about this logically…
Google wants to index the organic web right?  Google is looking for quality over quantity right?  And loosely speaking, links are considered “votes” for your site?**
Well why oh why would you think for a second that submitting your site to that clearly-made-for-seo free directory would help your site?  Does it […]

Link building gone wrong

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 19th, 2006 Published in: Google, Link Building, Public Relations, Rants n Drama, Spam

Had a guy start an Internet arguement with me a while back - I deleted his spam from my forums, he copied my content and whatnot - all very lame.  Was slightly annoyed at the time (as he started targeting the same phrases as me on his own site).  But I have a low attention […]

Link exchanges devalued by Google

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 18th, 2006 Published in: Google, Link Building, Rants n Drama, Search Engine Optimisation, Spam, Speculation

Well not devalued as such, as they haven’t been of a great value for a while - but time was, sheer quantity of links would get you to where you are going.
In a recent uber post, Matt Cutts has touched on the subject several times in relation to the feedback from the recently bigdaddy rollout.
Linking […]

Link Building Primer

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 17th, 2006 Published in: Link Building, Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation

I’ve been getting more and more interested in link building of late so I’m going to carry out some research in the area and compile a report on the results to post here.  In the meantime here’s a few link building tips to start off with:

It is important to maintain a steady flow of link […]