Google | nofollow | SES

SES San Jose to follow or to nofollow that is the question.

Paid links were the most controversial topic at this years SES San Jose.

Offline Ads Create Online Searches

Offline Ads Influential to Searchers

Many search marketers understand that there is a connection between online and offline marketing, most probably do not understand its full extent. According to a new study by Jupiter Research and iProspect, two-thirds of searchers are driven to search on a given keyword as a result of offline marketing.

Violin | Hip Hop | R&B | Soul | MySpace

I ran across this YouTube video on MySpace while surfing the net this morning and I just wanted to share it with you.

Paul Dateh – LOS ANGELES, California – Soul / R&B / Hip Hop – www.myspace.com/pauldateh. This guy is really good.

The Dark Art of Wiki-Jacking

Yet another Rand Fishkin Whiteboard Friday – “Wiki-Wiki-Wiki WHACK!”.

Rand discusses how to attack your enemies Google ranking by using Wikipedia.

Mert Sahinoglu at metroseo.com was the inspiration for this topic. Mert calls it the power of internal linking.

Google -Yahoo – MSN – the search engine dance?

As a follow up to a blog post and discussion Scott Hendison and I had a few days back I am posting some more research information I have discovered. This all started with a post by Scott “Is Yahoo Selling Out“. I found something I thought was very interesting.
Google results antique tub
What bothered me was:

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Google Caught Selling High PageRank Links

Google Caught Selling High PageRank Links, and this isn’t the First time.
Just because Google makes the rules, does this mean they don’t have to follow them?

A recent blog post by Arron Wall from SEObook.com fueled my interest in Google’s rule bending for themselves.

Whitehat SEO tips for Bloggers | Matt Cutts | Wordpress

While doing my homework this morning I ran across these videos. They were posted by John Pozadzides on his One Man’s Blog. There are some great SEO tidbits in these videos. Matt gives us some great insight.

Who said What? – Brand Management – Rand Fishkin

Rand Fishkin’s – Whiteboard Friday – “Whatchu Talkin Bout?”

Rand deals with brand management as an answer to his directory burning a couple of weeks ago. SEOmoz had some negative threads in some of the blogs and Digitalpoint last week. Here is Rand’s answer.

Can you buy a #1 organic listing in Google?

In response to Scott Hendison’s blog post “Is Yahoo Selling Out”. Scott talks about how Yahoo removes the tinted box and leaving out the words “sponsored” for the search “special k”. They are also listed organically at #1. The listing actually has the URL “specialk.com“. Now yahoo is giving the paid search results in a way that it isn’t real evident that it is paid results but It appears to me Special K did actually earn the #1 organic listing.

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