A good SEO is both a geek and a suit, and is able to speak the language of both worlds. Providing SEO services without understanding both business and techie principles is the equivalent of trying to teach english to spanish children without knowing both languages and cultural mores of both fluently.
My first post on the Google cache error was pretty much a quick rundown of what I thought was possible that the error message revealed about the Google algo. Well, after reviewing the error further, I was pretty much completely wrong. It sounded like some pretty good guesses, and I stand by the fact that most of those things probably ARE in the algo somewhere, but my interpretation of the error was dead wrong.
Okay, so now that Myspace is the #1 site in the world, I think it’s finally time to embrace the space with a full marketer’s mentality. Despite the Myspace’s title being disputed, it’s hard to argue that there is an incredibly large market with a whole lot of potential. I haven’t dove in wholeheartedly yet, but from my very unscientific experiments on myspace at school there is an extremely high level of loyalty with myspace. My favorite stat is that myspace has 40 pageviews per visitors ON AVERAGE. That was a pretty amazing number to me.
Being my blog alter-ego is a misspelling, I’ve always gotten “Did you mean stuntdouble?” when doing a query for stuntdubl. Today was the first day that I noticed there was no more “did you mean”. I’m curious if it is due to search query volume or perhaps indexed pages, or a combination ratio of the two.
Last week, a gent by the name of Ruslan Abuzant, got a rare peak at a portion of the algorithm of Google, stumbling accross it when looking at the cached version of a multi-language page. He was kind enough to post his findings on digital point forums which I found via threadwatch.
I’ve spent a lot of time recently catching up on webmasterradio.fm podcasts, and was lucky enough to catch Jeremy (aka shoemoney) talking with Lee Dodd on Net Income. I hadn’t come accross much of Lee’s stuff in the past, unfortunately, but he seems like a very intelligent guy, and certainly has a lot of insight into running an online community. During the show they talk about many of the different ways to promote and monetize a forum or social network, which can be a difficult thing to do without overly “pimping” the community. It makes for a nice listen if you have the time, and you can be certain I’ll be checking out more of Lee’s work in the future.
Firstly, it’s a Trustbox, not a Sandbox. “Trust filters” seem to be a large portion of what has most SEO’s in a frenzy over search engine’s currently. There are pros and cons to the trustbox for folks on both sides of the fence, and the best thing you can do no matter which side of the game you are on is understand what the filters mean and the reprocussions that they will create in the future.
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