Black-Hat SEO Tactics: Keyword Stuffing This is probably one of the most commonly abused forms of search engine spam. Essentially this is when a webmaster or SEO places a large number of instances of the targeted keyword phrase in hopes that the search engine will read this as relevant. In order to offset the fact that this [...] [...]
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Portland, Oregon Businesses and SEO/SEM folks may be singing “Don’t be Cruil” to CUIL, a new search engine from some ex-Google engineers. At the time of this writing, a simple search on a subject that is popular both for recreation and business in Portland, came up with a dozen or so results that had, [...] [...] Search Engine Marketing has become a significant marketing medium for a successful Portland Oregon business. If a small business can successfully market their products or services online they open up multiple new doors to people and sales leads. A well structured and organised Search engine marketing consultant will suggest two avenues for internet promotion, SEO [...] [...] I thought I would share something I use with SEO clients in Portland that like a DIY game to play to see how I am helping them rank well in organic search results. Practice using Google’s Chrome Browser, Downloadable Here, alongside TyBit’s Search Engine Toolbar Downloadable Here. The main reason I use Google Chrome to conduct [...] [...] Mediapost published an interesting article today that made me start to wonder if SEM/SEO accredited college courses were bound to come to Portland State University, or other Oregon universities. The story, based on a course at the University of California San Diego read in part: “The course is designed for small business owners and corporate marketing staff. [...] [...] According to Google Inc., local searches account for 20 percent of all queries on Google. Now Google is showing what Near Field Communication capabilities will do in the near future with a new marketing campaign in Portland for Google Places’ HotPot, a local recommendation engine powered by users and friends rumored to be replacing the existing [...] [...] Google just announced a new search engine product (hopefully one to replace Google Product Search… That thing is so clunky), to help big online retailers make their websites easier to search. With Google Commerce Search Google sets up a search function on an online retailer’s website, which Google says will dramatically improve user experience and drive [...] [...] The Boeing X51A Waverider, a U.S. Air Force scramjet reached a speed nearly five times the speed of sound today. Which is pretty cool. The aircraft is the size of a cruise missile. The scramjet ignited for about 200 seconds and reached a 70,000-foot altitude at Mach 5, making aviation history with the longest-ever scramjet-powered hypersonic flight. Officials say that [...] [...] News Flash! Texas Flooding not due to release of Google Instant, the search engine giant’s auto-complete/time-saver tool. As of today, if you sign into Google and begin typing a search on Google’s home page, the site will display possible Organic and Map matches for your query after you’ve typed the first letter. For example, typing just “Portland Se” yields [...] [...] Have you spent any time really kicking the tires with Google+? If you have, you’ve probably found, as we have, that there isn’t a lot to see over there. From very obvious oversights such as the name Google choose to go with for the project (with Facebook you can “Like” or “Recommend”, but with Google you [...] [...] Earlier this week, Steve Jobs “ripped” Google Android as ”fragmented”. Wait for it. BURN. Stay with me for a second here. Jobs went on a five minute rant in which he “developed” the idea that because the Android market was neither homogeneous nor monopolized, it was not open source. On the contrary, that is the very definition of an open [...] [...] A little bird flew down on my shoulder and whispered in my ear that he had just been in a market research study for Paypal, and the main focus of the questions was whether or not Paypal should move into broader financial services, such as credit cards and banking. As market research is usually a [...] [...] Google recently announced that it would begin work on an autonomous search program for mobile devices by which your phone would constantly be searching based on the information you appear to need. For example, when you walk by a theater it tells you what’s playing there, when you walk by a cafe it tells you [...] [...] In a familiar scheme, Microsoft rolled out a new incentive scheme for it’s poorly performing Bing search engine akin to frequent flier miles, or a Randall’s card (for those not familiar with Randall’s, it’s an awful chain of grocery stores). The scheme is as old as time, just for using Bing, Microsoft will give you [...] [...] Microsoft’s Bing gained slight ground over Yahoo in terms of search traffic, the aftermath of Bing finally powering all of Yahoo’s searches. The web didn’t exactly turn on it’s head, as even cursory inspection of the numbers show that Google is still overwhelmingly the most popular search engine, and continues to gain ground against it’s [...] [...] |
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