Links Links and ... well ... Links
Today we're going to discuss three things. Links, links and ... well ... links. Where to begin where to begin? I know, let's start with links:
Links
Today Jim Hedger and I hosted our weekly radio show on Webmaster Radio. We covered a variety of topics from Google surpassing $700/share in trading to the battle over advertising and Google's upcoming issues with Facebook (i.e. Facebook stands to provide a TON of relevant search and advertising opportunities and they're going to provide them to Microsoft).
After a brief discussion on those topics we had on patent guru Bill Slawski for the remained of the show to discuss ... you guessed it ... links. Bill definitely knows more than your average bear about search engines and links and was happy to share his wisdom bringing up important points to consider such as the move AWAY from global search results to results tailored more to the individual user's likes and dislikes as defined the the user, their search behavior and the behavior of similar users. If you're interested in this subject (and if rankings are important to you - you should be) you can read more about it in an article I wrote on Personalization as well as on Bill's blog where he lists the important patents related to personalization. To get a full feel for it you've just going to have to visit Webmaster Radio and download the podcast. :)
Links
And so let's move on to topic #2. Links. The link counts are getting messed up at Google again (not that they've ever been particularly reliable. As Jim Hedger points out, whenever we see these sorts of fluctuations going on it usually means there's something bigger about to happen.
I was already predicting an algorithm update later this week or over the weekend. Could this just be the tremors before the Earthquake. And please dear God let Google haven't learned a valuable lesson from the Florida update of 2003. ;) (and for those of you who were SEO's at the time (white hat at least) you'll shudder at the mere though)
Links
And lastly we're look at links. Well, we won't so much look at links as we will a rap about them. I've gotta say, this is a first for me. :)
LinksToday Jim Hedger and I hosted our weekly radio show on Webmaster Radio. We covered a variety of topics from Google surpassing $700/share in trading to the battle over advertising and Google's upcoming issues with Facebook (i.e. Facebook stands to provide a TON of relevant search and advertising opportunities and they're going to provide them to Microsoft).
After a brief discussion on those topics we had on patent guru Bill Slawski for the remained of the show to discuss ... you guessed it ... links. Bill definitely knows more than your average bear about search engines and links and was happy to share his wisdom bringing up important points to consider such as the move AWAY from global search results to results tailored more to the individual user's likes and dislikes as defined the the user, their search behavior and the behavior of similar users. If you're interested in this subject (and if rankings are important to you - you should be) you can read more about it in an article I wrote on Personalization as well as on Bill's blog where he lists the important patents related to personalization. To get a full feel for it you've just going to have to visit Webmaster Radio and download the podcast. :)
Links
And so let's move on to topic #2. Links. The link counts are getting messed up at Google again (not that they've ever been particularly reliable. As Jim Hedger points out, whenever we see these sorts of fluctuations going on it usually means there's something bigger about to happen.
I was already predicting an algorithm update later this week or over the weekend. Could this just be the tremors before the Earthquake. And please dear God let Google haven't learned a valuable lesson from the Florida update of 2003. ;) (and for those of you who were SEO's at the time (white hat at least) you'll shudder at the mere though)
Links
And lastly we're look at links. Well, we won't so much look at links as we will a rap about them. I've gotta say, this is a first for me. :)
Labels: bill slawski, facebook, google, jim hedger, link building, webmaster radio
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