http://seoroi.com Get leads and sales from your SEO investment. SEO ROI - Because leaders demand results. Fri, 16 May 2008 21:46:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of my favourite things to do when browsing the web is take screenshots of interesting things I notice, particularly in the SERPs, but also on other sites. It's an easier way of taking notes and learning from others. Featured below are some sites you know, like DoshDosh, Treatment Search, ... http://seoroi.com/blackhat/30-weird-educational-and-stupid-search-screenshots/ My reaction was a loud WTF when I tried logging in to check my click stats. Click Audit, the link/click tracking tool I was using until very recently to track subscriber count to SEO ROI has just been turned into a parked domain! In other words, it just features a ... http://seoroi.com/latest-news/click-audit-is-parked-i-lost-my-subscriber-stats/ At the Domain Roundtable, Matt Cutts said that Google will cut down any sites that get sold back to zero ranking value. So after a site has built up SEO strength for a few years, the asset could be worthless on the search market because Google - which controls the ... http://seoroi.com/seo-roi-quality/buying-sites-use-trusts-beneficial-title/ I'd love to hear your thoughts and I'll bet that conference organizers would too. So go share your thoughts at Sphinn (and feel free to sphinn the discussion ;) ) on whether you'd attend a greyhat SEO panel at SMX/SES/Sphinncon/Pubcon/SEM Canada etc. Rishi Lakhani, in particular, had a great suggestion in ... http://seoroi.com/people/would-you-attend-a-greyhat-seo-panel/ Legal fictions can be used by greyhat SEOs to overcome Google's nearsighted paradigms on buying websites and buying links. While Google is trying to pass off its guidelines as law - and is succeeding in convincing some people of that fact* - the facts are otherwise, and my two-post series ... http://seoroi.com/search-engines/how-legal-fictions-can-break-googles-paradigms-on-greyhat-seo/ Want to find out competitors' keywords? Want to avoid getting your keyword research ripped off? Here's how to do competitive keyword intelligence for free. Look at their site maps. Every valuable page on their site will be linked to from there, with desirable anchor text. You can basically copy-paste the code ... http://seoroi.com/seo-roi-quality/competitive-intelligence-keywords-while-protecting-yours/ I've been asked the question recently in connection to business blogs: Should I blog on the company's official site/domain name, or should I blog on on a fresh domain name? Each approach has its advantages, but with current search engine algorithms, my advice is to have the blog on the ... http://seoroi.com/seo-faq/corporate-business-blogs/ I recently got this email: Dear SEO ROI Services author, Our editors recently reviewed your blog and have given it an 8.2 score out of (10) in the Technology category of Blogged.com. This is quite an achievement! [If you say so, then it must be!] http://www.blogged.com/directory/technology We evaluated your blog based on ... http://seoroi.com/case-studies/the-new-face-of-reciprocal-links-widgetbait/ You're likely to see some of these in future posts here and aroud the various lovely places that take my stories. So check out as many of them as you have time for, cuz there are some real sweet ones in here. Diorex doesn't blog anymore, so Smaxor republished some of ... http://seoroi.com/blogroll/lovely-resources-and-helpful-links/ Two techniques I've thought of recently to modify the traditional "look at the top 100 to find targets" link building technique: 1) Use the Google Global Firefox extension to see who's ranking in different countries. You'll often find very different results; since most business compete within a defined geographic area, they ... http://seoroi.com/link-building/usegeography-typos-link-sources/