Jimmy writes,

“I saw someone write to be careful or use the ilb in moderation to avoid getting penalized or something like that.

What are your thoughts on best practices?” (more…)

I was reading this post by Ann Smarty on SalesForce’s brilliant WP plugin, and it reminded of recent news from BuzzStream. BuzzStream are like a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, but for link prospects. And they just added Twitter functionality.

Any link builder worth his salt knows that the best links are about repeatability.
And relationships are a big part of making links repeatable.
Twitter builds relationships.
Ergo, Twitter makes repeatable links possible.

It used to be the case that you had to copy-paste or do manual data entry if you were building relationships for clients on Twitter and using BuzzStream as your link prospect manager.
Now you can just synchronize Twitter and BuzzStream and your efforts will be pulled in directly.

Win!

Longtime readers will recall that human resource managers should be measuring social media for your company. This also ties in to using Twitter as a community, which imho is more efficient than seeing it as a broadcast platform.

If you like this post on tools/social/link building, check out my advanced SEO book and get a free chapter.

My friend Marios Alexandrou, an advanced SEO who loves to test ranking factors, worked with my programmer to update the popular WordPress plugin I had built, Internal Link Building. (more…)

Competitive intelligence provides entertainment, an inside-track on industry trend-spotting, and the potential to develop tangential business opportunities before others, or at least catch up quickly. I gluttonously consume information, and thought I’d share some parts of my diet with other competitive intelligence collectors with hearty appetites. (more…)

Time and date based navigation offer terrible usability and even worse SEO. Have you ever heard of mystery meat navigation? Maybe not, but you’ve probably seen archive navigation that meets the following description: (more…)

(To my advanced readers: You know most of what’s in this post. This is to help out the readers newer to SEO, using a question-and-answer style to address frequently asked questions (FAQ).

If all goes well, there should be some feature length, deeply researched stuff for you SEO pros later this week.)

Question: Does it matter for my site’s SEO in Google or other search engines if I use www in the domain name? For example, do I need to use http://www.example.com or can i use http://example.com ?

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by One Good Bumblebee
From the Seattle Times today (read in print version) comes a story headlined: “Google Says It Will Challenge Amazon On Electronic Books.” Loyal readers of mine would have known this was coming 7 months ago. Here are a few choice excerpts from my old post: (more…)

Ruud Hein and I conducted this interview by email, which is why some of the tantalizing bits he leaves off on don’t see a followup – it was a preset bunch of questions. In any case, the interview is about business, but gets personal too – all of which makes for a great read, imho. Enjoy! -Gab

You’re known as a technically savvy SEO, as seen via your Search Explained series. Does that interest come from your programming background? Either way, can you share some detail?

Sure. (more…)

Actually, this post should be titled: “How did I cloak my way to lower rankings?!” Because the truth is that it was completely unintentional – as evidenced by it causing my traffic to drop like a rock. (more…)

For a long time, I resisted using Feedburner for my rss feed analytics, but I’ve finally given in. Ok, fine, Borgle – you can have another data point on me. For now. Until a non-Google entity provides comparable analytics. (more…)

By observing patterns in visitor intent and demographics, conversion optimization and redesigns can be planned more intelligently. The patterns you identify can be used to create personas. Through my use of 4Q visitor surveys, I’ve learned the top reasons people visit SEO ROI Services and developed corresponding personas.

What’s a persona? (more…)

by detritus My friend Gyutae Park recently blogged about making money by tasting domain names based on Google Hot Trends. It’s a neat idea, but there are some caveats you should know.

Tasting domain names is the practice of buying them with the intent to return them during the 5 day grace period, while profiting off the typein traffic the domains get during those 5 days. It’s the web equivalent of buying a prom dress for prom then returning it. Google Hot Trends, for those who don’t know, shows you the 100 keywords with the greatest change in search volume in the past 24 hours.

Anyways, trendy domaining is something I’ve done in the past. From personal experience, I can confirm that there is money there to be made … but very little, if you’re not automating things. That’s because: (more…)

Normally, a 404 Not Found error is shown to visitors when they try to visit a non-existent page. But what about when there is a page there, only it doesn’t have what they want – what do you do then? One solution is to offer them a link to the right page, duh! Sounds simple, but it can actually be a bit tricky. Another is to update the page and answer people’s question. (more…)

You all know I hate spam email. And chances are you get annoyed by those too. But people don’t have a problem with opt-in email newsletters … or do they? Here’s an April Fools trick to get your friends spammed by legitimate email newsletters!
by Tancread
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A little while ago, Willy Franzen of One Day One Job was doing a 1-hour phone consultation with me, and he asked whether a second link from any given page would also boost the page’s ranking. (more…)

Aha! I finally realized why measuring relationships is the best way to measure social media results! Two words: Opportunity Cost. (more…)

For all you internet marketing pros out there, here’s the only brand building guide you’ll ever need. I’ll begin with some brief introductory notes, then get into meaty examples you can sink your teeth into. (more…)

by jalb If you’re using captchas to protect your forms, or other forms of logic, you’re probably finding that you’re still getting spammed despite the captcha.
Well, here is a new idea for you to beat those captcha cracka bots, and some ways to implement it. (more…)

More on Trust Agents – This great post by fellow Montrealer Julien Smith is quite related to my ideas on social media analytics – I strongly encourage you to read it! Julien’s also got an intro on social capital which I’m hoping to listen to soon, but which I’m linking to now because the Trust Agents post impressed me so much. (more…)

I’ve been bookmarking and saving a whole bunch of things and figured it’s about time to start sharing the link love. For some reason these are StumbleUpon sourced only… I can’t seem to access my regular bookmarks library in FFX anymore. There’s still a whole whack of awesome tools, tips, news and resources here. (more…)

In the past few years, the three big engines have spent big dollars on acquiring data. Now free and/or affordable tools are making search data available to any SEO with a few bucks to spare. In this post, I’d like to share with you what I see as an emerging trend and one around which new businesses can be built. (more…)

Here’s the dream team of folks that I outsource work to and recommend. Get in touch with them if you need search marketing services, be it SEO, PPC, reputation management, etc. You should also consider the editors working with me on Best of the Z List, who are a terrific bunch of experts. (more…)

Internal Link Building has been updated – everyone should get the new version, as it has fixed the main bugs troubling many installations, plus added some awesome new functionality. Download internal link building by clicking here!

Internal Link Building‘s New Functionalities and Why They’ll Rock Your Socks: (more…)

While I’m usually not the one to swear on a professional blog, there are exceptional occasions where it’s appropriate, and this is one of them. I’m waaaaaay overdue for a links post, and there are so many quality ones here, that I had to use my affiliate friend‘s expression. (more…)

A few of you have been kind enough to report bugs and issues with the internal link building plugin. I’m currently aware of the following issues. They’re on the to-do-list to be fixed and/or improved. I wasn’t sure whether or not to hide these bugs or be upfront about it, but I figure it’s better to fess up and be transparent than whatever might happen in the alternative.

Keep in mind, however, that some problems will be specific to you personally. Try de-activating other plugins before you come to report a problem. If that doesn’t work, then please, I really, really want to hear from you!

Also, if you’re on version 1 of the plugin rather than version 2, get version 2
now as it fixes a common bug (see 2 below) and may address yours. You don’t need to worry about losing saved keywords; they’ll be there when you install the new version. This is per my testing on a 2.5x WP install on this site.

1) Apostrophes are not being accepted (more…)

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch;_ylt=AsF7s1pRZXQjk6M7mHIy99bal8kF?p=http%3A%2F%2Fseoroi.com%2Fspecialty-services%2Fnew-seo-plugin-for-wordpress-internal-link-building%2F

Try and find http://www.pokeraffiliateprograms.com/forums/general-poker-affiliate-discussion/17456-new-plugin-wordpress-internal-link-building.html

(Updated with new link as Yahoo changed its results and included other links I’d gained.)

Hint: It’s not (more…)

See here: http://seoroi.com/specialty-services/new-seo-plugin-for-wordpress-internal-link-building/

The download link is now live towards the end of the post. Thanks to all of you who were patient and to everyone who offered help and kudos etc. Matt Longley and his team of developers, who are preparing to launch Site Source 101 in August, were the kind and helpful folks that finally got stuff working for me!

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Update 1 : The plugin has been downloaded 13,000 + times! And many webmasters use it on multiple sites, so it’s probably being used on closer to 15,000-20,000 sites!

Update 2 : To download the plugin, you need to add my RSS feed to your reader. The download link is now in my RSS feed’s footer . That is to say you can find a link to download below any post, but only if you read via RSS.

Some folks have complained about the need to subscribe. And I understand where you’re coming from – it feels a little pushy and you probably already have a bunch of subscriptions.

But there are good reasons to subscribe to my rss feed (besides it being free):

1) To hear about updates to the plugin or new plugins and SEO tools I release.

2) To learn new SEO techniques. If you like my plugin, aren’t my other SEO ideas worth your attention?

Key info on Internal Link Building:

Internal Link Building gives you an admin panel to assign keywords to given destination URLs. The point being that your website will link within itself a la Wikipedia – every time a keyword occurs, it links to the page you defined. (more…)

Here’s my effort to share original resources that haven’t received wide attention/link love on other blogs. Hence I haven’t shared Aaron Wall’s tools (how useful would one more mention be?), Xenu Link Sleuth or SEOmoz’s tools (though I had to put them in the Friends section). Here is search marketing’s BIGGEST, BADDEST, RESOURCE BONANZA BAR NONE! (If you enjoy it, subscribe – there’s lots more where this came from .)

The SEO Business

What makes Web sites credible?

Proposal layout and design

Five Simple Ways to Make Your Proposal More Competitive

Canada Business – Starting a Consulting Business – Interesting item for my fellow SEO consultants here (more…)

content-but-if-you-survive-it-to-t”>This post is a little like a long march through the desert. Visually it’s pretty repetitive and it’s easy to just focus on the mountain peaks (subheaders/scannable content). But if you survive it to the end, your mind will be the stronger for it and you will be rewarded in more ways than one. And you’ll have a new SEO blog feed in your feedreader.

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20. You should subscribe to my RSS feed because reading the original headlines I write will make you a better writer, if nothing else. In turn, you can leverage what you learn and replicate my techniques in your own niche. Besides, my topics are different…

19. The topics I’m writing about aren’t being covered by other search and search marketing bloggers. Simply put, the material is more original, more edgy, more ahead of the game. Who else is teaching you about cloning expired sites? How about using n grams to make your anchor text profile more natural? No one else is sharing ideas like that, and if you don’t subscribe, you’ll get left behind by the SEOs that do. This relates to points 15 and 06, below.

18. My regular use of case studies sets me apart and gives you practical examples whose tactics you can apply in your own situation. Other people will talk to you about how to do your reputation management. I wrote about Facebook’s reputation management efforts. Others will say “be good to your clients and they’ll become brand evangelists.” I wrote about Adviso and Dreamhost generating brand evangelists by proactive reputation management. And I contrasted them with 1and1 and Network Solutions. This blog is more than just what’s going on in the here and now, though.

17. This SEO blog covers the leading strategies and tactics that are set to make their mark in the near-future. Want to find out about Google Maps’ latest changes to their SERPs? I wrote about it first. What about when I’m second?

16. It’s exceptionally rare for me to be second, because I strive to be different and original, but when I am, I add something unique. I covered the Google BlogSearch search engine’s ranking algorithms, based on distilling the gems of other people’s analysis into an easy-to-follow guide. But my guide improved on their explanations by adding how my own blogs had been impacted by Google’s ranking factors, both positively (a Blog Search Onebox inclusion) and negatively (another blog getting flagged as potential spam). Like I said at point 18 – this blog is practical. Like that picture of a wrench there. I know practically that more of you will subscribe if I use pictures. See? I’m practical because I put a picture of a wrench on this page.

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12. The ideas you’ll find me writing are thought-provoking. Literally – I wrote a how-to Think Like A Search Engineer post. And I asked whether aggressive ad publishing decreases your Page Rank. Certainly it’ll decrease your mindshare, and it’s not a great business model in any event. And if you care about SEO as a business, I’ve got another juicy reason for you to subscribe.

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11. That reason is my meaty content and knowledge of SEO as a business. I’ve interviewed Mikkel deMib Svendsen – one of the most experienced SEOs around, who’s been in the business since the mid-late 90s – on SEO business models. And I’ve chatted with Rand Fishkin and Rebecca Kelley about it in SEOmoz’s Premium Members section (see closing the sale, a search marketer’s priorities, and how to stand out in the SEO blogosphere). So you can see that if you want to get into the search business, following this search blog will help you get a head start.

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09. My in-depth posts have been averaging 40 Sphinns. In other words, fellow search marketers are impressed at what I write. At the time of this writing, this one on motivation had 40 Sphinns. This piece on MSN’s share of the search market has 40. Another 40 for this post on resurrecting sites from the internet graveyard. 56 for the Top 20 Little Known Sphinners. To be fair my “Hey guys, I’m speaking at SMX West and I’m only 20!” post only did 27. Hey, at least it got a link from Search Engine Land (see the Conferences section of the post).

08. I have variety in length, content and niche. Want a medium size post on analytics? Got it. Long piece on algorithms? Done it. Credibility? Check. Variety of case studies? In stock. Informal writing your thing? Bingo! You won’t get bored by one type of content all the time. This relates to #03 below (though the Scratchpads discussed there might be long or short, depending how much I have to say).

07. In the short-to-medium-term I’ll be launching the best damn premium content you could find anywhere. Better than SEOmoz, better than Jim’s Ninja Videos, better than Aaron Wall’s upcoming membership/subscription site. Anyways, I will be restricting access to the premium section to 100 people or less, and you’ll need to be a subscriber to find out how to apply for access.

06. Occasionally, subscribers will get access to content that non-subscribers won’t have. I’m currently editing a 30 page report on getting the attention of the Sphinn crowd. The top Sphinners have graciously been granting me interviews, and I’ve been conducting my own personal research on the site. I’ve compiled their answers and my research into the Authoritative Guide To Sphinn: Everything You Needed To Know Plus The Colour of Danny’s Skateboard.

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Search marketing’s influential people are already paying attention to this blog and to yours truly. Besides Danny Sullivan and the people from SMX, Maki of the money-making Dosh Dosh has repeatedly Stumbled and Sphunn my material. The same can be said of Jeff Quipp, from Search Engine People. Likewise Sebastian, the famous shellfish behind Sebastians’ Pamphlets.

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I’m often asked about the Google’s Supplemental Index (SI) and how to get pages out it. Consider this post directions to the exit, the light at the end of Google’s dark tunnel, the “this way to the egress,” if you will. (Ok, so I like my hype, but I promise it’ll be worth it.)

If you’re impatient, click here to get the solution to getting your page/pages out of the Supplemental Index and skip the background info. I think you’re better off with a full understanding of the SI, but I’ll leave it up to you.

As Aaron Wall puts it in his excellent SEO Book, search engines are frequently developing new ways to save computing power. When you do things on a large scale and have billions of websites and web pages to work with, as Google does, getting your computers to run more efficiently will save you money. Lots of it. The Supplemental Index is a way for Google to save money by being more efficient with its computing.

To understand how to get your pages out of the Supplemental Index, you need to understand why they’re there to begin with. In other words, you need to know how the SI works. So let me explain.

When somebody performs a search with Google, what happens behind the scenes is something like this.

1. Google looks at the keywords.
2. It compares them to the pages in its index (think of a library’s index card system).
3. Google determines which pages are most relevant and ranks them.
4. Finally, the results are displayed to the searcher.

It’s incredible, but Google really does do all that in fractions of a second.

(This is a simplified explanation of Google’s processes, based on what Dan Thies wrote at SEO Fast Start. If anyone has the precise page’s link, I’d appreciate a comment pointing it out, as I’ve lost it. Wouldn’t want that page to end up in the Supplemental Index, now would I?)

The second part of the process gets exponentially more expensive for Google every day, as more sites and pages go online. Their computers need to run through more and more content. Google hit upon the idea of using a Supplemental Index as a shortcut in this process. By putting pages of lesser importance in the SI, Google has fewer pages to assess and rank at step two. (Then, only if Google feels its main index has too few pages to allow it to do a good job, will Google resort to the Supplemental Index. It supplements their main index when this one is thin for a particular topic.)

Amazon also had Supplemental Index issues at one point, as Tamar Weinberg pointed out in this picture. It’s nothing to feel bad about. (Note that Google no longer labels pages in the supplemental index as such.)

So how does Google determine if a web site or web page is of lesser importance? The behemoth of search considers how likely a web surfer is to arrive at that page if they randomly click links in a never ending browsing session. The more likely someone is to visit your page through links on other websites and on your own, the more important your page. This idea is the foundation of Google, better known as PageRank. See Danny Sullivan’s article on PageRank (which he seems very enthusiastic about ranking for the keyword “PageRank,” based upon his linking practices on Search Engine Land) for more info.

The solution to getting your web page (or web pages, as the case may be) out of the Supplemental Index is to get more links to them. These can be links from within your own website, but it’s usually better – particularly with newer, less established sites – to get links from other websites.

If your site is non-commercial, it generally shouldn’t be difficult to get other sites to link to your inner pages, increase your PageRank and help you out of the Supplemental Index. But if your site is commercial, people are generally less willing to link to your pages. For example, the average webmaster (who isn’t an affiliate) has no incentive to link to a product page.

(As an aside, it would make sense for Google to count affiliate links towards determining whether a page belongs in the SI or main index. This despite the fact that they might be considered paid, PageRank manipulating links – which Google despises – otherwise).

So what do you do if you’re a merchant? (I owe this upcoming generous tip to Lorisa, who runs a Montessori schools materials site, featuring CD-Roms, teacher tools and more.)

Ironically, you create more pages!

Just not on your own website.

The pages you’ll create will be what’s commonly referred to as “User Generated Content.” For example, the photo-sharing site Flickr lets people upload pictures that then get an individual page (the picture at the top of this post comes from this Flickr user, as a matter of fact). Flickr’s users generate its content. And they link back to their own sites, or other pages they like, from their Flickr profiles, photo pages and so on.

A particular type of user generated content site – which I detailed in my article The New Directory – is likely more useful for getting these links than other types of site. This is because the quality of the user generated content is controlled by member ratings and reviews. While I again encourage you to read the article and learn more, I’m happy to provide you with the easy solution: a list of sites accepting user-generated content where you can get links to your site’s pages.

• Squidoo is a perfect example of The New Directory.
• Gooruze is similar, but focused on the internet marketing niche.
• SEOmoz is like a second home to me. I’d be crazy not to point out their great user generated blog Youmoz.
• Still in marketing, search marketing social media site Sphinn gives you a nice page – do see my profile and add me as a friend.
• eBay gives users About Me pages.
• Myspace is a classic and should need no explanation.
• Ezine Articles, for what it’s worth, lets you have a profile page. I’m not sure Google care much about Ezine Articles, though, because contrary to the New Directory, their quality control is nil.
• Dofollow blogs allow you to leave comments where the author’s name links to a page of his/her choosing. These links are counted by Google, as opposed to most blogs, which use nofollow (I’ll implement dofollow once I choose the right plugin). Courtney Tuttle has a good list of Dofollow blogs.
• WordPress lets users create blogs of their own on their site. (I also recommend using the WordPress software if you want your own full-featured blog with plugins such as dofollow. This blog runs on it.)
• PR offers free press release distribution. I’d link to PR Web too, but they don’t offer a free service, so no link love. (Told you being commercial was tough!)
• Search for “your product” and “social networking” on Google. Try related searches like “your industry” + “social networking,” “your industry” + “social media,” “your industry” + “forum(s),” “your product” + “file-sharing,” “your product” + “article distribution.” The sites you find will let you create a profile and links.
• At the end of the day, networking is still crucial, as I told Marketing Sherpa (PDF) (see tip #27). If you can get bloggers and journalists writing about you, that’s going to mean better links, traffic and copycat links from bloggers who repeat what they read in the daily paper.

I’d like to share some quick news on the SEO ROI blog, its commenters and other stuff. (Update: If you saw this post already and are returning here for my latest posts, you can click here to skip to them.) (more…)

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