SEO and More

Bob Bly (who didn’t believe in blogging earlier) now states that he doesn’t believe in SEO Copywriting.

Content is the staple diet of SEO copywriters. As a publisher, I’ve often turned to article directories for content for my websites. After all there are only so many topics that I can pretend to be an expert on, right?

The buzz on Google’s latest algo update (nicknamed Jagger) has crashed the WebmasterWorld Forums, but the discussion continues here. Plenty of complaints on the new update on the Search Engine World Forums.

The proof of the pudding… is in seeing that our methods work.

We setup the SEO and More site just after the 25th of August, 2005, and in less than two months, we already have a Pagerank of 5.

I juts published this excellent article by Robin Nobles, called “Chasing the Search Engines’ Algorithms . . . Should you or Shouldn’t you?” .

Is your retail site optimized for the search engines? If not, you’re leaving money on the table, says a new study by Oneupweb titled “There’s Still Money on the Table: Internet Retailer Study 2005“.

We truly believe in the power of online press releases in building online visibility and backlinks. Google’s new algo also views links from news sites with more authority, so a live link from a press release is very valuable to your business.

In the last post, I mentioned why we lay a great deal of stress on content as one of the mainstays of our SEO strategy.

According to the new issue of the Axandra newsletter, a recently conducted study examined the links users followed on the search engine results page and found that 42% of users clicked the top result, and 8% of users clicked the second result. This confirmed previous studies that the number one result gets many more clicks than all other results.

Just came across this news item about Terrawiz.com, a new search engine for India related content. According to the press release,

Terrawiz’s intelligent crawler automatically identifies and classifies the web content, indexing only India related information and ignoring other content. By having an Indian centric database the relevancy of the results are far better. […]