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April 2008 PageRank Update and VisualRank

April 2008 PageRank Update and VisualRank

Google datacenters have been busy the past couple of days as they were updating toolbar PageRanks (TBPR) across the board. The last complete PageRank update was in late February. SearchEnginePanel.com maintained its PR2 since getting ranked, and is now up to PR3 from this latest update. I’m attributing the small step to writing fresh [...]

Top Five Advantages to In-House Link Building

There are many benefits for having an in-house (internal) search engine optimization team, and link building is one method of capitalizing on them. You will notice that some of the following factors spill over to other SEO endeavours as well. A caveat I should mention is that the following advantages alone will not enable an [...]

User-Generated Content and the Power of Blogs

User-Generated Content and the Power of Blogs

User-Generated Content
Whether it be the decreasing cost of the Internet, its ease of use, an affinity for expression, sheer vanity, or a combination of them all, the amount of user-generated content (UGC) is rising exponentially. Everyone from your best friend’s mother to your neighbour’s kitten has a MySpace/Facebook/Orkut/Bebo account or user profile somewhere with [...]

Acquiring .EDU Links Through Yahoo Search

Acquiring .EDU Links Through Yahoo Search

Backlinks from the coveted educational .EDU top-level domain has long been sought after by SEOs for their theorized link-weight. It’s believed that links from .EDU pages carry more importance and are valued higher by search engines, since the websites of education institutions are supposed to be more authoritative. Whether this postulate is true or [...]

Pacing Quality Link Building Strategies

When it comes to link building initiatives, it is important to look beyond the sheer volume of inbound links to your website. Getting hundreds of incoming links from low quality sites is decidedly not as beneficial as a handful of links from high authority sites.
As would be expected, most of these “high authority” websites are [...]