If you’re a consumer web startup and you’re hoping to build a destination that has millions of eyeballs visiting every day, then you can’t buy traffic. So you have three options:
PR
You do something press-worthy. Then you email all the high profile bloggers and press that you know. You also post your story on Digg, Reddit, […]
You’re looking at a screenshot of an internal Google app. According to Matt Cutts from the quality/webspam team, “It is a tool used by members of our AdWords sales team to help prioritize new customer acquisition.”. Originally from Google Blogscoped.
No one seems to know exactly what the abbreviations mean, but PVs is almost certainly PageViews. […]
A fellow Seattle entrepreneur and someone who is a great contributor to the startup community in Seattle, Andy Sack, is shutting down his company Judy’s Book. Andy is doing an incredible job handling the situation and every business founder and CEO should grab a keyboard and take notes.
One thing I found intriguing is how quickly […]
Matt Cutts from Google’s quality team emailed search engine journal and confirmed that Google is now penalizing websites for selling links based on their PageRank. This was going to come around sooner or later because selling link juice not only breaks the PageRank algorithm, but it breaks usability on the web.
Google has updated the PageRank of every website in their index. There are many high profile websites who have lost pagerank bigtime. Changes from 9 to 5 are not uncommon. SEOMoz has a great summary of some of the affected websites.
The rumor is that Google is penalizing folks who have been selling links from high […]
Update: I’m a paid member of webmasterworld and I just realized you have to pay to access the content I’ve linked to. It used to be free.
The best introduction to SEO I’ve ever read was written by Brett Tabke on his excellent webmasterworld.com in 2002. It’s a guide to plain old white hat […]
I’ve promised myself I won’t spend more than 10 minutes on this blog entry. A separate entry on time management is forthcoming. It’s 6:15pm. Here goes…
I’ve had incredible success with SEO. Ironically enough, my search engine business that I sold in 2005 benefited hugely from SEO. 10,000 uniques per day from Google alone was not […]
