"I say the best rule of thumb is to optimize like a drunk guy would. Don't leave a pattern." - seomike
I saw this quote over at the SEW forum and about busted out laughing. There's some truth to it though, especially if you're doing large linking campaigns.
Gary Price (via SEL) noted Yahoo's recent addition of a movie showtime shortcut.
A poster at the ihelpyou forum has an idea for a site but before he launches he wants to determine the competition for his chosen keywords. Dan Thies, a "Super Moderator" at ihelpyou, offers some fantastic advice that applies to those analyzing business model viability or hunting for some less competitive keywords to optimize for.
If you run a network of sites then there's a new algorithmic speculation you need to be aware of - the network filter.
The online adult industry lures many online with promises of easy riches. During the crash one ecommerce pundit pointed to adult sites as sites that could survive. While we know that wasn't true, it's true that the adult industry grew through the down turn and remains to day a major technology driver (so much so that USAToday wrote an article on adult tech recently).
Yes, we supposedly work on the World Wide Web, but localization and micromarketing (a term I learned from a Stuart Elliot column describing a marketing pitch by Sharper Image to one area of Soho in New York) increasingly segment and complicate results, especially across foreign search portals. So here are some suggestions - from the Search Engine Watch forums - for reaching potential clients who live in countries other than yours.
The Search Engine Strategies London conference started a week ago and I'm glad that Alan Webb attended and shared his observations over at SEOChat. I've gone through his posts and lifted what I think are the most important SEO tips - be sure to check out his complete posts.
Barry Schwarz of SEORoundTable (and now moderator of the SearchEngineWatch forums - congrats!) brought to my attention the troubles webmasters have had with 301 redirects in Yahoo. Yahoo SiteMatch reps even recommended creating doorway pages rather than using 301 redirects, and I've read that they will treat 301s as duplicate content.
The Search Engine Watch forum is off to a grand start with a hyper-scientific keyword research post from Orion, "a formal scientist, with special interest in AI applied to IR technology." His posts focus on "keywords semantic connectivity and what it can do for improving success across search engines."
I was visiting Dan Thies' revamped SEO Research Labs site and found a couple SEO tools he linked to that may help your efforts.
