Here’s a little tip for you, for when you’re doing market research of if someone is trying to tell you how fantastic they or their product is for search engine rankings. Haven’t we all heard people say, my ABC SEO killer product is so great, “I’m the number one site in Google for the term blankety blank out of 1,630,000,000 possible...

SEO Professional – 76% Are you an SEO Expert? I came across this cool SEO Expert quiz at SEOmoz and decided to give it a spin. Just a warning this isn’t a lightweight fluff quiz to boost your ego, it’s pretty hard core. 75 questions that will take you about half an hour to complete. It is a realistic assessment of your SEO knowledge. If everything...

I received an email from Text Link Ads a couple days ago telling me that I had to update my affiliate links to their new ones. Fair enough, but then I noticed that the new ones were being run through the “tinyurl.com” service. Here’s my new beautiful affiliate link: http://tinyurl.com/2twhrb Very weird, I thought….why would they completely...

I happened to visit Ask.com the other day while doing a bit of research and notice something very interesting there. I can’t even remember the previous time I actually used that search engine, if ever, but here I was so I thought I’d throw my test phrase “make money online” in and see what pages turned up…maybe I’d find a hidden...

Today’s tip is a nifty one that I learned by watching some clever people employ it around my sites. We all know about the 2-fold power of an incoming link to your site as: A direct source of traffic A “vote” in the search engines for your site Let’s imagine that you’re just like most stats addicted webmasters and you see a new...

Free SEO News has the results of a very interesting reverse engineering study by German website Sistrix (in German). The German company Sistrix analyzed the web page elements of top ranked pages in Google to find out which elements lead to high Google rankings. They analyzed 10,000 random keywords, and for every keyword, they analyzed the top 100 Google search...