Archive for the 'WhiteHat' Category

29 Mar

Facebook to Change “Become a Fan” Button to “Like” on Fan Pages

Facebook will soon be changing the “Become a Fan” button that you see on Fan Pages to the more universal “Like” button. According to the site Clickz, Facebook has started sending confidential email to ad agencies informing them that the “Become a Fan” button which functions as a subscription/membership button  to fan pages will be [...]

29 Mar

Diagnosing Google Crawl Allowance Using Webmaster Tools & Excel

Posted by Tom_C
There’s been some talk recently in the SEO industry about ‘crawl allowance’ – it’s not a new concept but Matt Cutts recently talked about it openly with Eric Enge at StoneTemple (and you can see Rand’s illustrated guide too). One big question however is how do you understand how Google is crawling your [...]

29 Mar

Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors – March 2010

I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

Text Link Ads – New customers can get $100 in free text links.
CrazyEgg.com – Supplement your analytics with action information from click tracking heat maps.
BOTW.org – Get a premier listing in the internet’s oldest [...]

01 Oct

StatCounter Reports Bing’s First Decline

For the first time since its launch, Bing’s U.S. market share has finally declined, according to StatCounter. Bing’s market share in September fell from 9.64% in August to 8.51% in September. And guess who got Bing’s lost in market share? – Google.

Google’s market share slightly rose by 2% from 77.83% in August to 80.08% in [...]

01 Oct

This Week in Search for 10/1/09

Posted by Sam Niccolls
 
 

 
This week’s roll up mixes a little bit of awesome with a little bit of awesomely bad. But regardless of whether or not you threw a Windows 7 launch party at your house, from Talk Like a Pirate Day to actionable SEO tips, the search industry had no shortage of entertaining headlines [...]

01 Oct

Thanks to this Months Sponsors – September 2009

I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

Text Link Ads – New customers can get $100 in free text links.
CrazyEgg.com – Supplement your analytics with action information from click tracking heat maps.
Efficiently manage your SEO and Social Media campaigns with Raven’s [...]

17 Aug

Natural Link Building : Create an Online Presence and Linkable Brand

Link building is generally a term used around the SEO industry to describe building relevant links to a website in an effort to rank that site for specific terms while also building trust, value and equity to that website. All too often however, link building is associated with questionable SEO practices such as link buying [...]

17 Aug

Perfecting Keyword Targeting & On-Page Optimization

Posted by randfish
How Do I Build the Perfectly Optimized Page?
If you’re in SEO, you probably hear this question a lot. Sadly, there’s no cut and dry answer, but there are sets of best practices we can draw from and sharpen to help get close. In this blog post, I’m going to share our top recommendations [...]

17 Aug

How to Turn Off Personalized Search in Google Chrome

With the impending arrival of Google OS I’ve been spending more time in Google Chrome, and figuring out how to customize things to my liking. Here’s a tip on how to turn off personalized search in Google Chrome.

First thing you want to do is click the wrench icon on the Google Chrome toolbar and select [...]