SEO Zeitgeist

Google and Digg’s Secret Backroom Deal

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been getting the urge to get back into blogging a bit. However, when it’s been awhile since you’ve attempted to construct a thought longer than a 140 character tweet, actually doing it is a bit harder than you regular bloggers might imagine. I keep finding myself sitting around [...]

The Social Media News & Bookmarking URL Shortener Breakdown

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

In the past, I have talked in depth about Digg’s URL shortner.  While Digg gets the majority of the criticism for their shortener, both Reddit and StumbleUpon (the two next largest sites) have also joined the party.  In lieu of these newer shorteners recently hitting the streets, I wanted to breakdown the various shorteners by [...]

Is Digg the Google of Social News Sites?

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

BusinessInsider.com has a chart stating that Digg received 17.4 million unique visitors in August 2009, easily eclipsing other social news sites. Its dominance in the social news sphere brings to mind another company… Top Search Engines According to a July 2009 comScore Search Report: Google (65% market share) Yahoo! (19.6%) Microsoft/Bing (8.4%) Ask (3.9%) AOL [...]

Social Media Marketing Continues to Grow in Priority

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Last week I attended and spoke at IMC Vancouver. It was a nice little conference that featured a lot of different speakers from the SMX/SES shows. While my sessions focused on SEO, there were a number of panels that discussed social media marketing. I heard a lot of feedback from attendees praising the social media [...]

Digg Adds No-Follow to Combat Spam

Wednesday, 10. 7. 2009  –  Category: SEO

Digg made a change to their site today, adding the no-follow attribute to all external links until they felt sure the link was safe. They also issued a statement about the change on their blog and even went as far as to speak directly to SEOs, saying they would indeed lose some of the authority [...]