http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/ Intrapromote Looks Under the Hood of Search Engine Optimization en Copyright 2009 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:34:09 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Angela Moore Recently, Google's Matt Cutts made some hints about nofollow links and their value going down. I have to be honest. I'm not surprised. Once again, we're seeing something that Google did to try and make link popularity "fair" across the... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/06/google_doesnt_l.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/06/google_doesnt_l.html Link Building Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:34:09 -0500 John Lustina Mark the time, SEO Friends; Google is listening to our Social World. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/dafforn_first_t.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/dafforn_first_t.html Organic SEO Wed, 27 May 2009 20:19:42 -0500 Lisa Santora Our new optimized press release plans provide companies with a cost-effective and powerful way to stay top of mind with their customers. Recently we syndicated a press release for a client that contained helpful tips on how to prevent and... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/optimized_press_1.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/optimized_press_1.html Online Publicity Wed, 20 May 2009 12:51:29 -0500 John Lustina As is normally the case with a non-temporary 302--THE problem with a non-temporary 302 you might conclude--I don't know whether to link to http://www.google.com/profiles/John.Lustina or http://www.google.com/profiles/116187582762783426547 when I am referring to it. Yet still it climbs. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/google_profile.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/google_profile.html Organic SEO Mon, 18 May 2009 22:07:46 -0500 Erik Dafforn Google profile results are broken when you see them on the iPhone's Safari browser. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/google_vanity_p.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/google_vanity_p.html Google Wed, 06 May 2009 08:39:00 -0500 John Lustina Why a 302 temporary redirect? Why not just keep Profile URLs numerical rather than vain if they are not going to implement a proper 301? Isn't that what they would have us counsel our clients in a similar scenario? http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/google_profiles.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/google_profiles.html Organic SEO Mon, 04 May 2009 21:10:22 -0500 John Lustina In my recent search for the perfect Twitter bookmarklet, one that would let me post from page without leaving nasty tracks in my Tweets, I noted a trend that all but BigTweet seemed to sow, in one shade or another;... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/twitter_bookmar.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/05/twitter_bookmar.html Social Media Sat, 02 May 2009 14:12:08 -0500 John Lustina Not three days later, the Google Profile influence now has ordered the top six. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/04/bonfire_of_the_1.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/04/bonfire_of_the_1.html Google Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:31:43 -0500 John Lustina Although unveiled in the innocuous position last--always, mind you--of the first page for your name, it seems more likely ever-prescient Google has a larger share in mind than the 10th result on a page. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/04/bonfire_of_the.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/04/bonfire_of_the.html Social Media Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:23:47 -0500 Lisa Santora There's plenty going on in Intrapromote's new Press Release Department. We've written and syndicated a new branding and site launch news story for one customer, produced an optimized press release announcing Tahiti honeymoon vacation bargains, and chronicled a customer's charitable... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/02/optimized_press.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/02/optimized_press.html Online Publicity Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:46:41 -0500 Angela Moore So often as I am discussing link building strategies or the concept of link bait, I am faced with the same question: "Aren't we too boring for all this? Who is going to want to link to us? All we... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/02/is_your_industr.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/02/is_your_industr.html Link Building Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:07:14 -0500 Erik Dafforn John C. Dvorak proves conclusively that bad SEO is bad, and that he can still lure gullible people like me to showcase it. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/02/john_dvorak_exp.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2009/02/john_dvorak_exp.html SEO Industry News Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:58:01 -0500 Doug Ausbury Spanish site SEO expected to bring 350,000 additional visitors in 2009. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/12/spanish_site.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/12/spanish_site.html Organic SEO Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:09:55 -0500 Angela Moore So unless you've been living under a rock, you realize that the economy isn't as strong as it used to be. And yes, that is a rather large understatement. Many industries have been pushed into the limelight to discuss their... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/12/what_the_econom.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/12/what_the_econom.html Link Building Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:23:07 -0500 Brent Sharp They say the devil is in the details but in this case it's just Frosty the Snowman. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/12/details_details.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/12/details_details.html Organic SEO Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:28:09 -0500 Angela Moore I've written posts before on some tips to fixing existing .edu links and why .edu link acquisition services are typically worthless. But what about when you're trying to get links the old-fashioned way? By providing valuable content to users and... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/11/dont_think_like.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/11/dont_think_like.html Link Building Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:53:08 -0500 Erik Dafforn Google SERPs just rolled out a feature that enables users to promote, remove, or comment on listings. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/11/google_lets_use.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/11/google_lets_use.html Google Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:32:22 -0500 Erik Dafforn In addition to running two videos next to each other in results, Google is starting to pull videos from multiple non-Google sources into its SERPs. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/11/google_serps_sh.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/11/google_serps_sh.html Universal SEO Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:32:25 -0500 Angela Moore It happens 80% of the time I ask the question. I am talking with a client on the phone and I ask “who do you feel is your direct competition in your industry?” What I then receive is a list... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/11/perceived_compe.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/11/perceived_compe.html Link Building Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:43:55 -0500 Erik Dafforn Estimated pageviews for MySpace vs. Facebook http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/11/social_media_re.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/11/social_media_re.html Social Media Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:26:19 -0500 Doug Ausbury I have a tip for professional recruiters using Facebook to find job seeking candidates. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/11/dropped_balls.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/11/dropped_balls.html Social Media Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:19:10 -0500 Erik Dafforn Intrapromote has opened up its Twitter stream and invites you to follow. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/10/follow_intrapro.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/10/follow_intrapro.html Social Media Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:28:51 -0500 Angela Moore Recently, I had a client send me an email saying they had been approached by a company who could get them some .edu links in an “under the radar” kind of fashion and they asked me what I thought. Needless... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/10/why_edu_link_ac.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/10/why_edu_link_ac.html Link Building Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:45:39 -0500 Erik Dafforn Google appears to have an error in its robots.txt help pages. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/10/error_in_google.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/10/error_in_google.html Crawling and Indexing Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:30:03 -0500 Angela Moore When you are hunting for links for your site or for a client’s site, there are lots of avenues that you could pursue. Some work, some don’t. That’s just the nature of the business. There are a couple of things... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/10/10_tips_for_doi.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/10/10_tips_for_doi.html Link Building Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:31:43 -0500 Brett Lane Here's my take regarding the 5 things a company should look for when trying to hire a social media consultant and/or company. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/5_things_to_con_1.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/5_things_to_con_1.html Social Media Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:28:14 -0500 Doug Ausbury A recent comScore study for the Pharmaceutical industry analyzed the brand awareness and conversion impact of search marketing and visits to a brand web site. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/brand_awareness.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/brand_awareness.html Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:56:07 -0500 Erik Dafforn How to match up internal search terms (i.e., terms that people searched for from your site's internal search feature) with the terms that people used to find your site in the first place. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/linking_externa.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/linking_externa.html User Behavior Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:50:29 -0500 Angela Moore A good friend of mine, Adam, suggested that I do a post on How can local information, events, news, and other local fodder help your link development campaign? Oh, let me count the ways. Local search is a huge marketing... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/local_and_links.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/local_and_links.html Link Building Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:45:27 -0500 Brett Lane For job seekers looking for work on the East Coast who have exhausted all normal online job sites there is a new recruiting platform offered by uBoast. This new recruiting platform allows account holders to create video resumes to showcase their skills to a new breed of recruiters willing to use cutting edge technology to find job candidates. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/video_social_ne_1.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/video_social_ne_1.html Social Media Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:26:48 -0500 Angela Moore So, you’ve embarked on an SEO campaign and now you want to get more links. Welcome to my world! You understand it’s critical to your optimization efforts and you’re evaluating a firm that offers link development services. For many in... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/how_to_evaluate.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/how_to_evaluate.html Link Building Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:33:44 -0500 Brett Lane iWidgets, a Social Syndication Platform has announced that it will soon be distributing its first major client's (CBS Interactive) video content tomorrow September 9th, 2008 at 3pm PST at the Sheraton Hotel in San Diego, CA. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/iwidgets_soon_t_1.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/iwidgets_soon_t_1.html Social Media Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:37:30 -0500 Brett Lane I had the opportunity to check out a neat micro-blogging tracker site today called Dipity. It offers users a pretty cool way to keep track of what's being said about many topics, as well as what others are following via the Social Media space in a very nice visual depiction. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/microblogging_t_2.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/microblogging_t_2.html Social Media Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:41:48 -0500 Lisa Santora Over the last few days I have felt like I was back in the 90's during the old browser wars. After I listened to Google's webcast announcement about Chrome I dashed to Google Gears and downloaded the much ballyhooed browser.... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/underwhelmed_by.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/underwhelmed_by.html Browser news Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:50:19 -0500 Angela Moore First, I want to say thank you to the entire Intrapromote team for the warm welcome and another big thanks to Erik for his introduction on this blog. Now, onto the thing that I love to talk about: Link Development.... http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/link_developmen_1.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/09/link_developmen_1.html Link Building Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:32:04 -0500 Sean Bolton Google officially launched its keyword suggestion tool as of yesterday. Pretty cool, right? So why does it work only from the main Google page and not a search results page? http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/08/google_search_s.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/08/google_search_s.html Google Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:07:41 -0500 Erik Dafforn Intrapromote welcomes Angela Moore as our new Director of Link Development. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/08/intrapromote_we.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/08/intrapromote_we.html Link Building Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:26:13 -0500 Erik Dafforn Why do companies frequently use social media to apologize for more traditional forms of customer service that garner complaints, instead of propagating these rapid-response techniques across their traditional customer service and support environments? http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/08/twitter_and_the.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/08/twitter_and_the.html Social Media Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:12:23 -0500 Erik Dafforn Crawling and indexing are different processes but related. Here is a brief description of each along with a look at some related timelines. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/08/the_difference_1.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/08/the_difference_1.html Crawling and Indexing Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:04:56 -0500 Doug Ausbury What the Intrapromote staff are reading this Summer. http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/07/what.html http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/07/what.html Organic SEO Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:03:19 -0500