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The Definitive Local Search Rankings Document

July 1, 2008 – 10:57 am

David Mihm steals top honors this week with his article “Local Search Rankings Factors.” Sage refers to the post as the definitive local search document, thus far. David picks the brains of the top 20 local search experts to help determine what the most important factors are for local search. He created a scale of negative five to positive five that he uses to rank topics on how important they are to impacting your rankings. With a total of 47 different criteria listed, David not only tells you how the experts ranked them, but he also tells you how much they agreed or disagreed upon their importance. Topics discussed range from the “General importance of claiming Local Business Listing” to negative factors like “Listing multiple addresses on website.”


Google’s Matt Cutts | How to Get Better Visibility on Google

June 30, 2008 – 10:08 am

USA TODAY’s Jefferson Graham interviews Google engineer Matt Cutts on how to get your site to the top of Google with 5 basic, common sense SEO tips. Matt Cutts guests on the USA TODAY Talking Tech web video show. New episodes air weekly at http://tech.usatoday.com


Coming Out and Coming Clean

June 23, 2008 – 2:50 pm

Check out my latest video of news from Searchengineguide.com.
In the news, I talk about:

  • Fightthesmears.com
  • AP coming down on bloggers.
  • The Karcher Group moving to a cooler domain.


Wordpress Template Spam

June 19, 2008 – 4:31 pm

I recently uncovered some amateur spam in a free template my friend downloaded for her web site. This kind of thing could cause you a lot of trouble in the search engines.

You need to be aware of this because the search engines hold you responsible for everything on your site.

If you are violating their terms regardless of whether you know it or not, they could pull your entire site from their index.


Barry Schwartz of SERoundtable.com Breakin’ Down The News

June 18, 2008 – 11:51 am

You might want to take a look at this video put out by Barry Schwartz of http://www.SERoundtable.com/. He does this video series once a week and covers a lot of heavy topics in an in-depth way.

This week he discusses a new Google / Yahoo deal you should be aware of, some big drops in Google rankings for some sites and a bunch of other interesting topics.

Check it out, I think you’ll find it informative: