Todd Friesen, who lives here in Washington (though I never see him since he's nowhere near Seattle), is inviting folks with Sandboxed sites to email him. All of ours are currently out (probably because we haven't taken on a new customer in more than a year), but I wish I had some to send him. I know Bill's SEO by...
I hate to oversimplify the sandbox, or the solutions required to escape, but Andy's got a good working theory and hopefully we can all put it to the test with our new sites. From Andy: How to beat the sandbox Acquire high...
Gotta throw some link love at WebGuerilla, who, despite his claims to the contrary, offers up an excellent in-depth look at his investigations into a link network called GotLinks. A bit of digging on Greg's part has yielded the following:...
Damn easy. Step 1: Run a linkdomain command at Yahoo! with the following syntax; "linkdomain:url.com -site:url.com", and record the # of results (sample for SEOmoz - 7810) Step 2: Run a...
Google has been asking for this. SEO has a new angle and Jim (of Webuilpages) is the pioneer. No longer is domain registration part of smart SEO - it's all about buying an old domain and changing as little whois info as possible - preferrably just getting the login info for the registrar. Jim's got a post on the ...
It has been brought to my attention that a server that maps to powweb.com is doing some unseemly bandwidth hogging. A friend (whose name will remain anonymous) clued me in to the following: Recently a series of bots from Powweb.com have been targetting websites with the sole purpose of accessing files simply to increase the bandwidth u...
I suppose it had to happen at some point. SEOmoz is finally sandbox free for the first time since our move to this domain 9 months ago. We aren't alone, either. Many folks had sites escape, and I'm happy for all of them. It looks like our ...
Donna's got a good post referencing something rmccarley pointed to at SEOChat - this fantastic site on... well, something that they want done in Houston. I'm not even going to rel=nofollow. This kind of art deserves recognition. Makes me wonder if someday, SEOs will have paintings on...
Check out the Torture a Spammer Game from MarketingSherpa. It's not blog spammers, but rather e-mail spammers, with whom "legitimate" email marketers have a big problem with, apparently. I'm of two minds a...
If you have several doorway/spam domains that Google has decided to gray out the PR on, can you hurt a site who's rankings and reputation are solid by 301ing those penalized domains to the trusted one? This is the question asked by adamclark at SEW. Ian Mcanerin chimes in with some good advice: ...
A popular thread at HighRankings started by the owner of Gamer's Corner (who was right to seek SEO help) shows, in detail, how a poor quality SEO firm has "optimized" a website. They primarily changed the meta-tags (yeah, I know) and the title tags of the site's pages and it s...
I received a lot of private email on the subject of my scraper sites post. I asked some folks and they said that I could share their thoughts anonymously - most are worried about reprisal from Google, though I'm forced to wonder how much the search giant could care about a few grumblers in SEO. "The...
I've gotten more than a little concerned lately over a trend I see in the SEO world. I've noticed through following the backlink acquisition of several client sites that the better a site ranks (for a wide variety of phrases), the more spam/scraper sites will re-publish your text or site description from the SERPs and link to you. A ...
I've noted on several occassions that SEOmoz is largely sandboxed at Google. Despite having great, natural link popularity (thanks everyone!), the traffic from Google is on the order of 20-50 people a day, all of whom either typed in 'randfish' or 'seomoz'. Thankfully, at Yahoo! and MSN, the site ranks spectacularly for a great variety of searches (but, it seems that web-dev types don't use tho...