David Malmborg

Sure, Google may account for 70% of all search traffic, but that doesn’t mean it’s that high for your client and their target market. There are times when the search engine of choice for your customers will be Bing. A client asked if it would be worth investing time and focusing efforts … Read more

My very first blog post here at SEO.com was titled SEOs are Marketers Too. I don’t know if I realized how forward thinking this concept was at the time. It seemed pretty natural to me, but as I learned more about this industry, I realized that not many others saw it the … Read more

Yo peeps, tweeps and fbeeps! SEOmoz is looking for a reason to come to Salt Lake. They’re calling it a #Mozcation. They are looking for the best place to go, but the obvious choice is SLC. I know it. I know you know it. Now we need to let SEOmoz know it. … Read more

How many times have you looked at an XML sitemap and said, “Why are these URLs in here?” One time, I was getting so frustrated doing an indexability audit for my client because Google wasn’t paying attention to canonicals for a variety of reasons. One in particular was the XML sitemap not … Read more

Yesterday, Google launched the “farmer update,” an update to clean up spammy content farms from the SERPs. Content farms such as eHow, eZine, Mahalo are effected drastically in their rankings. Now let’s connect some dots! About.com is a content farm. About.com is not effected by farmer update (Not confirmed, just what I … Read more

During Pubcon last November, Matt Cutts asked in his keynote how many SEOs where focusing on the snippet found in the search results and doing Click-Through-Rate optimization. Not too many people raised their hand. Matt grinned and said something to the effect that CTR optimization might be worth looking at. Fact: Google’s … Read more

_____ UPDATE _____ So it has been shown to me by my personal mentor, D-Patt, that Matt Cutts discusses this in a video a little while back. The last 30 Seconds of the video speaks to me (obviously), and I would assume to many, since I showed my examples to a number … Read more

Debate Follow-up: The Necessity of the 301 Thank you to everyone that participated in my debate. It’s always fun to have people discuss some of the basics. For those who missed the first post, here is the debate: Are 301 redirects of the non-www version of the site needed, or still considered … Read more

On my personal blog, I have a little section called “David’s Dilemma.” I thought I’d bring my dilemma to the SEO.com blog. It’s a pretty simple concept, I ask a question, and you leave an awesome comment. Remember this only works if you leave a comment. Back Story Last week, I wrote … Read more