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Matt Cutts Does Domain Roundtable

Matt Cutts made an appearance today at the Domain Roundtable conference. Matt started things off with a few introductory comments, then spent most of the time answering questions from the audience and from questions that people sent in ahead of time.
Here are the highlights of what he discussed:
The primary litmus test for whether […]

Does SEO Die on Web 3.0?

Hey, Marty, would you mind parking the DeLorean for me while I finish up this blog post? Thanks.
Hi, everyone! I’ve just come back from the future. Well, not really. I’ve actually just been reading through a bunch of articles about the Semantic Web as envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee and other brilliant […]

Google Predicts Obama for President

Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States, according to Google Trends.
Based on our previous analysis of Google Trends leading up to Super Tuesday, we predicted Obama and McCain would come out on top after Super Tuesday. As it ended up, Google Trends was only about 70% correct in a state-by-state comparison […]

Google Predicts Super Tuesday Results

According to Google’s results, Obama and McCain will be the front-runners for their parties after today. The amount of Google searches for a candidate’s last name has directly correlated with the winner of that state in every primary and caucus to date.

From the Iowa Caucus on January 3rd to Maine’s Caucus on February 1st, the […]

Raising the Google Generation

A recent conversation with my 4th grade daughter:
“Dad, do you have Google Earth on your laptop?”
“Sure, sweetie, why?…how do you know about Google Earth?”
“We use it at school and I want to check some stuff out. Can I use it for a minute?”
“O.k. Do you want me to help you with it?”
“No, […]

Top Searches on Google for 2007

Every year Google puts out a year-end Zeitgeist report highlighting the top searches and rising searches for the year. They just released the data for 2007. It’s interesting to see what people are searching for and how it changes from year to year. Here’s the top 10 rising searches on Google for the year:

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The Matter of Page Rank

Countless times, prospective clients have approached our company asking us to help them increase their Google Page Rank; Not their monthly visitors, search traffic, rankings, leads, or conversion rate, but their Page Rank. There have been countless other times where prospective clients have turned away from our company because although our clients search engine rankings […]

Google PageRank Shakeup

The SEO blogosphere is abuzz with talk about the latest shakeup in Google. This time, most talk is about how a lot of websites saw a major drop in their PageRank. Many speculate that Google has targeted sites that were selling text links in particular. A lot of people seem really really bent out of […]