The normal Google user? or small business who hired an SEO?
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For years they have said, "Don't do this. Don't do that" but never enforced those positions with any real backup until the past 18 months.
Don't write crappy content. Bam! Panda update Feb 24th, 2011.
Don't get crappy links. Bam! Penguin update last month.
The stick has come out from Google on cracking down on what they have been telling SEOs and webmasters for years.
SEOs will be fine. They are a very adaptable group. My concern is more for the small business owner who hires someone that doesn't disclose the tactics they are using.
It's a crazy time in SEO-land. But no one can say that there wasn't warning.
With iAcquire I see this as Google's shot across the bow to paid links. They dealt with bad content last year, then bad links/optimization last month, and I think the next enforcement will be around paid links.
You learn all the hard work Tracy puts in on her own. And in the end she EARNS a technical co-founder. She doesn't stop working on her product while waiting for the mythical tech co-founder to join her. Bravo and congrats.
my favorite (as a competitive SEO)
"Social media: It's perfect for SEO companies which couldn't produce results in SEO, because if you fail to produce results with social media it will be utterly indistinguishable from actually producing results with social media, but if you fail to produce results with SEO anybody looking at the gross revenue graph will notice really quickly."
One of my pet peeves...are you usually not honest with me?
It's just too tempting to play around with color changes all day instead of building my business.
I had hoped that Google would be more subtle about it, instead I look at the SERPs and see them shouting at me.
Give Google+ time, everyone wants a legit Facebook competitor right now, but it's going to take years not months for Google+ to go mainstream.
Just wanted to clarify that it's really SEOMoz that does their own affiliate program essentially in-house using the HasOffers platform. (correct me if I'm wrong on this anyone from SEOMoz!)
1. She had no clue who this guy was suddenly staring at her 2. Didn't know Wikipedia needs $
Just joking, that's a nice donation. My wife was totally freaked out this week though...she had never seen the donation banner before.
Well, Seasons 1 and 2 at least.
Domain Names are land.
Websites/Apps that site on top of a domain name are houses.
A great house on a good piece of land in the nice part of town is what I try to own.
Sometimes I just buy the land and build my own house.
Sometimes I buy a really crappy house in a nice part of town and fix it up.
Signing up isn't cool, you know what's cool? Coming back again.
They must be testing this stuff, so maybe it's just me. I could get used to Google Instant....but not sure about Instant Preview.
I think the best part was that I really had no clue what was coming next.
I wish some of the animations moved a bit quicker though. Other than that....bravo.
It shows up only when you are NOT signed into your Google account (at least on the top locations I've seen today).
So, now that it's public everyone wants to rave about it. Makes sense.