It’s here. Yahoo has now formally announced the death of their adventure in natural search. Many years ago when I embarked on my internet marketing career, yahoo – when they were indeed a hierarchical directory (YAHOO stands for: Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle, it used to be a directory, like DMOZ or BOTW), were a [...]
The most Important seomoz Q&A Ever
Posted on Tuesday 24 AugustIm a long time fan of the SEOmoz Q&A Section, its a great resource for pro-members, and our very own SEO Questions and Answers forum was originally devised pretty much as a straight copy of that part of SEOmoz (sorry Rand). That reminds me, I must get down to rebuilding that section in a more [...]
Hear me Speak at SEOmoz Pro Seminar in London!
Posted on Monday 23 AugustHi Folks, Just like to share some exciting news for you, Ive been asked to present in the upcoming “SEO Event of the Year”, the SEOmoz / Distilled SEO Pro Training Seminar in London, this October. My presentation will be centered on Search Engine Optimization in competitive industries, going into detail on a few specific [...]
Happy Birthday SEOforums.org
Posted on Sunday 22 AugustA quick announcement to make about our forums – we reached our first birthday in the last week! Thats right, seoforums.org is now officially over a year old – although we didnt move to our domain until the end of September, the forum was officially started on fuzzyseo.com. So – how have we done in [...]
Spammers Complain About Posts being Deleted!
Posted on Saturday 21 AugustYou cant make this stuff up, really: hi …. i am a link builder since i have know only little bit of english… client ask to get links from forum if i get the link and give link oly means the client will give money for me .. if not he wont give money then [...]
Important Message re. SPAM REPORTING on SEOforums.org
Posted on Wednesday 18 AugustHi Members, I spent a few hours last night checking for spam, and deleted about 500 posts (only from a dozen or so members). About a month ago I also deleted over 100 users that were quite obviously xrumer spam bots. Afterwards, I checked through a few of the forums, and the rest of the [...]
MayDay! What happened to my eCommerce Long tail?
Posted on Tuesday 17 AugustA lot has been said over the last two months about the MayDay google seo update, but for those of you that dont know what it is, here is a quote from every SEO’s favourite mountaineer engineer, Matt Cutts: So: what does this mean to those of you with eCommerce sites? Well the answer despite [...]
WordPress Price Comparison Plugin
Posted on Wednesday 11 Augustmost of my regular forum members will know that I have been pretty scarce round here since mid February, when we started working full time on our pretty revolutionary wordpress price comparison plugin. Im glad to let everyone know that its finally in a release stage, (currently on v1.02) and available to download from my [...]
Adsense REMOVED from seoforums.org – the results…
Posted on Friday 16 JulySo – After a three day test I have removed the Adsense units from SEOforums.org. This is the second time I have run a brief test on the site, the first time was in December ’09 when we were serving a little over 5,000 pageviews per day, and our alexa rank was around 60,000. At [...]
Adsense active as a test on seoforums.org
Posted on Wednesday 14 JulyHi folks, regular users will be surprised to see Adsense boxes on the forum header, and inpost (post 1). This isnt here to stay (at least, not for our regular users) but will be active on the site for about 3/5 days. It forms part of a test that I am conducting on CPM’s and [...]
