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Leftover from Search Engine Day : Google News from Mike Cutts

Quick Google News from yesterday – had trouble posting then… Clip ==>”Now, he is discussing the latest update, one in the ongoing series of mini-updates that the search engine performs from time to time. At one time Google could do one big update of everything, but the search engine has had to switch to the [...]

Search Engine Day :: Concept : Is It All About the Links?

Update 03.25.06. I switched the order of the first and last posts of the day so you can follow the linking discussion more easily. – Tinu It’s been a while since I did a Search Engine Day that was constructed around answering a question or proposing a solution. So today, much of our discussion is [...]

Search Engine Day :: What If You Had More Control Over Your Backlinks?

If the manual process of reciprocal links to get backlinks, or incoming links, seemed a bit grueling to you, and you’re curious about why I say I rarely do so, you’ll want to read this post, and listen to the podcast that will follow later today/tomorrow. Think about this: what if you could get either [...]

Search Engine Day :: Traditional Linking Methods

Let’s have a run down of some of the traditional ways of link building and whether they are worthwhile – or even advisable – to use. Should You Buy Links? Not necessarily. In a post I made last month I referenced a quote from one of Google’s engineers. In no uncertain terms, the Google representattive [...]

Search Engine Day :: Are Some Links Better?

And, for that matter, should you focus on sheer quantity of links to your site, or the quality of those links? For our first piece of evidence, let’s ask Google. In a post to their blog in September, we find the following: PDF

Search Engine Day :: So How Important Is Linking Anyway?

A post I made about linking awaaaays back in July 2004 referenced an answer to a similiar question in Google Answers. The short answer was that if you’re getting linked a certain way or from a certain type of page, it may be THE most important thing. You could almost screw everything else up, but [...]