Archive for January, 1970
January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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Today I received a recip link request from a gentleman who has recently started an SEO blog. While I have no problems with reciprocal links per-se we've never used them on the Beanstalk site as we've focused our link building efforts on other areas (such as articles which are great for traffic AND links). When we link out to another site it is purely for the reason that we believe our visitors
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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There is currently a Google PageRank update underway. While the PageRank value itself is updated on-the-fly in regards to Google's calculation of rankings, about once every 3 months they push the new values to the toolbar to let us all take a peek. Today is that day.
As of this writing the new values seem to be visible only to those on the west coast. In chatting with a business partner
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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Beanstalk's Dave Davies published an article titled, "How To Win Links Influence Engines". The article covers various methods for link building (both reciprocal and non-reciprocal) that will help insure that the links you're establishing are quality links and will help increase your rankings on the search engines.
The article covers recip link building, articles, press releases, paid links,
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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For those of you who visit the Beanstalk blog regularly to keep posted on the latest SEO news will remember that back on September 14th, 2006 we were honored to make PromotionWorld's Top 10 Best SEO Companies list for September (making that the third month in a row). We just received October's list and it appears that we have not only been included again but we've moved up to position 6 from
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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An article written by link-guru Andy Hagans came to my attention today. The article is on "link baiting" and it covers some unique methods for attaining links to your website. In the article Andy discusses the Google sandbox (or "Trustbox" as he calls it) and he argues that effective link baiting can help you get through this purgatory faster.
I could go through the article here in this post
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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As the new writer for SitePoint's SEM Kit I've been testing out a lot of tools and services I had only peek at previously. While I'm not a HUGE fan of tools that provide feedback regarding what you should do, the service offered by Bruce Clay seemed an interesting one (generally I stick to tools that give the data and based the "what to do" on research and an understanding of what the search
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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There's currently an article posted on the SearchEngineWatch.com website titled, "Do Patents Point to SEO Gold?" The article, written by Shari Thorow, discussed whether studying the patents, whitepapers, etc. put out by search engine staff are guidelines for SEO or whether they will send those looking to use them to attain higher rankings in the wrong direction.
For those of you who are regular
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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There's currently an article posted on the SearchEngineWatch.com website titled, "Do Patents Point to SEO Gold?" The article, written by Shari Thorow, discussed whether studying the patents, whitepapers, etc. put out by search engine staff are guidelines for SEO or whether they will send those looking to use them to attain higher rankings in the wrong direction.
For those of you who are regular
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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Two days ago we brought you information on an interview with Google guru Matt Cutts in which he described a fairly new black hat tactic. In this interview he pointed to OneupWeb as a company that used the technology and got their clients into major trouble. Visit our blog post from September 19th for more on that topic. The next day we brought you information from Jim Hedger of SiteProNews on a
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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In my general travels around the net (the only travelling I get to do at light speed :) I found a great blog post on the SEOEgghead.com website. In their post they highlight some of the best specific tips that Google Software Engineer Matt Cutts has given to the SEO and webmaster communities.
The post includes the answrs to such questions as:
Is it better to use underscores of dashes in
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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There was an interesting post on the SiteProNews blog today by editor Jim Hedger. The post chronicles an interview between Google Software Engineer Matt Cutts (see our post from just a few hours ago) and Vanessa Fox, Product Manager for Google Webmaster Tools.
In the interview Matt discusses a new method that black hatters have at their disposal (or at least, did until very recently). This
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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As promised yesterday in our post on an interview with Matt Cutts and his naming of a specific SEO firm (OneupWeb) and their alleged use of black hat tactics that could seriously damage their client's domains, we have a followup.
In yesterdays post I mentioned that a conversation with SiteProNews editor Jim Hedger revealed that their may be more to the story than meets the eye. In todays blog
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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The link finding tool of choice for those of us at Beanstalk has just been updated. The tool is
PR Prowler and it significantly increases the speed with which quality, relevant links can be found and secured to a site regardless of whether those links are reciprocal or non-reciprocal and what method of non-recip link building you might undertake.
The new features that have been added to this tool are:
- SERP # added to results (shows position on Google)
- Domain Age for all results added (unique to PRP!)
- Query limit feature upgraded
- Email feature upgraded, now you can select which link partners to email to
- Speed - now it runs much faster too!
Well done Shawn, you've managed to make one of Beanstalk's "
tools we use" even better. :)
The product is only $97 (how they came up with that figure I have no idea) and pays for itself just in time spent on the first run. If you'd like more inforamtion on this product you can visit the PR Prowler website by
clicking here.
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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We operate a small Internet directory at www.far-sited.net. It's a generally ignored directory at this point but a few years ago I thought it would be fun to start as practice. If nothing else doing so gave me a great respect for directory owners/editors and the amount of work they put in.
One day my son wanted to put some pictures of Pokemon on the Internet for his friends. I created a folder
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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As it's a Friday I thought I'd leave you with something on the lighter side to take you into the weekend. First, a "quote of the day" brought to me by Frederick Townes of W3 EDGE Web Design who mentioned in an MSN chat, "the good news is the best businesss is done with your back against the wall." A very good quote and too often true.
The humor of the day is brought to us by one Mr. Stephen
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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Alright, the title may be a bit misleading but it's still a good title. :)
For the month of August Beanstalk has made the SEO Consultants Directory's top 10 most viewed profiles.
Thanks to all of you who may have taken a peek at our profile and hey, if all out blog readers go there this month maybe we can get higher than #9 next month. To visit our profile and help us climb that top 10 list
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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As has happened previously, Beanstalk is putting a hold on accepting new clients. We do this occasionally when our client load hits a point where we feel that to provide the level of service our clients have come to expect from us we need to put a hold on accepting new contracts.
This hold does not include specific non-standard SEO services such as consulting, training and a few other assorted
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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In my travels I stumbled on an interesting chart which reveals the general click through rate to a site based on their specific position in the search engine results. We all know that a site in position 1 is going to see higher traffic than a site in position two - but how much? There have been a few reports done up on this subject, some from EyeTracker, and other various sources however today I
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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Today we received a FedEx over here at Beanstalk that definitely caught our attention. In it was the document below.
It's definitely great to be recognized by anyone as a reputable firm but it's expecially nice when it's a company you hold in high regards such as PromotionWorld.
A special thanks to PromotionWorld from Beanstalk. It is a great honor and we genuinely appreciate it.
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January 1, 1970 at 1:00 am
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Well, it's been a little over a week since my last post. I would apologize however the delay is due to a week long hiatus in beautiful Whistler, BC in no small part due to my friend Bryan who manages some property there and was kind enough to let us stay in one of his condos. This stay allowed me the time to do two things:
Relax, mountain bike, and spend some real-for-real time with my family,
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