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Shifting Fortunes of the Big Three

Thursday, May 12th, 2011
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Under The Hood

In July 2004 a billboard appeared in the heart of Silicon Valley posing a complex mathematical problem. The billboard was completely anonymous and read: “{first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits e}.com.” The answer was 7427466391.com which led the mathematically minded to a Web page posing another equation to solve. Solving the second equation would lead someone to a page on Google Labs which stated:

One thing we learned while building Google is that it’s easier to find what you’re looking for if it comes looking for you. What we’re looking for are the best engineers in the world. And here you are.
As you can imagine, we get many, many resumes every day, so we developed this little process to increase the signal-to-noise ratio.

The Story of SEO and The Panda

Monday, April 25th, 2011
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When you talk to a Search Engine Optimization Company the conversation will very quickly gravitate towards keywords. These are the words that potential customers will type into search engines when looking for the products or services you provide.

Back in the early days of SEO, unscrupulous marketers quickly learned that repeating their primary keywords over and over within the keywords tag, or within the page content, would improve rankings. Search engines didn’t want their results to be gamed so easily and viewed keyword stuffing as a means to lower the quality of their results. In response algorithms were updated so that keyword stuffing became ineffectual and “false positives” were removed from their results. Search engines have continued to evolve in order to beat spammers and deliver accurate and relevant results.

Query Deserves Freshness (QDF) Explained

Monday, March 28th, 2011
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If you regularly track your search results you’ve probably witnessed odd things happen to rankings for specific terms. One day you rank well for a term and the next the ranking all but disappears. Here is the reason why.

What Can Sir Isaac Newton Tell Us About SEO?

Friday, December 17th, 2010
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In 1687 Sir Isaac Newton gave us The Universal Law Of Gravitation, which predicts the attractive force between all objects that contain mass. It states that every object exerts a force on every other object along the line joining their centers. There are two simple rules to understanding gravity:Apple Search Engine Optimization

1. The larger the object the greater the force
2. The closer the object the greater the force

Not only does this tell us why an apple falls to earth rather than floating off into space, it also provides an understanding  into the way our universe functions. Now, if you apply a little lateral thinking, you will see that these simple rules provide valuable insights into how to grow your business by attracting more targeted visitors to your website. Let me explain.