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The perfect algorithm – how would yours work?

Posted by robwatts on May 21, 2007 at 4:28 pm

Search engine ranking algorithms are a mysterious thing. Very few people on earth have access to their exact blueprint, for those of us who think we have cracked it, it all seems relatively simple. Put enough of the right things in place in the right combination and presto you are in, right, simple huh? In [...]

Will a long Blogroll flush your site down the search engine ranking toilet?

Posted by robwatts on January 23, 2007 at 10:35 am

Brad wrote an interesting piece today which got me thinking about the topic of linking out, authority scores, pagerank leakage and all those old chestnuts.
Lots of papers out there on PageRank and theories and counter theories on how linking out can effect your PR adversely/positively and all that, so I’m not going to rehash any [...]

MyBlogLog – Y! Privacy and Widgetisation

Posted by robwatts on January 15, 2007 at 10:05 am

I love the recent Y! acquisition, mybloglog. Its like a myspace with bells on. Ive encountered some really nice and interesting people too. In case you haven’t seen or used it before its a social media platform. You can join communities, add contacts, upload photos and if you install a piece of code [...]

Web PRO News Videos from Search Conferences

Posted by robwatts on January 7, 2007 at 9:00 pm

Web Pro News have put together some really good videos together over at their site.
This link here entitled the do’s and dont’s of Digg is a great discussion on doing well in Digg as well as things to avoid. Its also a good general discussion around social media, tips for choosing an SEO, PPC and [...]

Pay to Blog what’s the big deal?

Posted by robwatts on January 6, 2007 at 11:24 am

I was just over at tech crunch reading some of the broohah about some deal that fell through regarding performancing and payperpost and was kinda surpised at the level of snorting and derision being applied there. There is this guy named Ted, who like most people trying to get things off of the floor in [...]