Posted by randfish I’ve talked in the past about how much value we’ve found from studying the most linked-to content on the web, and tonight, we’ve updated that list again, showing relative rises and falls in link popularity across the web’s most popular sites & pages. If you haven’t yet had a chance to browse [...]

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Posted by randfish Seth Godin is someone I greatly admire, so it was a bit troubling to see him take on the broad subject of How to Make Money with SEO in such a surface-level fashion. However, after a few emails, I feel pretty good that his intentions were solid, and that he’s just presenting [...]

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by Danny Sullivan In about two months, Search Engine Land’s SMX Advanced search marketing conference returns to Seattle, running June 2 & 3. Parents are supposed to love their children equally, but I have to confess — of all our SMX events, this is my favorite one. In this post, I want to share more [...]

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by Danny Sullivan URL shortening services are experiencing a renaissance in the age of Twitter. When every character counts, these services reduce long URLs to tiny forms. But which is the best to use, when so many are offered and new ones seem to appear each day? Below, issues to consider and a breakdown of [...]

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Posted by great scott! A couple of weeks ago, Rand mentioned “awesome links” in the Buckets & Buckets of Keywords Whiteboard Friday.  Since then we’ve had several people ask us exactly what makes a link awesome?  Well, never fear, that’s what we’ll discuss today: what makes a link particularly high-quality and powerful, and how one [...]

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