Archive for October, 2009:

How a Search Engine might Adjust Rankings based upon Patterns in Query and Click Logs

{ Posted on Oct 31 2009 by admin }
Imagine that a number of people use Google to perform a search for “orange,” and then “banana,” and then “pineapple” and then choose the web page “http://www.example.com/fruit.htm” in the search results they see. Now imagine that Google looks at the ...Read More »

SEO Spooksters!

{ Posted on Oct 30 2009 by admin }
Happy (day before) Halloween! It's the annual Bruce Clay, Inc. Halloween party today, and as you might know we take this holiday very seriously. Bruce Clay, Inc. Halloween 2009 Bruce has been out of the country for the last week -- ...Read More »

Thanks to this Months Sponsors – October 2009

{ Posted on Oct 30 2009 by admin }
I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here. Text Link Ads – New customers can get $100 in free text links. CrazyEgg.com – Supplement your analytics with action ...Read More »

Friday Recap - Thursday Edition

{ Posted on Oct 29 2009 by admin }
I know you're used to getting your recap on Fridays, but tomorrow's our Halloween party! That translates to the entire BCI crew in spirited costumes having wicked good fun. What can I say? We love to dress up! So there's a ...Read More »

Any SEO Psychics in the House?

{ Posted on Oct 28 2009 by admin }
At SMX East this month, a panel full of big-name search experts took part in a roundtable discussion centered around critical, forward-looking questions posed by Search Engine Land's Chris Sherman. Where's the search industry today? Is there even "traditional" media anymore? What ...Read More »

Google PowerMeter

{ Posted on Oct 28 2009 by admin }
Not content with dominating the global search engine market, Google have taken the rather left field step of providing the UK with a free software tool that provides electricty consumers (i.e. almost everyone) with information on how much energy their ...Read More »

Link Building Techniques & Tips

{ Posted on Oct 28 2009 by admin }
Ever since I arrived here at Bronco (Britain’s brightest search engine marketing company – sign up today!)  it’s been bugging the hell out of me that this post on Dave’s blog  ranks for ‘link building’. Not that it’s atrocious or ...Read More »

Bad Architecture and Band-Aid Solutions

{ Posted on Oct 28 2009 by admin }
In the past few months all of the search engines, but especially Google have released or started supporting new ways of fixing site architecture issues. However IMHO these are band-aid solutions for bad site architecture, and not something you should rely on … ...Read More »

Digital Advertising: All Grown Up?

{ Posted on Oct 27 2009 by admin }
There's a birthday in our midst! Digital advertising counts its 15th birthday today! And my, what a long way its come. Fifteen years ago today, the first banner ads hit the Web. Granted they were tacky, awkward banner ads, often missing ...Read More »

Meeting the Press, Talking SEO

{ Posted on Oct 27 2009 by admin }
That How to Get Started with SEO post that I published last week has a little backstory: It was inspired by a series of interviews I’ve done lately about SEO with members of the press. Each interview was about SEO ...Read More »