SEOs in twitter prosper

Twitter has become an excellent tool for SEOs. SEO had a wrong name with many social sites. Places like myspace, Orkut and even social bookmarking sites like digg hates SEOs. But nowadays there are many SEOs who use twitter the right way.

They have learned methods to use sites like twitter with lot of respect. I have seen some very good discussions in twitter between people in search engine industry. Some SEOs have 1000s of followers which itself is a very good sign for SEOs.
People are listing to the SEO guys and I have seen people like matt cutts, Adam lasnik follow some SEO guys. Matt cutts makes some interesting comments in his twitter account which is worth the read when you are in search engine industry.
He already has a whooping http://twitter.com/MattCutts number of followers ( 45,000 ) .

Its incredible since there are so many people who are active in this search and SEO industry. Today the awareness of people about search engines is huge. Only good SEO companies and SEO guys survive in this ever increasing competitive industry.
Other people to look out for in twitter are Danny Sullivan, Jeremy Zawodny and lot more. I don’t recommend you block anyone who wants to follow you unless you feel they are really spammy. I have seen people having 100s of followers before seeing anyone spamming them.
Most SEOs feel twitter is a great neighbourhood. Even Pageoneresults ( Edward ) has named it twitterhood. Great to see SEOs use a great platform in a constructive way.

Influential women in Search industry – 7thpixel

In response to our post on the most influential people in search industry v7pixel blogged about the most influential women in search industry. I have to agree with v7pixel guys or i should say girls 🙂 .

Here is the list according to them, check their Most influential women post here

Alex Bennert
In-house SEO, Wall Street Journal

Allison Fabella
SEO Manager, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Amanda Watlington
Ph.D., Searching for Profit

Anne Kennedy
Managing Partner, Beyond Ink

Christine Churchill
President, KeyRelevance

Dana Todd
Founding Partner, SiteLab International, Inc.

Elisabeth Osmeloski
Managing Editor, Search Engine Land

Gillian Muessig
President, SEOmoz, Inc.

Heather Lloyd-Martin
President and CEO, SuccessWorks

Janet Driscoll Miller
President & CEO, Search Mojo

Jennifer Laycock
Director of Social Media/Editor, SiteLogic/Search Engine Guide

Jessica L Bowman
Founder & President, SEOinhouse.com

Jessie Stricchiola
Founder & CEO, Alchemist Media, Inc.

Jill Whalen
CEO, High Rankings

Kim Krause Berg
Web Site Usability and SEO Consultant, Cre8pc

Rae Hoffman
Chief Executive Officer, Outspoken Media

Rebecca Kelly
Director of Social Media, 10e20

Rhea Drysdale
Co-founder and COO, Outspoken Media

Shari Thurow
SEO Director, Omni Marketing Interactive

Tamar Weinberg
Techipedia.com

Vanessa Fox
Founder, Nine By Blue

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Top 10 Influential People In Search Engine And Search Engine Optimization Industry

Matt Cutts
Matt Cutts joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000 and currently he is the head of Google’s Web spam team. Before joining Google, he worked on his Ph.D. in computer graphics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has done M.S. from UNC-Chapel Hill, and B.S. degrees in both mathematics and computer science from the University of Kentucky. He wrote the first version of Safe Search, which is Google’s family filter, and he has worked on search quality and web spam at Google for the last several years.
Danny Sullivan
Danny Sullivan is the editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land, a blog that deals with news and information about search engines, and search marketing. He graduated from the University of California, Irvine and for a year he was in England working for the BBC. Sullivan started Search Engine Watch in beginning of June 1997. Search Engine Watch was a website with guidelines on how to get good search engine results. Matt Cutts of Google considered Search Engine Watch as “must reading,” and Tim Mayer of Yahoo! as the “most authoritative source on search”. Search Engine Land is a news web site that deals with search engine marketing and search engine optimization. It was founded in 2006 by Sullivan after he left Search Engine Watch.
Brett Tabke
Brett Tabke is an American programmer and SEO professional. Brett Tabke has worked in the computer industry for almost three decades. Tabke is at present the CEO and founder of Webmaster World Inc. He is also the founder of PHD Software Systems, a specialty software manufacture that produced a line of software for Commodore computers in the 80’s and 90’s. Tabke gave several SEO staples as “Link Farm”, “SEO Themes”, and the classic “SERP” (Search Engine Results Page). He was also a founding board member of SEMPO. He also wrote a chapter for the best selling “Google Hacks” book. He is also the first identified person to have fully decoded the Excite and most of the Altavista search engine algos. Tabke’s document “26 Steps to 15k a Day” is one of the most widely read in SEO history.
Shawn Hogan
Shawn Hogan is currently the President and CEO of Digital Point Solutions. He is also a very good programmer, analyst, technical writer and artist. However, around these parts he’s perhaps better known as digitalpoint, webmaster of the DigitalPoint Forum. In the world of eCommerce, Shawn is known for numerous things, not the least of which is his very popular SEO Tools. These extremely regarded tools are accessible free of charge and belong in the arsenal of every serious webmaster, including forum owners and administrators.
Aaron Matthew Wall
Aaron Matthew Wall a, California-based blogger and search engine optimization expert who writes the popular blog SEOBook. He is a recurrent speaker at the Search Engine Strategies and PubCon conferences.
Rand Fishkin
Rand Fishkin is the CEO and Co-Founder of SEOmoz, a head in the field of search engine optimization tools, resources & community. In 2009, he was called among the 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs below 30 by Business Week, and has been written about it in The Seattle Times, Newsweek and the NY Times among others. Rand has keynoted conferences on search from Sydney to Reykjavik, Montreal to Munich and spoken at dozens of shows around the world. He’s predominantly passionate about the SEOmoz blog, read by more than 40,000 search professionals each day.
Michael Grey
Michael Grey, another man “in the know” when it deals about Search Engine Optimization. He blogs on the subject of SEO at Graywolf’s SEO Blog. He is a SEO although he does work in a lot of different areas of internet marketing. He has traditional SEO projects and works as well as managing his own PPC campaigns for some affiliate products and a few e-Books which he sells.
Loren Baker
Loren Baker is a graduate in Mass Communications (marketing and advertising) from Towson University seems to do good justice to his graduation by entering into Search Engine marketing. His interest in SEO and web world made him the Director of Search Engine Marketing in his same organization, WebAdvantage.net where he managed Search Engine Marketing and SEO team. And with the his learning and experiences, in July 2003, he launched his own Search Engine Journal where he is the editor now.
Darrin J.Ward
Darrin J. Ward leads the Darrin Ward team, a group of SEO & SEM professionals that propose top-tier professional SEO and search marketing services. Darrin has been greatly involved in the SEO industry since day one. Darrin has founded a number of successful SEO and search related Websites and search companies.
Jeremy Zawodny
Jeremy Zawodny is currently a Technology Evangelist at Yahoo. Formerly he was part of Yahoo’s platform engineering group. He’s been at Yahoo ever since then, helping to put MySQL and other Open Source technologies to use in amusing, interesting, and often very big ways. In 2000, he started writing for Linux Magazine and continues to do so today as a columnist and contributing editor.

Cleaver Hidden link from GOV to SEO’s website

How do you cleverly hide a link on a government website. First become a friend of United States Department of Commerce Office of General Counsel. They get an insider to carefully hide the link right on the homepage with optimized anchor text keyword.

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Toronto based scammers sending fake SEO service invoice

This scam has been there for a while. A group of scammers based in Toronto, Canada are / were sending fake invoices in the name of some reputable search engine optimization companies. Apart from sending fake invoices they also send fake notices for non existent SEO services. They send out saying that they will get you listed in all search engines for a low price. This scam has been there for a while and even ftc.gov has taken action against it.

See more information here http://powerofgenie.com/2009/02/scam-takes-a-new-turn/

According to the FTC, since 2004, Toronto-based Internet Listing Service has been sending fake invoices to small businesses and others, listing the existing domain name of the consumer’s Web site or a slight variation on the domain name, such as substituting “.org” for “.com.” The invoice appears to come from the businesses’ existing domain name registrar and contains terms such as “WEBSITE ADDRESS LISTING” and “ANNUAL WEBSITE SEARCH ENGINE LISTING.” The invoice also claims to include a search engine optimization service. Most consumers who receive the “invoices” are led to believe that the defendants are their current domain name registrar and that they must pay them to maintain their registrations of domain names. Other consumers are induced to pay based on defendants’ claims that their “Search Optimization” service will “direct mass traffic” to their sites and that their “proven search engine listing service” will result in “a substantial increase in traffic.”
The FTC’s complaint charged that most consumers who paid the defendants’ invoices do not receive any domain name registration services and that the “search optimization” service is ineffective and does not result in increased traffic to the consumers’ Web sites.
The FTC charged that the “invoices” represented that the defendants had a preexisting business relationship with the consumer. The “invoices” also represented that consumers owed money for the continued registration of their Web site names and that the defendants would provide continued registration services for consumers. The defendants also claimed that the “search optimization” service would substantially increase traffic to consumers’ Internet Web sites. The FTC alleged all that of these claims were false and violated federal law.

There are scam in search engine optimization everywhere we just need to be more aware.

Caffeine update – upcoming Caffeine update in Google updated my Matt cutts

Mattcutts Google’s web spam head recently revealed in his blog mattcutts.com/blog/ that Google is about to make an update to their index. He named it as Caffeine update. This caffeine update seem to be an upgrade to the way Google indexes site. Not many visible changes to ranks i virtually see zero movement across our sites and our client sites.

He tells us to check Google ranking changes in this datacenter http://www2.sandbox.google.com/ . Only big visible change i see here is the wonderful update timings of sites. Almost all results show updated in few minutes or few hours which is amazing.
But one funny thing i noticed which i searched for “Google blog” i got this funny result with site links.

We usually see the notice “this site may harm your computer” when there is a virus alert and the site is infectious. Here a sitelink for Google blog looks very similar to a virus injection warning. 🙂 thats funny i hope Google realizes that fast or they might loose some people who are afraid to click a link that says a look alike warning like that.

Enough is enough – will you stop spamming me

Please know that we are not a aggressive spamming SEO company like you and we hate cold calling or SPAM emails ( Unsolicited bulk emails ) . Please stop this

” am Katy from <> SEO Company and looking for long term Link Exchange partnership with your Company as we are in same industry. This approach will assure fast link building for you as well as for us. <> a venture of ( Name removed ) Name removed is SEO Link Building Company Incorporated in 1992 and into SEO business since 1998, with a team of expert professional Link builders, and duly approved by Indian Government (Software Technology Park of India) and member of CII (Confederation of Indian Industry). We are looking as a long term Link Exchange Partner with your team of link builders.
As a Leading SEO and IT company, We have got network of 300 Web Sites and Web Portals as well as more than 1000 reputed Link Partners SEO Companies, So our partnership in Link Exchange will benefit both of us.
Here are few point about us which will help you to select us as Link Exchange Partner:- We are in SEO Business Since 1998- We have more than 1000 Link Partners which can help you for fast link exchange with us for your client web sites- We are reputed company and all link will remain stable- Link exchange will be placed on quality websites- We understand link building better than other because of our 10 year experience Looking for positive response from you”

Please understand that SEO is not spam please don’t put us in your basket and spam us. This is the 10th email we got i removed your company name in future we will add the company name too.

New SEO scam or is it phishing ?

I recently came across these type of emails in number of sites we monitor. These mails seems to come from the same group of people. What are they trying to achieve?

“Sender’s name: Joseph SwansonComments from : Joseph SwansonSender mail id : joseph2319@gmail.comComments : We would like to get your website on first page of Google. All of our processes use the most ethical \”white hat\” Search Engine Optimization techniques that will not get your website banned or penalized. Please reply and I would be happy to send you a proposal. In order for us to respond to your request for information, please include your company’s website address (mandatory) and or phone number.”

Its very sad few people like them bring bad name to this company calling their strategies white hat.

Keeping Top ranking for competitive phrase:

You get top ranking for competitive phrase. How to you sustain its rankings? We have used the knowledge gained over the years to keep competitive rankings consistently for more than 3 years but following some simple yet strong SEO tactics.
1. Make sure your links are consistent most of the time ranking drops happen when the existing links lose its value. Keeping looking for quality natural resources to get backlinks. There are many organizations out there willing to link out to quality websites without any monetary benefit. You can approach them and they will eventually link to you.
2. If you have achieved top ranking it doesn’t justify you achieved everything. We need to make sure we keep adding quality contents, blogs and whatever you were doing before to come up on top.
3. Also if one phrase is ranking make sure you rank for more relative phrases, synonyms, plurals etc. This will help the search engines understand better your rankings are deserved and they will keep your ranking on top.
4. If a page ranks in search engine for top competitive phrase make sure you don’t too much play with it. You can play around it not play with it. We never know what factors contribute to the ranking for a phrase and it’s important not to mess it up.
5. Avoid using anything negative that might result in over optimization or penalty. When people get top rankings they get existed and tend to go more aggressive. Aggression not only hurts but your site can disappear from rankings for a long time.