Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'blogs'

One of the oldest areas of unspoken SEO blogging is the SEO Code. In short, blogging (now inclusive of Twitter) is a dangerous thing in this industry. On the one hand, you want to break stories, post something unique and...

Posted on April 27, 2009 9:01 AM

David Naylor asked if Google is starting to hate blogs, based on his blog having indexing issues. He gave several forms of evidence to support the issues Google is having when indexing his blog. Well, blog owners and writers, do...

Posted on September 17, 2008 8:00 AM

A week or so ago, I wrote a piece named Are Links From Blogs As Valuable These Days? In short, some SEOs are now against buying or obtaining links from most blogs. They feel that Google may be devaluing the...

Posted on August 7, 2008 8:37 AM

Recently, I have been hearing a lot of buzz on the topic of links from blogs. Some are suggesting that blog links don't have the 'oomph' they once had. Now, I suspect when these people are classifying "blogs," they mean...

Posted on July 30, 2008 8:58 AM

Ann Smarty poses an interesting question on Search Engine Journal. As blogs are communities, it's useful to comment and leave your thoughts. But what if you add your link to the comment? Is it spam? There are numerous tools that...

Posted on March 13, 2008 8:20 AM

Over at Hobo SEO UK, Shaun Anderson wrote a really interesting "take me back to the early days" post about how established SEO and SEMs got started. He looks at many bloggers' very first posts and many have come a...

Posted on January 3, 2008 9:05 AM

Bill Slawski discovered a patent application by Microsoft that seeks to "restrict the results for queries to be from blog pages." Does that mean that blogging has had its day? Well, if the key word is restrict and Microsoft is...

Posted on December 24, 2007 8:59 AM

Well, not quite, but forum members are noticing that people are shifting their focus away from forums and into blogs. Do forums have to adapt? Not necessarily. Some forum members are not yet embracing the blogosphere. The audiences may stay...

Posted on November 16, 2007 10:34 AM

A number of WebmasterWorld members who use Google's Blogspot application are reporting that when they log into Google Webmaster Tools, they're getting a lot of errors that many URLs are being restricted by robots.txt. However, blogspot.com users have no control...

Posted on October 10, 2007 9:46 AM

Bill Slawski references the Blogscope search engine in a Cre8asite Forums post. BlogScope is an analysis and visualization tool for blogosphere which is being developed as a research prototype at the University of Toronto. It is currently tracking over 10.16...

Posted on July 11, 2007 10:45 AM

We cover reputation management every so often. There are reputation management sessions at Search Engine Strategies. With search, a positive company image is quite important. Bad publicity ranked on the top of the SERPs can hurt your image. Barry wrote...

Posted on July 5, 2007 10:00 AM