Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'poll'

Last week, we ran a poll asking if you should risk linking to competitors. The specific question we asked was, "Do You Link To Direct Competitors?" Not sure if you are surprised by the results, but after receiving 140 or...

Posted on October 22, 2009 9:02 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has an interesting conversation about linking to competitors. In this case, the webmaster is considering giving his competitor a banner ad direct link (not through a redirect or nofollow) but without an alt text, in exchange for...

Posted on October 14, 2009 8:48 AM

Back in February I ran a poll asking if the Google Sandbox still exists and if so, is it US based only? I don't think I ever published those results, so I apologize. A new Search Engine Watch Forums thread...

Posted on September 30, 2009 8:30 AM

On Friday we ran a poll asking Would You Allow Google to Manage Your AdWords Account? I am honestly not surprised by the answer, where an overwhelming majority of the responses were basically, "no way!" In short, people feel that...

Posted on September 16, 2009 8:46 AM

There is an excellent thread at WebmasterWorld on the topic of search engine position security. In short, the SEO is asking others, how secure do you feel that your rankings won't change all that much? How secure do you feel...

Posted on September 15, 2009 8:38 AM

A few weeks ago, we ran a poll asking if you should flaunt your search engine rankings? We have about 150 responses in now, so I thought I share with you how SEOs like to show off their success. Question:...

Posted on September 14, 2009 8:59 AM

About ten days ago, we asked our readers "Right Now, How Much is Google Loving Keywords in URL?" We have about a 185 responses in and I wanted to share the results. Overall, about 75% of the responses said that...

Posted on September 8, 2009 8:50 AM

On August 6th, we reported how Google was pushing the AdWords ads nearer to the organic listings in some browsers. I illustrated the change in a short movie, so that it is crystal clear how much of an impact it...

Posted on August 31, 2009 8:40 AM

A week ago, we asked you if Google should use mouse overs to show more ad details. I made a screen shot of the concept, which I will repost below. The poll results are in and some of you want...

Posted on August 28, 2009 8:38 AM

Two days ago, I ran a poll asking our readers how accurate do they find the SEOMoz ranking factors survey. We have over a 160 responses in less than two days, so I thought I would post the results now....

Posted on August 28, 2009 8:29 AM

A couple weeks ago, I asked our readers how feasible it was to rank in the number one spot in Google.com and at the same time rank #1 in a regional flavored Google search space. We have just about a...

Posted on August 20, 2009 8:46 AM

A few weeks ago, we ran a poll asking Will You Remove The NoFollow Attributes From Your Pages? Why did we ask SEOs and webmasters this question? With the recent update from Google on how they handle the nofollow'ed links,...

Posted on August 13, 2009 8:22 AM

A HighRankings Forum thread asks if it is possible to rank number one in Google.ca and Google.com, if the site is using a .ca ccTLD and is hosted in Canada. As you can see, the question has a lot of...

Posted on August 7, 2009 8:53 AM

Last week, we asked you if you felt client involvement is necessary for a successful SEO campaign. The obvious answer to me, was yes, it was. But not everyone agrees, most do, but not everyone. 96% said some level of...

Posted on July 22, 2009 9:32 AM

Less than a week ago, we polled our readers asking should search updates be named? Well, we have over a hundred responses now, so I thought I share them with you. Overall, 82% said we should name all or some...

Posted on July 21, 2009 9:13 AM

With the latest on how Google handles the nofollow attribute, I know of many webmasters who are removing them completely from their sites. Instead, they are either not linking out or linking out without the nofollow attribute added to the...

Posted on July 21, 2009 9:03 AM

Earlier this month, we polled our readers asking how addicted are you to links. Well, we have about a 150 responses now, and it shows that not all SEOs are addicted to links. 32% said they hate links, while 21%...

Posted on July 17, 2009 8:56 AM

The other day, I spilled my guts out about missing the old days of Yahoo. I honestly wish Yahoo was on their way to a full recovery and become a strong competitor to Google or even not compete with Google,...

Posted on July 14, 2009 9:18 AM

Earlier this month, we polled our audience asking how important is DMOZ to your SEO strategy? As expected, most SEOs take the philosophy of "submit it and forget it." Why? Simply because to many SEOs, it is not worth them...

Posted on July 14, 2009 9:10 AM

Every industry has their addiction. Wall Street is known for their speed addiction, Hollywood for, well - can't list them all and so on. The SEO industry may have an addition to link acquisitions, mostly Google's fault :). In any...

Posted on July 6, 2009 8:53 AM

About a week ago, we showed our readers many of the bing commercials and asked you guys if you liked them. To my surprise, about 60% of you said you do like them, while only about 25% of you said...

Posted on June 30, 2009 8:49 AM

About two weeks ago, we asked AdSense publishers what do you want to be called. Well, after almost 150 responses, I figured I share the results with you. :: Web Marketer said 30 respondents or 21% :: Web Publisher said...

Posted on June 30, 2009 8:40 AM

A week ago, we asked our readers to vote on their thoughts on if Google sees SEOs as criminals. If you remember, this is based on the double-standard that some bloggers feel Google is placing on some groups over another...

Posted on June 19, 2009 7:07 AM

A few weeks ago, we asked our readers if they like the new Yahoo home page? With 127 responses in, I wanted to share the results. Most of our readers do like the new home page. 73% said they like...

Posted on June 19, 2009 7:01 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread is asking AdSense publisher what they call themselves. They said, often when they met people or speak to people, they are not sure what to say when people ask them what they do. Are they are publisher?...

Posted on June 15, 2009 8:48 AM

The Nofollow PageRank sculpting topic was not the only heated debate at last week's SMX Advanced conference. We have some SEOs claiming Google sees all SEOs as criminals before being innocent. Michael Gray's How Google Profiles SEO’s and Lisa Barone's...

Posted on June 10, 2009 8:22 AM

When Bing launched a bit over a week ago, we asked our readers via an anonymous poll if they like the new Microsoft search engine. To my surprise, 70% of the responses said they like the new search engine. Keep...

Posted on June 9, 2009 8:58 AM

We asked our readers a few weeks ago if they can beat Wikipedia in the Google results? The answer is yes, most SEOs believe they can beat Wikipedia's listings in the Google results. 81% of SEOs feel they can beat...

Posted on May 29, 2009 7:22 AM

The other day, we polled our readers asking if you trust Google's keyword suggestion tool. We received a lot of responses, well over 200 and I wanted to share them with you. The majority, 76% said they do not fully...

Posted on May 29, 2009 7:20 AM

About a week ago, we asked our readers if they like or dislike the new AdWords trademark policy. The new policy gives some advertisers the ability to use trademarked terms in the ad copy. We asked our readers if they...

Posted on May 28, 2009 8:12 AM

Earlier this month, we noticed Google Analytics changed the graph to display only day counts selected. In the past, it faded out the rest of the month when you selected a few days. In addition, if you selected just a...

Posted on May 26, 2009 9:05 AM

A couple weeks ago, we reported on Google's new rich snippet markups and asked our audience if they will use it on their web sites. With 90 responses in, I wanted to share the results of the poll. 53% of...

Posted on May 25, 2009 9:31 AM

Google began aggressively testing the new AdWords interface the other week. I heard many complaints from advertisers on the new AdWords interface, so I figured I would poll our readers to see what their thoughts were. The 144 responses are...

Posted on May 12, 2009 9:09 AM

There have been recent rumors that Google has been terminating publishers for not updating their privacy policies. The week prior to that post, we polled our audience, asking if they have updated their privacy policies to comply with Google's guidelines....

Posted on May 12, 2009 8:48 AM

A couple weeks ago, I ran a poll asking do you currently have a job. We have just under 400 responses, which I would consider a great sampling, and I wanted to share those results with you. According to our...

Posted on May 7, 2009 9:03 AM

Google's merchant system has been around for a while now. Google encouraged merchants to add Google Checkout as an option to their web site through offering discounted or free merchant fees and added visibility on their AdWords ads. Today is...

Posted on May 5, 2009 7:26 AM

I ran a poll a couple weeks ago asking, do you use interns as link builders? The 120 plus responses are in and most of those who responded said yes, they use interns as link builders. 74 of the 120...

Posted on May 1, 2009 8:20 AM

About a week ago, we wrote a piece about getting PageRank without links. In that write up, we wrote how Google may give pages temporary or artificial PageRank to make up for the page being new. We decided to poll...

Posted on April 16, 2009 7:34 AM

About two weeks ago, we polled our audience asking if they thought Google had a keyword specific penalty. By the I meant, does Google penalize a site from ranking well for a specific keyword phrase, while allowing the site to...

Posted on April 16, 2009 7:22 AM

Last week we asked if SEOs need coding capabilities based on a controversial Sphinn thread. The results are now in and I am surprised to see just about 80% of the responses said that to be considered an SEO, you...

Posted on April 16, 2009 7:15 AM

A week ago, we ran a poll asking when is the best time to send out link requests. We know, we don't recommend bombarding people with link exchange or request emails, but if you had to, when would you do...

Posted on April 15, 2009 7:41 AM

A couple weeks ago, we polled our audience asking if Google should add time zone preferences to their AdWords feature list. Yahoo recently launched day parting, but gave advertisers the option to day part based on either the advertiser's time...

Posted on April 10, 2009 7:40 AM

A heated Sphinn thread started some controversy in the SEO industry over who is an SEO and who is not an SEO. In short, Edward Lewis wrote a piece named HTML 4 SEO Best Practices for HTML Authoring. The article...

Posted on April 10, 2009 7:15 AM

Technically, Google has agreed to store your Google Analytics data for at least 25 months. We ran a poll the other week, asking you if that is long enough. Most of you said, no it is not. Of the 190...

Posted on April 10, 2009 6:56 AM

A few weeks ago, we wrote a story on how e-commerce sites can build links through offering customers a discount on orders, if they link back to the site. It is a neat way to get links but we wanted...

Posted on April 9, 2009 7:32 AM

A week ago, we polled our audience asking How Long Should It Take To Rank Well in Google? With over two-hundred responses, I thought it would be a good time to share the results with you all. How Long Does...

Posted on April 9, 2009 6:46 AM

The topic of link requests is not new to this site. We covered it many times. Personally, I mark all link exchange or link requests emails as spam - I simply don't play that game. Not that I think it...

Posted on April 7, 2009 8:20 AM

Throughout my many years (makes me sound old) in the search industry, I have heard about many filters and penalties, including a filter or penalty to prevent a site from ranking well for a specific keyword phrase. For example, if...

Posted on April 3, 2009 7:58 AM

Last week, I ran a poll asking if Google AdSense made up most of your income. The 129 responses are in and I wanted to share them with you. It seems like 47% of those that make money will AdSense...

Posted on March 24, 2009 7:19 AM

We have a lot of Google AdSense publishers that read this site and I wanted to run a quick poll asking you guys, what percent of your income is from Google AdSense. The poll is completely anonymous and if you...

Posted on March 19, 2009 8:23 AM

Two days ago, I asked our readers to vote on how important it is for an SEO to specialize within a specific industry. For example, you have doctors who only work with kids (pediatricians) or doctors who specialize on the...

Posted on March 18, 2009 9:09 AM

The other day, we polled our audience, asking should URL shortening services pass link value? We now have 168 responses and I thought I share them with you. The response was overwhelming yes. 75% of the respondents said, these URL...

Posted on March 12, 2009 8:44 AM

A week ago, we polled our audience asking Are You Still Offering SEO Services Paid By Performance? For example, are you willing to exchange direct payment in exchange for payment on the basis of rankings, or traffic or on revenue...

Posted on March 10, 2009 10:38 AM

I was hoping to reach out to our audience and find out, via an anonymous poll, how your companies are weathering the recession. Why now? Well, I noticed a HighRankings Forum thread that discusses some SEO companies noticing a recent...

Posted on March 6, 2009 9:04 AM

A month and a half ago, we polled our audience, trying to gauge how concerned SEOs are with Google's 'hidden' supplemental index. The results are now in, we have 80 responses and I wanted to share them with you. Here...

Posted on March 4, 2009 8:48 AM

Two days ago, I ran a poll asking if SEO companies implement SEO changes or just recommend changes to be implemented. Meaning, does your SEO company normally start with coding changes and upload files to the web server. I now...

Posted on February 26, 2009 8:58 AM

The other day we wrote about being your own SEO client isn't easy, but clearly that doesn't stop the bulk of you from working on your own solo projects. We ran a poll, asking which would you rather do? Either...

Posted on February 24, 2009 8:45 AM

Earlier this month, we polled Google AdSense publishers, asking how their earnings from Google is working out in this recession. After receiving about a 120 responses, I thought I share the results with you. About 70% said they are earning...

Posted on February 20, 2009 9:11 AM

About a week ago, we ran a poll asking Who's To Credit For Faster Indexing? The options included Google Sitemaps or FeedBurner, due to the topic we were discussing. The results are now in and the majority said, Google Sitemaps,...

Posted on January 15, 2009 9:19 AM

About a week ago, we ran a poll asking publishers how helpful they found the AdSense optimization reports, which they launched in April 2007. The results are now in and we see that about 70% find them to be not...

Posted on January 13, 2009 8:45 AM

On Tuesday, we ran a poll asking if Google's PageRank data reports in Webmaster Tools useless or useful. The results are in and the majority of SEOs believe those reports are completely useless. I am one to agree with the...

Posted on January 9, 2009 8:46 AM

A couple weeks ago, we ran a poll asking SEOs and link builders where they would prefer their external links show up on a page. Well, the results are in and as expected, most SEOs would like that link in...

Posted on December 23, 2008 7:46 AM

A few weeks ago I ran a poll asking does the alt tag improve rankings in search engines. We have now received over a hundred responses from our readers, who I assume are mostly SEOs. About 80% said, yes, using...

Posted on December 19, 2008 8:21 AM

Want to be an SEO? Well, we asked SEOs what degrees upcoming SEOs and SEMs should obtain. The overwhelming number of responses were for marketing and programming degrees. Here is the breakdown of the 265 submissions: :: Marketing said 126...

Posted on November 7, 2008 8:04 AM

In September, we ran a poll asking Does Google Limit The Amount AdSense Publishers Can Earn? The majority of respondents don't believe so. 57% do not believe in a ceiling, while 28% do and 15% said that the ceiling applies...

Posted on October 15, 2008 7:01 AM

The other day, I held a poll asking SEOs how long it typically took for their sites to be reincluded into the Google index after submitting a reconsideration request. We have complied 72 responses and I thought I share the...

Posted on October 14, 2008 8:00 AM

In late September, we ran a poll asking AdSense publishers if they are earning more or less than the previous year. The results are now in and honestly, don't tell us much. Most said they earn more but just about...

Posted on October 14, 2008 7:32 AM

About a week ago, we polled you on if you Google yourself. And we received just about a hundred responses from the Search Marketing community. The results were what I expected. Only 4% said that they never have "Googled" themselves,...

Posted on September 16, 2008 8:22 AM

A week ago, I asked what would you do if your site gets penalized. The options I gave were (A) Clean Up The Site & Request Reinclusion, (B) Quit the SEO Game and Play Golf or (C) Burn the Site...

Posted on September 5, 2008 8:09 AM

Tamar wrote a piece named Do Search Penalties Worry You? I had her add a poll asking SEOs if they are scared of search engine penalties. The 98 responses are back and it is about split. 56% are afraid of...

Posted on August 29, 2008 8:08 AM

A Google Groups thread is requesting that Google add a negative keyword filter tool for Google Webmaster Tools. Google AdWords gives advertisers the ability to tell Google, I don't want traffic for these keyword phrases or keywords. At least one...

Posted on August 29, 2008 7:57 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has early discussion on the topic of what to do about a penalized site. Should the webmaster destroy the domain and start on a new one or should he/she clean up the site and wait for Google...

Posted on August 28, 2008 8:10 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

In May I ran an informal poll asking Would You Buy a Link With a NoFollow Attribute? In short, a nofollow attribute is an HTML attribute you add to a hyperlink that tells the search engines that you do not...

Posted on August 6, 2008 8:27 AM

A couple weeks ago I asked if Do You Report Your Competitors as Spam in Google? Well, the results are in and most SEOs said they do not report their competitors to Google as spamming. Of the 159 responses,...

Posted on May 23, 2008 7:22 AM

About a week ago I ran a poll that asked Can Someone Hurt A Competitors Google Rankings With Links? I ran the poll because there is a lot of debate around this topic. So I figured, why not ask you...

Posted on May 13, 2008 7:07 AM

Last night, the big news was again Microsoft/Yahoo/Google business dealings. You can see all the headlines at Techmeme, including (1) Microsoft might start the hostile takeover today (tomorrow) and (2) Yahoo might announce they will continue to carry Google ads...

Posted on May 2, 2008 8:16 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread asks other Google AdSense publishers which day of the week, do they make the most amount of money with Google. Most say, Monday and Tuesday are their highest yielding days, while some say the weekends are....

Posted on April 28, 2008 7:48 AM

A little over a month ago, I ran a poll asking Would You Want to Work at Google? The results were a bit surprising, 69% of the 143 responses said they would like to work at Google. 98 respondents or...

Posted on April 25, 2008 8:24 AM

About 6 weeks ago, I polled our readers on which Google AdSense unit they found to be the most annoying. The results are in and the winner of the most annoying AdSense unit is the large rectangle unit. As you...

Posted on April 21, 2008 7:50 AM

On February 20th, I asked our readers if they thought a listing in the Open Directory Project would have a major impact on a site's Google ranking. The response was split down the middle. We only had 58 responses, which...

Posted on April 9, 2008 8:30 AM

The results are in, and SEOs voted on which link they would prefer. 65% of SEOs said they would prefer an old and aged link over a fresh and new link. 35% said they want the newer fresh links over...

Posted on March 11, 2008 7:50 AM

Earlier we released a poll that showed 37% of Google AdSense Publishers Earned Over a $1,000 in 2007. So on January 31st, I decided to run a new poll asking Google AdSense Earnings Way Down in January 2008? The results...

Posted on February 20, 2008 8:19 AM

On January 7th, we asked you to vote on the most improved PPC program of 2007. Your votes are now all in and I wanted to share the 76 responses. Overall, most of you felt Yahoo Search Marketing was the...

Posted on February 14, 2008 7:27 AM

I thought I would begin publishing some recent polls I have been requesting from our readers to complete here. The first poll I am publishing was polled on January 3, 2008, where I asked How Much Did You Make from...

Posted on February 13, 2008 7:59 AM

There's an interesting poll on DigitalPoint Forums about the obsessive compulsive nature of users when there are Google PageRank updates. We've already explored last week how Google should consider removal of the PageRank score and this poll's results seem to...

Posted on August 14, 2007 9:18 AM

An interesting poll is in its infancy at DigitalPoint Forums but a trend is already emerging. The poll asks: what are the most important elements of your AdWords campaign? So far, Keyword Research and Landing Pages. The discussion brings forth...

Posted on May 30, 2007 9:15 AM

SEOdisco has screenshots of Yahoo! asking for feedback on the organic, natural, free search results, asking the user. How useful are the first two results below? The survey gives you a 1 to 5 point scale, 1 being not useful...

Posted on November 3, 2006 7:32 AM

There is a nice poll running at DigitalPoint Forums that asks AdSense publishers to vote on if they use Google Adsense's section targeting or not. I explained section targeting in the past, and there is also this AdSense help page...

Posted on October 25, 2006 7:20 AM