After taking a random sample of 600 Wikipedia articles, 96.67% are in Google's top 10 for their title.
More confusion about SEO, this time from NYT:
Business.com, one of the better arbitrage plays, is up for auction. The WSJ reports:
There's been a lot of controversy over WordPress theme sponsorhip lately.
In response, I've just done an extensive and detailed write up on how to evaluate Wordpress theme sponsorship. Pick the right theme and you could get up to 500,000 almost free backlinks with anchor text.
With major brands finding more and more sub domains to spam Google Yahoo has gone a step further.
They are selling entire high ranking sub domains to sites that fill them with affiliate links.
Pretty much the ultimate in pre-sell pages.
From DomainTools, Mike Mann just announced the purchase of SEO.com by WashingtonVC.
Via Slashdot and Computerworld.com.
MS knows your age and gender !
this new Microsoft image search technology could really change the way we do image search and visual information lookup.
/BP
Especially when their category pages look like this. Featured, sponsored, more featured, more sponsored, more featured, more sponsored, listings (some paid), sponsored, side sponsored links.
That is possibly the most disorganized commercial listing set I have ever seen. 15 ads by Google mixed around the 12 house ads and other paid and editorial listings. Why is Google indexing their own paid ads AND their own search results (look at the web listings here)? What makes that model legitimate? Just the domain name and scale?
Matt Malden from Yield Software noted that they are out of stealth mode. Their goal is to automate the SEO/SEM process from keyword selection, to bid pricing, to landing page optimization.
A Facebook group titled ex-Geojerk is reporting massive layoffs at Geosign:
The Federal Trade Commission will be opening a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's planned purchase of DoubleClick, according to a story in today's New York Times.
It is no secret that Forbes.com and many other major news sites publish advert / lead generation sections (get your meso help at Forbes), but a newer trend is that trusted publishers are creating these types of pages without even placing links or lead generation forms in them.
Check out this BizJournals page titled Apply For A Credit Card Online, complete with interesting backlinks and quality copywriting:
Not only can you comparison shop for credit card offers online, but you can also apply for a credit card online. This is rather convenient. In one fell swoop, you can tour through all kinds of credit cards, then apply for the one that best suits you.
How does that type of content end up published on that site?
I had my first encounter with Ask.com's "The Algorithm" campaign via a banner ad today, and was appalled on a number of fronts. No, it wasn't the traction-from-tragedy hook of the frame reading "THE UNABOMBER HATES THE ALGORITHM" that got my goat (though that's pretty nasty in inself, and is drawing criticism), it's the utter ineptitude of Ask.com's marketing efforts that has me flummoxed.
The Domainer's Gazette noticed Network Solutions selling SEO services, via the following offer:
Get top 10 rankings in search engines like Google® and Yahoo®! — Guaranteed!
Just a few days after launch, I see that Google is indexing its own "Hot Trends" entries in its main web index.
The study found that in the researching phase, a purchaser is five times more likely to turn to a generic search engine for information than a B2B search engine.
