I came across an interesting research paper the other day titled Web Spam Taxonomy . How could I resist that title!? The paper was written by Zoltan Gyongyi and Hector Garcia-Molina while in the Computer Science Department of Stanford University. The...
Topics: SEO Theories and Research

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I was looking through a client's data in Google Webmaster Tools recently and noticed tens of thousands of bad internal links. All of these links could be boiled down to a handful of patterns which struck me as odd because I should've noticed...
Topics: SEO Experiments

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I've been on a research paper reading binge recently. I've got about 10 or so under my belt now in just the last couple of weeks. I've discovered they make great reading on my train ride to work. Relatively short and to the point. Sure...
Topics: SEO Theories and Research

{"title":"Is BrowseRank The New PageRank?","post_url":"http:\/\/www.allthingssem.com\/is-browserank-the-new-pagerank\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/allthingssem","author":"MariosAlexandrou","date":"2008-11-21 03:38:26","summary":"I've been on a research paper reading binge recently. I've got about 10 or so under my belt now in just the last couple of weeks. I've discovered they make great reading on my train ride to work. Relatively short and to the point. Sure..."}

There's a lot of hubhub about a new paid link program from the MediaWhiz folks. I'm on the side of everyone that thinks these links will eventually be detected by Google. My reasons are simple: if the system works it will attract enough use that..
Topics: Search Engine Optimization

{"title":"InLinks Will Fail Like Others Have Before It","post_url":"http:\/\/www.allthingssem.com\/inlinks-will-fail-like-others-have-before-it\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/allthingssem","author":"MariosAlexandrou","date":"2008-11-20 03:48:22","summary":"There's a lot of hubhub about a new paid link program from the MediaWhiz folks. I'm on the side of everyone that thinks these links will eventually be detected by Google. My reasons are simple: if the system works it will attract enough use that.."}

In a previous post I covered a Microsoft Research paper that discussed how static factors could be used to improve search ranking results above and beyond what PageRank alone could do. Rolled together, these factors formed what the authors of the paper...
Topics: SEO Theories and Research

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