When the Google Analytics team provided a pretty narrow definition of search engine optimization, the SEO gurus pricked up their ears. While their objections may seem pedantic in a way, the point is duly noted that one important element was left out of said definition: link building. The focus of Laura Melahn and Jon Stona’s post was actually website optimization, a task distinctly different from SEO. In order to proceed, Melahn and Stona defined SEO this way:
SEO Step Five of Ten: Link Building
Welcome to part five in this ten part SEO series. The ten parts of the SEO process we will be covering are:
Own the Network by Building the Right Brand
VideoEgg announced $1.5 million in ad revenues over 5 months, which is not much when you consider that they have over 150 top widgets. You can use targeted widgets and gadgets to push things that are already valuable, successful, unique, or interesting outside of the social networks, but traditional advertising is no good.
A Hundred Grand for Building a Search Engine
Singapore has launched a contest for developing a next-generation multi-media online search engine. The contest has allowed for eight months time to build the engine and the reward is a 100,000 US dollar cash prize, as has been reported at Physorg.
Link Purchasing or Website Network Building?
For a long time now Google’s Matt Cutts has made it clear that purchasing links will become a hazardous business both for the link seller and the link purchaser.
Building Links Like an Expert
Since the start of the Internet, people have asked themselves, how do I increase my views? One guaranteed way to approach this question is to try to boost inbound links. The more ways that people can be directed to your site, the more eyeballs you will have on your page.
BlogWorld: Building Relationships with Bloggers
Building relationships with bloggers has been the hot topic of the last year, with an emphasis on the last couple of weeks – courtesy of Mr. Chris Anderson.
Microsoft Building Photo Sharing Service
I was tipped off to an interesting job posting by Microsoft posted on Friday regarding upcoming efforts to create a photo sharing service that will compete with Flickr, Smugmug and other internet based photo sharing sites.
Rapper Teaches Lizz-ink Building 101
You’re about to reach the end of the Internet. Please keep hands and feet inside the web browser at all times. Final destination: A YouTube video featuring a link-building rap. And it’s not half-bad, either.
Building Your Own Local Search Engine
Quite a few bloggers out there have clued-in to how using Eurekster’s Swickis on their blogs can be a cool feature enhancement, providing custom thematic search engines for their users.