published by Hannah in SEO
Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal recently compared the results of their survey with Search Engine Round Table’s survey. The surveys both tackled the issue of whether SEO bloggers reported their shadier colleagues/competitors to Google or not. The funny thing about the two surveys is that they yielded very different results as seen below:
Search Engine Roundtable (Total # of respondents = 159)
70% (111) - DO NOT report competitors
28% (45) - Report their competitors
Search Engine Journal (Total # of respondents = 15*)
80% (12) - Report their competitors
20% (3) - DO NOT report competitors
So what can we get from these results? Some may conclude that bloggers of different temperaments read SEO blogs but I tend to agree with Loren’s observation that another factor might have come into play, such as one being in the form of an anonymous poll and the other in the form of comments, leading to the difference in results. This makes sense because those who do not care much about the issue will also be the ones who will likely answer that they DO NOT report their competitors and will also be more likely to just click on the poll to give their opinion. These same people will be less likely to take time to leave a comment and expound on their reasons for feeling this way resulting in disproportionate results for the comment-type survey. Whatever the reason though, the fact is that there are people who will report you if you engage in black hat techniques…so don’t rest easy if you do.
And just as a matter of interest I would like to know if the usual PhoenixRealm readers report their competitors for using black hat techniques or not. Please speak up with even a simple NO if you don’t. Thanks!
* Note that commenters did not answer the question Yes or No but it was clear from their statements where they stood. I did not include the several commenters (around 5), which simply discussed the issue without really committing to a certain stand.
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published by Hannah in Keyword Research | SEO
A couple of months back I posted an entry on Yahoo! Search Assist and touched on how this can help SEOs find more specific keywords they should consider optimising for. I have just been playing around and not having visited Yahoo that much lately only just noticed the great addition to search assist.
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published by Hannah in On Page SEO | SEO | SEO Basics
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published by Gary in Back Links | Blogging | Link Strategies | Organic SEO | SEO
In a previous post of mine I stated that “organic link building is making more and more sense“. A statement I definitely believe but a statement with lots of things going on behind it. Nowadays if you look at your own link building campaign efforts and compare it to the amount of effort you needed [...]
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published by Hannah in RSS | SEO | SEO Tips
There are plenty of things you can do and should do to optimise your feeds aside from just clicking on a couple of Feedburner “activate” buttons. Some of the things you can do are actually the same things you do to optimise any normal web page including:
Using keywords - Use keywords in your channel and [...]
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published by Hannah in Blogging | SEO
Everyone talks about optimising a webpage but for those that have blogs it is important that the blog feeds also be optimised. Remember that RSS feeds are not just blog subscribers but can also be a venue for the generation of new traffic. When a blog feed is properly optimised it can actually aid in [...]
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published by Gary in Blogging | General
Some people purely looking for link juice leave comments with key words and phrases in their names. One common theme of people using this tactic is the poor quality of comment that more often than not adds little or nothing to the thread.
I want people to be able to enjoy and increase their knowledge by [...]
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published by Hannah in Web Video | Wordpress
Here’s an interesting Wordpress plugin for those who want a way to monetise their video blogs (or even the usual blogs as long as you like to embed videos). We all love YouTube but Google’s still trying to find the right solution to maximising the profits there. And though it IS their number one priority [...]
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published by Hannah in Online Marketing | SEO
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published by Hannah in Back Links | Link Strategies | SEO | SEO Mistakes | SEO Tips
What would you do if you suddenly get a massive amount of inbound links and find out its all spam?
If you know anything about SEO you know that we all loooove inbound links however we don’t want a whole slew of irrelevant links from who knows where. Of course if you are into paid links [...]
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