I’ve had a fun and exciting (albeit challenging) first week as an SEO strategy intern at RankHammer.


by on May 28, 2013 in

A common complaint with Google’s often punitive nature toward link policy violations goes something like this:  “It’s not fair that there’s negative associated with bad links.


by on May 16, 2013 in

A classic debate in the search for perfection is how “art should imitate life”  As far back as Plato, philosophers sought to understand how best to use life observations to inspire art and literature.


by on May 13, 2013 in

Google’s PageRank is one of the most misused Web analytics metric.


by on April 11, 2013 in

If you track some of the ultracompetitive search spaces, you might have noticed some unusual results over the last year.


by on January 22, 2013 in

This isn’t an “SEO is dead” commentary, but there certainly are a few signs of upheaval in the current state of SEO.


by on November 19, 2012 in

Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, announced today that there will be an algorithm update targeting low quality  exact match domains.


by on September 28, 2012 in

The SEO industry has long suspected, and Google has confirmed there is a benefit to your authorship status, or as their 2005 patent refers to as Agent rank.


by on September 21, 2012 in

It’s been a few months since Google rolled out a major update designed to combat manipulative links.


by on July 3, 2012 in