With Bing.com from Microsoft launching next week a lot of people want to know Bing Vs Google, how does this change my site and how it ranks, for search and for ads. The good news is it doesn’t change much. Bing is really just a front end for the Live.com Search Engine, so results won’t [...]
Google has a great HTML Parser in its crawler, this is probably it’s single largest advantage in understanding what a web page is about. If your website has less than perfect HTML Yahoo indexes your HTML code rather than you text creating pages that get less than stellar results in search. Think of HTML code [...]
Many SEO’s check your page quality score by looking at the code of the page by hand. BlackwaterOps has a Google Appliance, along with access to other tools which come directly from Google. This means you get quantifiable results. Knowing that your Page Quality has been improved and for which keywords. You can have the [...]
Jason Calcanis asked today why Mahalo’s rankings in MSN are so different than the rankings in Google. I could give the Snarky Answer that if they both ranked about the same Google wouldn’t have so much more market share, but there are some real differences in the way the two engines treat content. Google has [...]
Most SEO’s just preach link building. Some will tell you about ALT tags, and Pretty URL’s, but most don’t really know how to improve your page quality score, nor do they know how to quantify to you that your page is scoring better. BlackWaterOps will walk you through changes you can make to your [...]
Ok, here it is, everything you need to know to be better at SEO than me. Google will flat out tell you how their search engines work, and how page ranking works, and if you follow along you can be better at my job than I am, because I’ll be truthful I have only read [...]
Your competition is outranking you for some of the best keywords, your adwords campaign is being put to shame by companies bidding to keep you out of the top spots? We can help. Counter SEO/SEM spends time looking at your competitors pages, analyzing them and creating pages that contain all of the relevant keywords, [...]
It is hard to know how great the guy selling SEO really is. Especially since SEO companies don’t typically disclose their client list, because of confidentiality agreements with our clients. So what should you ask? What is the most impressive search you currently rank for? Greatest Living American Now this doesn’t have to be [...]