Blog | Gravitate One - Part 19

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Skype, Facebook & Google Love Triangle- Feeling a Little Lost?

First Off… I started watching the Lost tv series. I know, I’m probably the last person in America that hasn’t, until now, even seen one episode. Well, I now know ...

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100 Link Building Ideas Analyzed

Today a SearchEngineWatch.com forum member (wildnetSEO) added a nice post titled ‘100 Back Link Finding Techniques‘. The list actually includes 104 ideas, so already you’re getting more than you bargained ...

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404 Errors- The Kiss of Death?

What are 404 Errors? A Page Without A Home. The Error 404 “Page not found” is the error page displayed whenever someone asks for a page that’s simply not available ...

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RSS Feed the Beast: A Helpful List Resource

  RSS Definition: “RSS (most commonly expanded as Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, ...

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Organize World’s Info: Google Reading Level

Google’s Reading Level Indicator In December Google launched a Reading Level option in the advanced search feature. Recently, they integrated the new feature into the SERPs sidebar- making it easily ...

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Link Building Technique: Partake in the Natural Goodness of Organic

Organic Principle: Increasingly, Google is rewarding (rather than just saying they reward- they actually are starting to do it) more naturally acquired links. Moving forward, it behooves SEO’s to create ...

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Google’s New Team: Go Voltron Force!

Google’s new CEO Larry Page announced his new Senior Management Team last week in an effort to combine forces of key service components to form one unstoppable techno-hero like the ...

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Double Double Your Refreshment: Great for Gum, Bad for SEO

Duplicate Content- What’s the Big Deal? Although double the flavor makes for fantastically delicious spearmint gum (just look how happy all the twins are!), duplicate content on the internet deserves ...

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Book Review: Joel Murach’s Oracle SQL and PL/SQL Manual

Over the years, I’ve come to believe that effective SEO’s have either a development background or are self-taught code hacks. I’m not saying we’ve got to be Mark Zuckerberg like ...

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Understanding Link Metrics

If anyone still has ANY doubt about my SEOmoz fanboy status…please know, I love them. Rand’s recent post about White Hat and Black Hat (I send them a lot of ...

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2nd Page Rankings: You’re the #1 Loser

“Congratulations…you almost won.” “Of all the losers you came in first… of that group.” “You’re the #1…loser.” “No one lost…ahead of you.” -Jerry Seinfeld At least 2-3 times each week ...

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Sometimes the Less Personality the Better

Danny Dover shared this nice de-personalization tip in his new book ‘Search Engine Optimization Secrets‘ that just came out. It allows SEO’s to quickly strip away personalization from search results. ...

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Google Goes Gaga

Recently Google launched this video illustrating the rise of Lady Gaga before they interviewed her onstage. Two potential points. First, it shows that Google is starting to put out, quite ...

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Google and Gov. Jobs Tops for Young People?

WSJ.com recently ran a report about research conducted by Universum regarding where young people want to work. Over 10,000 young college graduates, in the work force for under 8 years, ...

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Yahoo Search Direct Vs Google Instant

Yahoo’s new expanded Search Direct (changed from Search Assist) includes more than just sports and news. It’s trying to compete more with Google Instant in features and scope. We compare ...

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