by Phil Golobish Legend has it John F. Kennedy once came across an especially upbeat janitor while touring NASA. When JFK asked the janitor what he was so happy about, the janitor stopped, looked up with pride, and responded, “I’m happy because I’m sending a man to the moon.” Whether or not this story is...Read More
by Mark Rees We saw the posts on Intelligent Positioning and Search Engine Watch earlier this month and did the exact same study but with a larger (2955 SERPs), more diverse (1-9 words in length) set of keywords. We used keywords serviced for real clients, which provide a sample representative of more competitive, valuable, and...Read More
by Shari Finnell Writing a blog is a lot like exercising. You know it’s good for you. You know you should be hitting the gym — in this case, the keyboard — at least three times a week. But after about two to three months of keeping it up, the thrill is gone. You’re off...Read More
by Slingshot Bloggers Increase Large Site Indexation Speed For Deep Pages The launch of a new product can often be over looked on content management websites. Many times it just as easy as uploading some photos, adding a title, and creating a description before you push the launch button. Even if you manually launch your...Read More
by Shari Finnell When it comes to boxing, I don’t know much. Well, actually close to nothing. I’ve probably seen a total of 10 matches in my lifetime … Mike Tyson vaguely comes to mind. However, I do know this: When a couple of professional boxers step into the ring, odds are they’re going to...Read More
by Shari Finnell When a couple of sports reporters showed up for one of Dirk Nowitzki’s workouts recently, they left in disbelief. ESPN’s Bob Salmi said the NBA player’s routine was just crazy; one of the most bizarre things he had ever seen in basketball. Dave D’Alessandro of the New Jersey Star-Ledger was a bit...Read More
by Courtney Logel The latest episode of Slingshot SEO’s SearchTV, a 30-minute rapid-fire show, provided interesting highlights of Google’s freshness update, the impact of Siri, and branded SEO. Watch as Account Executive Jim Brown and Director of Consulting Jesse Laffen discuss the latest in the ever-evolving world of search. Translation: Jim: Welcome back everybody to...Read More
by Guest Blogger Chris Carrel is a Senior Software Engineer at Angie’s List. With over 15 years of experience, he has spent the last two focused on SEO. One of the hardest parts of SEO is knowing what to measure. How do you know if your latest round of changes is working? How do you...Read More
by Jeremy Dearringer I just watched an interview with Matt Cutts at Pubcon in Las Vegas. In this interview he discusses speed and website load times as possible ranking factors for Google’s Caffeine search. We have known for some time that load times affect your quality score for Google Adwords PPC advertising not to mention...Read More
