Sitting in on the link baiting session the presenters made it sound so easy. Rand talked about how, on average, a front page Digg post or exposure on Techcrunch can get you 2000 new inbound links.
That’s an astronomical amount of links and the good thing is, everyone can can do it. Here are some things to consider. Read more
SEO expert of SEOmoz.org, Rand Fishkin as a guest interviewer made Vanessa Fox clarify many important issues relating to duplicate content, XML and simple text, OAI-PMH and other important topics.
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| Vanessa Fox Clarifies Sitemaps |
Link: SEOmoz.org
But the focal point of the interview was Vanessa clearing the doubts about conflict between sitemaps and other SEO methods.
She said “-Google- Sitemaps doesn’t impact your ranking at all it helps with the very first obstacle of learning about all of your pages.”
It can help in getting good ranks but will not provide them.
Clarifying the difference between Google Toolbar’s pagerank and Google Webmaster Tool’s she answers “-Webmaster Tools- is a little more accurate, a little more up-to-date the Toolbar pageranking doesn’t get updated quite as often, of course it’s only one factor. I feel like people get really hung-up on the Toolbar pagerank. People probably spend a little more energy on it than they need to.”
Watch the video of the interview.
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I logged into the editor forums at the DMOZ or ODP (Open Directory Project) and there was new update on December 10, 2006.
I find it worthy enough for mainstream release, so I’m gong to mention a few things here in the interest of public information. Initially after posting this entry I was contacted about a potential confidentiality breach, so I have edited out some of the specifics (like direct quotes), but still have relayed the main idea below. Read more
