I recently sent an article to SearchEngineJournal.com for their Guest Poster Contest. I may be a bit bias, but I liked it and thought it was rather funny. Here is the post “14 Things You Didn’t Know About Real SEOs“. The cool thing about the SEJ Guest Poster Contest is that one of the factors [...]

I cannot believe so many people still give so much weight to Toolbar Page Rank (TRP). Come on people catch up to the rest of us and realize that TPR is not the end all be all of Search Engine Marketing. I am blown away with how often I still see applications or marketing programs [...]

The marketers in your organization should be made aware of the existence of “The Sandbox”. Sometimes referred to as an “Aging Delay” this is the situation where a new site seems unable to be ranked usually in Google. There is of course a debate, everything is debated in SEO. Some don’t believe it exists at [...]

I know many will try and point out the idiocy in this idea, however I plan on standing my ground. Like many of the posts I make, the original source for the idea was a question I answered on a SEO forum. The question was “How do professional SEO people check the rankings of the [...]

Practically since the inception of search engines, a pages ranking was determined buy how close the topic of a page matched the search term used, ie: Relevancy. Through the years this system worked fine and made the most sense. Today, the search engines are in an ever growing struggle to provide more relevant and quality [...]

I must say I feel extremely pressured to write something profound for my first official post as a moderator here at appliedSEO.com. While I am fascinated by the technology that is SEO, I am nowhere near as techno-cognitive as John C. , I will be sure to leave the real deep dive geek speak for [...]