Our talented team makes the hard work of creating your site, optimizing your site for search and reaching your business goals a fun and creative process. Our programmers, designers, writers and project managers bring the same amount of creativity...
The Internet Strategy Forum Executive Summit returns for a fourth year after being sold to capacity for the past three years. The theme this year is Web 2.0 and Social Media and the keynote speaker is Yahoo!’s Chief Marketing Officer. The...
SEMpdx t-shirts, golf shirts, mugs, hats, stickers & thongs are available at Cafe Press. See all the SEMpdx gear. We expect the SEMpdx thong to be a hot item at the beach this...
SEMpdx is on the Meetup.com as a "Portland Search Engine Optimization Group". We've posted information about our July networking event here and we encourage everyone interested in Search Engine Optimization in the Portland area to "Meetup With...
I want to tell you about the secrets I learned at this most informative session. However, Danny Sullivan insisted on a one month embargo of all the tips and tricks disclosed here. Some in the audience tried to break the embargo, so as a way to...
Google will alert webmasters if they have "spammy issues". Added specific guidelines for quality. Will take manual action. Any site can be reincluded /...
Spam is content / techniques generated only for search engines and not humans in an attempt to inflate ranking. Intent / targeting is key. Look for? Page level - doing things useless for end-users. Link-level: in & out links. Deceiving...
Spam more about intent of technique and the extent a technique is used, rather than being a specific technique. Where is the fine line? Varies by industry. Is a user comfortable with the user experience of a site (excessive links, nonsensical...
Different page ranks for different people based upon what interests you. &pws=0 turns off personalized search. Google's web history breaks history into...
Session based personalization - understanding user intent based on queries & clicks - when does session get started? Interest based personalization - understanding user interest based upon declared preferences or user behavior inside or outside...