http://www.blackwoodproductions.com/SEO-Blog SEO Blog, SEO 2.0, SEO 2.0 Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Search Engine Marketing Tue, 13 May 2008 03:51:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yahoo in partnership with McAfee recently delivered SearchScan (beta release), a brand new feature in Yahoo! Search aimed at protecting users from spam, spyware, and viruses. The technology hopes to resolve privacy and security issues and make the lives of Yahoo users much easier by eliminating the need for constant ... http://www.blackwoodproductions.com/SEO-Blog/yahoos-searchscan-does-it-affect-seo/ -- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> SEO News recently published an article by Donald Nelson, enumerating 10 top no-no's in search engine optimization. Pretty basic stuff, but the last item was interesting and worth sharing, especially since some SEO's – particularly ... http://www.blackwoodproductions.com/SEO-Blog/dont-link-to-bad-neighborhoods/ Microsoft recently released a research paper demonstrating how search results can be better improved by looking at a user's surfing behavior, which is logged by a “search toolbar.” Here's how it works: A user's web navigation behavior – all the web pages from the first to the ... http://www.blackwoodproductions.com/SEO-Blog/more-challenges-for-seo-as-search-engines-get-smarter/ There’s an interesting discussion over at Webmaster World about the value of a link from StumbleUpon, the community-driven service that helps web surfers discover websites they otherwise may not find using regular search engines. How it works StumbleUpon is similar to Digg in that the community ranks web ... http://www.blackwoodproductions.com/SEO-Blog/link-development-is-serious-business/ The biggest Factor of the whole Web 2.0 trend is people socializing and mixing it up to help each other instead of trying to just beat the other guy out. Blackwood Productions has been pioneering the idea of SEO 2.0 to coincide with this socialization process. Blackwood Productions is now working ... http://www.blackwoodproductions.com/SEO-Blog/welcome-seogameplancom-to-seo-20/ It’s every webmaster’s nightmare – a human review from Google. While Google does not completely disclose the logic it uses to determine which sites it will assess, Aaron Wall of SEOBook says that there are certain tactics you can use to keep your site from being flagged for review in the ... http://www.blackwoodproductions.com/SEO-Blog/passing-a-google-review/ It comes with no surprises, Google’s newest PR and backlinks update took effect and right around the time many Search engine optimization companies thought it would (april 2008). For Blackwood Productions this update is great. Our site Blackwoodproductions.com is an older domain but very new design with ... http://www.blackwoodproductions.com/SEO-Blog/page-rank-pr-update-april-2008/ Webmasters are in for quite an adventure as Google takes another step in its perpetual mission to index information. Just a few days ago, Google (via the Webmaster Central Blog) announced that it would begin to fill out HTML forms and crawl through the results. Here’s a quick excerpt from ... http://www.blackwoodproductions.com/SEO-Blog/google-crawls-the-%e2%80%98deep-web%e2%80%99/ There seems to be a debate in the SEO world lately – and that is whether or not to optimize for misspelled words. Theory is simple: in order to capture searchers who enter wrongly spelled words into Google, Yahoo, or any other search engine for that matter, website managers need ... http://www.blackwoodproductions.com/SEO-Blog/misspelled-words-and-seo-does-it-pay-to-sacrifice-readability/ Yahoo Algo update started April 21, 2008 Hot on the heels of Slurp 3.0, Yahoo recently reported on April 21, 2008 another weather update calling for a few possible cloudy days for some webmasters. “Over the next few days, we'll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, ... http://www.blackwoodproductions.com/SEO-Blog/yahoo-alogorithm-update-web-20-expo/