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News agencies and other central authoritative systems have always highlighted things that were out of the ordinary, but search makes them stick around, and ranks them for broader topics just becaus...

A run through of how I imagine it would be to work as an anti-spam search engineer.

When a page or section is new and you are competing against older sites that have built authority for nearly a decade one of the easiest ways to gain traction is to pick a specific keyword phrase t...

By being a webmaster who tracks results one of your biggest advantages you have over webmaster who do not track results is you can limit your navigational selection to suit your financial goals.

If you are banking on targeting an unpopular version of a keyword you may actually end up having to compete with some of the most authoritative pages ranking for the alternate more authoritative ve...

Google algorithmically penalizes or hand edits many companies out of the search engines, even for brand related queries. When Google does it for brand related queries they make their search results...

Many authoritative tool pages have gobs of link equity, but rank for few keywords beyond their official name because they offer little background information. Providing no background information no...

Google is now publishing news content directly on Google news, thus turning it into an end destination site.

When you have scarcity you have price control. But the web makes most forms of scarcity a farce. That is why so many marketers place arbitrary limits on their offerings (like sales price ends today...

You can search for numbers and popular headline words to see what ideas spread well in the past.