Comments on: SEO Ranking Factors In 2009

By: Lisa Changed My Anchor Text

Lisa Changed My Anchor Text — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:42:14 +0000

I can’t believe Laura mentioned meta tags and keyword density. Surely, she was joking?

By: QS

QS — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:29:37 +0000

I am little confused about

{Substantive Disagreement

H1 Tags (low correlation with rankings)}

So should we stop using h1 tags and instead of that can we use h2 or h3 or stop using heading tags at all

By: Yawn Webmaster!

Yawn Webmaster! — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:27:30 +0000

Again, I am completely surprised by the lack of actual insights taken from the 2009 local rankings. Where is the news here? Or is this supposed to be a primer for people that have just gone from graphic design to webmarketing?

Get links, write good text, make the site interesting. Key message!!!!

All the other stuff, 25% here 10% here, is pure speculation fueling the age old adage of write content, be nice to the search engines and you will get some kind of happy smile.

It is more likely that Google’s mining it’s database for ranking relevant websites in their listings and tracking prevalence and activity via one of the tracking tools that has an 81% change of being installed on the website that Google sends the visitor to from their listings. I mean, we are talking business here and in terms of self-regulation let’s just say that Behavioural advertising is being very closely monitored by the FTC at the moment.

Trustrank is such a lovely concept for brand managers, it suggest that SE algo’s go beyond a simple fetch and parse and that they are human. Which they ain’t!

Keep up the good work // filed in my reader under comedy value :)

By: Martin @ Diablo Gamer

Martin @ Diablo Gamer — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:52:24 +0000

Thank you for this nice report.

By: Fred Sexton

Fred Sexton — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:12:52 +0000

Thanks for the update. So, do you use linkscape?

By: SEO Melbourne - Aranez Media

SEO Melbourne - Aranez Media — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:28:55 +0000

Thanks for putting this together. It will help webmasters looking to give their websites a bit of an edge against those who forget about SEO.

Kind regards,
Arnold

By: Laura Lippay

Laura Lippay — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:03:41 +0000

Hi Yura –

I usually give this presentation to a less advanced crowd, but yes – only referencing “meta tags and keyword density” as basic SEO terms to show next to Search Algo-type terms like “Vector space models” and “Agglomerative clustering”. You could also [insert any of dozens of SEO terms here].

:) L

By: Michael D

Michael D — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:21:01 +0000

I feel the same as Marty on the green fairy dust, yet when I have less of it, a little sadness takes place. Could use a fairy dust pick me up now and then. :)

By: Yura

Yura — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:42:48 +0000

I can’t believe Laura mentioned meta tags and keyword density. Surely, she was joking? Or, perhaps, she meant that “meta tag optimization is actually writing compelling descriptions” and “the best keyword density is whatever reads well for your visitors”?

P.S. You have a –> sticking out after “Related Posts”.

By: Zach Roth

Zach Roth — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:35:19 +0000

First off, great post. You quickly relayed some excellent information in a clear format. Rand’s breakdown of the high-level view of G’s algorithms makes sense and paints a clear organic picture my views align closely with. Thanks for sharing the wealth for those who were unable to attend SMX Advanced.

On a side note, within your mini-bio I thought it was hilarious you put “actively neglecting lisabarone.com”, as I too have been neglecting my blog and was therefore too ashamed to place it in the website field above ^ :)

Thanks again for the SMX lowdown.