Google, SEO

The Sartorialist

The Sartorialist is a very popular website. Scott Schuman gets an average of 2+ millions of visits per month to his website. He lives in New York and makes street photos of people that are well dressed or interestingly dressed.

Sartorial: about a tailor or their trade. A tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

He has done many YouTube videos, but in this video Scott explains how he became so popular and how the blog drives his business.

Google Changes the Rankings

On 15-Feb-2011, Google has done some significant changes to their ranking algorithm.

In the last day or so we launched a pretty big algorithmic improvement to our ranking—a change that noticeably impacts 11.8% of our queries—and we wanted to let people know what’s going on. This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful.

SEO: How To Cheat JC Penney Style

Everybody wants to be the number 1 when it comes to Google and search. Being the number 1 does bring millions of dollars, especially when you are the number 1 on very common words like “dress”, “skinny jeans”, or “Samsonite carry on luggage”…

JC. Penney was the number 1 on all these common words . JC Penney was even above Samsonite when asking about Samsonite! JC Penney web sales for fiscal 2009 were $1.9 billion.

Web Spam

When search was a baby, you could rank high by just adding white words. Those are words with a tiny white font, so the readers wouldn't see them, but the search engine would. Then the search engines figured it out, next…

Roll a few years later. Why bother creating content? Somebody else can do it for you. That's the area of user generated content with blogs and comments. The problem with the blogs and the comments is that the vast majority of the blogs are just “junk”.

All the announcements are all the same.

The Google Secrets

Ask anybody and 120% of the people asked will want to know the Google secrets. Knowing the Google Secrets will make you:

  1. Rank high up on their index
  2. Rich beyond belief
  3. Famous beyond belief
  4. ...

Turns out that Google doesn't really have SEO secrets, that's the search engine optimization secrets. If Google had those secrets why do Bing, Microsoft search engine, returns very similar results to search requests? The only real difference between Bing and Google is the frequency and the breadth of the indexing spiders.

Do You Know How To Comment On Blogs?

Everybody tells you that to drive traffic to your beloved blog and your masterful website, you should comment on other websites and other blogs. Ain't the steps simple?

  1. Go to the website
  2. Post the comment
  3. Link to your website/blog through your signature
  4. Done!

Wrong!

  1. Go to the blog you want to comment on and look around.
    • What kind of traffic does this website/blog gets. Commenting on a blog that rarely gets people doesn't get you anywhere unless you want to have the attention of the blog owner.

SEO On The Cheap

Yesterday, I wrote a post called: SEO Misunderstandings explaining where was the SEO in the grand scheme of things. I also said:

I was at one of Matt Cutts talk and he explained it fairly well, I hope I can make it also clear.

Looking back at it, I don't think that I did such a good job. I need to further expand and explain. There are a few things that you should do, not for Google or the SEO but for the user. Please note that it's Google's interest in having your website do well.

SEO Misunderstandings

There seem to be a major misunderstanding when people talk about SEO, the Search Engine Optimization. Google has 2 priorities: make money and make itself indispensable to its users by providing great services. I was at one of Matt Cutts talk and he explained it fairly well, I hope I can make it also clear. Who is Matt Cutts and why he is such an important guy?

Hi, my name is Matt Cutts and I joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000. I'm currently the head of Google's web spam team, aka quality control.

How People Use Google To Search

There are 2 type of people that search on Google:

  1. The people using full sentences.
  2. The people using keywords.

I Know Who You Are!

Do you realize how information you give others when you are surfing the Internet?

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